Order and Partialities: Theory, Pedagogy, and the "Postcolonial" (Suny Series, Interruptions: Border Testimony) [Paperback]

Kostas Myrsiades (Editor), Jerry McGuire (Series Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 31, 1995 | Series: Suny Series, Interruptions : Border Testimony

Order and Partialities explores the complex and problematic relations among postcolonial literatures and theories, the people who teach them at the university level, and the institutions in which they are taught. Each essay traces a path through these relations; yet each also comments on the fundamental paradox and contradiction within which these relations operate: that they must engage with the powerful, labyrinthine apparatus of Western cultural hegemony-a set of systematic, interpretative procedures corresponding to, and in service of, a regime of ideological expectations and its institutional representatives-in order to disengage themselves from its operations. There is no way to teach these relations without entering, oneself, into the entanglements of postcolonial power.

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About the Author

Kostas Myrsiades is Professor of English at West Chester University and Editor of College Literature. Jerry McGuire is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southwestern Louisiana and Managing Editor of College Literature.

Product Details

• Paperback: 430 pages
• Publisher: State University of New York Press (August 31, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0791426408
• ISBN-13: 978-0791426401
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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Dr. Kostas Myrsiades, professor of Comparative Literature and English at West Chester University, is a distinguished translator and neohellenist and the first American to receive the Gold Medallion (1995) for his translations from the Hellenic Society of Translators of Literature given annually by the Greek government to a scholar from any country. His work in Greek letters is not only demonstrated in his 19 published books and numerous articles on modern and ancient Greek literature but also in the many invited lectures he has delivered for such groups as the Jane Globus Seminar Series Lecture at Baruch College, the Elytis Chair Lecture Series of Poetry and Neohellenic Studies at Rutgers, and the Embassy of Greece/National Library of Canada Lecture at Ottawa. He is the editor of College Literature, a quarterly of literary criticism, theory, and pedagogy, which since 1990 has been the recipient of seven awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals including the Phoenix Award for distinguished editorial achievement. Professor Myrsiades also co-edits the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, one of the leading journals in neohellenic studies.