TY - BOOK AU - Chawla,Devika AU - Rodriguez,Amardo TI - Liminal Traces: a Storying, Performing, and Embodying Postcoloniality T2 - Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education SN - 9789460915918 AV - BD175.5.M84 U1 - 325/.3 23 PY - 2011/// CY - Leiden; , Boston PB - Brill | Sense KW - Multiculturalism KW - Liminality KW - Postcolonialism N1 - Preliminary Material -- Introduction; Devika Chawla -- Between Stories and Theories Embodiments, Disembodiments, and Other Struggles; Devika Chawla -- Predicaments, Dilemmas, and the Challenge of Knowledge; Amardo Rodriguez -- Notes on Orality, Performativity, and Postcolonilaity; Amardo Rodriguez -- Two Journeys; Devika Chawla -- The Performative Nature of Knowledge; Amardo Rodriguez -- Monologues in Brown; Devika Chawla -- Narratives on Longing, Being, and Knowing Envisioning a Writing Epistemology; Devika Chawla -- New Imaginations of Difference -- Epilogue; Amardo Rodriguez -- References N2 - Home and exile have become key discussions in discourses of globalization, cosmopolitanism, postcolonialism, transnationalism, identity, and multiculturalism. These discourses can be expected to flourish in the future as an increasing number of multicultural scholars struggle with various kinds of displacements and the meaning of home that is thereby instantiated anew as we experience living in between cultures. This book sits in the intersection between cultural studies and performance studies. It seeks to break theoretical and empirical ground by reframing understandings of home and exile. Popular notions of exile forwarded by transnational and postcolonial scholars position home as a place of return and longing. While we believe that there are many truths in this position, we performatively seek emergent forms of displacement that are demanding new frameworks with which to enact meanings of home and exile. As Third World immigrant scholars in Western academe, we believe our move is vital in order to explore the experiences of persons, such as ourselves, who fall outside the models of displacement that have long constituted émigré writings. We define this move as a performative one because we experiment with different genres and voices to question and reproblematize existing understandings of knowledge frames. The genres we embody include performative writing, dialogue, autoethnography, essay form, personal narrative, and so on. Our goal is to address theories, stories, and pedagogies that speak to our tribulations in negotiating such intellectual displacements UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-591-8 ER -