Writing Diaspora In The West: Intimacy, Identity And The New Marginalism

In Writing Diaspora In The West, Peter Mccarthy Argues That The Surveyors And Theoreticians Of Modern Human Subjectivity Have Discovered In The Margins A Motherland, Nourishing And Nurturing Them In The Fantastic Culture Of What He Terms The 'new Marginalism'. This Culture, Mccarthy Argues, Is The Product Of A Certain Fantasy, The Projection Of A Subjective Homeland Onto The Various Margins Of Discourse, Subjectivity, History And Geography That Goes Beyond A Left Minoritarian Ethos. This Fantasy Leads To A Certain Marginal Affectivity, A Fascination And Identification With Things Perceived At The Margins Or Bounds Of A Psychopathological Homeland, Especially With Those Who Live Or Subsist There. Mccarthy's Work Stands As A Challenge To Liberal Critical Orthodoxies Concerning The Representation Of Marginal Experience.--jacket. 1. First Person Reflection : Origins Of The Marginal Disposition -- 2. Of Home And Hearth : Maps, Histories And Territorial Claims -- 3. The Subject Missing : Erasure And The Reflexive Margin -- 4. Conflation, Contradiction And The Colonized Mind -- 5. The Curious Heimat : Fetishism, Rupture, Boundary. Peter Mccarthy. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 163-174) And Index.