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Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

1 Critical Background to Poststructuralist Theories and Pedagogies of Alterity 5

2 Multiculturalism 15

Simulated Battles 15

The Institutionalization of Multiculturalism 16

The Methodology of Multiculturalism 18

Marketing the Margin 24

Masking the Metanarrative of Race 27

3 Postcolonial Criticism and Identitarian Politics 31

Definitions and the Scope of Postcolonial Criticism 31

History and Postcolonial Subjectivity 34

The Postcolonial Critic 36

The Repressive Allure of Postcolonial Criticism 43

4 The Brahminization of Theory: Commodity Fetishism and False Consciousness 49

Introduction 50

Postcolonial Criticism's Disciplinary Roots 53

Commodifying Postcolonial Theory and Type-Casting the Critic 59

False Consciousness 64

Commodity Fetishism and Brahminization 68

5 The Romance of Exile 71

Introduction 71

Spokespersonship 72

The Exile 74

The Nomad 83

A Wand'ring Minstrel I, A Thing of Shreds and Patches 89

6 Occidentalism 91

Theory Confronts Reality 91

Rhetoric 94

The Fallaci Affair 101

Final Beliefs 104

7 Gestures of Inclusion 107

Introduction 107

Positive Discrimination in India 109

Affirmative Action in the United States 113

Cosmetic Enhancement 117

Conclusion: The Collecting of The Other 121

Notes 129

Bibliography 141

Index 159