ETH STD 101B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Langston Hughes, Coronavirus, Dialectic
18 Nov 2020
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The state governs through the political terrain, dictating in that process the forms and sites of contestation. Where the political terrain can neither resolve nor suppress inequality, it erupts in culture. Because culture is the contemporary repository of memory, of history, it is through culture rather than government, that alternative forms of subjectivity, collectivity, and practice are imagined (17). This counter-site is not merely a place from which to critique national identity; asian. American culture is much more than a rearticulation of the negative residue of the non-universal . The dialectic of asian american critique begins in the moment of negation that is the refusal to be the "margin " that speaks in the dominant forms of political, historical, or literary representation.
