naturalization of the problems of citizenship.

Globalization, I want to suggest, must always begin at home. A just measure of global progress requires that we first evaluate how globalizing nations deal with ‘the difference within’

The cosmopolitan ethic that emerges from the colonized Trinidadian’s embattled existence — ironic style, tolerance, a refusal to take the eminent at their own estimation — now delivers a withering judgment on the masked intolerance and posed piety of the supposedly ‘advanced’ metropolitan world.

she turns the abjection of modern history into the productive and creative history of the minority as a social agent.

“living feeling power” which spreads from the words spoken to the things signified and forces the mind to take them in and make them conform to the formula’.

Nobody who grasps that for Mill the boundaries of the national culture are open so long as the voices of dissent remain individual and closed when that culture is threatened by collective dissension, can fail to hear him propounding the nationalist ideology of unisonance8 as Benedict Anderson describes it, a contemporaneous cultural cohesion connec

I do want to make graphic what it means to survive, to produce, to labor and to create, within a world-system whose major economic impulses and cultural investments are pointed in a direction away from you, your country or your people.

these doubly inscribed figures face two ways without being two-faced. Western imperialist discourse continually puts under erasure the civil state, as the colonial text emerges uncertainly within its narrative of progress.

What was missing from the traditionalist world of English literary study, as I encountered it, was a rich and paradoxical engagement with the pertinence of what lay in an oblique or alien relation to the forces of centering.