Identities

Editors' Introduction: Multiplying Identities
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Kwame Anthony Appiah.
Essays
"British Cannibals": Contemplation of an Event in the Death and
Resurrection of James Cook, Explorer
Gananath Obeyesekere
Race into Culture: A Critical Genealogy of Cultural Identity
Walter Benn Michaels
Occidentalism as Counterdiscourse: "He Shang" in Post-Mao China
Xiaomei Chen
Fashion and the Homospectatorial Look
Diana Fuss
Policing the Black Women's Body in an Urban Context
Hazel V. Carby
Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition
Sara Suleri
Acting Bits/Identity Talk
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
The Empire Renarrated: Season of Migration to the North and the
Reinvention of the Present
Saree S. Makdisi
What Is a Muslim? Fundamental Commitment and Cultural Identity
Akeel Bilgrami
Nationalism and Social Division in Black Arts Poetry of the 1960s
Phillip Brian Harper
Black Writing, White Reading: Race and the Politics of Feminist
Interpretation
Elizabeth Abel
The Erotics of Irishness
Cheryl Herr
Diaspora: Generation and the Ground of Jewish Identity
Daniel Boyarin, Jonathan Boyarin.
The Time of the Gypsies: A "People without History" in the Narratives of
the West
Katie Trumpener
Critical Responses
White Philosophy
Avery Gordon, Christopher Newfield.
The No-Drop Rule
Walter Benn Michaels
Fashionable Theory and Fashionable Women: Returning Fuss's
Homospectatorial Look
Molly Anne Rothenberg, Joseph Valente.
Look Who's Talking, or If Looks Could Kill
Diana Fuss
Response to Identities
Michael Gorra
Collected and Fractured: Response to Identities
Judith Butler
Index