Gendering time in globalization: The belatedness of the other woman and Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy

Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 67-83

  Joseph, Betty ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 60950093221     PISSN: 07327730     EISSN: 19361645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4149216     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Johannes Fabian, Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983), p. 34.
2. See Rita Felski, The Gender of Modernity (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995), pp. 12-13, 211-12.
3. Rajnath Singh, "Confessional," Interview with Subhash Mishra, India Today. 1 January 2001, p. 11. Subsequent references will be cited parenthetically in the text.
4. See Vinay Lal, "History, the Internet and the Hindu Diaspora," Diaspora, 8, No. 2 (1999), 137-72, for an account of the conjurings of the "Vedic" in the "Hindu Diaspora," which are not unconnected to similar deployments by the BJP party in India.
5. Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (London and New York: Routledge, 1995), pp. 358-59. Subsequent references will be cited parenthetically in the text.
6. See Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), pp. 8-9, for a genealogy of this contradiction.
7. Chatterjee shows how Indian nationalists in the mid-nineteenth century actively encouraged the construction of a "New Woman" who would be "modern" but continue to represent "Indian tradition" and who, though undergoing reform as a result of colonialism's civilizing process, also had to be different from the "Western woman." For a related discussion see Ketu H. Katrak's analysis of Gandhi and preindependence nationalism in the essay "Indian Nationalism, Gandhian 'Satyagraha,' and Representations of Female Sexuality," in Nationalisms and Sexualities, ed. Andrew Parker, et al. (New York and London: Routledge, 1992), pp. 395-406. Katrak argues that Gandhi's use of mythological female figures often dehistoricized women's own participation in the prenationalist as well as nationalist phases, while identifying them with the "most regressive aspects of tradition" (p. 398).
8. Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy (New York: Plume, 1990), p. 28. Subsequent references will be cited parenthetically in the text.
9. Homi K. Bhabha, "The World and the Home," in Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives, ed. Anne McClintock, Aamir Mufti, and Ella Shohat (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), p. 449.
10. Michelle Cliff, Abeng (New York: The Crossing Press, 1984), p. 84. Subsequent references will be cited parenthetically in the text.
11. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), pp. 141-42, 251-52.
12. See Bhabha, "Unpacking my Library . . . Again," in The Post-Colonial Question: Common Skies, Divided Horizons, ed. Iain Chambers and Lidia Curti (London and New York: Routledge, 1996), p. 209.
13. Terry Eagleton, The Ideology of the Aesthetic (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990), p. 75.
14. Bhabha, The Location of Culture (New York and London: Routledge, 1994), p. 240.
15. See Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), pp. 131-33.
16. Structures of feeling are not equated with the "aesthetic" or the "psychological" but denote instead a set of experiential relations that are still in process, and which are actually "social" though taken to be "private." These realms of experience are yet preemergent in that they have yet to be formalized or become part of institutions, but are also more readily accessed in those cultural arenas that encourage the exercising of imagination - art, writing, literature, and so on. For a specific use of this notion within a discussion of migrant labor, see Aihwa Ong, "The Gender and Labor Politics of Postmodernity," in The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital, ed. Lisa Lowe and David Lloyd (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1997), pp. 62, 87. Subsequent references to Ong will be cited parenthetically in the text.
17. Stuart Hall, "The Local and the Global: Globalization and Ethnicity," in Culture, Globalization and the World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity, ed. Anthony D. King (Binghamton: State University of New York, 1991), p. 24. Subsequent references will be cited parenthetically in the text.
18. Saskia Sassen, Globalization and Its Discontents (New York: The New Press, 1998), p. 90.
19. Cynthia Enloe, Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (London: Pandora, 1989), p. 194. See especially chapter 8.
20. I have borrowed the term "temporal maladjustment" and its connection to community formation from Ranajit Guha's "The Migrant's Time," Postcolonial Studies, 1, No. 2 (1998), 158.
21. For a variation of this argument see David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change (Cambridge and Oxford: Blackwell, 1990), p. 292.