Acknowledgments

Introduction

Lisa Lowe

David Lloyd

I. CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY

The Time of History and the Times of Gods

Dipesh Chakrabarty

The Gender and Labor Politics of Postmodernity

Aihwa Ong

Outlines of a Nonlinear Emplotment of Philippine History

Reynaldo C. Ileto

Developmentalism's Irresistible Seduction - Rural Subjectivity under Sandinista Agricultural Policy

Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo

Nationalisms against the State

David Lloyd

II. ALTERNATIVES

Cultural Politics and Biological Diversity: State, Capital, and Social Movements in the Pacific Coast of Colombia

Arturo Escobar

First Stop, Port-au-Prince: Mapping Postcolonial Africa through Toussaint L'Ouverture and His Black Jacobins

Grant Farred

The Veil in Their Minds and on Our Heads: Veiling Practices and Muslim Women

Homa Hoodfar

Outlaw Language: Creating Alternative Public Spheres in Basque Free Radio

Jacqueline Urla

III. ``UNLIKELY COALITIONS''

Angela Davis: Reflections on Race, Class, and Gender in the USA

Lisa Lowe

``Frantic to Join . . . the Japanese Army'': The Asia Pacific War in the Lives of African American Soldiers and Civilians

George Lipsitz

Work, Immigration, Gender: New Subjects of Cultural Politics

Lisa Lowe

Women Who Walk on Water: Working across ``Race'' in Women Against Fundamentalism

Clara Connolly

Pragna Patel

IV. WORLD CULTURE AND PRACTICE

Of Zapatismo: Reflections on the Folkloric and the Impossible in a Subaltern Insurrection

Jose Rabasa

Staging Resistance: The Indian People's Theatre Association

Nandi Bhatia

The Discourse of Decolonization and Popular Memory: South Korea

Chungmoo Choi

In the Shadows of Stonewall: Examining Gay Transnational Politics and the Diasporic Dilemma

Martin F. Manalansan IV

Woman at the Close of the Maoist Era in the Polemics of Li Xiaojiang and Her Associates

Tani E. Barlow

Works Cited

Index

Contributors