Beyond Dichotomies -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface by Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi -- PART 1: Beyond Dichotomies -- 1. The Perspective of the World: Globalization Then and Now by MICHEL-ROLPH TROUILLOT -- 2. Modernity and Periphery: Toward a Global and Relational Analysis by MARY LOUISE PRATT -- 3. Beyond Dichotomies: Communicative Action and Cultural Hegemony by EMMANUEL CHUKWUDI EZE -- 4. Mankind's Proverbial Imagination: Critical Perspectives on Human Universals As a Global Challenge by MINEKE SCHIPPER -- PART 2: Contested Places, Contested (Self) Ascriptions -- 5. Bringing History Back In: Of Diasporas, Hybridities, Places, and Histories by ARIF DIRLIK -- 6. The Romance of Africa: Three Narratives by African-American Women by EILEEN JULIEN -- 7. Ethnicity As Otherness in British Identity Politics by ROBERT J. C. YOUNG -- 8. Reincarnating Immigrant Biography: On Migration and Transmigration by AKHIL GUPTA -- PART 3: Translating Places, Translating Ambivalence -- 9. Warped Speech: The Politics of Global Translation by EMILY APTER -- 10. National Identity and Immigration American Polity, Nativism, and the "Alien" by ALI BEHDAD -- 11. Richard Wright As a Specular Border Intellectual: The Politics of Identification in Black Power by ABDUL JANMOHAMED -- 12. Beyond Dichotomies: Translation/Transculturation and the Colonial Difference by WALTER D. MIGNOLO and FREYA SCHIWY -- CONCLUSION: The Unforeseeable Diversity of the World by EDOUARD GLISSANT (translated by Haun Saussy) -- About the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.