Rob Wilson
and
Christopher Leigh Connery
editors

“A remarkably timely book that shakes up the political pessimism and intellectual ennui of the past decade by a powerful articulation of a new field imaginary that is place-based yet transnational, and by trenchant critiques. . . . ‘Worlding’ emerges as a form of politics evoking the world Sixties and a critical method beyond prevailing academic fashions, offering a vision for a future that is divergent from neoliberal globalization.”

— Shu-mei Shih, author of The Lure of the Modern:
Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917–1937
and Visuality and Identity:
Sinophone Articulations Across the Pacific

“Today, more than twenty years after Said’s The World, The Text, and the Critic, what does it mean to practice worldly criticism? In a time of deep political pessimism that has many of us scrambling for the modest sanctuary afforded by academic disciplinary tradition, this collection of essays from Santa Cruz provides a moving reminder of the integrity — and necessity — of Cultural Studies.”

— Colleen Lye, author of America’s Asia:
Racial Form and American Literature, 1893–1945

“The Worlding Project takes an important step towards bringing Cultural Studies into studies of the Pacific, and the Pacific into Cultural Studies — more of the latter than the former, as the essays constitute something like a Pacific challenge to Cultural Studies. The essays are admirably sensitive to the politics of the Pacific, and the struggles for hegemony over it.”

— Arif Dirlik, author of The Postcolonial Aura

Contributors:

Kuan-Hsing Chen
Louis Chude-Sokei
James Clifford
Christopher Leigh Connery
Drayton S. Hamilton
Sharon Kinoshita
Meaghan Morris
Gary Pak
David Palumbo-Liu
Rob Wilson

You can order the book at The Literary Guillotine,
204 Locust Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, 831 457-1195.

244 + 12 pages      8.375" x 8.25"      US $16
ISBN 978-1-55643-680-2