This collection of essays investigates the importance of "minor discourses" and minority cultures across national boundaries.

They cover topics as diverse as competing versions of Chinese womanhood; American rockabilly music in Japan; the trope of mestizaje in Chicano art and culture; dub poetry radio broadcasts in Jamaica; creole theatre in Mauritius; and race relations in Salvador, Brazil. Together, they point toward a new theoretical vocabulary, one capacious enough to capture the almost infinitely complex experiences of minority groups and positions in a transnational world. Contributors. Moradewun Adejunmobi Ali Behdad Michael Bourdaghs Suzanne Gearhart Susan Koshy Francoise Lionnet Seiji M. Lippit Elizabeth Marchant Kathleen McHugh David Palumbo-Liu Rafael Perez-Torres Jenny Sharpe Shu-mei Shih Tyler Stovall