Theory as Variation is a collection that attempts to showcase the protean performance of they as it moves from the world into the text and back out into the world again. Theory by its very nature resists totalization and normativization, and the essays assembled here demonstrate the ability of theory to perform contingently in a verity of contexts in response to a broad range of textual problems and worldly challenges. The distinguished contributors to this volume are dawn from all over the world, and each essay achieves "theory" in its own singular way. From poststructuralism to postcoloniality, from" metropolitan" to "indigenous" theory, from different practices of Marxist cultural theory and critical race theory to broader forms of ontological thinking, from contexts national to conjunctures international, from the "World as text" to "the textuality of the World," this volume is a modest endeavor to show that theory is and always will be a specific of praxis.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR D.R. Shashidhara
D.R. Shashidhara is reader in English, Mangalore University. He has translated Shakespeare's merchant of Venice into Kannada, and Medieval Kannada prose and poetry into English for the central Sahitya akademi, New Delhi.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kishori Nayak K.
Kishori Nayak K teaches English at Mangalore University, India, and is Director of the center for Women’s studies there.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR R. Rashakrishnan
R. Radhakrishnan is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of Asian American Studies at the university of California, Irvine. Author of Diasporic meditations: Between Home and Location (University of Minnesota press, 1996), Theory in an Uneven World (Blackwell 2003), and History, The Human, and the World between) Forthcoming, Duke university press, 2007), he is currently completing his next book, when is the Political?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR R. Shashidhar
R. Shashidhar teaches English at Mangalore University, India. He worked on Raymond Williams for his doctoral dissertation.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ravishankar Rao Parinita
Ravishankar Rao is reader in English, Mangalore University. His areas of interest include Partition narratives, Literature and film and Postocolonial Theory.
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