Moving Borders: Transmodern Global Consciousness in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange.

This article examines the alternative global consciousness envisioned in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange, arguing that the novel intertwines reparative decolonization with a critique of neoliberal globalization through a framework of critical global inter connectivity. At the crux of the nove...

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Publicado en:Comparative American Studies Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 162 - 184
Autores principales: S P, Jenifer Gandhi, Viswanathan, Nisha
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep2025
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          Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT Tiruchirappalli, Tiruchirappalli, India
          Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT Tiruchirappalli, Tiruchirappalli, India
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        Decolonization
        Globalization
        Colonies
        Postcolonialism
        Modernity
        Consciousness
        Critical consciousness
        Novelists
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          Globalization
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          Modernity
          Consciousness
          Critical consciousness
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        colonial modernity
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        globalization
        temporality
        Transmodernism
      ab: This article examines the alternative global consciousness envisioned in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange, arguing that the novel intertwines reparative decolonization with a critique of neoliberal globalization through a framework of critical global inter connectivity. At the crux of the novel's discourse is a polemic against neoliberalism, which it presents as a contemporary manifestation of colonial modernity. Engaging with Enrique Dussel's philosophy of 'transmodernism', this study explores Tropic of Orange as a counternarrative that interrogates both the enduring legacies of colonial modernity and the exploitative structures of global capitalism. Attuned to a Dusselian (re)vision of world order, which foregrounds the resurgence of marginalized epistemologies while eschewing cultural apologism, this article examines the novel's reclamation of myth, enchantment and cyclic temporality. It further contends that Yamashita envisions collective agency as an embodied, transnational praxis that transcends conventional geopolitical binaries by amplifying indigenous and diasporic epistemologies and fostering transversal connections that operate both intra-South and across South-North axes.
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