1. Introduction : the anxiety of identity -- 2. Who can speak as other? : authenticity, postcoloniality, and the academy -- 3. Inventing Irishness : authenticity and identity -- 4. International adoption and identity : the anxiety over authentic cultural heritage -- 5. The inauthentic Jew : Jewishness and its discontents -- 6. Asian American identity : the good, the bad, the ugly - and the future -- 7. Coda : living cultures
Summary
Who is "authentic" and who is "other" in a given culture? Who can speak for the "other?" What do we mean by authenticity? These are critical questions that today's world--brought closer together and yet pulled farther apart by globalism and neocolonialism--has been unable to answer. Inauthentic probes these issues through case studies on the pursuit of authenticity and identity. [from publisher's advertisement]