Woman, Native, Other : Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism /
"" ... Methodologically innovative ... precise and perceptive and conscious ... ""--Text and Performance Quarterly""Woman, Native, Other is located at the juncture of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in pushing the boundaries of th...
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
1989.
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; The Story Began Long Ago ... ; I. Commitment from the Mirror-Writing Box; The triple bind; Silence in time; Rites of passage; The Guilt; Freedom and the masses; For the people, by the people, and from the people; Vertically imposed language: on clarity, craftsmanship, and She who steals language; A sketched window on the world; The infinite play of empty mirrors; Writing woman; II. The Language of Nativism: Anthropology as a Scientific Conversation of Man with Man; The reign of worn codes; The positivist dream: We, the natives; They, the natives.
- A Western Science of manA Myth of mythology; What man and which man?; Gossip and science: a conversation on what I love according to truth; Nativist interpretation; See them as they see each other; III. Difference: A Special Third World Women Issue
- The policy of separate development
- The sense of specialness; The question of roots and authenticity; Infinite layers: I am not i can be you and me; The female identity enclosure; Third World?; Woman and the subtle power of linguistic exclusion; Subject-in-the-making; Ethnicity or womanhood: whose duality?
- The Gender controversyIV. Grandma's Story; Truth and fact: story and history; Keepers and transmitters; Storytelling in the civilized context; A regenerating force; At once black and white magic; The woman warrior: she who breaks open the spell; A cure and a protection from illness; Tell it the way they tell it
- The story must be told. There must not be any lies
- Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.