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Woman, native, other : writing postcoloniality and feminism /

"Woman, Native, Other is located at the junction of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in pushing the boundaries of these disciplines further ... In this first full-length study, Trinh Minh-ha examines post-colonial processes of displacement -- cultural hybr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Trinh, T. Minh-Ha (Thi Minh-Ha), 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1989]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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 man--- A 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 layer : 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 controversy
  • -- IV. 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 lie'.