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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[1989]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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'.