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viii, 173 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-168) and index. |
| 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 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 Oseparate 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'. |
| Summary |
"Woman, Native, Other is located at the junction of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in publishing the boundaries of these disciplines further ... In this first full-length study, Trinh Minh-ha examines post-colonial processes of displacement -- cultural hybridization and decentered realities, fragmented selves and multiple identities, marginal voices and languages of rupture. Working at the intersection of several fields -- women's studies, anthropology, critical cultural studies, literary criticism, and feminist theory, she juxtaposes numerous prevailing contemporary discourses in a form that questions the (male-is-norm) literary and theoretical establishment."--Back cover. |
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Women and literature -- History -- 20th century.
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Feminism and literature -- History -- 20th century.
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Difference (Psychology) in literature.
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Women -- Developing countries.
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Difference (Psychology) in literature. (OCoLC)fst00893417
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Feminism and literature. (OCoLC)fst00922735
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Literature, Modern. (OCoLC)fst01000172
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Literature -- Women authors.
(OCoLC)fst01000068
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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Women and literature. (OCoLC)fst01177093
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Developing countries. (OCoLC)fst01242969
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
0253366038 |
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9780253366030 |
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0253205034 (pbk.) |
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9780253205032 (pbk.) |
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