Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism

by Trinh T. Minh-ha

Paperback, 2009

Status

Available

Call number

LIT.MIT.WNO

Collection

Publication

Indiana University Press (2009), Edition: Underlining/margin Notes, 184 pages

Description

""... 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 these disciplines further. It is one of the very few theoretical attempts to grapple with the writings of women of color."" -Chandra Talpade Mohanty""The idea of Trinh T. Minh-ha is as powerful as her films... formidable... "" -Village Voice""... its very forms invite the reader to participate in the effort to understand how language

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

173 p.; 9.21 inches

ISBN

0253205034 / 9780253205032

Call number

LIT.MIT.WNO

Library's review

"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 these disciplines further. It is one of the very few theoretical attempts to grapple with the writings of women of color" - Chandra Tapade
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Mohanty. In this first full-length study of Post-Feminism, Trinh Minh-ha examines post-colonial processes of displacement - cultural hybridizations and decentered realities, fragmented selves and multiple identities, marginal voices and languages of rupture. Working at the intersection of several fields - and langauges of rupture. Wokring at the intersection of sevel fields - women's studie, anthropology, critical cultural studies, literary criticism and feminist theory, she juxtaposes numerous prevailing contemorary discourse in a form that questions the (male-is-norm) literary and theoretical establishment. She incorporates the poetic in the analytic and stays away from the old way of theorizing through systematic dissection, combination, and recapitulation. Trinh discusess questions of language and writing in relation to the notion of ethnicity and feminity; of identity, authenticity, and difference, of commitment sa to the function and role of the woman writer; and of storytelling as one of the oldest forms of building historical consciousness and as a continuing setting into motion of a feminist problematic in the context of a female living tradition
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Pages

173
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