"" ... 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...
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"" ... 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 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? 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 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