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'.

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.