TY - BOOK AU - T Minh-Ha Trinh AU - T Minh-Ha Trinh TI - Woman, native, other: : writing postcoloniality and feminism SN - 9780253205032 U1 - 809.89287 TRI PY - 1989/// CY - Bloomington PB - : Indiana University Press KW - Literature KW - Women and literature KW - Feminism and literature N1 - 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' N2 - 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 ER -