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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 structures lived possibilities." —Artpaper
"Highly recommended for anyone struggling to understand voices and experiences of those 'we' label 'other'." —Religious Studies Review
Audio book narrated by Betty Miller. Produced by Speechki in 2021.
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Index
Afonja, Simi: on African women and tradition, 114
Africa: propaganda and commitment, 11; power and language, 49, 52; women and westernization, 107–108; women and tradition, 114; griot and griotte, 120, 126, 148; oral tradition and storytelling, 125–26, 148; women and regeneration, 127, 136; women and magic, 128, 136; structure of story, 143
Alaska: storytelling, 125
Alienation: writing and objectivity, 27; anthropology, 58
American Indian. See Indian, American
Androgyny: writing, 39
Anthropology: worn codes, 47–49; language and nativism, 49, 52–54; objectivity, 55; as western science, 55–59; as mythology, 59–64; as semiology, 64–67; as gossip, 67–68; as voyeurism, 68–70; as fiction, 70–72; interpretation, 71–73; language, 73–74, 76; compared to history, 84; authenticity, 88, 94; sex and gender, 105; gender and economics, 107; structure of story, 141; cultural anthropology, 157n
Anzaldua, Gloria: on women and writing, 8; Third World women and difference, 83
Apartheid: ideology and difference, 84; pass laws, 90. See also South Africa
Aristotle: defined anthropology as gossip, 68; poetry, history, and truth, 120
Art engagé: Third World literary discourse, 11–12
Assimilation: anthropology, 60–61
Atwood, Margaret: on women writers and sexism, 27
Authenticity: and specialness, 88; and roots, 89–90, 94
Authority: women and storytelling, 122
Awori, Thelma: women and African culture, 108
Ba, A. Hampate: on oral tradition, 126; on speech and power, 127–28, 132
Bambara, Toni Cade: on writing as community service, 9–10, 15; on writing as work, 10; on writing and language, 17
Barthes, Roland: clarity and language, 17; on function of writing, 18; writing and the body, 41; structure of story, 143
Basaa: women and regeneration, 136 de Beauvoir, Simone: women as writers, 18; female identity, 97; difference and the body, 100–101
Bible: women and I Corinthians 14:35, 30
Bir: women and magic
Bisexuality: writing, 39; ear as symbol, 127
Blanchot, Maurice: knowledge and power, 40, 43
Body: women and writing, 36–39; theory and writing, 39–44; as basis for difference, 100
Bricolage: engineer contradiction and anthropology, 62–63, 156n
Briffault, Robert: magic and gender, 128
Brossard, Nicole: on the body and writing, 36–37
Buddhism: reality and language, 61. See also Zen
Butwa: women and magic, 128
Cameroon: women and regeneration, 136
Capitalism: women in Gabon, 108. See also Economics; Separate development
Cather, Katherine Dunlap: on storytelling and religion, 124
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- The Story Began Long Ago…
- I. Commitment from the Mirror-Writing Box
- II. The Language of Nativism: Anthropology as a Scientific Conversation of Man with Man
- III. Difference: “A Special Third World Women Issue”
- IV. Grandma’s Story
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index