The Nature and context of minority discourse / edited by Abdul R. JanMohamed and David Lloyd.
| Other author | JanMohamed, Abdul R., 1945- |
| Other author | Lloyd, David, 1955- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, ©1990. |
| Description | xi, 472 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : toward a theory of minority discourse : what is to be done? / Abdul R. JanMohamed and David Lloyd -- Rethinking modernism : minority vs. majority theories / Nancy Hartsock -- The race for theory / Barbara Christian -- Ethnic identity and post-structuralist differance / R. Radhakrishnan -- Authority, (white) power, and the (Black) critic; it's all Greek to me / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Negating the negation as a form of affirmation in minority discourse : the construction of Richard Wright as subject / Abdul R. JanMohamed -- Politics, patriarchs, and laughter / Renato Rosaldo -- Defining Asian American realities through literature / Elaine H. Kim -- The Native-American tradition and legal status : Tolowa tales and Tolowa places / Allogan Slagle. |
| Contents | Dialogue as conquest : mapping spaces for counter-discourse / José Rabasa -- The politics of the possible / Kumkum Sangari -- Minority discourse and the African collective : some examples from Latin American and Caribbean literature / Josaphat B. Kubayanda -- Hebrew in an Israeli Arab hand : six miniatures on Anton Shamma's Arabesques / Hannan Hever -- Gastarbeiterliteratur : the other speaks back / Arlene A. Teraoka -- Contentious traditions : the debate on sati in colonial India / Lata Mani -- Deterritorializations : the rewriting of home and exile in Western feminist discourse / Caren Kaplan -- Genet's genealogy : European minorities and the ends of the canon / David Lloyd. |
| Local note | Little-283321 |
| General note | "First published as numbers 6 and 7 of Cultural critique by Oxford University Press ... New York"--T.p. verso. |
| General note | Papers presented at a conference held at the University of California, Berkeley in 1986. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 90034838 |
| ISBN | 0195067029 |
| ISBN | 0195067037 (pbk) : |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PN491.5 .N38 1990 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |