| Description |
xi, 472 pages ; 24 cm |
| 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 |
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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 |
| Analysis |
Literature By Social minorities |
| Notes |
"First published as numbers 6 and 7 of Cultural critique by Oxford University Press ... New York"--T.p. verso |
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Papers presented at a conference held at the University of California, Berkeley in 1986 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Ethnic attitudes in literature -- Congresses.
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Ethnic attitudes in literature.
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Ethnicity in literature -- Congresses.
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Literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
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Minorities in literature -- Congresses.
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Minorities in literature.
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| Author |
JanMohamed, Abdul R., 1945-
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Lloyd, David, 1955 December 20-
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| LC no. |
90034838 |
| ISBN |
0195067029 |
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