Woman, Native, Other

..". 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

The Story Began Long Ago

1

(5)

Commitment from the Mirror-Writing Box

5

(42)

The triple bind

6

(1)

Silence in time

6

(2)

Rites of passage

8

(1)

The Guilt

9

(2)

Freedom and the masses

11

(1)

For the people, by the people, and from the people

12

(3)

Vertically imposed language: on clarity, craftsmanship, and She who steals language

15

(5)

A sketched window on the world

20

(2)

The infinite play of empty mirrors

22

(6)

Writing woman

28

(19)

The Language of Nativism: Anthropology as a Scientific Conversation of Man with Man

47

(32)

The reign of worn codes

47

(2)

The positivist dream: We, the natives; They, the natives

49

(6)

A Western Science of man

55

(4)

A Myth of mythology

59

(5)

What ``man'' and which ``man''?

64

(3)

Gossip and science: a conversation on what I love according to truth

67

(3)

Nativist interpretation

70

(3)

See them as they see each other

73

(6)

Difference: ``A Special Third World Women Issue''

79

(40)

The policy of ``separate development''

80

(6)

The sense of specialness

86

(3)

The question of roots and authenticity

89

(1)

Infinite layers: I am not i can be you and me

90

(5)

The female identity enclosure

95

(2)

Third World?

97

(3)

``Woman'' and the subtle power of linguistic exclusion

100

(2)

Subject-in-the-making

102

(1)

Ethnicity or womanhood: whose duality?

103

(4)

The Gender controversy

107

(12)

Grandma's Story

119

(34)

Truth and fact: story and history

119

(2)

Keepers and transmitters

121

(2)

Storytelling in the ``civilized'' context

123

(2)

A regenerating force

125

(3)

At once ``black'' and ``white'' magic

128

(1)

The woman warrior: she who breaks open the spell

129

(6)

A cure and a protection from illness

135

(6)

``Tell it the way they tell it''

141

(2)

``The story must be told. There must not be any lies''

143

(10)

Notes

153

(8)

Selected Bibliography

161

(8)

Index

169

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