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Cross-Addressing: Resistance Literature and Cultural Borders (SUNY series in Postmodern Culture) - Hardcover
Synopsis
Using a "cultural studies" approach to the question of what constitutes literary study at the end of the twentieth century, the contributors address identity politics in specific cultural instances.
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Cross-Addressing discusses site-specific strategies of resistance to the imposition of identity in the terms imposed or implied by colonizers and their descendants: narrative empowerment, gender reconstruction, racial decategorization, an intersection of marginalities, and a cross-cultural Third World solidarity. The movement is from the individual to the collective, from the particular to the global. The theoretical approach is eclectic, echoing the current split in cultural studies between discussions of the cultural production of meaning, and an involvement in policy debates. The book contends that the heightened consciousness resulting from marginalization not only judges our world, but offers it a window onto its future possibilities. Contributors include Lyn McCredden, Suzette Henke, Trevor James, Mary O'Connor, S.M., Nejd Yaziji, Rosemary Jolly, Bernice Zamora, Gayle Wald, Arturo Aldama, Manuel M. Martin-Rodriquez, Barbara Frey Waxman, Mayfair Mei-hui Yang, Lien Chao, Karin Quimby, and Roger Bromley.
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Sixteen original essays look at common themes in the work of writers who experience marginalization based on their identification with two or more cultures, examining works of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and anthropological reportage by writers of aboriginal Australian, Irish, South African, and North American cultures. Discusses issues such as
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- PublisherState University of New York Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 079142927X
- ISBN 13 9780791429273
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages309
- EditorHawley John C.
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