The Nature and context of minority discourse / edited by Abdul R. JanMohamed and David Lloyd.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

JanMohamed, Abdul R., 1945-

Lloyd, David, 1955 December 20-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Minority authors--History and criticism--Congresses.

Literature.

Ethnic attitudes in literature--Congresses.

Ethnic attitudes in literature.

Minorities in literature--Congresses.

Minorities in literature.

Ethnicity in literature--Congresses.

Ethnicity in literature.

Minorities.

Ethnic Minorities.

Literature--Minority authors.

Literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.

Local Subjects:

Minorities.

Ethnic Minorities.

Literature.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 472 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, ©1990.

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.

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.

Notes:

"First published as numbers 6 and 7 of Cultural critique by Oxford University Press ... New York"--Title page verso.

Papers presented at a conference held at the University of California, Berkeley in 1986.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

Other Format:

Online version: Nature and context of minority discourse.

ISBN:

0195067029

9780195067026

0195067037

9780195067033

OCLC:

21334859