Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism

Abstract

The Story Began Long Ago... I. Commitment from the Mirror-Writing Box The triple bind Silence in time Rites of passage The Guilt Freedom and the masses For the people, by the people, and from the people Vertically imposed language: on clarity, craftsmanship, and She who steals language A sketched window on the world The infinite play of empty mirrors Writing woman II. The Language of Nativism: Anthropology as a Scientific Conversation of Man with Man The reign of worn codes The positivist dream: We, the natives They, the natives A Western Science of man A Myth of mythology What OmanO and which OmanO? Gossip and science: a conversation on what I love according to truth Nativist interpretation See them as they see each other III. Difference: OA Special Third World Women IssueO The Policy of Oseparate developmentO The Sense of specialness The question of roots and authenticity Infinite Layer: I am not i can be you and me The female identity enclosure Third World? OWomanO and the subtle power of linguistic exclusion Subject-in-the-making Ethnicity or womanhood: whose duality? The Gender controversy IV. GrandmaOs Story Truth and fact: story and history Keepers and transmitters Storytelling in the OcivilizedO context A regenerating force At once OblackO and OwhiteO magic The woman warrior: she who breaks open the spell A cure and a protection from illness OTell it the way they tell itO OThe story must be told. There must not be any lieO Notes Selected Bibliography Index