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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Russell Ferguson; Martha Gever; T Minh-Ha Trinh; Cornel West; Marcia Tucker |
| ISBN: | 0262061325 9780262061322 026256064X 9780262560641 |
| OCLC Number: | 21162781 |
| Description: | 446 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The new cultural politics of difference / Cornel West -- Modernism, postmodernism, and the problem of the visual in Afro-American culture / Michele Wallace -- The straight mind / Monique Wittig -- What is a minor literature? / Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari -- The other question : difference, discrimination, and the discourse of colonialism / Homi K. Bhabha -- Missionary positions : AIDS, Africa, and race / Simon Watney -- Uneven development : public art in New York City / Rosalyn Deutsche -- Please wait by the coatroom / John Yau -- On collecting art and culture / James Clifford -- The names we give ourselves / Martha Gever -- How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa -- Repetition as a figure of Black culture / James A. Snead -- Mourning and militancy / Douglas Crimp -- Black hair/style politics / Kobena Mercer -- Complexion / Richard Rodriguez -- Age, race, class, and sex : women redefining difference / Audre Lorde -- Coming to terms / Richard Dyer -- The site of memory / Toni Morrison -- Cotton and iron / Trinh T. Minh-ha -- Talking back / bell hooks -- Marginality as site of resistance -- Castration or decapitation? / Hélène Cixous -- Reflections on exile / Edward Said -- Ons stel nie belang nie/we are not interested in speaking apartheid / Linda Peckham -- Explanation and culture : marginalia / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Thoughts on nomadic aesthetics and Black independent cinema : traces of a journey / Teshome H. Gabriel --Socioacupuncture : mythic reversals and the striptease in four scenes / Gerald Vizenor. |
| Series Title: | Documentary sources in contemporary art, v. 4. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Russell Ferguson, Martha Gever, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Cornel West ; foreword by Marcia Tucker ; images selected by Félix González-Torres. |
Abstract:
This text addresses the question of cultural marginalization - the process through which various groups are excluded from access to and participation in the dominant culture. It is an anthology that juxtaposes diverse points of view on issues of gender, race, sexual preference and class.
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