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Table of Contents
Introduction / Silvestra Mariniello 1
1. Transgressing Representation: Women's Ways Against Institutional Knowledge
Responsibility / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 19
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Post-Date / Hortense J. Spillers 67
The Uses and Abuses of French Discourse Theories for Feminist Politics / Nancy Fraser 123
Veiled Threats: Malek Alloula's Colonial Harem / Laura Rice 144
2. Undoing Discursive Constructions: Alternative Rhetorical Strategies
Maternal Discourse and the Romance of Self-Possession in Kate Chopin's The Awakening / Ivy Schweitzer 161
America, "Fat," the Fetus / Lauren Berlant 192
Queer Nationality / Lauren Berlant and Elizabeth Freeman 245
"The Most Suffering Class": Gender, Class, and Consciousness in Pre-Marxist France / Margaret Cohen 279
Brava! And Farewell to Greatheart / Judith Wilt 306
3. The Politics of Allegory: A New Understanding of Agency
Allegory and Dialectics: A Match Made in Romance / Doris Sommer 325
Blanchot's Au moment voulu: Woman as the Eternally Recurring Figure of Writing / Larysa Mykyta 349
Wuthering Heights: At the Threshold of Interpretation / Carol Jacobs 371
The Geography of Enunciation: Hysterical Pastiche in Kathy Acker's Fiction / Karen Brennan 396
Index 423

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      Publisher: Duke University Press
      Publication Date: 05/06/1998
      ISBN13: 9780822321965, 978-0822321965
      ISBN10: 0822321963
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      Feminism and feminist theory Gender studies: women and girls Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents
      Introduction / Silvestra Mariniello 1
      1. Transgressing Representation: Women's Ways Against Institutional Knowledge
      Responsibility / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 19
      The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Post-Date / Hortense J. Spillers 67
      The Uses and Abuses of French Discourse Theories for Feminist Politics / Nancy Fraser 123
      Veiled Threats: Malek Alloula's Colonial Harem / Laura Rice 144
      2. Undoing Discursive Constructions: Alternative Rhetorical Strategies
      Maternal Discourse and the Romance of Self-Possession in Kate Chopin's The Awakening / Ivy Schweitzer 161
      America, "Fat," the Fetus / Lauren Berlant 192
      Queer Nationality / Lauren Berlant and Elizabeth Freeman 245
      "The Most Suffering Class": Gender, Class, and Consciousness in Pre-Marxist France / Margaret Cohen 279
      Brava! And Farewell to Greatheart / Judith Wilt 306
      3. The Politics of Allegory: A New Understanding of Agency
      Allegory and Dialectics: A Match Made in Romance / Doris Sommer 325
      Blanchot's Au moment voulu: Woman as the Eternally Recurring Figure of Writing / Larysa Mykyta 349
      Wuthering Heights: At the Threshold of Interpretation / Carol Jacobs 371
      The Geography of Enunciation: Hysterical Pastiche in Kathy Acker's Fiction / Karen Brennan 396
      Index 423

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