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Overview"An examination of the work of three ""out"" lesbians of color and the ways they negotiate their private, public, and political worlds" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ann Louise KeatingPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S. Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 13.30cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.304kg ISBN: 9781566394208ISBN 10: 1566394201 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 27 March 1996 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments 1. Threshold Identities 2. Mythic Ways of Knowing? 3. Transformational Identity Politics: Seeing ""Through the Eyes of the Other"" 4. Back to the Mother? Paula Gunn Allen's Origin Myths 5. Writing the Body/Writing the Soul: Gloria Anzaldua's Mestizaje Ecriture 6. Inscribing ""Black,"" Become...Afrekete: Audre Lorde's Interactional Self-Naming 7. Crossing Over: Toward a Womanist Genealogy Notes Works Cited Index"Reviews[A] critical work that brings to the reader insight into the literature of three radical, passionate and talented lesbian writers...Keating revels in their artistry and wants to share with the reader the beauty and power of their work, especially its potential for feminist transformation. --Lesbian Review of Books As feminist criticism sometimes appears to be trapped in a presumed opposition between identity politics and postmodern theories, we need new ways of thinking about gender, identity and language. AnaLouise Keating's intelligent and lucid study of Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldua, and Audre Lorde suggests that their transformational identity politics offers one way out of what has been shaped as a dualistic and often hostile conflict. Women Reading Women Writing is an important addition to the literature, one that every feminist scholar and theorist will want to read. --Bonnie Zimmerman """[A] critical work that brings to the reader insight into the literature of three radical, passionate and talented lesbian writers...Keating revels in their artistry and wants to share with the reader the beauty and power of their work, especially its potential for feminist transformation."" --Lesbian Review of Books ""As feminist criticism sometimes appears to be trapped in a presumed opposition between identity politics and postmodern theories, we need new ways of thinking about gender, identity and language. AnaLouise Keating's intelligent and lucid study of Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldua, and Audre Lorde suggests that their transformational identity politics offers one way out of what has been shaped as a dualistic and often hostile conflict. Women Reading Women Writing is an important addition to the literature, one that every feminist scholar and theorist will want to read."" --Bonnie Zimmerman" Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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