Decolonizing Feminisms: Race, Gender, and Empire-building

by Laura E. Donaldson

Overview

Donaldson presents new paradigms of interpretation that help to bring the often oppositional stances of First versus Third World and traditional versus postmodern feminism into a more constructive relationship. She situates contemporary theoretical debates about reading, writing, and the politics of identity within the context of historical colonialism--primarily under the English in the nineteenth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781469639420
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	10/06/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	186
File size:	1 MB

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Introduction	I
1	The Miranda Complex: Colonialism and the Question of Feminist Reading	13
2	The King and I in Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, On the Borders of the Women's Room: Race, Gender, and Sexual Difference	32
3	The Con of the Text: Textualism, Contextualism, and Anticolonialist Feminist Theories	52
4	Of "Piccaninnies" and Peter Pan: The Problem of Discourse in a Marxist Never-Never Land	66
5	A Passage to "India": Colonialism and Filmic Representation	88
6	Rereading Moses/Rewriting Exodus: The Postcolonial Imagination of Zora Neale Hurston	102
7	(ex) Changing (wo) Man: Toward a Materialist-Feminist Semiotics	118
	Postscript: On Women's "Experience,"	136
	Notes	141
	Filmography	153
	Bibliography	157
	Index	171

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Poses a crucial question about how individual relations in the pedagogical situation evoked. . . all devolve into relations of oppression, making clear the link between discourse and the strategies of oppression.—Signs

Contributes to today's theoretical discourse through its careful attention to feminism and difference, situating race and gender within the historical and ideological contexts of film and literature.'Border/Lines

For persons who recognize the complexities of discursive situations and the instability of gender designations in them, this study of feminist 'solidarity within multiplicity' is a must!—Religious Studies Reviews

Offers welcome attention to the complex situations of and interactions among different kinds of women within colonial discourses. [Donaldson's] work should provoke a fruitful consideration of the claims of multiple experiences of gender and, accordingly, the claims of multiple feminisms. Decolonizing Feminisms will surely interest all of those concerned with the intersection of feminist and postcolonial theories.—Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, author of Feminism Without Illusions: A Critique of Individualism

Editorial Reviews

"Decolonizing Feminisms" will surely interest all of those concerned with the intersection of feminist and postcolonial theories.

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, author of "Feminism Without Illusions: A Critique of Individualism"

""Decolonizing Feminisms" will surely interest all of those concerned with the intersection of feminist and postcolonial theories.

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, author of "Feminism Without Illusions: A Critique of Individualism""

Contributes to today's theoretical discourse through its careful attention to feminism and difference.

"Border/Lines"

This study of feminist 'solidarity within multiplicity' is a must!

"Religious Studies Reviews"

From the Publisher