Other Sisterhoods
Subtitle: LITERARY THEORY AND U.S. WOMEN OF COLOR
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: January 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780252066665
Subjects: Black studies; Literary theory; Women's studies; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; USA; American - African American; American - African American & Black; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Women's Studies; American - General; 20th century; American literature; History and criticism; Minority authors; Theory, etc; Women Authors
First sentence: In their attempts to create a discourse that empowers oppressed peoples, theorists in contemporary U.S. literary and ethnic studies have relied on oppositional terms such as margin and center-where the margin represents historically disempowered social groups and the center represents those in power.