Other Sisterhoods
Subtitle: Literary Theory and U.S. Women of Color
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: January 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780252023613
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Literary studies: general; Literature: Texts; Novels, other prose & writers; Women's studies; Ethnic American Literatures; Women As Authors (American Literature); Literature - Classics / Criticism; North & Central American indigenous languages; Literary Criticism; North America; USA; American - African American & Black; 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.