Other Sisterhoods
Subtitle: Literary Theory and U.S. Women of Color
Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd)
Published: March 1998
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9789997817167
Subjects: Ethnic American Literatures; Women authors; History and criticism; Women As Authors (American Literature); American literature; Minority authors; Theory, etc
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.