| Methodology of the Oppressed: Volume 18 Contributor(s): Sandoval, Chela (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816627371 ISBN-13: 9780816627370 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $25.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2000 Annotation: In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World feminism" into the narrative in a way that thoroughly alters our perspective on contemporary culture and subjectivity. What Sandoval has identified is a language, a rhetoric of resistance to postmodern cultural conditions. U.S liberation movements of the post-World War II era generated specific modes of oppositional consciousness. Out of these emerged a new activity of consciousness and language Sandoval calls the "methodology of the oppressed". This methodology -- born of the strains of the cultural and identity struggles that currently mark global exchange -- holds out the possibility of a new historical moment, a new citizen-subject, and a new form of alliance consciousness and politics. Utilizing semiotics and U.S. Third World feminist criticism, Sandoval demonstrates how this methodology mobilizes love as a category of critical analysis. Rendering this approach in all its specifics, Methodology of the Oppressed gives rise to an alternative mode of criticism opening new perspectives on a theoretical, literary, aesthetic, social movement, or psychic expression. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Literary Criticism | Feminist |
| Dewey: 303.4 |
| LCCN: 00009294 |
| Series: Theory Out of Bounds (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 7.06" W x 10" (1.00 lbs) 264 pages |