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Who Can Speak?: AUTHORITY AND CRITICAL IDENTITY
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Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 438.
For women, for lesbians and gays, for African Americans, for Asians, Native Americans, or any other self-identified and -identifying group, who can speak? Who has the authority to speak for these groups? Is there genuinely such a thing as "objectivity," or can only members of these groups speak, finally, for themselves? And who has the authority to decide who has the authority?
This collection examines how theory and criticism are complicated by
multiple perspectives in an increasingly multicultural society and
faces head on the difficult question of what qualifies a critic to speak from or about a ... Read more
For women, for lesbians and gays, for African Americans, for Asians, Native Americans, or any other self-identified and -identifying group, who can speak? Who has the authority to speak for these groups? Is there genuinely such a thing as "objectivity," or can only members of these groups speak, finally, for themselves? And who has the authority to decide who has the authority?
This collection examines how theory and criticism are complicated by
multiple perspectives in an increasingly multicultural society and
faces head on the difficult question of what qualifies a critic to speak from or about a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252064876
SKU
V9780252064876
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Reviews for Who Can Speak?: AUTHORITY AND CRITICAL IDENTITY
"Truly insightful interventions into the debate over intellectual responsibility and issues of representation in the academy."
Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo, SIGNS, Journal of Women and Culture in Society
Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo, SIGNS, Journal of Women and Culture in Society