1987
DOI: 10.1057/fr.1987.1
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Difference: ‘A Special Third World Women Issue’

Abstract: It is thrilling to think – to know that for any act of mine, I shall get twice as much praise or twice as much blame. It is quite exciting to hold the center of the national stage, with the spectators not knowing whether to laugh or to weep. (Zora Neale Hurston, ‘How It Feels to Be Colored Me')

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“…To my reading, (mus)interpreted moved with an impetus encapsulated in Minh-ha's (1987) assertion that "the humiliation of having to falsify your own reality, your voice" (p. 6) for the sake of another, for the sake of mobility carries profound consequences. Minh-ha continues, this humiliation cannot be fully articulated, however "[…] you try to keep on trying […] for if you don't, they will not fail to fill in the blanks on your behalf, and you will be said" (Minh-ha, 1987, p. 6).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…To my reading, (mus)interpreted moved with an impetus encapsulated in Minh-ha's (1987) assertion that "the humiliation of having to falsify your own reality, your voice" (p. 6) for the sake of another, for the sake of mobility carries profound consequences. Minh-ha continues, this humiliation cannot be fully articulated, however "[…] you try to keep on trying […] for if you don't, they will not fail to fill in the blanks on your behalf, and you will be said" (Minh-ha, 1987, p. 6).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In addition, first-/second-generation immigrant women (an identity marker we both take up) are grappling between spaces with ties to parents' homelands and our own coming-of-age in the United States. As a consequence, transnational and immigrant women sequester their ethnic and cultural lives within their home and/or homelands (Minh-Ha, 1987). Transnational feminism, however, encourages women to preserve their cultures across geographic borders while also maintaining practices within varied allegiances.…”
Section: Transnational Feminism: Collaboration Along Social Culturalmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is what Nagar (2014) defines as "radically vulnerable" through a willingness to re/ define boundaries and hierarchies. As many transnational feminists note, power is always at play in our relationships (Alexander & Mohanty, 2010;Minh-Ha, 1987;Mohanty, 2003). Yet we join with Nagar and Swarr (2010) who encourage destabilizing hierarchies between the researcher and the researched-making these boundaries blurry, thus truly dialogic.…”
Section: Conclusion: the Possibilities Of Collaborative Friendshipmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Postcolonial feminism critiques Western imperialism and its subordination of whole peoples, races, and ethnic groups. It draws attention to the importance of Indigenous and local cultures (see for example, Amos & Parmer, 2005;Azim, Menon, & Siddiqi, 2009;Minh-ha, 1987;Mohanty, 1988;Mohanty, Russo, & Torres, 1991) and argues from their standpoint or perspective against Western hegemony. Postcolonial feminists like Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Sara Ahmed, Trinh Thi Minh-ha, and Chandra Talpade Mohanty drew attention to constructions by white, middle-class Western women, as the collective 'we' of feminist experience, which effectively discards women's experience that does not match this stereotype.…”
Section: Postcolonial -Third World -Feminismmentioning
confidence: 99%