Who Can Speak?
About the Book
Who has the authority to speak for women? For lesbians and gays? For Black Americans, Asian American, Native Americans, or any other self-identified and -identifying group? Does such a thing as "objectivity" exist or can only members of these groups speak for themselves? And who has the authority to decide who has the authority?This collection examines how multiple perspectives in an increasingly multicultural society complicate theory and criticism. The contributors engage with the the difficult question of what qualifies a critic to speak from, or about, a particular position. Working in different formats and from different perspectives and disciplines, the essayist work together to define the problems and capture the contradictions and tensions inherent in issues of authority, epistemology, and discourse.Contributors: Linda Martin Alcoff, Michael Awkward, Dale M. Bauer, Leslie Bow, Dympna Callaghan, Diane Elam, Sandra Harding, Rosemary Hennessey, Andrew Lakritz, David Roman, Judith Roof, Sabina Sawhney, Robyn Wiegman, and Thomas Yingling
About the Author
Judith Roof is William Shakespeare Chair in English at Rice University. She is the author of Tone: Writing and the Sound of Feeling and What Gender Is, What Gender Does.Robyn Wiegman is a professor of women's studies and literature at Duke University. She is the author of Object Lessons.Also by this author
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"Provocative and important. . . . Raises theoretical issues that could make it a standard reference point in studies and courses examining theories of subjectivity."--Alan Nadel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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