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9780816627370

Methodology of the Oppressed

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    9780816627370

  • ISBN10:

    0816627371

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-11-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

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Summary

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 specif

Author Biography

Chela Sandoval is associate professor of critical and cultural theory for the Department of Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi
Angela Y. Davis
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1(14)
PART I. Foundations in Neocolonial Postmodernism
Fredric Jameson: Postmodernism Is a Neocolonizing Global Force
15(26)
PART II. The Theory and Method of Oppositional Consciousness in the Postmodern World
U.S. Third World Feminism: Differential Social Movement I
41(26)
PART III. The Methodology of the Oppressed: Semiotics, Deconstruction, Meta-Ideologizing, Democratics, and Differential Movement II
On Cultural Studies: An Apartheid of Theoretical Domains
67(14)
Semiotics and Languages of Emancipation
81(36)
The Rhetoric of Supremacism as Revealed by the Ethical Technology: Democratics
117(22)
PART IV. Love in the Postmodern World: Differential Consciousness III
Love as a Hermeneutics of Social Change, a Decolonizing Movida
139(20)
Revolutionary Force: Connecting Desire to Reality
159(20)
Conclusion: Differential Manifesto, Trans-Languages, and Global Oppositional Politics 179(6)
Notes 185(26)
Bibliography 211(24)
Index 235

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