Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 235 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520230140
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0520230132
Content:
In Learning from Experience, Paula Moya offers an alternative to some influential philosophical assumptions about identity and experience in contemporary literary theory. Arguing that the texts and lived experiences of subordinated people are rich sources of insight about our society, Moya presents a nuanced universalist justification for identity-based work in ethnic studies
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-229) and index
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Acknowledgments; Introduction: Identity in the Academy and Beyond; 1 Postmodernism, Realism, and the Politics of Identity: Cherríe Moraga and Chicana Feminism; 2 Chicana Feminism and Postmodernist Theory; 3 Cultural Particularity vs. Universal Humanity: The Value of Being Asimilao; 4 Learning How to Learn from Others: Realist Proposals for Multicultural Education; 5 Reading as a Realist: Expanded Literacy in Helena María Viramontes's Under the Feet of Jesus; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520230132
Additional Edition:
Print version Learning From Experience : Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles
Language:
English
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