Acknowledgments

Introduction

SANDRA KUMAMOTO STANLEY

PART I: Theory and the Politics of Identity

1. (De)Centering the Margins? Identity Politics and Tactical (Re)Naming

ANALOUISE KEATING

2. Women of Color and Identity Politics: Translating Theory, Haciendo Teoria

DIONNE ESPINOZA

3. Of Poststructuralist Fallout, Scarification, and Blood Poems: The Revolutionary Ideology behind the Poetry of Jayne Cortez

KIMBERLY N. BROWN

4. Resisting Postmodernism; or, "A Postmodernism of Resistance": bell hooks and the Theory Debates

MARILYN EDELSTEIN

5. Psycholinguistic Orientalism in Criticism of The Woman Warrior and Obasan

TOMO HATTORI

6. Who Speaks, Who Listens? Questions of Community, Audience, and Language in Poems by Chrystos and Wendy Rose

ROBIN RILEY FAST

PART 2: Issues of Gender, Class, Race, and Sexuality

7. Of Men and Men: Reconstructing Chinese American Masculinity

KING-KOK CHEUNG

8. Rethinking Class from a Chicana Perspective: Identity and Otherness in Chicana Literature and Theory

TIMOTHY LIBRETTI

9. Theory in the Mirror

RENAE MOORE BREDIN

10. Mothering the Self: Writing through the Lesbian Sublime in Audre Lorde's Zami and Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera

JENNIFER BROWDY DE HERNANDEZ

PART 3: Stretching the Boundaries of Literary Theory

11. Like "Reeds through the Ribs of a Basket": Native Women Weaving Stories

KIMBERLY M. BLAESER

12. Heaven's Bottom: Anal Economics and the Critical Debasement of Freud in Toni Morrison's Sula

KATHRYN BOND STOCKTON

13. Reading the Figure of Dictation in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee

EUN KYUNG MIN

14. A Journey toward Voice; or, Constructing One Latina's Poetics

CECILIA RODRIGUEZ MILANES

Contributors

Index