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Reclaiming identity : realist theory and the predicament of postmodernism /

Moya M. L. Paula and Hames-Garcia R. Michael

Reclaiming identity : realist theory and the predicament of postmodernism / edited by Paula M.L. Moya and Michael R. Hames-Garcia. - Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2000. - x, 354 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reclaiming Identity
THE REALIST THEORY OF IDENTITY AND THE PREDICAMENT OF POSTMODERNISM
1. The Epistemic Status of Cultural Identity: On Beloved and the Postcolonial Condition
2. Postmodernism, "Realism," and the Politics of Identity: Cherríe Moraga and Chicana Feminism
3· "Who Are Our Own People?": Challenges for a Theory of Social Identity
POSTPOSITIVIST OBJECTIVITY: USES OF ERROR, VALUES, AND IDENTITY
4. On Representing Others: Intellectuals, Pedagogy, and the Uses of Error
5. "It Matters to Get the Facts Straight": Joy Kogawa, Realism, and Objectivity of Values
6. Racial Authenticity and White Separatism: The Future of Racial Program Housing on College Campuses
REALIST CONCEPTIONS OF AGENCY, EXPERIENCE, AND IDENTITY
7. Who Says Who Says?: The Epistemological Grounds for Agency in Liberatory Political Projects
8. Is There Something You Need to Tell Me?: Coming Out and the Ambiguity of Experience
9. Reading "Experience": The Debate in Intellectual History among Scott, Toews, and LaCapra
10. Who's Afraid of Identity Politics?
Contributors
Index

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Group identity.
Social perception.
Postmodernism.

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