Methodology of the Oppressed

Informationen zum Autor Chela Sandoval is associate professor of critical and cultural theory and Chicano studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Klappentext 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 specifics, Methodology of the Oppressed gives rise to an alternative mode of criticism opening new perspectives on a theoretical, literary, aesthetic, social movement, or psychic expression.

Product details

• Authors: Chela Sandoval, Chela Snadoval
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2000
• EAN: 9780816627370
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-2737-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 179 mm x 254 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Theory Out of Bounds; Theory Out of Bounds (Paperbac; Theory out of bounds; Theory Out of Bounds (Paperbac
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories