Framing Identities: Autobiography and the Politics of Pedagogy

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U of Minnesota Press, 1999 - 207 páginas

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MEMORY WORK
1
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND FEMINIST WRITING PEDAGOGY
37
The Essence of Difference
55
Autobiography and Commemorative
71
Identity Politics Sexual
94
Autobiography PublicArt
119
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Página 42 - The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intention, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention.
Página 9 - I do not know (in any case, there are so many readings of the same face); but when I discover myself in the product of this operation, what I see is that I have become Total-Image, which is to say, Death in person; others — the Other — do not dispossess me of myself, they turn me, ferociously, into an object, they put me at their mercy, at their disposal, classified in a file, ready for the subtlest deceptions.
Página 34 - I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue — my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of...
Página 9 - I am neither subject nor object but a subject who feels he is becoming an object: I then experience a micro-version of death (of parenthesis): I am truly becoming a specter.
Página 56 - For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man. (For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.
Página 9 - Once she was dead I no longer had any reason to attune myself to the progress of the superior Life Force (the race, the species). My particularity could never again universalise itself (unless, utopically, by writing, 'whose project henceforth would become the unique goal of my life). From now on, I could do no more than await my total, undialectical death.
Página 33 - To be out, in common gay parlance, is precisely to be no longer out; to be out is to be finally outside of exteriority and all the exclusions and deprivations such outsider-hood imposes. Or, put another way, to be out is really to be in — inside the realm of the visible...
Página 32 - As a radical standpoint, perspective, position, 'the politics of location' necessarily calls those of us who would participate in the formation of counter-hegemonic cultural practice to identify the spaces where we begin the process of re-vision . . . For many of us, that movement requires pushing against oppressive boundaries set by race, sex, and class domination.
Página 9 - I who had not procreated, I had, in her very illness, engendered my mother. Once she was dead I no longer had any reason to attune myself to the progress of the superior Life Force (the race, the species).

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