04104nam 2200697 a 450 991045504470332120200520144314.00-520-92752-41-59734-853-8(CKB)111056485640950(MiAaPQ)EBC223067(Au-PeEL)EBL223067(CaPaEBR)ebr10050787(OCoLC)475927056(EXLCZ)9911105648564095020010628d2002 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLearning from experience minority identities, multicultural struggles /Paula M. L. Moya1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc2002xii, 235 p0-520-23014-0 0-520-23013-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-229) and index.Intro -- 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.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. This strikingly original book provides eloquent analyses of such postmodernist feminists as Judith Butler, Donna Haraway, Norma Alarcón, and Chela Sandoval, and counters the assimilationist proposals of minority neoconservatives such as Shelby Steele and Richard Rodriguez. It advances realist proposals for multicultural education and offers an understanding of the interpretive power of Chicana feminists including Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Helena María Viramontes. Learning from Experience enlarges our concept of identity and offers new ways to situate aspects of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation in discursive and sociopolitical contexts.American literatureMexican American authorsHistory and criticismTheory, etcAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismTheory, etcAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismTheory, etcFeminism and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWomen and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryMexican American womenIntellectual lifePostmodernism (Literature)United StatesMulticulturalismUnited StatesFeminist theoryUnited StatesMexican Americans in literatureMinoritiesUnited StatesAmerican literatureMexican American authorsHistory and criticismTheory, etc.American literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismTheory, etc.American literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etc.Feminism and literatureHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryMexican American womenIntellectual life.Postmodernism (Literature)MulticulturalismFeminist theoryMexican Americans in literature.Minorities810.9/9287/0896872Moya Paula M. L1026585MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455044703321Learning from experience3015325UNINA