This book, first published in 2000, explores the intersections of
race, gender and gay identities in writings by contemporary
American lesbians of colour in order to show how this subject is
sometimes ignored, sometimes brutalised and is very rarely able to
survive on her own terms by constructing her own identity acts of
cultural revision. The author places the lesbian of colour in the
context of current identity theories showing the ever-present blind
spots within current theoretical paradigms, she then reads a
variety of writings by lesbians of colour describing the
possibilities that exist for these subjects in textual and social
realities. The author shows the varied communities that threaten
the existence of this subject, as well as the limits that dictate
the subject's ability to create her self. By bridging Judith
Butler's Gender Trouble and Gloria Anzaldua's New Mestiza she
describes how lesbians of colour can survive numerous sites of
hostility by constructing a positive identity within her home
community through revising cultural traditions and history. After
considering the power of these acts of revision, the author calls
for the empowered performance of the mestiza state - the state of
contradiction wherein the lesbian of colour finds herself. This
book is the first to analyse creative and theoretical works by
African American, Asian American, Latina and Native American
communities and writers through the lens of lesbian studies.
Authors include recognised figures such as Audre Lorde, Ana
Castillo and Paula Gunn Allen, as well as lesser known authors like
Best Brant, Natashia Lopez and Willyce Kim. It provides a
corrective to Butler's empowering but essentially white vision of
performing identity, so that lesbians of colour can claim their
identities and remain tied to their own cultural traditions.
Ultimately, the author asks for a reconsideration of the value of
identity studies that articulate monolithic identities and whose
analyses perpetuate what they seek to disrupt.
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