Who Can Speak? - AUTHORITY AND CRITICAL IDENTITY (Paperback, New)

For women, for lesbians and gays, for African Americans, for Asians, Native Americans, or any other self-identified and -identifying group, who can speak? Who has the authority to speak for these groups? Is there genuinely such a thing as "objectivity," or can only members of these groups speak, finally, for themselves? And who has the authority to decide who has the authority? This collection examines how theory and criticism are complicated by multiple perspectives in an increasingly multicultural society and faces head on the difficult question of what qualifies a critic to speak from or about a particular position. In different formats and from different perspectives from various disciplines, the contributors to this volume analytically and innovatively work together to define the problems and capture the contradictions and tensions inherent in the issues of authority, epistemology, and discourse.

General

Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 1995
First published:	November 1995
Editors:	Judith Roof • Robyn Wiegman
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	264
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-252-06487-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	0-252-06487-9
Barcode:	9780252064876

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