"Paula Moya's "Learning from Experience is a work of critical
intelligence that redefines entire areas of contemporary literary
studies, ethnic studies, and feminist studies. Her analyses
genuinely illuminate rather than simply reflect an assimilation to
critical commonplaces."--Jose David Saldivar, author of "Border
Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies
"In this volume, Paula Moya provides a comprehensive and astute
reading of Chicana literature and literary criticism, as well as an
important critique of postmodern theory as it bears on literary
criticism and especially the debates over experience, social
identity and multiculturalism. Moya is one of the most original and
powerful new voices in feminist and postcolonial theory today,
offering a needed corrective of some of the current dogmatisms in
social theory. "Learning from Experience offers a refreshing new
take on the debates over experience, . . . I doubt its importance
can be overestimated."--Linda Martin Alcoff, author of "Real
Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory
""Learning from Experience is a refreshingly provocative and
incisively written work that challenges fashionable dismissals of
identity politics. In so doing it reaffirms the primacy of
discursive and socio-political contexts and the epistemic value of
experience. Moya's stimulating work has much to offer."--Rosaura
Sanchez, author of "Telling Identities, and most recently co-author
with Beatrice Pita of "Conflicts of Interest: The Letters of Maria
Amparo Ruiz de Burton
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