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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 Alarcon, 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 Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua, and Helena Maria 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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary theory

• Full title: Learning from Experience
• Subtitle: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles
• Author: Paula M. L. Moya
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 247
• EAN: 9780520230149
• ISBN: 0520230140
• ID: 04616795
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 408 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 2002

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