Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : toward a theory of minority discourse : what is to be done? / Abdul R. JanMohamed and David Lloyd
  • Rethinking modernism : minority vs. majority theories / Nancy Hartsock
  • The race for theory / Barbara Christian
  • Ethnic identity and post-structuralist differance / R. Radhakrishnan
  • Authority, (white) power, and the (Black) critic; it's all Greek to me / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • Negating the negation as a form of affirmation in minority discourse : the construction of Richard Wright as subject / Abdul R. JanMohamed
  • Politics, patriarchs, and laughter / Renato Rosaldo
  • Defining Asian American realities through literature / Elaine H. Kim
  • The Native-American tradition and legal status : Tolowa tales and Tolowa places / Allogan Slagle.
  • Dialogue as conquest : mapping spaces for counter-discourse / José Rabasa
  • The politics of the possible / Kumkum Sangari
  • Minority discourse and the African collective : some examples from Latin American and Caribbean literature / Josaphat B. Kubayanda
  • Hebrew in an Israeli Arab hand : six miniatures on Anton Shamma's Arabesques / Hannan Hever
  • Gastarbeiterliteratur : the other speaks back / Arlene A. Teraoka
  • Contentious traditions : the debate on sati in colonial India / Lata Mani
  • Deterritorializations : the rewriting of home and exile in Western feminist discourse / Caren Kaplan
  • Genet's genealogy : European minorities and the ends of the canon / David Lloyd.