Weaving / Framing / Crossing Difference: Reflections on Gender and Ethnicity

• Autores: Teresa Gómez Reus
• Localización: Caught Between Cultures: Women, Writing & Subjectivities / Elizabeth Russell (ed. lit.), 2002, ISBN 9789042013681, págs. 99-128
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The dialectic of identity politics: options and perspectives IN THE CURRENT POLITICAL, LITERARY AND ARTISTIC LANDSCAPE, we have witnessed a crucial shift in the articulation of identity thwarting possibilities of demarcations both within and between cultures. To free, to reinforce or to reclaim one culture, one practice or one community from/to another these have today become central strategies practiced by members of historically segregated groups women and ethnic minorities especially. These groups have voiced the need to acknowledge previously ignored, or denied, identities. Yet never so poignantly as today has one been made to realize how wholly contaminated our experiences are, how problematical it is to reproduce organic concepts of identity, and how, in a culture of diversity, the question of identity is always a matter of constantly crossing and (re)drawing boundaries. The aim of this essay is to examine some ideas closely related to group identity and cultural authenticity; ideas that have emerged and matured within the debates of feminist and postcolonial criticism and that are now occupying the front rank of literary and cultural thought. (...).