When The Moon Waxes Red Representation Gender & Cultural Politics
MINH HA T T
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- Edition: 1/1992
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In this new collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, award-winning filmmaker and theorist Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge. Bringing to her subjects an acute sense of the many meanings of the marginal, Trinh examines Asian and African texts, the theories of Barthes, questions of spectatorship, the enigmas of art, and the perils of anthropology. When the Moon Waxes Red is an extended argument against reductive analyses, even those that appear politically adroit. Feminist struggle is heterogeneous. The multiply hyphenated peoples of color are not simply placed in a duality between two cultural heritages; throughout, Trinh Minh-ha a ...
Publication date: 1992-03-05
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Routledge
Subjects:
Non-fiction, Art/design/film, Film, TV & Radio, Films, Cinema, Social Sciences, Sociology, Gender Studies, Gender Groups, Popular Culture
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