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bell hooks Gloria Jean Watkins

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bell hooks Gloria Jean Watkins

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  1. bell hooksGloria Jean Watkins

  2. Her wide-ranging essays about American culture offer critiques on issues ranging from the academy to the environmental crisis, from the media to masculinity, from racism to sexism, while exploring the unique problems and perspectives of black women and the unprivileged. (2475)

  3. […] hooks believes that the abstract philosophical discourse of postmodern […] is dominated by white male intellectuals. These academic elites speak to one another, oblivious to the concerns of black people. (2476) • In its celebration of indeterminacy and free play in language and in its focus on deconstructing identity, postmodernism fails to offer useful analyses of the power relations that shape discourse. (2476)

  4. hooks is critical of the concept of essential blackness whether imposed on from without as racist stereotype or from within as prescription for an “authentic black identity,” as identity that refuses to recognize the multiplicities of black experiences that ground “diverse cultural productions.” (2477)

  5. hooks’s solution is to embrace the postmodern critique of essentialism while emphasizing the traditional humanistic “authority of experience.” (2477)

  6. Both terms [postmodernism & blackness] in hooks title must be seen as equally under interrogation, and much work remains to be done to understand the relations between them. (2477)

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  8. Almost liturgical in its rhythms, it juxtaposes sensory, everyday images in a style more reminiscent of poetry than prose to portray a character who seems mysteriously like a paradigmatic everygirl, rather than an individuated personality. (2334)

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