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G&S Typesetters PDF proof N O T E S Introduction 1. Amal Amireh and Lisa Suhair Majaj (eds.), Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers, investigates the process of reading and writing about third-world women and their narratives. 2. Janet Wolff, The Social Production of Art, p. 1. Chapter One. Why Colonial Discourse? 1. For examples of some of the reviews of Said’s Orientalism and other articles inspired by his book, see Sadik Jalal al-Azm, “Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse,” Khamsin 8 (1981); James Clifford, “Orientalism,” History and Theory 19 (1980); James Clifford, “On Orientalism,” in The Predicament of Culture; Lata Mani and Ruth Frankenberg , “The Challenge of Orientalism,” Economy and Society 14, no. 2 (May 1985); Ernest J. Wilson III, “Orientalism: A Black Perspective,” Journal of Palestinian Studies 10, no. 2 (1981); Emmanuel Sivan, “Edward Said and His Arab Reviewers,” in Interpretations of Islam Past and Present; Robert Young, “Disorienting Orientalism,” in White Mythologies: Writing History and the West; Xiaomei Chen, “Occidentalism as Counterdiscourse: ‘He Shang’ in Post-Mao China,” Critical Inquiry 18, no. 4 (Summer 1992); and Paul A. Bove, “Hope and Reconciliation: A Review of Edward Said,” Boundary 2 20, no. 2 (Summer 1993). See also “An Interview with Edward Said,” Boundary 2 20, no. 1 (Spring 1993); and Benita Parry’s excellent critique in “Problems in Current Theories of Colonial Discourse,” Oxford Literary Review 9, nos. 1–2 (1987). 2. Anouar Abdel-Malek, “Orientalism in Crisis,” Diogenes 44 (1963). 3. See Masao Miyoshi, “A Borderless World?: From Colonialism to Transnationalism and the Decline of the Nation-State,” Critical Inquiry 19, no. 4 (Summer 1993); and Clifford, “Orientalism.” 4. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism ,” Critical Inquiry 12, no. 1 (Autumn 1985): 243. 5. Miyoshi, “A Borderless World?” p. 728. 6. For a critique of feminism and colonial discourse, see Chandra Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses,” Feminist Review 30 (1988); also in Boundary 2 12, no. 3, and 13, no. 1 (1984). See also Spivak, “Three Wom189 11-T2696-END 8/14/03 5:16 PM Page 189 G&S Typesetters PDF proof en’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism”; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “French Feminism in an International Frame,” in In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics; and Inscriptions : Feminism and the Critique of Colonial Discourse 3– 4 (1988). Sara Mills studies western women’s relationship to colonial discourse in her “Alternative Voices to Orientalism ,” Journal of Literature Teaching Politics 5 (1986). Rana Kabbani, a Syrian settled in London, wrote Europe’s Myths of Orient: Devise and Rule; however, her book follows Said’s method of analysis and does not stress the connection between feminism and Orientalism. 7. Quoted by John McBratney, “Images of Indian Women in Rudyard Kipling: A Case of Doubling Discourse,” Inscriptions: Feminism and the Critique of Colonial Discourse 3– 4 (1988): 47. 8. By Spivak, see The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues, ed. Sarah Harasym; In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics; and “Acting Bits/Identity Talk,” Critical Inquiry 18, no. 4 (Summer 1992): 770–803. By Mohanty, see “Under Western Eyes.” By Homi Bhabha, see “Interrogating Identity,” in Lisa Appignanesi (ed.), Identity : The Real Me; “Signs Taken for Wonders: Questions of Ambivalence and Authority under a Tree outside Delhi, May, 1817,” Critical Inquiry 12, no. 1 (Autumn 1985); “Sly Civility,” October 34 (1985); “Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse,” October 28 (1985); “Representation and the Colonial Text: A Critical Exploration of Some Forms of Mimeticism,” in Frank Gloversmith (ed.), The Theory of Reading; and “The Commitment to Theory,” New Formations 5 (1988). See also Sara Danius and Stefan Jonsson’s interview with Spivak in Boundary 2 20, no. 2 (Summer 1993): 24 –50; and Miyoshi, “A Borderless World?” 9. See, for example, bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center; Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa (eds.), This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color; and Maria Lugones and Victoria Spelman, “Have We Got a Theory for You?: Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism, and the Demand for the Woman’s Voice,” Women’s Studies: International Forum 6, no. 6 (1983). 10. Spivak, “Three Women’s Texts,” p. 243. 11. See Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, “Placing Women’s History in History,” New Left Review 133 (May–June 1982). 12. Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes,” p. 61. 13. Ibid., p. 66. 14. Marnia Lazreg, “Feminism and Difference: The Perils of Writing as a Woman on...

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