Transformation Now!
Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change
1st Edition
Published on 15. October 2013
280 pages
978-0-252-09511-5 (ISBN)
Description
In this lively, thought-provoking study, AnaLouise Keating writes in the traditions of radical U.S. women-of-color feminist/womanist thought and queer studies, inviting us to transform how we think about identity, difference, social justice and social change, metaphysics, reading, and teaching. Through detailed investigations of women of color theories and writings, indigenous thought, and her own personal and pedagogical experiences, Keating develops transformative modes of engagement that move through oppositional approaches to embrace interconnectivity as a framework for identity formation, theorizing, social change, and the possibility of planetary citizenship. Speaking to many dimensions of contemporary scholarship, activism, and social justice work, Transformation Now! calls for and enacts innovative, radically inclusionary ways of reading, teaching, and communicating.
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- GIVING THANKS
- Introduction. Post-Oppositional Resistance? Threshold Theories Defined and Enacted
- 1. Beyond Intersectionality: Theorizing Interconnectivity with/in This Bridge Called My Back:
- 2. "American" Individualism, Variations on a Theme
- or, Self-Reliance, Transformed!
- 3. "I am your other I": Transformational Identity Politics
- 4. "There is no arcane place for return": Revisionist Mythmaking with a Difference
- 5. From Self-Help to Womanist Self-Recovery: or, How Paula Gunn Allen Changed My Mind
- 6. Pedagogies of Invitation: From Status-Quo Stories to Cosmic Connections
- Appendix 1. Abridged Syllabus for a U.S. Women of Colors Course
- Appendix 2. Guidelines for a Workshop on Our Spoken Word: Poetry for Self and Community
- Notes
- Works Cited and Consulted
- Index
