Out there : marginalization and contemporary cultures / edited by Russell Ferguson ... [et al.] ; foreword by Marcia Tucker

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Publication details: New York : The New Museum of Contemporary Art ; Cambridge : The MIT Press, cop. 1990Description: 446 pISBN:

0262061325

Summary: Out There is a book about "marginalization," that complex and disputatious process by means of which certain people and ideas are privileged over others at any given time. It is a collection of essays that explore and ultimately, we hope, deconstruct the problematic binary notions of center and periphery, inclusion and exclusion, majority and minority, as they operate in artistic and social practice. This book examines the process by which, through shifts in position, any given group can be ignored, trivialized, rendered invisible and unheard, perceived as inconsequential, de-authorized, "other," or threatening, while others are valorized. The essays challenge the idea of identity as singular or monolithic, exploring instead the concept of a "multiple, shifting, and often self-contradictory identity... made up of heterogeneous and heteronomous representations of gender, race, and class." Since art and culture are inseparable, these essays also challenge the strangely persistent idea that artists and the work they make come in only one gender, color or sexual preference. (Font: Prefaci)

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Director's Foreword / Marcia Tucker -- Introduction: Invisible Center / Russell Ferguson -- Other Questions: Critical Contexts: The New Cultural Politics of Difference / Cornel West ; Modernism, Postmodernism and the Problem of the Visual in Afro-American Culture / Michele Wallace ; The Straight Mind / Monique Wittig ; What is a Minor Literature? / Guilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari ; The Other Question : Difference, Discrimination and the Discourse of Colonialism / Homi K. Bhabha ; Missionary Positions: AIDS, Africa, and Race / Simon Watney ; Uneven Development: Public Art in New York City / Rosalyn Deutsche ; Please Wait By the Coatroom / John Yau ; On Collecting Art and Culture / James Clifford -- Wild Tongues : Affirming Identities: The Names We Give Ourselves / Martha Gever ; How to Tame a Wild Tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa ; Repetition as a Figure of Black Culture / James A. Snead ; Mourning and Militancy / Douglas Crimp ; Black Hair/Style Politics / Kobena Mercer ; Complexion / Richard Rodriguez ; Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference / Audre Lorde ; Coming to Terms / Richard Dyer ; The Site of Memory / Toni Morrison -- Marginalia: Displacement and Resistance: Cotton and Iron / Trinh T. Minh-ha ; Talking Back ; marginality as site of resistance/ bell hooks ; Castration or Decapitation? / Hélène Cixous ; Reflections on Exile/ Edward Said ; Ons Stel Nie Belang Nie/We Are Not Interested In : Speaking Apartheid/ Linda Peckham ; Explanation and Culture: Marginalia/ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ; Thoughts on Nomadic Aesthetics and Black Independent Cinema: Traces of a journey/ Teshome H. Gabriel ; Socioacupuncture : Mythic Reversals and the Striptease in Four Scenes/ Gerald Vizenor -- Contributors -- Illustrations -- Reprint Sources -- Select Bibliography -- Index

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