Woman, native, other: writing postcoloniality and feminism

The Story Began Long Ago...

- I. Commitment from the Mirror-Writing Box. The triple bind

- Silence in time

- Rites of passage

- The Guilt

- Freedom and the masses

- For the people, by the people, and from the people

- Vertically imposed language: on clarity, craftsmanship, and She who steals language

- A sketched window on the world

- The infinite play of empty mirrors

- Writing woman

II. The Language of Nativism: Anthropology as a Scientific Conversation of Man with Man. The reign of worn codes

- The positivist dream: We, the natives; They, the natives

- A Western Science of man

- A Myth of mythology

- What 'man' and which 'man'?

- Gossip and science: a conversation on what I love according to truth

- Nativist interpretation

- See them as they see each other

III. Difference: 'A Special Third World Women Issue'. The Policy of Oseparate development

- The Sense of specialness

- The question of roots and authenticity

- Infinite Layer: I am not i can be you and me

- The female identity enclosure Third World?

- 'Woman' and the subtle power of linguistic exclusion

- Subject-in-the-making

- Ethnicity or womanhood: whose duality?

- The Gender controversy

IV. Grandma's Story. Truth and fact: story and history

- Keepers and transmitters

- Storytelling in the 'civilized' context

- A regenerating force

- At once 'black' and 'white' magic

- The woman warrior: she who breaks open the spell

- A cure and a protection from illness

- 'Tell it the way they tell it'

- 'The story must be told. There must not be any lie'.