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Additional authors

1. Ferguson, Russell
2. Gever, Martha, 1947-
3. Trinh, T. Minh-Ha (Thi Minh-Ha), 1952-
4. West, Cornel
5. Tucker, Marcia
6. González-Torres, Félix, 1957-1996

Description

1. 446 pages : illustrations, portraits; 25 cm.

Summary

1. This text addresses the question of cultural marginalization - the process through which various groups are excluded from access to and participation in the dominant culture. It is an anthology that juxtaposes diverse points of view on issues of gender, race, sexual preference and class.

Series statement

1. Documentary sources in contemporary art ; volume 4

Uniform title

1. Documentary sources in contemporary art ; v. 4.

Subject

1. Marginality, Social
2. Arts and society
3. History
4. 1900-1999
5. Minorities in art
6. Ethnic arts
7. Marginality, Social > History > 20th century
8. Arts and society > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. 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? / Gilles Deleuze and 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 -- 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 -- Cotton and iron / Trinh T. Minh-ha -- Talking back / bell hooks -- Marginality as site of resistance -- 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.

Call number

1. Sc E 01-990

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-438) and index.

Title

1. Out there : marginalization and contemporary cultures / edited by Russell Ferguson, Martha Gever, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Cornel West ; foreword by Marcia Tucker ; images selected by Félix González-Torres.

Publisher

1. New York, New York : The New Museum of Contemporary Art ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [1990]

Copyright date

1. ©1990

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Documentary sources in contemporary art ; volume 4
2. Documentary sources in contemporary art ; v. 4.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-438) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

Added author

1. Ferguson, Russell, editor.
2. Gever, Martha, 1947- editor.
3. Trinh, T. Minh-Ha (Thi Minh-Ha), 1952- editor.
4. West, Cornel, editor.
5. Tucker, Marcia, writer of foreword.
6. González-Torres, Félix, 1957-1996, selector.

LCCN

1. 90005562

ISBN

1. 0262061325 (hardcover)
2. 9780262061322 (hardcover)

Research call number

1. Sc E 01-990
2. JQZ 12-3266