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When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics
When the Moon Waxes Red Representation Gender and Cultural Politics Author:Trinh T. Minh-Ha In this new collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, Trinh Minh--ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge. Bringing to her subjects an acute sense of the many meanings of the marginal, Trinh examines Asian and African texts, the theories of Barthes, questions of spectatorship, the enigmas of art, and t... more »he perils of anthropology. When the Moon Waxes Red is an extended argument against reductive analyses, even those that appear politically adroit. Trinh makes a case for multicultural revision of knowledge so that a new politics can transform reality rather than merely ideologize it. By rewriting the always emerging, already distorted place of struggle, she aims to ``beat the master at his own game."« less