1 Introduction: the Discursive Strategies of the Marginalized 1
NOTES 1 Introduction: The Discursive Strategies of the Marginalized 1. Judith Butler, “Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of ‘Postmodernism,’ ” in Feminists Theorize the Political, ed. Judith Butler and Joan W. Scott (New York: Routledge, 1992), 12 [3–21]. 2. See Raphael Patai, The Arab Mind (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1976), 188–90. 3. Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized (Boston: Beacon Press, 1965), 129; see also Butler, “Contingent Foundations,” in Feminist Theorize the Political, ed. Judith Butler and Joan W. Scott, 21 n9. 4. Butler, “Contingent Foundations,” in Feminist Theorize the Political, ed. Judith Butler and Joan W. Scott, 21 n9. 5. Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture, Routledge Classics (London and New York: Routledge, 2004), 6. 6. See Bhabha, Location of Culture, 50. Bhabha notes that “Forms of popular rebellion and mobilization are often most subversive and transgressive when they are created through opposition of cultural practices” (29). 7. Butler, “Contingent Foundations,” in Feminist Theorize the Political, ed. Judith Butler and Joan W. Scott, 13. 8. Bhabha, Location of Culture, 3. 9. Bhabha, Location of Culture, 2. 10. Bhabha, Location of Culture, 2. 11. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988), 329; see also Bhabha, Location of Culture, 24. 12. Bhabha, Location of Culture, 15. 13. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, trans. Dana Polan, foreword by Réda Bensmaïa, Theory and History of Literature, vol. 30 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986), 16–17. 14. Although the vernacular is said to be the norm for most medieval women, many did know, read, and write Latin, a language conventionally regarded as patriarchal and reserved for male ecclesiastics in the Middle Ages.
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