Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Toward a Critical Solidarity: (Inter)change in Australian Aboriginal Writing Lyn McCredden Aboriginal Autography: The Dreaming of Sally Morgan Suzette Henke "Telling Our Own Stories": Reclaiming Difference, a Maori Resistance to Postculturalism Trevor James Breaking the Rules: Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill's Language Strategies Mary O'Connor Exile and the Politics of (Self-)Representation: The Narrative of Bounded Space and Action in Sahar Khalifeh's Wild Thorns Nejd Yaziji "Intersecting Marginalities": The Problem of Homophobia in South African Women's Writing Rosemary Jolly Against Extinction: The Native American and Indo-Hispanic Literary Discourse Bernice Zamora The Satire of Race in James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Gayle Wald Tayo's Journey Home: Crossblood Agency, Resistance, and Transformation in Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko Arturo J. Aldama Border Crisscrossing: The (Long and Winding) Road to Tamazunchale Manuel M. Martin-Rodriguez Feeding the "Hunger of Memory" and an Appetite for the Future: The Ethnic "Storied" Self and the American Authored Self in Ethnic Autobiography Babraba Frey Waxman Chinese-U.S. Border Crossings: Ethnic, National, and Anthropological Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang The Collective Self.' A Narrative Paradigm in Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe Lien Chao "This is my own, my native land":Constructions of Identity and Landscape in Joy Kogawa's Obasan Karin Quimby A Concluding Essay: Narratives for a New Belonging-Writing in the Borderlands Roger Bromley Contributors Index

About the Author

John C. Hawley is Associate Professor of English at Santa Clara University.

Reviews

Cross-Addressing discusses site-specific strategies of resistance to the imposition of identity in the terms imposed or implied by colonizers and their descendants: narrative empowerment, gender reconstruction, racial decategorization, an intersection of marginalities, and a cross-cultural Third World solidarity. The movement is from the individual to the collective, from the particular to the global. The theoretical approach is eclectic, echoing the current split in cultural studies between discussions of the cultural production of meaning, and an involvement in policy debates. The book contends that the heightened consciousness resulting from marginalization not only judges our world, but offers it a window onto its future possibilities. Contributors include Lyn McCredden, Suzette Henke, Trevor James, Mary O'Connor, S.M., Nejd Yaziji, Rosemary Jolly, Bernice Zamora, Gayle Wald, Arturo Aldama, Manuel M. Martin-Rodriquez, Barbara Frey Waxman, Mayfair Mei-hui Yang, Lien Chao, Karin Quimby, and Roger Bromley.