Postmodernist discourses are often exclusionary even when,
having been accused of lacking concrete relevance, they call attention
to and appropriate the experience of "difference" and "otherness" in
order to provide themselves with oppositional political meaning,
legitimacy, and immediacy. Very few African-American intellectuals have
talked or written about postmodernism.
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This is especially the case with works that go on and on about the way in which postmodernist discourse has opened up a theoretical terrain where "difference and otherness" can be considered legitimate issues in the academy
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Confronting both the lack of recognition of black female presence that much postmodernist theory reinscribes and the resistance on the part of most black folks to hearing about real connections between postmodernism and black experience, I enter a discourse, a practice, where there may be no ready audience for my words, no clear listener, uncertain, then, that my voice can or will be heard.
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