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Cultural Alterity: Cross-Cultural Communication and Feminist Theory in North-South Contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Ofelia Schutte
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Abstract

How to communicate with “the other” who is culturally different from oneself is one of the greatest challenges facing North-South relations. This paper builds on existential-phenomenological and poststructuralist concepts of alterity and difference to strengthen the position of Latina and other subaltern speakers in North-South dialogue. It defends a postcolonial approach to feminist theory as a basis for negotiating culturally differentiated feminist positions in this age of accelerated globalization, migration, and displacement.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 13 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Border Crossings: Multiculturalism and Postcolonial Challenges, Part 1 , Spring 1998 , pp. 53 - 72
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Copyright © 1998 by Hypatia, Inc.

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