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Between the Masks articulates a study of representation and the 'politics of place' through a pedagogy of narrative-performing inquiry and a critical reflection on identity. As a resistance to essentialist politics, the text focuses on the identity making/marking role of cultural materials in the recovery of different and overdetermind histories. It proposes a multicultural revision of knowledge that displaces the binarisms of insider/outside rather than simply shifting the margin to the center. By combining perspectives that produce strong readings with a semiotic method of analysis, the essentialist representations of racial, ethnic, sexual, and class biases will be revealed as strategies of power that employ appearance in their seduction. By this method, Brunner suggests a view of reflexive performance that seeks not to legitimate, but to critique, displace, and liberate these illusions of identity. Between the Masks promotes critical teaching that can bring together the literary, the historic, the theoretical, and the sociological. Brunner suggests the combined study of cultural studies and education as a theoretical and pedagogical site which embraces curriculum theory, teacher preparation, and policy. This book marks a move toward intertextual, interdisciplinary study which will help educators modulate the complicated conversations and contexts of todayOs schools.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Between the Masks
• Subtitle: Resisting the Politics of Essentialism
• Author: Diane DuBose Brunner
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780847688968
• ISBN: 0847688968
• ID: 04943455
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Weight: 255 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 148 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. December 1998

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