Between the Masks: Resisting the Politics of Essentialism

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: On Pedagogy and Performance Chapter 3 Towards a Pedagogy of Narrative-Performing Inquiry Chapter 4 Theorizing "Place" in the Performance of Identity Part 5 Part II: Interrogating the "Mirrors of Seduction" Chapter 6 Musical Elaborations of Identity. Masks in Film and Literature Part 7 Part III: Three In(ter)ventions: Performative Bridgework Chapter 8 Acts of Cultural Recovery Chapter 9 Border Literacies, Body Literacies Chapter 10 CODA: Critical Teaching and Theatricality in Everyday Life: A Reflexive View of Performance

Diane DuBose Brunner is associate professor of English and director of English education at Michigan State University.

The coda, Critical Teaching and Theatricality in Everyday Life, is an especially provocative look at universities and English departments as theaters of knowledge. Recommended for all collections. -- H.A. Booth, SUNY at Buffalo CHOICE Between the Masks presents one feminist's contruction of a pedagogy that can illuminate the politics of race, class, and gender. Signs: Journal of Women In Culture & Society The author takes the seminal and sometimes most difficult arguments of important theorists and applies them to the concepts of performance and essentialism in ways that are inventive and insightful ... The book is theoretically rich without being convoluted; therefore, rich in ways that are relevant and meaningful. -- D. Soyini Madison, associate director of the Institute of African-American Research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill