July 10, 2011
Bringing Theory Home in Oman
I've read a lot of postcolonial theory, article upon article heaped with cultural awareness: politically correct, nonoppressive, empowering, deconstructing the center/periphery, subaltern studies, writing back to the empire, autoethnography—writing by people struggling to bear witness, give voice, reclaim power, and fight stereotypes. And I wonder: Who does their dishes?
Sitting on my porch in Oman, I am reading my way through a stack of articles by anthropologists and theorists
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