I wish I had read this week’s pieces earlier. They are so relevant to my research.
However, I am somewhat disappointed with how Hall ends the essay on “who needs ‘identity’?” Having grappled with the relationship between subject, identity, and body (and also self?) I was expecting him to try and answer his answer. I am annoyed that he does not engage with the WOC feminist scholarship at all despite using the last few paragraphs to give token attention to feminism via Butler. Given the time that he is writing this essay, how can Hall ignore the literature produced by the likes of Moraga, Anzaldua, Lorde, Crenshaw, or Collins (even though he engages with Butler)? What does it say about his citational politics? Can identity be understood by only relying on psychoanalysis and a unidimensional understanding of phenomenology?
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