1. THEORISING OF THE OTHER TALKING BACK.
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Burnett, Bruce
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ORAL history , *CULTURAL identity , *GROUP identity , *WOMEN college students - Abstract
This article serves as a provocation to researchers to refuse the apparent 'safety' of the objective and a-political, and to continue to work on the 'how-to' of culturally sensitive research. This provocation works by means of an investigation into the uses to which narrative was employed in research into identity and difference in Japan. The research explores narrative as a means of generating, disciplining, dismantling and displaying difference-as-data, a process which insists on the difference that cultural difference makes for representing the Other -- in this case the problematics of female Japanese university students being re/presented by their male Anglo-Australian lecturer. The writing/displaying of this data pushed narrative form to offer up fresh notions of ethnicity and identity -- fresh accounts of a resistant Other. The study is therefore as much an exploration of narrative as a cross-disciplinary tool used to evoke the defiant speech of the Other, as it is a re-theorising of Japanese gender, resistance and power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2003
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