- Title
- Introduction (Frontiers: a Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 28, No's. 1-2, 2007)
- Creator
- Haskins, Victoria; Jacobs, Margaret D.
- Relation
- Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Vol. 28, Issue 1-2, p. ix-xvi
- Relation
- http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Frontiers,673226.aspx
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2007
- Description
- In this special issue of Frontiers, we move beyond the use of the home as a metonym and metaphor. Instead we have set out to consider the home itself as a key arena in which to analyze the intricate workings of colonial dynamics. We have gathered together poetry, artwork, historical articles, and essays of art history and literary criticism to reflect upon and to interrogate the nature of colonialism within the home, inside the realm of the domestic and intimate, and along “domestic frontiers.” While the term “frontier” is a contentious one, we use the term here to designate a contact zone that brought together colonizers with indigenous inhabitants, sometimes blurring and other times redrawing the boundaries between them. Thus we draw upon Mary Louise Pratt’s conception of “contact zones” to investigate cross-cultural imperial and colonial exchanges; but our focus is resolutely upon those that took place within the home. As Ann Laura Stoler puts it, such domestic or intimate frontiers provided “a social and cultural space where racial classifications were defined and defied, where relations between colonizer and colonized could powerfully confound or confirm the strictures of governance and the categories of rule.
- Subject
- frontier; home; colonialism; indigenous inhabitants
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/44508
- Identifier
- uon:5784
- Identifier
- ISSN:0160-9009
- Language
- eng
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