Who Can Speak?: Authority and Critical Identity Book

	Introduction: Negotiating the Question
Pt. 1	Manners of Speaking	1
1	Identification and Difference: Structures of Privilege in Cultural Criticism	3
2	"For Every Gesture of Loyalty, There Doesn't Have to Be a Betrayal": Asian American Criticism and the Politics of Locality	30
3	Personal Criticism and the Academic Personality	56
4	A Black Man's Place(s) in Black Feminist Criticism	70
Pt. 2	Speaking Parts	93
5	The Problem of Speaking for Others	97
6	Subjectivity, Experience, and Knowledge: An Epistemology from/for Rainbow Coalition Politics	120
7	Subjects, Knowledges, . . . and All the Rest: Speaking for What?	137
Pt. 3	Political Grammar	151
8	Fetishism, Identity, Politics	155
9	Speaking with the Dead	165
10	Buckling Down or Knuckling Under: Discipline or Punish in Lesbian and Gay Studies	180
Pt. 4	Figures of Speech	193
11	The Vicar and Virago: Feminism and the Problem of Identity	195
12	The Joke and the Hoax: (Not) Speaking as the Other	208
13	Bodies and Pleasures in Queer Theory	221
14	Speak for Yourself	231
	Contributors	239
	Index	243