The Rhetoric of the "Other" Literature (review)
understandings of black textual production. As Kauffman observes, the "dialogic" model of Gender & Theory sets up multiple reverberations that extend beyond the particular debates "into the margins and the footnotes." Moreover, "the limitations of methodologies that focus on individual identity" are examined by a number of authors from different "pairs" in order to further displace traditional academic discourse: "far from arriving at definitive solutions, the cumulative effect of reading and writing here," Kauffman writes, "is of resistance to certainty and stasis." The collection would make a stimulating text in discussions of feminist theory and theory in general. But its authors are not equally clear about their investments in the hierarchies of rank and power, nor do all of these self-reflectors avoid the temptation to idealize their own narcissism.