Donna LeCourt is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Material Conditions of Identity Politics, or How Identity Matters in Public and Academic Discourses

Interchapter 1: Home Places

2. Academic Discourse and Subject Production: Toward a Technology of Power

Interchapter 2: Learning My Class

3. Turning Ourselves Into Subjects: Identification, Power, and Desire

Interchapter 3: The Imposter in Me

4. Colonialism, Capitalism, And Composition: Structural Limitations on Composing Identities

Interchapter 4: Loss And Gain

5. The Turn to Identity: Multiplicity and Agency Within Material Relations of Power

Interchapter 5 : My Blindness

6. Writing Matters: Revitalizing Agency

Appendix

Notes

Works Cited

Index