Trinh Minh-ha is Chancellors' Distinguished Professor in Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and Associate Professor of Cinema at San Francisco State University. Among her films is SurnameViet Given Name Nam. She is the author of Women, Native,Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism and, most recently, has coedited Out There: Marginalization inContemporary Culture.

• Introduction Yellow Sprouts; Part 1 No Master Territories; Chapter 1 Cotton and Iron; Chapter 2 The Totalizing Quest of Meaning; Chapter 3 Mechanical Eye, Electronic Ear, and the Lure of Authenticity; Chapter 4 Outside In Inside Out; Part 2 She, of the Interval; Chapter 5 All-Owning Spectatorship; Chapter 6 A Minute Too Long; Chapter 7 L'Innécriture: Un-writing/Inmost Writing; Chapter 8 Questions of Images and Politics; Part 3 The Third Scenario: No Light No Shade; Chapter 9 Bold Omissions and Minute Depictions; Chapter 10 Aminata Sow Fall and the Beggars' Gift; Chapter 11 The World as Foreign Land; Chapter 12 Holes in the Sound Wall; Chapter 13 The Plural Void: Barthes and Asia; Chapter 14 The Other Censorship;

"Regardless of the structure in which she is writing, Trinh's language has the beauty and precision of poetry, her criticisms the clarity and focus of a well-directed film. But it is her methodology that is most unusual and innovative. As she works with theorizations of displacement and representation to develop and explain her own theses about difference and marginalization, she displaces her critical view so that it may simultaneously examine the assumptions underlying and informing those theorizations." -- L'Esprit Createur"A wonderful book. . ." -- Library Journal