Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities

The old logics of identity are ones with which the people are extremely familiar, either philosophically, or psychologically. Old logics contain the notion of the true self, some real self inside there, hiding inside the husks of all the false selves that the authors present to the rest of the world. As a process, as a narrative, as a discourse, it is always told from the position of the other. The histories that have never been told about ourselves that the people could not learn in schools, that were not in any books, and that they had to recover. If contemporary writing which emerges from oppressed groups ignores the central concerns and major conflicts of the larger society, and if these are willing simply to accept themselves as marginal or enclave literatures, they will automatically designate themselves as permanently minor, as a sub-genre.