Trinh T. Minh-ha is a writer, filmaker, and composer. Her works include the books: The Digital Film Event Cinema Interval; Drawn from African Dwellings (in coll. with Jean-Paul Bourdier); Framer Framed; When the Moon Waxes Red. Representation, gender and cultural politics; Out There: Marginalisation in Contemporary Culture (editor with Cornel West, R. Ferguson & M. Gever.); En minuscules (book of poems); African Spaces - Designs for Living in Upper Volta (in coll. with Jean-Paul Bourdier)); En art sans oeuvre, International Book Publishers, Inc

The Story Began Long Ago.....
I. Commitment from the Mirror-Writing Box
The triple bind
Silence in time
Rites of passage
The Guilt
Freedom and the masses
For the people, by the people, and from the people
Vertically imposed language: on clarity, craftsmanship, and She who steals language
A sketched window on the world
The infinite play of empty mirrors
Writing woman
II. The Language of Nativism: Anthropology as a Scientific Conversation of Man with Man
The reign of worn codes
The positivist dream: We, the natives; They, the natives
A Western Science of man
A Myth of mythology
What "man" and which "man"?
Gossip and science: a conversation on what I love according to truth
Nativist interpretation
See them as they see each other
III. Difference: "A Special Third World Women Issue"
The Policy of "separate development"
The Sense of specialness
The question of roots and authenticity
Infinite Layer: I am not i can be you and me
The female identity enclosure
Third World?
"Woman" and the subtle power of linguistic exclusion
Subject-in-the-making
Ethnicity or womanhood: whose duality?
The Gender controversy
IV. Grandma's Story
Truth and fact: story and history
Keepers and transmitters
Storytelling in the "civilized" context
A regenerating force
At once "black" and "white" magic
The woman warrior: she who breaks open the spell
A cure and a protection from illness
"Tell it the way they tell it"
"The story must be told. There must not be any lie"
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index