Week 11 Questions (Crossley)

On pages 10-11, hooks suggests needing to stretch oneself and the boundaries of theory/scholarship.  She says, "the leap into cultural studies happened as a way to save myself from the static momentum, that conversation that had somewhat stopped." She goes on to suggest feminism "had to create a rupture" to disrupt itself in order to push the boundaries.  creating those internal ruptures, stretching oneself to discomfort is gutsy and often isolating.  It struck me that these ruptures ARE cultural theory in action.  How do we address these ruptures in our own work and stave off what they refer to as "unconscious resistance"?

The notion of home becomes a topic of conversation.  Home as in homeland to home as in a place of comfort or an intellectual discourse with another like mind. Stuart suggests "we are already not at home."  I was immediately brought back to Robert Warrior's ASA address, Home / Not Home: Centering American Studies Where We Are. Warrior expounds on the "Indigenous 'where' that stretches across the terrain of the Americans and much of the rest of the world." Two marginalized groups looking for home in colonization and dispossession. Even if rightfully returned, home would never be the same. Marred by colonization and modernization, how does one get home.  How do we redefine home so it welcomes us when we find it?