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Filmmaker, writer and composer Trinh T. Minh-ha's extensive polycultural/semantic body of work moves beyond the range of the excerpts and responses in this issue. What we hope for is an active signpost toward the many loci of her explorations where literary theory, anthropological heuristics, poetry, film-making are not split into academic hegemonies.

Trinh Minh-ha's project is profoundly non-dualistic, privileging neither text vs (visual) semiotic, creative vs critical process. There are many ways for us to enter--as readers, viewers, co-constructors. The pleasure of this complex encounter keeps us alert --"Why not go and find out for yourself when you don't know? Why let yourself be trapped in the mold of permanent schooling and wait for the delivery of knowledge as a consumer waits for her/his supplier's goods? The understanding of difference is a shared responsibility, which requires a minimum of willingness to reach out to the unknown." (--Woman, Native, Other p. 85)