Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Inquiry among the Ruins -- PART I : Interruptions -- ~The Question of Belief~: Writing Poststructural Ethnography -- What's Going On? Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Postmodernism -- This Ethnography Called My Back: Writings of the Exotic Gaze,~Othering~ Latina, and Recuperating Xicanisma -- Researching ~My People,~ Researching Myself: Fragments of a Reflexive Tale -- Researching Libraries, Literacies, and Lives: A Rhizoanalysis -- Electronic Tools for Dismantling the Master's House: Poststructuralist Feminist Research and Hypertext Poetics -- PART II: Disciplines and Pleasures -- Skirting a Pleated Text: De-Disciplining an Academic Life -- Laughing within Reason: On Pleasure, Women, and Academic Performance -- Eclipsing the Constitutive Power of Discourse: The Writing of Janette Turner Hospital -- Exposed Methodology: The Body as a Deconstructive Practice -- PART III: Figurations -- Feminist Figurations: Gossip as a Counterdiscourse -- White Noise -- the Sound of Epidemic: Reading/Writing a Climate of Intelligibility around the ~Crisis~ of Difference -- Nomadic Inquiry in the Smooth Spaces of the Field: A Preface -- Drawing the Line at Angels: Working the Ruins of Feminist Ethnography -- Contributors -- Index.