Feminist critics’’have often pondered whether a postmodern language may be articulated that obviates the essentialist arrogance of much modernist and some feminist discourse and does not reduce feminism to silences or a purely negative and reactionary stance. This ideal may be actualized in a discourse that recognizes itself as historically situated, ’’ as motivated by values and, thus, political interests, and as a human practice without transcendent justification. The author Dorothy Allison meets these criteria by focusing on women who have been marginalized by totalizing forces and ideas, while simultaneously reminding the reader, through the wide range of women that she portrays and their culpability in her protagonists’’ predicaments, that unlike pure and transcendent heroes, women are real characters and morally complex. Allison insists that humans are burdened with the responsibility of fashioning their own stories, quotidian as they may be, and .while these will never offer the solace of transcendent justification, the constant negotiation between the word and the world avoids reticence on the one hand and the purely negative on the other. The passage suggests that the spiraling decline of black neighborhoods can be blamed primarily upon________.
A．a lack of political will within underprivileged communities to counter the economic effects of segregation B．the diminished significance of urban black neighborhoods as economic and residential centers relatively to other areas of the city C．the tendency of poor blacks to live among other poor minorities, unlike poor whites, who live dispersed among rich whites D．the uniqueness of the geographic pattern in which black communities have developed in America, relative to other communities E．a lack of resources within the urban black American communities to resist the forces which lead to segregation