後現代肯定差異的態度給了黑人女性之性別，種族，及階級多重差異的身份一個由邊定伅的可能。然二者積極的對話中，亦有許多負面的應。此反應主要來自後現代對啟蒙主義之哲義及理念的排斥。啟蒙主義一向以一越主體為人類進步及基本人權的信念立論。然而主體性對女性主義者的，尤其對具多重邊緣身皆的黑人女性主義者的，必須由邊緣找越主體以進行性別，種族平等之政治訴求一直相當關鍵。對她而言，主體性是在其為自己爭取成為一個有能力的行為者(agent)之過程中，不可輕言放棄的。準此，後現對主體的解構及否定，似乎使黑人女性主義者以一固定主體進行政治訴求的可能幻滅。 本文旨在探應具多重邊緣身份的黑人女性主義者對有關本質、身皆、及理論等後現代議題持有之態度。 首先討論後現代肯定差異的態度對黑人女性主義之影響。其次探討黑人女性主義批評史上的幾個重要轉折階段，並呈現當代黑人女性主義者對後現代議題所提出之權宜性身份，協商理論之看法及期待。 最後結論：黑人女性主義與後現代議題之展開談話，為後現代開創了一個契機，使其能在走出現代主義本質僵局之同時，又不陷入目前後現代主義的脫離政治現實，過份玩弄文字之瓶頸。

In the current debate about postmodernism and the politics of feminism, the most ambivalent responses center around the issue of posmodernism’s rejection of the Enlightenment philosophy and project. Both Enlightenment ideas of human progress and the belief in fundamental human rights on the basis of a transcendental self have been central of feminism in its political struggle of emancipation. Yet, postmodern thought, assuming that subjectivity is but an effect of discourse, denies feminists any identity and position. Hence, the lack of any objective position and identity beyond the power/knowledge dynamic is seen as incompatible with feminism’s social interests and political objectives. My paper aims at rethinking or reconceptualizing black feminist responses, articulations, and debates on some crucial postmodern issues, among them essentialism, the politics of identity, and the politics of location. First, it contextualizes the postmodern debates between some important back feminists to examine the growing perspective produced in black feminist critical writing and discusses black feminists’ resistance, to posmodernism’s anti-essentialism, to identity politics, and to high theory by foregrounding their concept of difference in terms of their multiply marginalized outsider location, being a “back” and a “woman.” Finally, it suggests that back feminists’ discussion of difference transcends the limits of the postmodern, and distinguishes themselves by their self-declared outsider position from that of white postmodernist theorists who also celebrate heterogeneity or boundary: whereas the latter may treat it as an aestheticized play, the black feminists fight for daily survival as the most repressed group in the world. It is in this aspect I conclude that contemporary black feminism is radically postmodern and promising: it offers a mode of liberation from the limits of modernist homogeneity without having itself trapped in the apolitical and aestheticized play of postmodernity.