Settler aesthetics—Theorizing and contesting settler colonialism through art practice
Abstract The growing scholarship on settler colonialism largely understudies aesthetics. Settler colonial logics work not only through the elimination, dispossession, and criminalization of Indigenous populations but also through the erasure of Indigenous narratives and aesthetics.
J. Zoe Malot
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The Power of Poetic Praxis in the Literature of Pat Mora and Ana Castillo [PDF]
Chicana literary work is predominantly characterized by poetry. Lyrical poetic phrases are interwoven into Chicanas’ short stories, novels, theoretical, and critical essays. Why poetry?
Graf, Amara
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Identidad, experiencia, diferencia. Re-significaciones de lo político en Esta puente mi espalda [PDF]
Les possibilitats d'utilitzar les referències identitàries i els imaginaris del gènere per construir una mirada capaç de donar compte de l'experiència dels subjectes i de les seves contradiccions, constitueix en l'actualitat un escenari reflexiu que ...
Barrientos, Panchiba Francisca
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Limits and Borderlands: Border-Crossing Pedagogy and Transdiscipline in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Writings
The essay analyzes the work of Gloria Anzaldúa, focusing on her pedagogy as a crossing act. I place her work at the limits of nation, identity and discipline and propose a way of reading her texts that emphasizes the register of pedagogy.
Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius
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The Extremities of the Borderlands
Writing from the border of Mexico and America, Gloria Anzaldúa and Sandra Cisneros are two Mexican female authors that have embraced poetry, prose and word art to articulate the ‘Chicana’ experience of life.
Sophie Sexon
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El Otro Encuentro: Gigi Oltavaro-Hormillosa’s Neo-Queer Precolonial Imagining
This essay examines the performance and video art piece Cosmic Blood, by Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa, a queer Colombian and Filipina American artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Velasco, Gina
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Chinese Americans and the Borderland Experience on Golden Mountain: The Development of a Chinese American Identity in the Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts [PDF]
In The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, Maxine Hong Kingston tells the story of her immigrant family and their efforts to rise above their working-class status in America, which optimistic Chinese regard as the Golden Mountain.
Bucci, Diane Todd
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Anzaldua’s Borderlands/La Frontera:
Poststructuralist theorist Derrida urges a need to break the binary positions in phallogocentric narratives. Following his idea, poststructuralist feminists like Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous also say that women need to be themselves while writing so
Sonika Islam
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Potencia visibilizadora e intensidad testimonial en la autotraducción: la poesía mapuche de Adriana Paredes Pinda [PDF]
Desde el marco conceptual que habilitan Deleuze y Guattari con la noción de literatura menor, es posible comprender el carácter testimonial y visibilizador que asumen, desde su agenciamiento como dispositivo de enunciación colectivo, las literaturas ...
Stocco, Melissa
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Las fronteras funcionan como espacios de tránsito, convivencia y creación de identidades en los márgenes del sistema establecido. Este estudio pretende aplicar el concepto de «mestiza» de Gloria Anzaldúa al personaje America Chavez, la primera ...
Carmen Zalvide Rodríguez
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