Community Narrative as a Borderlands Praxis: Anzaldúa’s Mestiza Consciousness as Explored in Cortez’s Sexile

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guneet Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Mestiza Consciousness

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Mary Davalos
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Chicano Movement ◽  
Mestiza Consciousness

This chapter introduces how the vernacular concept of the remix exposes and challenges conventions of Chicana/o art discourse that erase the variety of styles, methods, and approaches employed by artists since the height of the Chicano movement. Using the work of artist Sandra de la Loza as a methodology for remixing, the chapter interrogates the dichotomous lens and categories for art and artists that have functioned to render Chicana/o art invisible or improbable. It proposes that the decolonial methods of Anzaldúan theory, such as borderlands and mestiza consciousness, best illuminate the complexity of Chicana/o art and artists in Los Angeles, an ideal site for a capacious analysis of Chicana/o artists, exhibitions, collectors, curators, and institutions.

The Xicana Sacred Space: A Communal Circle of Compromiso for Educational Researchers

2009 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 755-776 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lourdes Diaz Soto ◽  
Claudia Cervantes-Soon ◽  
Elizabeth Villarreal ◽  
Emmet Campos
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Sacred Space ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Mestiza Consciousness ◽  
Action Projects

The Xicana Sacred Space resulted from an effort to develop a framework that would center the complexities of Chicana ontology and epistemology as they relate to social action projects in our communities. Claiming indigenous roots and ways of knowing,the Xicana Sacred Space functions as a decolonizing tool by displacing androcentric and Western linear notions of research in favor of a Mestiza consciousness(Anzaldúa, 1999). Organically born, the space proved to be an important source of knowledge, strength, inspiration, and reflexivity for the authors in their journey as graduate students. Here the authors explain how the space evolved and detail its promise as a tool for raising consciousness, gaining strength, cultivating cultural intuition (Delgado Bernal, 1998), examining positionalities and standpoints, and achieving intellectual growth among those interested in conducting decolonial, emancipatory,and feminist research and action projects.

Traveling the Soil of Worlds: Haunted Forgettings and Opaque Memories

Hypatia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-453
Author(s):  
Ege Selin Islekel
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Rupture ◽  
Mestiza Consciousness ◽  
The World

AbstractThis essay works on the role of trauma and forgetting in the subjective formations of the world-traveler and la nueva mestiza. I investigate how forgetting affects the resistant capacities of these figures. I argue throughout that the memory of the world-traveler is an opaque memory, which is unintelligible for the hegemonic demands of transparency, and which forms the silt upon which the resistant possibilities of the world-traveler rest. The first part elaborates María Lugones's conception of world-traveling in relation to Gloria Anzaldúa's New Mestiza consciousness and Mariana Ortega's multiplicitous self. Here I draw attention to the role of opacity and forgetting in the ways in which one can inhabit a world. The second part develops the notions of trauma and haunting to establish the experiential memory of the world-traveler not as a traumatic rupture, but rather as a haunted memory that accompanies her travels. The last section turns to Édouard Glissant's notion of opacity as a resistant mechanism, which works not through the traumatic rupture of experience but rather through sedimentation of experience.

scholarly journals The Coatlicue’s State in The Mixquiahuala Letters: A Postmodern Interpretation on How to Reach the Mestiza Consciousness

2020 ◽  
pp. 181-192
Author(s):  
Mariela Aguilar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Miguel De Cervantes ◽  
The Third ◽  
Anais Nin ◽  
Mestiza Consciousness ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Literary Renaissance

During the Chicana Literary Renaissance of the 1980s, Chicana writers–influenced by the Third World Feminist Movement–revealed new forms of representation of the Chicana experience. While concentrating on the subversive reading of the subject-object duality in Ana Castillo’s novel, The Mixquiahuala Letters (1985), Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s theory of the mestiza consciousness is also reviewed. Castillo represents the mestiza consciousness through her protagonist in a process of self-discovery through the reflection of autohistoria-teoría within the forty letters. The dichotomies of patriarchal ideologies that divide her from the Other are examined through the Coatlicue State, as inflected by such writers such as Julio Cortázar, Anaïs Nin and Miguel de Cervantes. Castillo creates a postmodern hopscotch style novel in which the reader is fundamental to the subversive interpretation of the three reading options (the conformist, the cynical, and the quixotic).

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