In-between : Latina feminist phenomenology, multiplicity, and the self / Mariana Ortega.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ortega, Mariana, author.

Series:

SUNY series, philosophy and race.

SUNY series, Philosophy and Race

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic American women.

Feminists--United States.

Feminists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This original study intertwining Latina feminism, existential phenomenology, and race theory offers a new philosophical approach to understanding selfhood and identity. Focusing on writings by Gloría Anzaldúa, María Lugones, and Linda Martín Alcoff, Mariana Ortega articulates a phenomenology that introduces a conception of selfhood as both multiple and singular. Her Latina feminist phenomenological approach can account for identities belonging simultaneously to different worlds, including immigrants, exiles, and inhabitants of borderlands. Ortega's project forges new directions not only in Latina feminist thinking on such issues as borders, mestizaje, marginality, resistance, and identity politics, but also connects this analysis to the existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger and to such concepts as being-in-the-world, authenticity, and intersubjectivity. The pairing of the personal and the political in Ortega's work is illustrative of the primacy of lived experience in the development of theoretical understandings of who we are. In addition to bringing to light central metaphysical issues regarding the temporality and continuity of the self, Ortega models a practice of philosophy that draws from work in other disciplines and that recognizes the important contributions of Latina feminists and other theorists of color to philosophical pursuits.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; On the Concept of Experience; Latina Feminist Phenomenology; A Note on the "Ontic" and the "Ontological"; Overview; Chapter 1 The New Mestiza and La Nepantlera; She Seeks New Images of Identity; The New Mestiza in Nepantla; The Perils of Mestizaje; La Nepantlera Way: Later Visions of Selfhood and Transformation; A Mestizaje of Multiplicity and Oneness; Chapter 2 Being-between-Worlds, Being-in-Worlds; Latina Feminist Phenomenology and Heideggerian Existential Phenomenology; Crisscrossings; A Key Difference: Not Being-at-Ease

Multiplicitous Selfhood as Being-between-Worlds and Being-in-WorldsMultiplicity; Being-in-Worlds and Heidegger's Phenomenology; Intersectional, Flexible, and Tactical Selfhood; Oneness as Existential Continuity; Chapter 3 The Phenomenology of World-Traveling; World-Traveling and the World-Traveler Self; Impurity, Curdling, Mestizaje, and Active Subjectivity; The Curdled Mestizo Self; Active Subjectivity; Memory and Resistance Revisited; Multiplicitous Selves and Decoloniality; Chapter 4 World-Traveling, Double Consciousness, and Resistance; World-Traveling and Double-Consciousness

World-Traveling, Publicness, and AuthenticityAuthenticity and World-Traveling; World-Traveling as a Strategy of Resistance; World-Traveling by Members of Dominant Groups; Chapter 5 Multiplicitous Becomings: On Identity, Horizons, and Coalitions; Reconceiving Identity; Fear of the Power of the Other; Identity as Horizon; Identity Politics; The Critique; The Reconstruction; Coalitional Politics; Chapter 6 Social Location, Knowledge, and Multiplicity; Identity, Social Location, and Epistemic Claims; From "Spanish Girl" to "Chicana"; Temporality; The Value of Multiplicity; Chapter 7 Hometactics

Belonging, Location, and Multiplicitous SelfhoodHometactics; Afterword; A Final Note: From Love of Exclusion to Love of Wisdom and an Invitation; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4384-5978-5