Shapeshifting subjects : Gloria Anzaldúa's naguala and border arte / Kelli D Zaytoun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zaytoun, Kelli D., 1964- author.

Series:

Transformations: Womanist Studies

Transformations: womanist, feminist, and indigenous studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Subjectivity in literature.

Nagualism in literature.

Feminism in literature.

Anzaldúa, Gloria--Criticism and interpretation.

Anzaldúa, Gloria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (139 pages)

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Scholars have long cited Gloria Anzaldúa to make or support claims about selfhood. But many people overlook her emphasis on la naguala and her cutting-edge contribution to subjectivity. Kelli D. Zaytoun draws on Anzaldúa's thought to present a radically inclusive and expansive approach to selfhood, creativity, scholarship, healing, coalition-building, and activism. Zaytoun focuses on Anzaldúa's la naguala/the shapeshifter, a term borrowed from nagualismo. This groundbreaking theory of subjectivity details a dynamic relationship between "inner work" and "public acts" that strengthens the role of individuals in social and transformative justice work. Zaytoun's detailed emphasis on la naguala, and Nahua metaphysics specifically, brings much needed attention to Anzaldúa's long-overlooked contribution to the study of subjectivity. The result is a women and queer of color/feminist-focused work aimed at scholars in many disciplines and intended to overcome barriers separating the academy from everyday life and community"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Toward a radically relational consciousness

La naguala in theory and practice

"An artist in the sense of a shaman": border arte as decolonial practice

Connections with Arab American feminism

"Reaching through the wound to connect": trauma and healing as shapeshifting

Toward new potentials of imagination.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780252053436

0252053435

OCLC:

1292533147