Writing the Continental Divides
Meditations on Indigenism, Chicanismo, and Planetary Consciousness
Writing the Continental Divides
Meditations on Indigenism, Chicanismo, and Planetary Consciousness
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Description
This book explores the paradigmatic problem haunting North American consciousness: continental divides.
This “wounding” along with other modes of divide and conquer gestures, such as nationalism, ethnicism, tribalism, sexism, heterosexism, and religious chauvinism, are grounded in this imaginary-yet-enforced border construction. This book examines ways in which imposed identities serve to foster and maintain the illusion of separation and impede efforts at founding an anti-imperialist coalitional politics. In addition to its critique of wounding, this study also suggests ways we might heal as we move from coloniality to decoloniality to, ultimately, a reunifying planetary consciousness.
Table of Contents
1. North American Expansionism and Indigenous Decolonization
2. Continental Divides: Latina/o Indigeneities
3. Aztec Inventions, Poetic Interventions: Rodolfo 'Corky' Gonzales, Francisco Alarcón, and Gloria Anzaldúa
4. The Curandera's Decolonizing Remedy
5. Anzaldúa's Shadow-Beast and the Bridging of Duality
6. Esoteric Avatar: From White Savior Anti-Imperialism to Planetary Gnosis
CODA: Anzaldúa's Ritual-Prayer-Blessing for Transformation
Works Cited
Product details
| Published | Jun 11 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 1 |
| ISBN | 9798216268529 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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