Writing the Continental Divides
Meditations on Indigenism, Chicanismo, and Planetary Consciousness
Writing the Continental Divides
Meditations on Indigenism, Chicanismo, and Planetary Consciousness
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 | 11 Jun 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 1 |
| ISBN | 9798216268529 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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