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Writing the Continental Divides

Meditations on Indigenism, Chicanismo, and Planetary Consciousness

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Writing the Continental Divides

Meditations on Indigenism, Chicanismo, and Planetary Consciousness

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Writing the Continental Divides: Meditations on Indigenism, Chicanismo, and Planetary Consciousness 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. But in addition to its critique of wounding, this book also suggests ways we might heal as we move from coloniality to decoloniality to, ultimately, a reunifying planetary consciousness.

Table of Contents

Introduction
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
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Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 09 Jul 2026
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 1
ISBN 9798216268529
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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George Hartley

George Hartley is retired professor of English at…

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