Gloria Anzaldúa, Mestiza Consciousness, and “Feminism of Difference”
This article situates Gloria Anzaldúa’s influential “La Conciencia de la mestiza / Towards a New Consciousness” within the history of feminism, focusing on her epistemological perspective of intersectional difference to articulate a politics of coalition against the exclusion of alterity from pri...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2005-01-01
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| Series: | Revista Estudos Feministas |
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| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/8386 |
| Summary: | This article situates Gloria Anzaldúa’s influential “La Conciencia de la mestiza / Towards
a New Consciousness” within the history of feminism, focusing on her epistemological perspective
of intersectional difference to articulate a politics of coalition against the exclusion of alterity
from privileged sites of modernity construction, in both space and time. Drawing on various
academic sources of Anzaldúa criticism, we highlight some important ways her theory of mestiza
identity actually anticipates not only critiques of the concepts of the subject, difference and
modernity but also distinctions between capitalist and critical versions of cultural hybridity, all of
which require sensitivity to discourses of dehistoricization, cooptation and assimilation. |
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| ISSN: | 0104-026X 1806-9584 |