Overview

Offers a timely reconsideration of the writings of Gloria Anzaldúa, treating issues of multiplicitous agency, identarian politics, and the stakes of coalition building as core themes in the author's work. In a refreshingly novel approach to the writings of Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942–2004), Andrea J. Pitts addresses issues relevant to contemporary debates within feminist theory and critical race studies. Pitts explores how Anzaldúa addressed, directly and indirectly, a number of complicated problems regarding agency in her writings, including questions of disability justice, trans theorizing, Indigenous sovereignty, and identarian politics. Anzaldúa's conception of what Pitts describes as multiplicitous agency serves as a key conceptual link between these questions in her work, including how discussions of agency surfaced in Anzaldúa's late writings of the 1990s and early 2000s. Not shying away from Anzaldúa's own complex and sometimes problematic framings of disability, mestizaje, and Indigeneity, Pitts draws from several strands of contemporary Chicanx, Latinx, and African American philosophy to examine how Anzaldúa's work builds pathways toward networks of solidarity and communities of resistance.

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Author:   Andrea J. Pitts
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9781438484839

ISBN 10:   1438484836
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   01 August 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Anzaldúan Multiplicitous Agency 1. Interpretive Threads of Anzaldúa's Work Existential Phenomenology Relational Ontology Coalitional Politics Structure of the Book 2. Geographies of Multiplicitous Selves Examining Insularity and Isolationism Examining Individualism and Imperialism Learning from Nepantleras 3. Turning Ambivalence into Something Else Insurrectionist Ethics and Agency Resistant Reconstructions and Ambivalence Agential Framings of Ambivalence 4. Putting Coyolxauhqui Together Crip Atravesadas Disability and the Coyolxauhqui Imperative Multiplicitous Coalition Building 5. Building Coalition con Nos/otras Trans Theorizing and Anzaldúa's Writings Critique of Anzaldúan Mestizaje Resisting the Coloniality of Reality Enforcement Multiplicitous Coalition Building Conclusion: From Nos/otras to Nos/otrxs Notes Bibliography Index

Reviews

"""…an original, multivalent, and deeply important book … Nos/Otras is a meticulously researched, philosophically rich, truly outstanding book that will frame conversations on Latina feminisms, in particular on Anzaldúa and Lugones, and other fields for years to come."" — Mariana Ortega, Radical Philosophy Review"

Author Information

Andrea J. Pitts is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. They are the coeditor (with Mark William Westmoreland) of Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson, also published by SUNY Press, and the coeditor (with Mariana Ortega, and José M. Medina) of Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance.

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