Decolonial Phenomenologies: The Languages and Affect of In-Betweenness in Gloria E. Anzaldúa and Josefina Báez’s Early Work

Autors/ores

  • Inmaculada Lara Bonilla City University of New York

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/Lectora2023.29.6

Paraules clau:

escriptura, fenomenologia, afecte, recepció, frontera, negritud, migració, hospitalitat, decolonialitat

Resum

Aquest article explora les interseccions entre les teories textuals de l’intermundi de Gloria Anzaldúa i Josefina Báez pel que fa a qüestions de textualitat i, de manera més àmplia, de relacionalitat, en els seus primers treballs. En la seva recerca filosòfica, Anzaldúa va idear una fenomenologia en què les metàfores de la frontera, les terres frontereres o els ponts i el concepte de nepantla assenyalen el lloc de l’escriptura en el context de la colonialitat, la decolonialitat i la migració. Des del seu pensament primerenc, aquests conceptes solen capturar no tan sols qüestions d’ubicació sinó també de relacionalitat, intencionalitat i canvi (decolonial). De manera similar, l’autora, directora i intèrpret dominicana-nordamericana (Dominican York) Josefina Báez explora els espais inestables i la temporalitat de l’intermundi en el context de la immigració/migració i la colonització, centrant l’experiència de les comunitats de la diàspora dominicana i la seva pròpia. Báez proposa conceptes com dominicanish o “goig” com a espais relacionals i imaginats i estats que són no-territorials, fugaços i resisteixen la fixesa de les categoritzacions opressives del subjecte. Ambdues autores estan interessades a trobar poètiques que puguin ser apropiades per a aquests espais transfrontera i estats personals i col·lectius, així com a teoritzar noves pràctiques de lectura (o visionat) i escriptura des d’aquests espais. Aquest article examina aquestes teories en els primers treballs de les autores i mostra com, en oferir a qui llegeix trobades textuals poc ortodoxes, el “Jo” ha d’entrar en espais inestables, difícilment solubles, a Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) i Dominicanish (2000). Com a amfitriones textuals, les autores conviden lectors i audiència a participar en una fenomenologia del canvi en què les experiències inquietants de l’in-betweenness i la impermanència poden donar lloc a una transformació decolonial.

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2023-10-31

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[1]
Lara Bonilla, I. 2023. Decolonial Phenomenologies: The Languages and Affect of In-Betweenness in Gloria E. Anzaldúa and Josefina Báez’s Early Work. Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat. 29 (Oct. 2023), 89–116. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1344/Lectora2023.29.6.