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

Autores/as

  • Inmaculada Lara Bonilla City University of New York

DOI:

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

Palabras clave:

escritura, fenomenología, afecto, recepción, frontera, negritud, migración, hospitalidad, decolonialidad

Resumen

Este artículo explora intersecciones entre las teorías de la existencia intermundi propuestas por Gloria Anzaldúa y Josefina Báez en lo que respecta a cuestiones de textualidad y, más ampliamente, relacionalidad en sus primeros trabajos. En su búsqueda filosófica, Anzaldúa ideó una fenomenología en la que las metáforas de la frontera, las tierras fronterizas, los puentes, o el concepto de nepantla marcan el lugar de la escritura en el contexto de la colonialidad, la decolonialidad y la migración. Desde sus primeras teorías, estos conceptos a menudo incluyen no solo cuestiones de ubicación, sino también de relación, intencionalidad y cambio (decolonial). De manera similar, la autora, directora y artista de performance dominicano-estadounidense (DominicanYork), Josefina Báez, explora los espacios inestables y la temporalidad del intermundo en el contexto de la inmigración/migración en contexto colonial al centrarse en la experiencia de las comunidades de la diáspora dominicana y la suya propia. Báez propone conceptos como dominicanish o “bliss” como espacios y estados imaginados y relacionales que son no-territoriales, fugaces y resisten la fijeza de categorizaciones opresivas sobre el sujeto. Ambas autoras están interesadas ​​en encontrar poéticas apropiadas para tales espacios transfronterizos y estados personales y colectivos, así como en teorizar nuevas prácticas de lectura y escritura desde dichos espacios. Este artículo describe esas teorías en sus primeros trabajos y muestra cómo, al ofrecer a los lectores encuentros textuales poco ortodoxos, el yo debe entrar en lugares inestables, de difícil fusión cultural y lingüística, en Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) y Dominicanish (2000). Aquí, las escritoras ejercen de anfitrionas textuales, invitando a los lectores y al público a experimentar una fenomenología del cambio en la que lo inquietante del inter-mundo y la impermanencia pueden dar lugar a una transformación decolonial.

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Publicado

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.