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"Remaking Human Being": Loving, Kaleidoscopic Consciousness in Helena María Viramontes's Their Dogs Came with ThemIn Andrea J. Pitts, Mariana Ortega & José Medina (eds.), Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance, Oxford University Press. pp. 135-156. 2020.In “Remaking Human Being,” the author enumerates the decolonial elements of Helena María Viramontes’s novel Their Dogs Come with Them to illustrate the importance of literature and literary criticism for a decolonial project. After defining decoloniality, the essay shows that Viramontes structures her narrative and personifies her characters to reveal the socioeconomic and ideological forces that keep Latinx and other people of color in conditions of subordination. Moreover, Viramontes’s plurali…Read more
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17Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism (edited book)University of California Press. 2000."Identity" is one of the most hotly debated topics in literary theory and cultural studies. This bold and groundbreaking collection of essays argues that identity is not just socially constructed, but has real epistemic and political consequences for how people experience the world. Advocating a "postpositivist realist" approach to identity, the essays examine the ways in which theory, politics, and activism class with or complement each other, providing an alternative to the widely influential …Read more
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1998What's identity got to do with it? Mobilizing identities in the multicultural classroomIn Linda Alcoff (ed.), Identity politics reconsidered, Palgrave-macmillan. 2006.In this book chapter, Moya argues that recognizing, indeed mobilizing, identities in the classroom is a necessary part of educating for a just and democratic society. Only a truly multi-perspectival, multicultural education can create the conditions needed to alter the negative identity contingencies that minority students commonly face, while creating opportunities for all students. By treating identities as epistemic resources and mobilizing them, we can draw out their knowledge-generating pot…Read more
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2298Book review: Maria Lugones. Pilgramages/peregrinajes: Theorizing coalition against multiple oppressions. Lanham, md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003 (review)Hypatia 21 (3): 198-202. 2006.Book review of Maria Lugones's Pilgramages/peregrinajes: Theorizing coalition against multiple oppressions (Rowman & Littlefield 2003).
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15Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural StrugglesUniversity of California Press. 2002.In Learning From Experience, Paula Moya offers an alternative to some influential philosophical assumptions about identity and experience in contemporary literary theory. Arguing that the texts and lived experiences of subordinated people are rich sources of insight about our society, Moya presents a nuanced, universalist justification for identity-based work in ethnic studies. This strikingly original book provides eloquent analyses of such postmodernist feminists as Judith Butler, Donna Harawa…Read more
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Stanford UniversityRegular Faculty
Stanford, California, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |