In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self

298 Pages·2016·1.678 MB·English

by  Mariana Ortega

In-Between
SUNY series, Philosophy and Race
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Robert Bernasconi and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, editors
In-Between
Latina Feminist Phenomenology,
Multiplicity, and the Self
MARIANA ORTEGA
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ortega, Mariana.
In-Between : Latina feminist phenomenology, multiplicity, and the self / Mariana
Ortega.
pages cm. — (SUNY series, philosophy and race)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4384-5977-6 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4384-5978-3 (e-book)
1. Hispanic American women. 2. Feminists—United States. I. Title.
E184.S75O78 2015
305.48'868073—dc23 2015011074
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Para mis familias
Norma, Roberto, Olga, Luis, Brittan y Ed
y los de los mundos zurdos
Somos la orquídea de acero,
florecimos en la trinchera como el moho sobre el filo de la
espada,
somos una vegetación de sangre,
somos flores de carne que chorrean sangre . . .
somos la selva que avanza.
Somos la tierra presente . . .
—Joaquín Pasos
Voy,
vengo,
y luego pienso.
Que lo mismo
aquí que allá,
no hay
un lugar
conseguido. Que aquí,
como allá,
soy lo que
las gentes llaman
un extranjero.
Y como un extranjero
iré y vendré.
Hasta que aquí
como allá,
ni yo
ni nadie lo sea.
—Clementina Suárez
I remain who I am, multiple and one of the herd, yet not of it. I
walk on the ground of my own being browned and hardened by the
ages . . .
—Gloria Anzaldúa
I can take on the cloak of the detached universal, but it is an uncom-
fortable garment. It is not me, and I do not do my best work wearing
it. I seek self-liberation when I write from my particular stance.
—Mary Matsuda
There is no other recourse but to destabilize and displace the subject of
modernity from its conceptual throne and to sponsor alternative ways
of relating and knowing that no longer shut out from “home” the reali-
ties of Latino, Asian, African, and other culturally marginalized peoples.
—Ofelia Schutte

Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 The New Mestiza and La Nepantlera 17
Chapter 2 Being-between-Worlds, Being-in-Worlds 49
Chapter 3 The Phenomenology of World-Traveling 87
Chapter 4 World-Traveling, Double Consciousness,
and Resistance 119
Chapter 5 Multiplicitous Becomings: On Identity, Horizons,
and Coalitions 145
Chapter 6 Social Location, Knowledge, and Multiplicity 173
Chapter 7 Hometactics 193
Afterword 215
Notes 221
Bibliography 255
Index 271