Bonus wkshp Decolonial Transfeminista Queer
Decolonial Americas: TransFeminista Queer Praxis
May Workshop
Faculty-Graduate student one-day workshop
Thursday, MAY 12, 2016. 10:30-2:30 [AM shared readings then PM roundtable] Ballantine 004
Decolonial theory has been particularly significant, across and beyond the Americas, for feminist scholarship. Yet, feminist scholars have been some of its most incisive critics, both for what they perceive as decolonial theory’s analytic limitations resulting from a lack of attention to gender and sexuality, and for a gap they see between theoretical conversations and actual political projects. This latter position is one most prominently espoused by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, who has explicitly disavowed decolonial theory even as she continues to be cited as one of its key practitioners. Feminist contributions to decolonial theory debates include a recent turn to lesbian, transgender, and queer critique. Let’s explore the con-and-dis-junctures between feminist theory emergent from South American–to-US intellectual networks, on the one hand, and, on the other, U.S. Latinx border theory as emergent from radical movements since the mid-20th Century. More closely articulating these two theoretical trajectories may address Cusicanqui’s otherwise-devastating critique that decolonial theory lacks adequate praxis.
Contacts to confirm participation:
LJ Frazier frazierl@indiana.edu
Adan Martinez am231@indiana.edu
Daniela Gutiérrez López dagutier@umail.iu.edu
Shared readings below: Contact us by May 6thth with other suggestions and if you want to present –10minutes max-- for the PM roundtable connections with your own research/praxis –scholars more engaged with non-Latin(x)American decolonial theory (e.g. Lisa Lowe, Sylvia Wynter) welcome as well.
Shared readings:
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui “The Potosí Principle: Another View of Totality” “DECOLONIAL GESTURE” E-MISFÉRICA VOLUME 11 | ISSUE 1 |2014 http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/emisferica-111-decolonial-gesture/e111-editorial-remarks Links to an external site.
Breny Mendoza “Coloniality of Gender and Power: From Postcoloniality to Decoloniality”
The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory Edited by Lisa Disch and Mary Hawkesworth
Online Publication Date: Apr 2015 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199328581.013.6
Emma Perez “Decolonial Border Queers: Case Studies of Chicana/o Lesbians, Gay Men, and
Transgender Folks in El Paso / Juárez” in Arturo Aldama, Chela Sandoval, Peter Garcia eds. Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands IU Press 2012 (on ProjectMuse)
Sayak Valencia “Interferencias transfeministas y pospornográficas a la colonialidad del
ver” “DECOLONIAL GESTURE” E-MISFÉRICA VOLUME 11 | ISSUE 1 |2014 http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/emisferica-111-decolonial-gesture Links to an external site.
(Google will translate the online text into English)
Facundo Giuliano y Daniela Godoy (with Judith Butler) “Redoing Gender in a postcolonial key. An ethical-political dialogue from Latin America with Judith Butler / Rehacer el género en clave pos-colonial. Un diálogo ético-político desde América Latina con Judith Butler” Páginas de Filosofía, Año XVI, Nº 19 (enero-julio 2015), 203-234 Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad Nacional del Comahue ISSN: 0327-5108; e-ISSN: 1853-7960
http://revele.uncoma.edu.ar/htdoc/revele/index.php/filosofia/index
Recommended:
Tania Gentic (2015) “Rethinking the Cartesian subject in Latin America and Spain: decolonial theory and María Zambrano's philosophy” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 16:4, 415-435, DOI: 10.1080/14636204.2015.1116746
Emma Perez “Queering the Borderlands” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Volume 24, Number 2 & 3, 2003, pp. 122-131
Sylvia Wynter “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards
the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation--An Argument” CR: The New Centennial Review, Volume 3, Number 3, Fall 2003, pp. 257-337.
AQ Volume 66, Number 3, September 2014 Special Issue: Las Américas Quarterly
Edited by Licia Fiol-Matta & Macarena Gómez-Barris
Maria Lugones “Milongueando Macha Homoerotics: Dancing the Tango, Torta Style (a Performative Testimonio)” in Arturo Aldama, Chela Sandoval, Peter Garcia eds. Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands IU Press 2012 (on Project Muse)
Daphne V. Taylor-García “Decolonizing Gender Performativity: A Thesis for Emancipation in Early Chicana Feminist Thought (1969–1979)” in Arturo Aldama, Chela Sandoval, Peter Garcia, eds. Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands IU Press 2012 (on ProjectMuse)
Jill Lane, Marcial Godoy-Anativia and Macarena Gómez-Barris “What decolonial gesture is” “DECOLONIAL GESTURE” E-MISFÉRICA VOLUME 11 | ISSUE 1 |2014 http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/emisferica-111-decolonial-gesture/e111-editorial-remarks Links to an external site.
Emma Perez Decolonial Imaginary (IU Press99)
Lisa Lowe "Decolonization, Displacement, Disidentification: Writing and the Question of History" in Immigrant Acts
https://soundcloud.com/maria-lopez-editora/sayak-valencia-metodologias-queercuir-decoloniales
Monica Hanna Links to an external site., Jennifer Vargas, Links to an external site.José David Saldívar, Links to an external site. eds. Junot Díaz and the decolonial imagination (Duke16) http://site.ebrary.com/lib/iub/detail.action?docID=11175538
Paula Moya “Dismantling the master's house : the decolonial literary imaginations of Audre Lorde and Junot Díaz in Monica Hanna Links to an external site., Jennifer Vargas, Links to an external site.José David Saldívar, Links to an external site. eds. Junot Díaz and the decolonial imagination (Duke16) http://site.ebrary.com/lib/iub/detail.action?docID=11175538
[1]Image inspired by Laura G. Gutiérrez Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage Links to an external site.(Texas10). Workshop sponsored by Dept. of American Studies, the Latino Studies Program, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Dept. of Gender Studies.