Department of History, World Languages, and Cultures
Central Michigan University
Mt. Pleasant, Michigan
Title
Nomadic Transits and the Neobaroque Decolonization of Subjectivity: At the Crossroads of Indigenous and Western Feminism
Synopsis
The paper expounds on Indigenous-American feminist voices of Gloria Anzaldúa and Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, as they collude with Rosi Braidotti’s Western-oriented “nomadic theory” in the framework of queer theory and Neobaroque aesthetic representations in Latin American fiction and performance. This feminist collusion results in the deconstruction of normative and categorical identities, and the conceptualization of a decategorized and mobile “trans-identity,” a decentered and fluid form of selfhood founded on the assimilation of difference and otherness, on nomadic displacement, the juggling of cultural categories, and inclusiveness.