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Shared Selves - Latinx Memoir and Ethical Alternatives to Humanism (Paperback)
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Shared Selves - Latinx Memoir and Ethical Alternatives to Humanism (Paperback)
Series: Transformations: Womanist studies
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Memoir typically places selfhood at the center. Interestingly, the
genre's recent surge in popularity coincides with breakthroughs in
scholarship focused on selfhood in a new way: as an always
renewing, always emerging entity. Suzanne Bost draws on feminist
and posthumanist ideas to explore how three contemporary memoirists
decenter the self. Latinx writers John Rechy, Aurora Levins
Morales, and Gloria E. Anzaldua work in places where personal
history intertwines with communities, environments, animals,
plants, and spirits. This dedication to interconnectedness
resonates with ideas in posthumanist theory while calling on
indigenous worldviews. As Bost argues, our view of life itself
expands if we look at how such frameworks interact with queer
theory, disability studies, ecological thinking, and other fields.
These webs of relation in turn mediate experience, agency, and lift
itself.A transformative application of posthumanist ideas to
Latinx, feminist, and literary studies, Shared Selves shows how
memoir can encourage readers to think more broadly and deeply about
what counts as human life.
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