Creative Openings and World-Making : Postcritique, Reparative Readings, and Anzaldúa’s Borderlands

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Foltinek, Selina:
Creative Openings and World-Making : Postcritique, Reparative Readings, and Anzaldúa’s Borderlands.
In: Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies. Vol. 21 (2020) Issue 1 . - pp. 25-42.
ISSN 1861-6127
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.333

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Abstract in another language

This article examines postcritical and reparative readings of female same-sex narratives and proposes a diversification of reading practices. The approach toward f/f-narratives presented here shifts attention to queer literary visions by questioning the narrative of the “impossible woman” (Valerie Rohy) as well as the hegemony and omnipresence of the “hermeneutics of suspicion” (Paul Ricoeur) in literary and cultural studies. It aims at queering hierarchies of knowledge as well as practices of readings. Eventually, a postcritical reading of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera (1987) interrogates the text’s potential for creative openings and queer world-making by drawing on entanglements of past, present, and future.

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Item Type:	Article in a journal
Refereed:	Yes
Keywords:	Postcritique; Reparative readings; Same-sex; Queer; Sexuality; Gloria Anzaldúa; Borderlands
Institutions of the University:	Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Chair American Studies/ Anglophone Literatures and Cultures > Chair American Studies/ Anglophone Literatures and Cultures - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sylvia Mayer Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Chair American Studies/ Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
Result of work at the UBT:	Yes
DDC Subjects:	800 Literature > 810 American literature in English
Date Deposited:	28 Jan 2021 11:00
Last Modified:	27 Sep 2023 09:22
URI:	https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/62493