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Nepantla : Writing (from) the In-Between

2017; Penn State University Press; Volume: 31; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5325/jspecphil.31.1.0001

1527-9383

Charles Scott, Nancy Tuana,

Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America

ABSTRACT The primary goal of this article is to find an interplay of concepts that will help us to write about the broad transformative potential of Gloria Anzaldúa's experiences of what she calls nepantla in her posthumously published Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (2015). We want to integrate these concepts into our reading of her account of nepantla and to allow her language to further animate the force and meaning of the concepts' interactive connections. The concepts are assemblage, occasion, lineages, sensibility, and temporality. The article concludes with her own culminating understanding of nepantla. The leading topics are Anzaldúa's world, the Coyolxauhqui process, rebirth, and cuerpoespíritu.