Andrea J. Pitts, "Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance" (SUNY Press, 2021)
New Books in Critical Theory
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Ansel Ansel's Nozotros
In her late writings she began to use this term Nozotros which is a Castilian Spanish feminine pronoun for we, but she used it to refer to our processes of attempting to form notions of self and selfhood and otherness. So in the book for example I read Nozotras as something of an admission that sometimes in our attempts to define ourselves or describe our existence we draw boundaries that perpetuate things that harm others. And so these are then I think new ways to focus on the potential boundaries, cuts, conflicts, and divisions that arise from our actions.
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