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Andrea J. Pitts, "Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance" (SUNY Press, 2021)

New Books in Philosophy

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Ansaldua's 'Bridge Calld My Back'

The most beautiful and transformational political actions, or artistic movement, or forms of influential literary or scientific production happen collectively. So one of my claims in the book is that i think ansal ansaldua knew all of this too. She wrote extensively about the need for bridge building, border crossing, transgression, vulnerability and the inevitable risks of causing harm to others while we strive for a better future. And she was also writing graduate term papers for her pa programme near the end of her life, on questions of autobiography and multiplicitous forms of self knowledge for women of color writers. It showed a sustained pattern of engagement with questions of how taking oneself serious, or how knowing oneself and

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