What is it about?
Can the feminist philosophical concept of Faithful Witnessing be seen/deployed in literature? This paper analyzes an Afro-Latinx and an Afro-Hispanic novel in order to see how the authors/characters act as faithful witnesses to colonization and coloniality.
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Why is it important?
The essay applies a decolonial feminist concept to the reading of literature and is part of a larger project of reading Afro-Latinx and Afro-Hispanic texts in relation. I argue that theories of decoloniality are central to thinking through and acting out ways of resistance.
Perspectives
This article is part of my larger book project "Decolonial Diasporas" which maps the historical and literary relation between diasporic and excilic Latinx Caribbean and and Equatoguinean literature. In this essay and in the larger project, I use literatures to understand decolonial theories and concetps and vice-versa.
Dr Yomaira C Figueroa
Michigan State University
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This page is a summary of: Faithful Witnessing as Practice: Decolonial Readings of Shadows of Your Black Memory and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Hypatia, January 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1111/hypa.12183.
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