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.
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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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