Traveling the Soil of Worlds
Haunted Forgettings and Opaque Memories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12145691 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ege Selin Islekel (0000-0002-7447-5653, Fordham University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 439-453 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hypatia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/hyp.2020.21 |
| OpenAlex | W3041901005 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
This essay works on the role of trauma and forgetting in the subjective formations of the world-traveler and la nueva mestiza . I investigate how forgetting affects the resistant capacities of these figures. I argue throughout that the memory of the world-traveler is an opaque memory, which is unintelligible for the hegemonic demands of transparency, and which forms the silt upon which the resistant possibilities of the world-traveler rest. The first part elaborates María Lugones's conception of world-traveling in relation to Gloria Anzaldúa's New Mestiza consciousness and Mariana Ortega's multiplicitous self. Here I draw attention to the role of opacity and forgetting in the ways in which one can inhabit a world. The second part develops the notions of trauma and haunting to establish the experiential memory of the world-traveler not as a traumatic rupture, but rather as a haunted memory that accompanies her travels. The last section turns to Édouard Glissant's notion of opacity as a resistant mechanism, which works not through the traumatic rupture of experience but rather through sedimentation of experience
Aesthetics · Art · CLIPS · Cognitive psychology · Consciousness · Epistemology · Forgetting · Opacity · Political science · Relation (database · Sociology · Transparency (behavior · Artificial Intelligence · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Computer Science · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |