Anancyism and the Dialectics of an Africana Feminist Ethnophilosophy
Sandra Jackson‐Opoku's The River Where Blood Is Born
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12148149 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Gillman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 164-181 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hypatia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/hypa.12054 |
| OpenAlex | W2065691899 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
Although intersectionality has been widely disseminated across the disciplines as a tool to center women of color's developed perspectives on social reality, it has been notably absent in the scholarship of feminist philosophy and philosophy of race. I first examine the causes and processes of the exclusions of women of color feminist thought more generally, and of intersectionality in particular. Then, focusing attention on Black feminisms, I read Sandra Jackson‐Opoku's 1997 novel, The River Where Blood Is Born, with and against Paget Henry's Africana ethnophilosophy. I model an interdisciplinary, intersectional approach to Henry's ethnophilosophy, broadening its philosophical scope by historicizing the liminality that characterizes the realities of many diasporic Black women. I also develop an interpretation of the female protagonists to suggest how many Black women within different historical contexts develop practices to recover African symbolic and discursive registers as a means to claim their subjectivities. Additionally, I challenge Henry's teleological explanation for an increasingly secular Africana philosophical identity
Aesthetics · Black feminism · Dialectic · Epistemology · Feminism · Feminist theory · Identity (music · Interpretation (philosophy · Intersectionality · Race (biology · Scholarship · Sociology · Teleology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Gender Studies · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |