Embodied reclamation
How Big Baby Balam and Danza Ocelotl represent the body as a site for decolonization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12918193 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Irwin (0000-0001-5752-2764, Seattle University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-64 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-16 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Communication Culture and Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-9137 • E-ISSN: 1753-9129 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ccc/tcac044 |
| OpenAlex | W4313313974 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
In this article, I investigate how two paintings—Big Baby Balam and Danza Ocelotl—represent the potential for embodied reclamation for Chicanas/os. Through these paintings, the artist Yreina D. Cervántez situates her body as a site for decolonization through a process which I describe as embodied reclamation. In decolonizing her body and situating her body as a site for decolonization, Cervántez represents the body as a physical and material location that was colonized and can be reclaimed. This article extends decolonial theories to discuss embodied reclamation, which reconceptualizes the body as a physical site for reclamation rather than colonization. I am looking at the way these paintings represent a wrestling with embodied identity, and from that I call for more work exploring the “art of identity” as a strategy of self-making in contexts where particular bodies are Othered and brutalized
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Bodywork · Decolonization · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Identity (music · Land reclamation · Painting · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Latin American and Latino Studies · Medicine · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · History · Philosophy
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Slavery is a Metaphor
Eros Ideologies
Possessing Land, Wind and Water in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca
Woman as Body
As We Have Always Done
Decolonizing Methodologies
On the Coloniality of Being
| Highly cited | No |
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