Volta

Overlapping and Interlocking Frames for Humanities Literary Studies: Assia Djebar, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Gloria Anzaldúa

Overlapping and Interlocking Frames for Humanities Literary Studies:Assia Djebar, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Gloria Anzaldúa Anne Donadey (bio) Abstract This article calls for more comparative perspectives among four cognate fields of study: postcolonial, feminist, ethnic, and francophone studies. Following the insights of Gloria Anzaldúa, Chela Sandoval, Gayatri Spivak, and Ella Shohat, I argue for decolonial feminist practices in comparative research. I provide specific examples of such decolonial feminist scholarship through comparing and contrasting multilingual strategies in the works of three transnational feminist writers: francophone Algerian writer Assia Djebar, anglophone postcolonial filmmaker and writer Tsitsi Dangarembga from Zimbabwe, and Chicana essayist and poet Gloria Anzaldúa. The presence of indigenous, national, or ethnic languages in texts written in English or French defamiliarizes these dominant …

Reference & gravity metrics

Secondary-market trade history

References (0)

Cited by (1)