Andrea J. Pitts, "Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance" (SUNY Press, 2021)
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Ansel Dua's Self-Description and Self Narration Is an Inward Looking Act Practice
Ansel Dua's work takes the most seemingly intimate act of self description and self narration as this invitation to others to find themselves or not within that description or story. Asada Shakur's autobiography has been read as another example of this by by Margot Perkins, Leslie Marman Silco’s works like storyteller might be considered for other examples of this kind of practice. This is a kind of an attempt to locate where and how we may or may not identify with the self-nuration of another so I think all of these philosophers exemplify what Ansel Dua described as this term nephon deliras which she uses to refer to those who
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