Identity Musings in Latinx Cultural Production (NeMLA )
Remote Panel
Organization: NeMLA
Event: NeMLA
The 1960s signaled the arrival of multiple Latinx cultural expressions correlated to an intersectional matrix of socio-political goals. By enhancing the connections between the community’s tactics and the vast diasporas of dispossessed populations across the globe, Latinx writers, artists and thinkers continue to draw attention to the ongoing process of decolonialization. For instance, the Mexican-American literary canon, steadfastly resonates what Chela Sandoval proposes as a “differential consciousness” against the backdrop of supremacy, capitalism, internal colonialism and personal/communal encroachment. This remote only panel aims to explore the complex ways in which Latinx untangle the conundrums of self-identity, illuminate the transnational viability of the borderlands metaphor and seek the dialogic potential in the rite to oppositional praxis.
Kate Sanchez