Open AccessANTI-COLONIAL BOOK CLUBS
Author(s) -
Shawna M. Carroll
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
art/research international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2371-3771
DOI - 10.18432/ari29548
Subject(s) - colonialism , reading (process) , club , consciousness , white (mutation) , subject (documents) , embodied cognition , sociology , aesthetics , gender studies , media studies , history , art , political science , epistemology , computer science , philosophy , archaeology , law , medicine , gene , biochemistry , chemistry , library science , anatomy
What possibilities does reading anti-colonial and counternarrative fiction have? By “plugging in” Coloma’s constitutive subjectivities, Anzaldúa’s new consciousness, and Sumara’s embodied action, I share the possibilities with the explanation of an anti-colonial book club. Part of a larger research project conducted with a feminist Deleuzian methodology, this paper focuses on one of the “hot spots” that arose during the reading processes of two participants in the book club. Through their self-reflection during their reading processes, the counternarrative and anti-colonial fiction gave the women a different kind of language which allowed them to build a stronger trust in themselves, their subject positions, and their experiences of marginalization outside of a white settler colonial discursive lens. This building of trust by creating a different kind of language to explain their subject positions and experiences of marginalization created a new consciousness that allowed them to continue subverting simplified white settler colonial understandings of who they are.