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TY - JOUR
T1 - “But how to speak of such things?”
T2 - decolonial love, the coloniality of gender, and political struggle in Francisco Goldman's The Long Night of White Chickens (1992) and Jennifer Harbury's Bridge of Courage (1994) and Searching for Everardo (1997)
AU - Gräbner, Cornelia
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This article presents an analysis of works by Francisco Goldman and JenniferHarbury, which deal with “cataclysmic moments” of recent Guatemalanhistory. It explores gender relations in these works with reference to threethemes: storytelling, communication and affective relationships. Conceptually,I draw on the notions of decolonial love, the coloniality of gender, and the worldgender order as categories of analysis. I take Chela Sandoval’s methodology ofthe oppressed as a guideline for my analysis, and look at the ways in whichdifferent types of storytelling perpetuate or question the coloniality of gender,at the consequences of intercultural misunderstandings produced by differentreadings of the coloniality of gender and the world gender order, and at thesignificance of a critical and liberatory practice of gender roles for decoloniallove. The practice of decolonial love is an alternative to what Tzvetan Todorovhas called “the dreadful concatenation,” which is a result of cultural encountersduring the conquest of the Americas and which conceptualizes as “love”a feeling that sidesteps equality, an exercise in destruction and possession.The coloniality of gender and decolonial love are explored through theirinteractions with masculinities and femininities across the different casestudies.
AB - This article presents an analysis of works by Francisco Goldman and JenniferHarbury, which deal with “cataclysmic moments” of recent Guatemalanhistory. It explores gender relations in these works with reference to threethemes: storytelling, communication and affective relationships. Conceptually,I draw on the notions of decolonial love, the coloniality of gender, and the worldgender order as categories of analysis. I take Chela Sandoval’s methodology ofthe oppressed as a guideline for my analysis, and look at the ways in whichdifferent types of storytelling perpetuate or question the coloniality of gender,at the consequences of intercultural misunderstandings produced by differentreadings of the coloniality of gender and the world gender order, and at thesignificance of a critical and liberatory practice of gender roles for decoloniallove. The practice of decolonial love is an alternative to what Tzvetan Todorovhas called “the dreadful concatenation,” which is a result of cultural encountersduring the conquest of the Americas and which conceptualizes as “love”a feeling that sidesteps equality, an exercise in destruction and possession.The coloniality of gender and decolonial love are explored through theirinteractions with masculinities and femininities across the different casestudies.
KW - coloniality
KW - decolonial love
KW - methodology of the oppressed
KW - world gender order
KW - coloniality of gender
KW - guerrilla struggle
U2 - 10.1080/14701847.2014.965885
DO - 10.1080/14701847.2014.965885
M3 - Journal article
VL - 20
SP - 51
EP - 74
JO - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies
JF - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies
SN - 1470-1847
IS - 1
ER -