Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (Latin America Otherwise)

You could say that the writer, through her interactive participation, merges herself in the conscious / unconscious processes and gains possession of her characters by allowing them to possess her. Imagination is an active, purposeful creativity.

The creative process is an agency of transformation.

the place, el lugar, where myth, fantasy, utterance, and reality converge.

Storytelling is healing when it expands

My imagination made me pregnant with story. I literally ate my grandmothers’ and mother’s stories.

aesthetics of transformation, grounded in her metaphysics of interconnectedness.

physical eyes but also with the whole body, and especially to see with the eyes of my other body.

The aim of good writing is to decrease the distance between reader, writer, and text without “disappearing” any of these players.

Overcoming these impasses becomes part of the process.