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

I don’t write from any single disciplinary position.

loosening of restrictive worldviews—while extremely painful—can create shifts in consciousness and, thus, opportunities for change;

epistemological, intuitive, and communal.

literary representation, ethnic identity, and knowledge production.

collective shadow

began with a question, a personal experience, or a feeling;

Chamanería awakens some deep, hidden memory or lost knowledge of times past.

Until recently, critical literary studies and western philosophy have focused almost entirely on epistemology, normalizing “paradigms through whose lenses Anzaldúa’s metaphysical assumptions seem naive, pre-critical, or, simply, incomprehensible”—and therefore have been ignored.

nagualismo is an alternative epistemology,