Speaking Face to Face: The Visionary Philosophy of María Lugones

338 Pages·2019·6.454 MB·English

by  Pedro J. DiPietro

Speaking Face to Face
SUNY SERIES, PRAXIS: THEORY IN ACTION
Nancy A. Naples, editor
Speaking

Face to Face
The Visionary Philosophy
of María Lugones
Edited by Pedro J. DiPietro, Jennifer McWeeny,
and Shireen Roshanravan
Cover image: “Hunger.” © e nina jay.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: DiPietro, Pedro J., 1974- editor. | McWeeny, Jennifer, editor. | Roshanravan,
Shireen, editor.
Title: Speaking face to face : the visionary philosophy of María Lugones / edited by Pedro
J. DiPietro, Jennifer McWeeny, and Shireen Roshanravan.
Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019] | Series: SUNY series,
praxis: theory in action | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018033268| ISBN 9781438474533 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN
9781438474540 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Lugones, Maria, 1944- | Feminist theory.
Classification: LCC HQ1190 .S676 2019 | DDC 305.42—dc23 LC record available at
https://lccn.loc.gov/2018033268
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To all those who commit to living and loving large against the expectations
of a world that relies on our living and loving small. And, of course,
to María Lugones, for inspiring us to see, feel, speak, think, cook, sing,
dance, create, and enact impossible worlds of verifiable love into existence.

Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments ix
List of Abbreviations xvii
Introduction Like an Earthquake to the Soul: Experiencing the 1
Visionary Philosophy of María Lugones
Pedro J. DiPietro, Jennifer McWeeny, and Shireen Roshanravan
PART I COALITIONAL SELVES, MULTIPLE REALITIES
1 Trash Talks Back 31
Elizabeth V. Spelman
2 A Focus on the “I” in the “I (cid:65)(cid:3)We”: Considering the Lived 47
Experience of Self-i n- Coalition in Active Subjectivity
Kelli Zaytoun
3 The Ripple Imagery as a Decolonial Self: Exploring Multiplicity in 65
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée
(Brena) Yu- Chen Tai
PART II MOVING WITH AND BEYOND INTERSECTIONALITY
4 Beyond the “Logic of Purity”: “Post- Post- Intersectional” Glimpses 85
in Decolonial Feminism
Anna Carastathis
5 Witnessing Faithfully and the Intimate Politics of Queer 103
South Asian Praxis
Shireen Roshanravan
viii Contents
PART III GENDER, COLONIALITY, AND DECOLONIAL EMBODIMENTS
125
6 Border Thinking/Being/Perception: Toward a “Deep Coalition”
across the Atlantic
Madina Tlostanova
145
7 Motion Sickness and the Slipperiness of Irish Racialization
Jennifer McWeeny
175
8 Toward a Decolonial Ethics
Manuel Chávez Jr.
PART IV KNOWING ON THE EDGE OF WORLDS AND SENSE
197
9 Beyond Benevolent Violence: Trans* of Color, Ornamental
Multiculturalism, and the Decolonization of Affect
Pedro J. DiPietro
217
10 Travel to Death- Worlds
Joshua M. Price
PART V HABLANDO CARA A CARA
239
11 Deep Coalition and Popular Education Praxis
Cricket Keating
255
12 Walking Illegitimately: A Cachapera/Tortillera and a Dyke
Sarah Lucia Hoagland
273
13 Carnal Disruptions: Mariana Ortega Interviews María Lugones
285
Afterword
Paula M. L. Moya
291
Chronological List of María Lugones’s Publications
299
Contributors
303
Index
Illustrations
Figure 6.1 Delinking by Taus Makhacheva, 2011. 138
Figure 7.1 Frontispiece from Ireland from One or Two Neglected 152
Points of View, 1899.
Figure 7.2 “The Ignorant Vote: Honors are Easy” by Thomas 153
Nast, 1876.
Figure 7.3 “Florence Nightingale and Bridget McBruiser” from 154
New Physiognomy, 1866.
155
Figure 7.4 “The Irish Declaration of Independence” by

Frederick B. Opper, 1883.
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