Shapeshifting Subjects

Kelli D. Zaytoun is a professor and the director of graduate studies in the Department of English Language and Literatures at Wright State University.

• Series Editor’s Foreword ixPreface xiiiAcknowledgments xviiINTRODUCTION: Toward a Radically Relational Consciousness 1CHAPTER ONE. La Naguala in Theory and Practice 9CHAPTER TWO. “An Artist in the Sense of a Shaman”: Border Arte as Decolonial Practice 41CHAPTER THREE. Connections with Arab American Feminism 65CHAPTER FOUR. “Reaching Through the Wound to Connect”: Trauma and Healing as Shapeshifting 95CONCLUSION: Toward New Potentials of Imagination 121Notes 131Works Cited 151Subject Index 165Gloria AnzaldÚa Works Index 171

"A significant text in the scholarship of Gloria AnzaldÚa and in Latina/x feminisms in general. Zaytoun's in-depth analysis of la naguala, a key concept in AnzaldÚa's work that has been barely theorized, will move AnzaldÚa scholarship in new directions."--Mariana Ortega, author of In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self "Shapeshifting Subjects takes us to the radical edge of many untheorized aspects of Gloria AnzaldÚa’s theoretical toolbox including shapeshifting, naguala, and intra-relationality. Zaytoun revives the possibilities of shapeshifting for radical feminist work long preoccupied with difference and coalition building, and decolonial methods for healing colonial wounds. Shapeshifing transports ontological becoming with a dazzling array of more-than-human forms of consciousness. Brimming with nuanced critical insights and poignant reflection, you will be moved after reading this book."--Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, author of Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas