Short Abstract:

This roundtable gathers perspectives from scholars of interdisciplinary cultural, media, and literary studies in the United States to discuss intersectional research methods rooted in the social experiences of hemispheric Latinx/e peoples and their practices of “unwriting” settler-colonial legacies.

Long Abstract:

Unwriting U.S-ethnic minority experiences requires attention to multiple co-occurring factors including transnational migration, class warfare, hypervisibility and their relation to U.S. imperial and settler-colonial legacies. Such factors manifest contexts of unwriting fueled by transculturation. Solimar Otero looks at how Afrolatine priests, authors, and artists work with Ochún Ibú Kolé. Her discussion will emphasize how ecologies of regeneration influence the work of unwriting for Afrolatine communities. Mintizi Martinez-Rivera highlights patterns of creativity, change, ownership, and aesthetics to showcase how P’urhepecha women are unwriting negative stereotypes about themselves through fashion. Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero explores the genres of graphic memoirs, mini comics, and webcomics and the visual and verbal narrative strategies that Latine creators Kat Fajardo and Breena Nuñez to nuance Latina representation beyond legacy media forms. Continuing discourses of emic narrative strategies, Regina Mills will discuss interventions in video game media by Latin American immigrants to North America, such as Papo & Yo and the Guacamelee! series that unwrite imposed narratives and provide other conceptions of Latinidad. Rachel Gonzalez-Martin will discuss femme-monstrosity in Latine legends and how visibility politics rooted in the critique of feminine embodiment leads to a disembodied, spectral-Latina social experience. Expanding our collective narrative, Domino Renee Perez will proffer slow research as a means of unwriting within the neoliberal academy. Rather than a temporal designation or the rate of output, slow emphasizes the interconnectedness of research and knowledge formation. This conversation centers insights derived from Latine practices of unwitting that are necessarily gendered, classed, and racialized.

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