Paper Short Abstract:

This presentation is an attempt to explore my understandings of Black feminist engaging largely with the groundbreaking work of Black feminist, Gloria Anzaldúa. It is my belief that her work is vitally important in encouraging academia to experience decolonial perspectives in classrooms and other spaces of learning.

Paper Abstract:

This presentation is an attempt to explore my understandings of Black feminist engaging largely with the groundbreaking work of Black feminist, Gloria Anzaldúa. It is my belief that her work is vitally important in encouraging academia to experience decolonial perspectives in classrooms and other spaces of learning. Thus, my presentation explores the writing of the self under the decolonisation perspective. I want to focus my attention on the exercise of telling stories and on the political uses of autobiographical writing, called autohistoria (Anzaldúa, 2012), as a feminist exercise that is practiced by women of colour, taking responsibility of the need to experience meeting points between the commitment to the articulation of an awareness of recognition and the urgencies of demands for social justice and collective. I wish to provoke an epistemology rupture which rejects the practice of repeating stereotypical concepts that the modern discourse continuously tries to maintain. These concepts are so familiar that sometimes we cannot notice the strategy of exclusion practices. The writing of the self, autohistoria, considers the enunciative locus, that is, the bios, as well as the geoistoric site as a theoretical path to enable personal and collective memories to emerge and give voice to marginalised subjects. My reflections are based on the Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (GUERRA, 2017; FOUCAULT, 2014); and Decolonial Thinking (ANZALDÚA, 2012). Problematizing this theme is necessary, since this current society discusses a social change in relation to minorities, excluded groups and, unfortunately, it ignores the history from their point of view.