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(W)holistic Feminism: Decolonial Healing in Women of Color Literature

Tai, Yu-Chen
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1459357822

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2016, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
This dissertation explores healing subject formation in women of color self-narratives vis-a-vis delineation of a decolonial spatiality of differences at ecological, embodied, and coalitional levels. I examine self-narratives written by feminists of color across racial and cultural divides, focusing on Linda Hogan’s memoir, Gloria Anzaldua’s autohistoria, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s autobiography. I argue that in order to resist and recover from the colonial violence done to women of color, the authors in the selected writings point to a shared feminist and decolonial approach to healing that involves a continuous praxis of liquefying the space between differences to catalyze decolonial healing. I argue that liquefying the space of differences means disrupting a colonial spatiality that categorizes, compartmentalizes, contains, and dominates differences. While the colonial spatiality demarcates solid borders which prevent differences from getting in touch with each other, a liquefied decolonial spatiality highlights permeable boundaries of differences so that the other can interact with the self and the self with the other in a mutually flourishing fashion. Porosity, multiplicity, and mutual flourishing constitute the three crucial dimensions of decolonial spatiality; these conditions are conducive for subjects to transform the wounded self into the healing self.
Guisela Latorre (Advisor)
Mary Thomas (Committee Member)
Christine (Cricket) Keating (Committee Member)
229 p.
Womens Studies
women of color literature; holistic feminist politics; decolonial epistemology; decolonial spatiality; porosity; multiplicity; healing; wholism

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  • Tai, Y.-C. (2016). (W)holistic Feminism: Decolonial Healing in Women of Color Literature [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1459357822

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Tai, Yu-Chen. (W)holistic Feminism: Decolonial Healing in Women of Color Literature. 2016. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1459357822.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Tai, Yu-Chen. "(W)holistic Feminism: Decolonial Healing in Women of Color Literature." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1459357822

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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