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Oct 26, 2022 · Devika Chotoe


Reading Group – Session 5: Multiplicitous Self and Sacred Subjectivity



Sacred and ancestral interference can advance understanding a plural sense of self.. For instance, M. Jacqui Alexander invokes African cosmologies as a means to make the invisible tangible and Gloria Wekker provides a lexicon of the self through the cosmology of Winti, an Afro-Surinamese religion.

Gloria Wekker, The Politics of Passion: Women’s Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora, Columbia University Press, 2006. ›››

M. Jacqui Alexander, Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory and the Sacred, Duke University Press, 2005. ›››