181.6 Postcolonial feminism: An essay about third feminism

Wednesday, August 1, 2012: 3:20 PM
Faculty of Economics, TBA
Oral Presentation
Karina BIDASECA , IDAES, CONICET/Universidad Gral San Martin/Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Postcoloniality refers to relations of domination that record glolocales coloniality in the colonized countries as well as the metropolis of the north diasporic women receive from their former colonies, with all that that means when the North hasconfirmed that multiculturalism failed. The case of the veil for example, or ablation, such as those rhetorical Salvationists, are paradigmatic of the global discourse of war. It is in that intersection between colonialism, imperialism and global capitalismwhere they play the lives of third world womenAnd feminism or postcolonial "Third feminism" is thinking just thoseintersections, those spaces "in-between" where they articulate common differences and develop strategies for collective identity, as Homi Bhabha saysBut the "nepantla" in Nahuatl, that Gloria Anzaldua is situated in the border town where you can close the wound colonial to be born a "new mestiza" the scar on the soul, says Moira Millan. To be born a "new mestiza" based on the subversion of language (use of bilinguisimo) and the woman who can be a woman and a lesbian (Wittig) and that is the act of resistance (chicanes).