Andrea J. Pitts 
Nos/Otras [EPUB ebook] 
Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance

In a refreshingly novel approach to the writings of Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942–2004), Andrea J. Pitts addresses issues relevant to contemporary debates within feminist theory and critical race studies. Pitts explores how Anzaldúa addressed, directly and indirectly, a number of complicated problems regarding agency in her writings, including questions of disability justice, trans theorizing, Indigenous sovereignty, and identarian politics. Anzaldúa’s conception of what Pitts describes as
multiplicitous agency serves as a key conceptual link between these questions in her work, including how discussions of agency surfaced in Anzaldúa’s late writings of the 1990s and early 2000s. Not shying away from Anzaldúa’s own complex and sometimes problematic framings of disability,
mestizaje, and Indigeneity, Pitts draws from several strands of contemporary Chicanx, Latinx, and African American philosophy to examine how Anzaldúa’s work builds pathways toward networks of solidarity and communities of resistance.

Table of Content

Acknowledgments



Introduction: Anzaldúan Multiplicitous Agency



1. Interpretive Threads of Anzaldúa’s Work

Existential Phenomenology

Relational Ontology

Coalitional Politics

Structure of the Book



2. Geographies of Multiplicitous Selves

Examining Insularity and Isolationism

Examining Individualism and Imperialism

Learning from Nepantleras



3. Turning Ambivalence into Something Else

Insurrectionist Ethics and Agency

Resistant Reconstructions and Ambivalence

Agential Framings of Ambivalence



4. Putting Coyolxauhqui Together

Crip
Atravesadas

Disability and the Coyolxauhqui Imperative

Multiplicitous Coalition Building



5. Building Coalition
con Nos/otras

Trans Theorizing and Anzaldúa’s Writings

Critique of Anzaldúan Mestizaje

Resisting the Coloniality of Reality Enforcement

Multiplicitous Coalition Building



Conclusion: From
Nos/otras to
Nos/otrxs



Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Andrea J. Pitts is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. They are the coeditor (with Mark William Westmoreland) of
Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson, also published by SUNY Press, and the coeditor (with Mariana Ortega, and José M. Medina) of
Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance.