Faculty of Art

Criticism and Curatorial Practice

Ella Taylor

The Refusal of Colonial Certainty in the Writing of Gloria Anzaldúa and Billy-Ray Belcourt

A close reading of Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua and This Wound is a World by Billy-Ray Belcourt.https://artsandsciencereview.ocadu.ca/issue/2021-2022/refusal-colonial-certainty-writing-gloria-anzaldua-and-billy-ray-belcourt

“In both formal and narrative choices, the books Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua and This Wound is a World by Billy-Ray Belcourt engage in these strategies of uncertainty and unknowability as decolonial methodologies, and in doing so, destabilize notions of settler futurity and certainty.”