Description:
Traces a historical genealogy of imagery and language centered on the concept of woundedness and the stitching together of fragmented selves in Chicanx self-representation.
Brief description: Loretta Victoria Ramirez is Assistant Professor of Latinx Rhetoric and Composition at California State University, Long Beach.
Review Quotes:
"The Wound and the Stitch is an extremely compelling and persuasive text that examines colonial trauma inflicted upon Chicanx people. Through critical and thoughtful readings of a wide variety of texts, Ramirez's book uses the idea of wounding as its primary analytic. It brings this cultural rhetoric back to where we need it most--the classroom--to consider how the wound and the stitch function in the everyday lives of Chicanx and Latinx students."
--Bernadette Marie Calafell, author of Monstrosity, Performance, and Race in Contemporary Culture