Reclaiming the "other": Toward a Chicana feminist critical perspective

This essay contributes to the dialogue on methodology and offers preliminary suggestions about what constitutes a Chicana feminist critical perspective. In doing so, I heed the call of Chicana feminist Anzaldúa (Anzaldúa, G. (1990), Haciendo caras, Una entrada). In G. Anzaldúa (Ed.), Making face, making soul Haciendo caras: Creative and critical perspectives by feminists of color (pp. xv-xxvii). San Francisco; aunt lute who argues for mestizaje theories that cross disciplinary boundaries and bring Chicana feminist voices into dialogues on identity and power relations. In my hopes to speak across methods, I highlight the narrative, which has implications for scholars in various disciplines. I argue that a Chicana feminist critical perspective on narrative highlights two central principles, decolonization and intersectionality, which inform Chicanisma.