Chicanas, world-travelling, and the construction of multiplicitous selves

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Authors
Fosnight, Lauren
Advisor
Poppe, Nicolas Matthew
Issue Date
2015-05
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Thesis (B.?)
Department
Honors College
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Abstract

In this paper, I apply Marfa Lugones' work "Playfulness, 'World'-Travelling, and Loving Perception," to Chicana experiences. I aim to explore the construction and maintenance of multiplicitous selves within different "worlds," or constructed ways of being, that Chicanas experience and inhabit. In doing so, I wish to uncover the ways in which these constructed worlds impact human flourishing, and propose a course of action to take when we find ourselves in a world that limits the "playfulness" of others.