postcolonial theory – Little Bristling Soul

The US-Mexican border es una herida abierta (is an open wound) where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it haemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country – a border culture.

Gloria Anzaldua

Narratives that originate at border crossings cannot be bound by
national borders, languages, and literary and critical traditions. Born of crisis and change, suffering alternately from amnesia and too much
remembering, and precariously positioned at the interstices of different spaces, histories, and languages, they seek to name and configure cultural and literary production in their own terms and to enter novel forms of inter /transcultural dialogue

Azade Seyhan, Writing Outside the Nation (Princeton NJ & Oxford: Princeton UP, 2001).

The resistance of the post-colonial is better defined by what de Certeau refers
to as ‘tactics’ rather than ‘strategies’. Strategy is ‘the calculation …of power
relationships that becomes possible as soon as a subject with will and power (a
business, an army, a city, a scientific institution) can be isolated’ (de Certeau,
1984: 36). A ‘tactic’, on the other hand, is ‘a calculated action determined by
the absence of a proper locus’ (ibid.: 37). ‘The space of the tactic is the space
of the other. Thus it must play on and with a terrain imposed on it and organized
by the law of a foreign power’ (ibid.).9 ‘In short, a tactic is an art of the weak’ (ibid.)

Homi k. Bhabha, Nation and Narration

Homi Bhabha