Nepantlism

Abstract

Celia Herrera Rodríguez’s illustration Nepantlera (2011) offers a powerful figuration of the Chicana artist as a modern-day Coyolxauhqui. Her figuration of the Chicana intellectual as an inhabitant of nepantla helps explain the continuous positioning and repositioning that characterizes dangerous beasts poetics. The strategic placement of this drawing within Moraga’s essay collection A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness (2011) is part of Chicanas’ transdisciplinary educational mission through the combination of art and theories.