A/parecernos: rethinking the multiplicitous self as “Haunted” with Anzaldúa, La Malinche, and Other Ghosts

Even in Latinx feminist scholarship, which variously theroizes the multiplicitous subject, the existence of an “I” is still debated. Maria Lugones claims that there is no “I,” while Mariana Ortega insists that there is. We argue that their differences hinge on different theories of memory. Our paper will offer a third way between their theories. By attending to the spiritual dimensions in Anzaldúa, in particular her descriptions of cultural and childhood memories as “ghosts,” our spiritualistic interpretation of memory as visitation imagines a middle ground between Lugones and Ortega, and theorizes a/peracernos, or the ways we seem to, and appear to (or haunt) our various selves.