The Wound and the Stitch

“The Wound and the Stitch is an extremely compelling and persuasive text that examines colonial trauma inflicted upon Chicanx people. Through critical and thoughtful readings of a wide variety of texts, Ramirez’s book uses the idea of wounding as its primary analytic. It brings this cultural rhetoric back to where we need it most—the classroom—to consider how the wound and the stitch function in the everyday lives of Chicanx and Latinx students.” —Bernadette Marie Calafell,author of Monstrosity, Performance, and Race in Contemporary Culture “A unique and innovative reading of Chicana feminist texts. Ramirez brings a deeply interdisciplinary and critical intersectional feminist reading and theoretical intervention to rhetorical studies.” —Aimee Carrillo Rowe,author of Power Lines: On the Subject of Feminist Alliances “Gorgeously and relentlessly introspective, The Wound and the Stitch advances a Chicana/x rhetorical genealogy of violence/healing as Ramirez builds a theory of violence that resists the simplicity of binaries. Moving across an array of moments and artifacts, she insists upon incompleteness, overlap, and ongoingness. Among its many contributions, The Wound and the Stitch is premised in a decolonial temporality that, as Ramirez explains, is something to experience, not escape.” —Lisa A. Flores,author of Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of the “Illegal” Immigrant