| Sumario: | Philosopher Luce Irigaray concedes that stepping out of the binary oppositional constitution of our world is an elusive task. Nepantla extends Anzaldúa's previous notions of the Borderlands and Coatlicue state and points toward a space/time of confusion, anxiety, and loss of control, a condition that has clear resonances with Irigaray's and Muñoz's articulation of melancholia. Both Muñoz and Irigaray trace this paper and I note their moves to demonstrate how disidentification can evoke a richer account of sexual difference theory (Irigaray) with conocimiento (Anzaldúa) and yield a political stance beyond binarism. However, I argue that Irigaray and Anzaldúa can be read together through the aid of Anzaldúa's notion of I la i I rajadura i , the slash between nos/otras.[6] Through this gesture, one reads through the cracks in the line, between that which divides sexual difference and Chicana feminism, or us/them.
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