ABSTRACT
Self-ignorance also raises questions about self-Unity. The very possibility of recognizing oneself as "plural" or "fragmented" depends on a kind of grammatical unity of the subject of one's self-articulations. In cases of cultural subordination, the potential to draw on several cultures in the process of self-interpretation is harder to actualize, because part of the domination of a culture by another is its devaluation. The sorts of unity that Maria Lugones and Gloria Anzaldua reject are specious sorts of unity—"unities" that depend on self-ignorance. Lugones's stress on remembering oneself in another "reality" does not amount to embracing the self of the subordinate culture and cutting loose the self of the dominant culture, as if the former were the real, essential self, hidden by the obfuscating cloak of the ruling ideology. The chapter shows that in advocating a preservation of one's many selves and a going into the "limen" between "structures," Lugones tacitly advocates a kind of self-unity.
