Ageeth Sluis

Journeys to Others and Lessons of Self: Carlos Castaneda in Camposcape

Journal of Transnational American Studies 2012 Ageeth Sluis 35 citations

Drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, this article examines the importance of place and gender within constructions of race politics in Carlos Castaneda’s series on shamanism. Championing a “separate reality” predicated on an indigenous worldview, Castaneda’s lessons invited transnational middle-class youth to "journey" alongside him to camposcape—an anachronistic and idealized...