Journeys to Others and Lessons of Self:

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" Journeys to Others and Lessons of Self: "
Sluis, Ageeth

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	917224
Doc. No	:	LA2k72p3w7
Title & Author	:	Journeys to Others and Lessons of Self:. Carlos Castaneda in Camposcape [Article]\ Sluis, Ageeth
Date	:	2012
Title of Periodical	:	UC Santa Barbara
Abstract	:	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 countryside—as a means to escape the bourgeois values of their homelands and find spiritual fulfillment in a timeless and "authentic" Mexico. Castaneda’s work proposed new viable spaces of difference in Mexico, yet inscribed these spaces with a masculinist discourse that served to neutralize the gender trouble within the counterculture movement in both Mexico and the US.