celebratoriness

Etymology

From celebratory + -ness.

noun

  1. The quality of being celebratory.“Yet another area of contention is that Borderlands offers a spectacle of the painful splits that constitute Chicanas’ multiple positioning for the voyeuristic delectation of European American readers. In the foreword to the second edition of Bridge, Anzaldúa herself seems to be aware of the backfiring potential of feeding non-Chicana readers’ perception that being a person of color is an exclusive”