Resisting borders: transnational cartographies in US Latinx studies.

This article examines the evolution of the borderlands as an organizing trope by focusing on how the transcendence beyond cultural nationalist perspectives traces the shift from Chicano/a to Latinx discourses. In order to address this issue, I will analyse two twenty-first-century Latinx texts that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: García-Avello, Macarena
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Murcia
Repositorio:DIGITUM. Depósito Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Murcia
OAI Identifier:oai:digitum.um.es:10201/110922
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.419541
http://hdl.handle.net/10201/110922
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Borderlands
Transnationalism
Chicano
Chicana
Latinx
Globalisation
Nation
Transnacionalismo
Globalización
Nación
CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura
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Sumario:This article examines the evolution of the borderlands as an organizing trope by focusing on how the transcendence beyond cultural nationalist perspectives traces the shift from Chicano/a to Latinx discourses. In order to address this issue, I will analyse two twenty-first-century Latinx texts that delve into the intricate ways in which transnational forces collide with economic, cultural and political processes that persistently revolve around the framework of the nation-state: Alicia Gaspar de Alba´s Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders (2005) and Maya Chinchilla´s The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poética (2014). The corpus of works selected will focus on the political readings derived from textual negotiation with a changing political, social and economic reality. This results in constant tensions between globalising processes, worldwide interconnectedness and transnational interactions, on the one hand, and the regulatory power of the state, on the other.