“움직이는 섬”: 라티나 자기역사서의 디아스포리칸 메스티사헤 정치학과 문지방 주체성 선언
Island on the Move: Diasporican Mestizaje Politics and the Declaration of Threshold Subjectivity in Latina Autohistoria
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This article discusses the aesthetics of racial and cultural hybridity and the politics of fluidity in Puerto Rican diaspora women’s literature. Particularly, the article examines the multi-layered spectrum of Latina mestizaje, focusing on the three canonical texts of Diasporican autohistoria. First, it analyzes the becoming nos/otras of North American jíbara in Esmeralda Santiago’s When I Was Puerto Rican, and then explores the citizenship of vaivén constructed by AmeRícan in Judith Ortiz Copper’s Silent Dancing. Lastly, it discusses the politics of solidarity in cosmopolitan Neo-Rican at the cultural crossroad, focusing on Getting Home Alive by Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins Morales. As a result, the article highlights how the transnational topography of the millennium Diasporican beyond cultural nationalism and the declaration of threshold subjectivities challenge the stronghold of western individualism.
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This article discusses the aesthetics of racial and cultural hybridity and the politics of fluidity in Puerto Rican diaspora women’s literature. Particularly, the article examines the multi-layered spectrum of Latina mestizaje, focusing on the three canonical texts of Diasporican autohistoria. First, it analyzes the becoming nos/otras of North American jíbara in Esmeralda Santiago’s When I Was Puerto Rican, and then explores the citizenship of vaivén constructed by AmeRícan in Judith Ortiz Copper’s Silent Dancing. Lastly, it discusses the politics of solidarity in cosmopolitan Neo-Rican at the cultural crossroad, focusing on Getting Home Alive by Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins Morales. As a result, the article highlights how the transnational topography of the millennium Diasporican beyond cultural nationalism and the declaration of threshold subjectivities challenge the stronghold of western individualism.