루이스 발데스의 『주트 수트』에 나타난 경계선 권력과 메스티사헤 의식
Bordering Power and Mestizaje Consciousness in Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit
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Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit is a musical documentary that recounts the experiences of the Chicano against the backdrop of the Sleepy Lagoon trial in Los Angeles and the Zoot Suit Riots. This paper considers his vision of “illuminating the human spirit” in the actual conditions of social injustice visually spatialized in this play. By utilizing Michel Foucault’s discourse theory along with Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of borderland, the paper examines the ways in which the cultural, political, and racial battlefield of Los Angeles would be potentially transformed into a liberated community of hybridity. It is hinted in the interracial relationship between Henry and Alice, and in the white American judge Charles’s change in perception of the Chicano. Zoot Suit provides us with the honoring and embracing of each other’s differences as a strategy for “a third country,” while revealing the ruling system’s spatial politics of exerting its bordering power. Throughout the paper, I argue that the play functions as a political tool of paving the way for blurring the borders by opening the door to the racial, cultural, and economic other.
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Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit is a musical documentary that recounts the experiences of the Chicano against the backdrop of the Sleepy Lagoon trial in Los Angeles and the Zoot Suit Riots. This paper considers his vision of “illuminating the human spirit” in the actual conditions of social injustice visually spatialized in this play. By utilizing Michel Foucault’s discourse theory along with Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of borderland, the paper examines the ways in which the cultural, political, and racial battlefield of Los Angeles would be potentially transformed into a liberated community of hybridity. It is hinted in the interracial relationship between Henry and Alice, and in the white American judge Charles’s change in perception of the Chicano. Zoot Suit provides us with the honoring and embracing of each other’s differences as a strategy for “a third country,” while revealing the ruling system’s spatial politics of exerting its bordering power. Throughout the paper, I argue that the play functions as a political tool of paving the way for blurring the borders by opening the door to the racial, cultural, and economic other.
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