‘Once you get the card you can do anything you want.’ Migrant identities and gender transgression in chicana dramatic literature
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/1330
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i6.178
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i6.178
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Fernández Morales, MartaDate
2005Abstract
Issues of migration, frontiers and identity are recurrent in Chicano/a literature. In Real Women Have Curves the protagonists are conditioned by la migra as much as by race stereotyping and gender limits, living in a metaphoric frontera between clandestine existence and public acknowledgement; between curvy, dark-skinned beauty, and white, androgynous images of womanly perfection. The Hungry Woman is situated in a symbolic territory where Medea has been banished for being a lesbian. Both texts are constructed around ethnic and gender identities, and they both create worlds in which limits are broken and barriers transgressed with a clear Chicana feminist conscience. Temas como migración, fronteras e identidad proliferan en la literatura chicana. En Real Women Have Curves las protagonistas están condicionadas por .“la migra.”, estereotipos de raza y límites de género, viviendo en una .“frontera.” entre la clandestinidad y el reconocimiento; entre una belleza oscura con curvas e imágenes...
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Migration
Migración
Identidad étnica
Ethnic identity