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Epistemic Disobedience and Decolonial Healing in Norma Elía Cantú’s Canícula

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Poks M.

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

2015

vol. 50

issue 2-3

63-80

Using the U.S.-Mexican border as the place of enunciation, Cantú’s autoethnobiographical novel insists on the materiality of the border, especially for those living on its southern side, while simultaneously deconstructing it as artificial - a line splitting families and assigning nationalities on an arbitrary basis. Being a collage of photographs from the time the writer was growing up in southern Texas and the cuentos inspired by these visuals, Cantú’s Canícula documents how border crossings and re-crossings become symptomatic of living in a liminal space and how they destabilize the concept of nationality as bi-national families must learn to live with ambiguity. On the one hand, there is the undeniable materiality of the border, with its pain, fear, deportations, and other discriminatory practices; on the other, there is a growing border community of resistance cultivating the memory that they are not immigrants, that they lived in Texas before the Guadalupe-Hidalgo treaty. The paper examines the community’s strategies of survival in the contested cultural and social space and advances the thesis that, giving her community an awareness of its homogeneity and reclaiming its place within the larger socio-political context, Cantú becomes an agent of empowerment and change. She helps decolonize knowledge and being.

Tři proti dualismu : Postkoloniální re/interpretace hybridních postav chicanské femininity

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Jiroutová Kynčlová T.

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research

2017

vol. 18

issue 2

56-77

Employing hybridity as a tool of postcolonial critique, and gender as an analytical category, the article discusses the hybrid characteristics of three paradigmatic representations of Chicana femininity, i.e. Cortés’ interpreter La Malinche, the religious icon La Virgen de Guadalupe, and the mythological child-murderer La Llorona. Reading against the power structures of androcentrism and colonialism, the text analyses Chicana re-evaluations and reinterpretations of these fi gures so that they no longer function as fundaments of defamation of women and/or their sexuality, but as empowering role-models for contemporary Chicanas. Motherhood and the “loss” of offspring is further analysed in the text as a condition uniting the members of this cultural female trinity. In conclusion, the strategic methods of re-invention and the ongoing, strategic hybridisation performed by Chicana authors are also touched upon in the article.

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Epistemic Disobedience and Decolonial Healing in Norma Elía Cantú’s Canícula

Tři proti dualismu : Postkoloniální re/interpretace hybridních postav chicanské femininity