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T1 Descentralización del texto maestro mediante la resemantización en "The memories of Ana Calderón" de Graciela Limón
A1 López López, Margarita
K1 Critical article
K1 Ensayo
K1 20th century american fiction
K1 American literature
K1 Chicana contemporary fiction
K1 Hispanic literature
K1 Inmigrants
K1 Latino literature
K1 Mexico
K1 Novela americana en el siglo 20
K1 Literatura de los EEUU
K1 Literatura chicana contemporánea
K1 Literatura hispana
K1 Inmigrantes
K1 Literatura latina
K1 México
K1 Humanidades
K1 Historia de América
K1 America-History
K1 Arte
K1 Art
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
AB My analysis focuses on Graciela Limón’s novel The Memories of Ana Calderónto show; first, how the author participates in Ellen McCracken’s idea that Latinanarrativists present alternatives to totalizing master texts, resignifying the ostensiblyunivocal nature of such claims to truth and at the same time foregrounding the limitsof their own narrative enterprises; and second, how the text opens itself to literaryexperimentation, decentralizing and amplifying historical master texts to corrode theartificial border between gender and ethnicity. Considering the text’s focus on what IainChambers calls metaphors of movement, such as migration and diaspora, I explore howthe returning and reelaboration of events in the protagonist’s life imply a need for adifferent way of thinking, that which allows for cultural transgressions by Chicanas notonly in Western society, but also in the Latino community and family. I further illustratehow Limón utilizes strategies of resemantization of master texts to present alternativetexts that form a new Latina identity. For this, I analyze how this counternarrative isstructured around alternative reappropriations of the body, transgression, feministstrength, resignified religious imagery, and experiments with narrative voice to exemplify how Bakhtin’s concept of “double voice” unmasks the language of the other andarticulates the author’s feminist discourse. The protagonist’s distancing from her placeof origin opposed to the cultural sexist traditions is studied as a transformation ofBakhtin’s “intentional hybrid” in her new state/space in the U.S. – a heterotopia whereshe questions these traditions to make room for her liberation from such oppression andintegration in a new social order in which Latinas are emerging cultural identities intransition situated in Anzaldúa’s state of being “mitá y mitá.” I conclude that by notinsisting on the characters’ ethnicity and focusing on individual worth instead, Limón’snovel is directed towards a new way of thinking about borders as para-sites that nevertake over a field entirely but erode it slowly and tactically.
PB Instituto B. Flanklin de Estudios Norteamericanos. Universidad de Alcalá de Henares
YR 2010
FD 2010
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/8350
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/8350
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DS MINDS@UW
RD 03-dic-2023