Eco-Cosmopolitan StrangersMigration, Toxicity and Vulnerability in the US-Mexico Border Through a Revision of Lucha Corpi’s Cactus Blood

  1. María Isabel Pérez Ramos 1
  1. 1 University of Oviedo (España)
Revista:
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses

ISSN: 0211-5913

Año de publicación: 2020

Título del ejemplar: Contemporary Challenges in Chicanx Literature & Culture

Número: 81

Páginas: 43-59

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.25145/J.RECAESIN.2020.81.04 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openRIULL editor

Otras publicaciones en: Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses

Resumen

Los flujos de migración son comunes en la zona fronteriza entre Estados Unidos y México. Sin embargo, para las personas de origen latino cada vez resulta más complicado cruzar la frontera hacia el norte. Esto se debe no solo a factores políticos sino también al empeoramiento de las condiciones medioambientales. La migración, la degradación medioambiental, la toxicidad y la vulnerabilidad son aspectos que están ligados en la zona fronteriza entre EE. UU. y México, como muestra Lucha Corpi en su novela Cactus Blood. De acuerdo con un análisis eco-cosmopolita, la inmigrante de la novela, entendida como una “extraña” –en el sentido de un personaje que está en medio, dentro y fuera, de modo que hace que los límites se vuelvan porosos– muestra una concienciación medioambiental que le puede servir para enfrentar su propia vulnerabilidad. Dicho análisis sirve a su vez para mostrar las redes (a nivel global) responsables de la degradación medioambiental y la toxicidad de ciertos lugares, como dicha zona fronteriza EE. UU.-México. Una revisión socio-medioambiental de Cactus Blood –escrita ya hace un cuarto de siglo– sirve por tanto para mostrar aspectos que resultan tremendamente pertinentes para afrontar retos contemporáneos.

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