Incorporating Ambiguity into Girlhood ExperiencesGender Stereotypes and Identity Negotiations in Mary Helen Ponce's Hoyt Street and Norma E. Cantú's Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera

  1. Andrea Fernández-García 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Oviedo
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    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

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Zeitschrift:
Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos

ISSN: 1133-309X,  2253-8410

Datum der Publikation: 2020

Nummer: 24

Seiten: 67-92

Art: Artikel

DOI: 10.12795/REN.2020.I24.04 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen Access editor

Andere Publikationen in: Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos

Zusammenfassung

This paper reconsiders the Chicana girlhood narratives of Mary Helen Ponce and Norma E. Cantú, Hoyt Street and Canícula respectively, as instances of the ambiguous gender identities that lie at the core of much post-Borderlands theory. Drawing on Jose Esteban Muñoz’s theory of disidentification, Jennifer Ayala’s concept of “mothering in the borderlands” and Gloria Anzaldúa’s latest insights on liminality and fluidity, I contend that the female characters of the novels under analysis enter into a contradictory dialogue with the patriarchal archetypes of the mother, the virgin and the whore. Thus, this paper departs from previous feminist approaches to these texts, which have disregarded the characters’ allegiance and non-allegiance to patriarchal discourses on Chicana identities.

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1Financial assistance for this essay was provided by the R&D Project “Strangers and Cosmopolitans: Alternative Worlds in Contemporary Literature” (RTI2018-097186-BI00), funded by the Spanish National Research Program; and the Research Group Intersecciones

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