Transitional Space: Reading Contemporary Border Literature Through Historical Representations of Baja California
| dc.creator | Baginski, Anastasia | |
| dc.date | 2021-03-30 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-07T15:25:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-05-07T15:25:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-03-30 | |
| dc.description | Critical approaches to border literature rely on and reinforce stereotypes about local culture. This article reads the work of contemporary authors written near the U.S./Mexico border through the frame of Baja Californian history, offering a corrective to readings which center their marginality to U.S. and central Mexican literary production. These works draw on new and old myths about the peninsula, and its long history of representation in the writings of explorers and missionaries. Jesuit missionaries, for example, experienced the peninsula’s extremity in terms of psychological challenges for which ethnographic practices provided relief and a sense of control. In contrast, contemporary writers Regina Swain and Aglae Margalli analogize bodily experiences like crying, sweating and breathing to environmental processes of flooding and erosion, showing that the relationship between subject and environment can be negotiated, rather than imposed. In this way they demonstrate the embodied limits of colonial historiography and articulate the gendered logic behind the idea that writing from a place means being resigned to, determined by, or representative of it. | en-US |
| dc.description | Aproximaciones críticas a la literatura de la frontera requieren y refuerzan estereotipos sobre la cultura local. Este artículo lee el trabajo de algunas escritoras contemporáneas producido cerca de la frontera norte dentro del marco de la historia bajacaliforniana. Estos textos recurren a los mitos antiguos y contemporáneos de la península, y además a su larga historia de ser representada en la escritura de los exploradores y los misioneros. Los jesuitas, por ejemplo, experimentaron la extremidad de la península como un reto psicológico y las prácticas etnográficas les permitieron conservar cierto control sobre sus entornos. Escritoras contemporáneas comparan las prácticas corporales como llorar, sudor, y respirar con los procesos ambientales de inundación y erosión. Nos muestran una relación entre sujeto y ambiente de concordancia en vez de una de imposición. De esta manera describen los límites encarnados de la historiografía colonial y su lógica de género. | es-ES |
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| dc.identifier | https://www.humanistica.mx/index.php/humanistica/article/view/22 | |
| dc.identifier | 10.46530/hrecl.vi.22 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11285/652478 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.language | spa | |
| dc.publisher | Escuela de Humanidades y Educación. Tecnológico de Monterrey | es-ES |
| dc.relation | https://www.humanistica.mx/index.php/humanistica/article/view/22/40 | |
| dc.relation | https://www.humanistica.mx/index.php/humanistica/article/view/22/52 | |
| dc.relation | https://www.humanistica.mx/index.php/humanistica/article/view/22/53 | |
| dc.relation | https://www.humanistica.mx/index.php/humanistica/article/view/22/54 | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 | |
| dc.source | Humanística. Revista de Estudios Críticos y Literarios ; Número 2 enero-junio 2021; 48-69 | es-ES |
| dc.source | 2992-7005 | |
| dc.subject | Baja California | en-US |
| dc.subject | 20th Century Mexican Literature | en-US |
| dc.subject | Literary Criticism | en-US |
| dc.subject | Border Literature | en-US |
| dc.subject | Baja California | es-ES |
| dc.subject | Literatura de la frontera | es-ES |
| dc.subject | Crítica literaria | es-ES |
| dc.subject | Literatura mexicana del siglo XX | es-ES |
| dc.title | Transitional Space: Reading Contemporary Border Literature Through Historical Representations of Baja California | en-US |
| dc.title | Lugares intermedios: Literatura contemporánea de la frontera a través de las representaciones históricas de Baja California | es-ES |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |