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Identity in Latin American and Latina Literature - The Struggle to Self-Define In a Global Era Where Space, Capitalism, and Power Rule (Hardcover)
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Identity in Latin American and Latina Literature - The Struggle to Self-Define In a Global Era Where Space, Capitalism, and Power Rule (Hardcover)
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This study demonstrates the ways that Latina authors contest how
power and space exploit women while simultaneously subverting the
Nation-State through reimagining a counter-space where new
definitions of the self lie beyond Power's reach. Moreover, this
book delves into how both Power and Space collude to uphold the
out-of-date sexist, racist, and classist societal norms that
Eurocentrism and history continue to cleave to as the defining
qualities of the nation and its citizens. With the proliferation of
Latin literature within the United States, an ideological
readjustment is taking place whereby several late twentieth- and
early twenty-first-century authors contest the State's role in
defining its citizens by exposing the unjust role that Space and
Power play. With this in mind, the author examines several literary
versions of identity to explore how certain authors reject and
subvert the social mores against which present-day citizens are
measured-especially within government or State institutions but
also within families and neighborhoods. The literary works that are
analyzed cover a period of twenty-five years ending in 2010.
Several of these texts rewrite the national allegory from the point
of view of the marginalized while others demonstrate how an
individual successfully renegotiates her identity-gender, social
class, or ethnicity-from being a disadvantage to being an identity
marker to celebrate. The authors defy the place that women are
still relegated to, by representing several characters who
consciously decide that it is time to battle the forces that would
keep them powerless in the public arena. Above all, these texts are
anti-Power; the protagonists refuse to accept the societal forces
which constantly barrage them, defining them as worthless. These
authors and their characters challenge everything that historically
has kept women relegated to a space of weakness.
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