'They don't understand their own oppression': Complicating Preservation in John Rechy's The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez
| Autor: | David J. Vázquez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Cultural Studies Oppression History Literature and Literary Theory media_common.quotation_subject Media studies Ethnic group 06 humanities and the arts 060202 literary studies Silence State (polity) 0602 languages and literature Dialog box Urban space Order (virtue) Chicano Movement media_common |
| Zdroj: | Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory. 74:17-43 |
| ISSN: | 1558-9595 |
| DOI: | 10.1353/arq.2018.0001 |
| Popis: | John Rechy's 1991 novel The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez posits the space of urban Soutwestern barrios as locations where conflicting social relations are mediated. Primary among these conflicting relations are preservation schemes that range from Chicano Movement murals to neoliberal and transnational plans to develop urban space that result in racialized marginalization. The novel demonstrates how Chicana/os mobilize home-grown cultural affirmation and preservation projects designed to counter such marginalization. Yet Rechy takes this critique a step further by portraying how male Chicano activists and state authority figures silence and marginalize Amalia as she traverses the barrio. Placing ecocritical and Latina/o studies methodologies into dialog makes visible how Rechy critiques both sanctioned state preservation efforts and Chicana/o cultural affirmation projects in order to counter Amalia's marginalization. Rechy thus draws attention to neoliberal transnational forces that coopt ethnic preservation schemes. |
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