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Constructing The Democratic Reader: The Functions Of Textual Hybridity In La Noche De Tlatelolco, Manuel Chinchilla
Constructing The Democratic Reader: The Functions Of Textual Hybridity In La Noche De Tlatelolco, Manuel Chinchilla
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A study of Elena Poniatowska’s La noche de Tlatelolco as a hybrid text that combines the genres of testimonio and chronicle to reconcile the relationship between history and literature. This article centers on how readership of La noche de Tlatelolco permits a democratic practice that confronts official discourse, particularly the PRI party’s narratives of legitimization, while also fostering an engagement with the original political impulse behind the student movement of 1968.
Violent Effects: Domestic Violence And Poetic Subversive Discourses, Roberta Hurtado
Violent Effects: Domestic Violence And Poetic Subversive Discourses, Roberta Hurtado
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Processes of sociosexual geo-racialization consistently render Latinas in the U.S. vulnerable to domestic abuse. Engaging this issue, third space feminists have adapted testimonio as a means for exposing domestic abuse while striving to craft transformative discourses that humanize these women’s experiences of oppression. The dusmic nature of poetry, as defined by Nuyorican poets, lends itself to this task. “Violent Effects” synthesizes poetry’s dusmic nature with third space feminists’ development of testimoniando—or testimonio as an agentic process—to identify how María Luisa Arroyo’s poetry exposes, dignifies and humanizes survivors’ experiences of domestic violence and thereby subverts dehumanization’s violent effects.