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From Epicentros To Fault Lines: Rewriting Central America From The Diaspora, Maritza Cárdenas
From Epicentros To Fault Lines: Rewriting Central America From The Diaspora, Maritza Cárdenas
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This essay examines how representations from the Central American diaspora rewrite the Central American imaginary. It focuses on the ways EpiCentroAmerica—a poetry collective who view themselves as Central American, but reject a single unifying vision of home by seeing themselves as part of a transregional and transnational community—challenge traditional configurations of Central America(n). This reinscription of the signifier Central America is best exemplified in the work of Salvadoran-American poet Marlon Morales, whose poem “Centroamérica is,” avoids suturing Central America with traditional nationalist geological images of volcanoes and the isthmus, in favor of constructing Central America as an amorphous abstract and …
Central American Enunciations From Us Zones Of Indifference, Or The Sentences Of Coloniality, Oriel María Siu
Central American Enunciations From Us Zones Of Indifference, Or The Sentences Of Coloniality, Oriel María Siu
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This essay explores Central American diasporic experiences in the US as sites for the continued exertion and reproduction of coloniality. A longstanding matrix of power transgressing all forms of borders and permeating all aspects of life—an irreversible and transgressive disease—coloniality operates so forcefully that it upholds its own survival. In the process, we live its plural incongruity and even extend its most contemptuous signs. Surveying a series of narrative texts produced from within the Central American diaspora in cities like Los Angeles and New York—Roberto Quesada’s Big Banana, Oscar René Benitez’s Inmortales, Hector Tobar’s Tattooed Soldier, and …