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Surviving the Borderlands:
Surviving the Borderlands:

Living Sin Fronteras, Being a Crossroads The Deperipheralization of the Chicano/a Cultural/Literary Space

Author(s): Markéta Riebová
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, American Literature
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Filozofická fakulta, Vydavatelství
Keywords: Centre; periphery; the Borderlands; frontier; Mexico; United States; Mexican American literature and culture; Chicano/a literature and culture; Chicano Movement; Chicano/a Renaissance; mestizaje/misce

Summary/Abstract: The following study deals with the evolution of the centre-periphery dynamics in Chicano/a cultural and literary space of the Mexican American borderland region. With a brief overview of the socio-historical and geopolitical context in the background the article offers insight into the gradual formation of the cultural/literary capital of the Mexican American and later Chicano/a community, and inquiries into its possible emergence out of the formerly peripheral position in relation to the literary centres of Spain, Mexico or United States.

  • Issue Year: XXXII/2022
  • Issue No: 65
  • Page Range: 25-41
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English