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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dowdy, Michael
• Jaussen, Paul
• Balkun, Mary Mcaleer
• Gray, Jeffrey

Titel

“It's Been a While”: Latinx Poetries and the Empire of Borders

Ist Teil von

• A Companion to American Poetry, 2022, p.455-468

Ort / Verlag

Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Wiley Online Library All Obooks

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Between the publication of Borderlands/La frontera : The New Mestiza, in 1987, and the twenty‐fifth anniversary fourth edition, in 2012, Gloria Anzaldúa's conceptions of the US‐Mexico border region fundamentally reshaped the Chicana/o literary tradition while launching a new field of historical, literary, and theoretical inquiry: Border Studies. This chapter develops Cutler's proposition by mapping the complex representations and sometimes ineffability of new border texts, beginning with the US‐based Mexican writer Yuri Herrera's novella Signs Preceding the End of the World and moving through poems by Mexican American, Salvadoran American, and Puerto Rican poets. The boundary between Guatemala and Mexico is one of the world's most heavily policed, surveilled, and perilous. Trevino is among many Mexican‐American and Latinx poets who address the systemic violence of what the journalist Todd Miller identifies in Empire of Borders as the global expansion of the border.