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T1 Chicaría Outlaws: Turning Our (Brown) Backs on La Ley del Papá(cito)
A1 Chávez-Silverman, Susana
AB This essay explores the representation of gendered agency in thewriting of Chicana authors Ana Castillo, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, andCherríe Moraga. It both describes and textualizes what the author hastermed, elsewhere a fronterótica, or borderotics. It effects a close textualanalysis grounded in cultural studies to determine that Ana Castillocultivates a poetics of playful erotic ambiguity, whereas Cherríe Moraga,an out butch lesbian playwright, poet, and essayist transgresses “la leydel padre” in a much more definitive way. I read Alicia Gaspar de Alba’spoetry in a complex theoretical framework, acknowledging the tensionbetween the temptation of the transgressive and the refusal to allow thefigure of the lesbian to inhabit an essentialized exterior to dominantdiscourse. Gaspar de Alba’s poetic speaker is not going “elsewhere”but rather back to the frontera, which is represented as a hybrid, porousgeosexual space.I join these three authors here because of their extended meditationon the contestatory possibilities for Chicana erotic agency, beyond theirdifferences of gender/genre. Butch, bisexual, or queer, all exploit apostmodern sense of ambiguity which prizes apart long-cherished notionsof “lo Chicano.”
PB Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
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RD 17-may-2024