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Cicatrix Poetics, Trauma and Healing in the Literary Borderlands: Beyond Survival - Couverture rigide

Santos, Adrianna M.

 
9783031128622: Cicatrix Poetics, Trauma and Healing in the Literary Borderlands: Beyond Survival
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 3031128621 ISBN 13 : 9783031128622
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

Synopsis

This book explores how Chicana literature often represents gender violence while simultaneously presenting strategies of survival in response. Adrianna M. Santos aims to contribute to a broader conversation concerning the intersections between Chicana literature and decolonial trauma theory, one which questions the colonial matrix of power and the universality of Western knowledge. Santos argues that Chicana survival narratives arise out of colonial wounds and form scars that both mark and protect the violated body. Cicatrix Poetics, Trauma and Healing in the Literary Borderlands proposes a "cicatrix poetics" that makes bold gestures toward healing and narrative/storytelling as survival. The book contends that the cicatrix fashioned through artistic expression is a necessary component for Chicana communities--not just to survive, but to thrive. The books presents several case studies that examine transformative narrativity and by theorizing the texts as survival narratives, social protest works that bring attention to violence and erasure, the chapters explore how literature can be an effective catalyst for both social change and personal transformation, an orientation towards freedom, liberation through love.

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À propos de l'auteur

Adrianna M. Santos is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University-San Antonio, USA, and advisor of the Mexican American Student Association. She has published in Aztlán, Chicana/Latina Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin and Latina Critical Feminism and is co-editor of The Bard in the Borderlands, and El Mundo Zurdo 8.

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Éditeur
Palgrave Macmillan
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3031128621
ISBN 13 
9783031128622
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
205
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