"To meet a broader and wiser revolution:" Notions of collectivity in contemporary Mexican American drama

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Autoren
ISSN
0340-2827
Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
2
Zeitschrift
Amerikastudien/American Studies
Schlüsselwörter
  • American literature
  • 1900-1999
  • Moraga, Cherríe(1952- )
  • drama
  • Mexican American dramatists
  • <i>Heroes and Saints</i>(1989)
  • <i>Watsonville</i>(1996)
  • collective identity
  • social action
  • belonging
  • community
  • cultural nationalism
Sprache
English
Paginierung
271 - 290
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2012
Herausgeber
Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH
Titel
'To Meet a Broader and Wiser Revolution': Notions of Collectivity in Contemporary Mexican American Drama
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
57

Datenquelle: MLA

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Abstract
This essay discusses the interventions of Cherrfe Moraga’s dramatic and essayistic work in Chicano/a discourse on collectivity. In her dramatic and essayistic writings, Moraga moves beyond a feminist and queer critique of the patriarchal and heterosexual premises inherent in traditional Chicano cultural nationalism. In Heroes and Saints and Watsonville, Moraga questions a narrow, individualistic definition of cultural identity and emphasizes the importance of collective action for social change. Read from the viewpoint of a Lacanian notion of the tragic, Heroes and Saints argues in favor of both the need for violent resistance to economic exploitation and for a more inclusive definition of Chicano/a collectivity. Exploring the social and economic conflicts between a local Hispanic community and white factory owners, Moraga’s Watsonville employs Mexican folk religion and indigenous spirituality in order to introduce a revisionist mythology of communal belonging. Against the background of Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophy of community, Moraga’s dramatic vision can be seen to articulate an idiosyncratic communitarian vision that questions and complicates existing accounts of Mexican American collectivity.
Autoren
ISSN
0340-2827
Zeitschrift
Amerikastudien/American Studies
Notes
file: :/fs02/obenlan$/Dokumente/E-TEXTE/Mendeley/Obenland_2012.pdf:pdf;:/fs02/obenlan$/Dokumente/E-TEXTE/Mendeley/Obenland_2012(3).pdf:pdf keywords: Heroes and Saints (1989),Mexican American Drama,Moraga - Cherríe (1952-),collectivity,community,feminist drama
Artikelnummer
2
Paginierung
271 - 90
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2012
Herausgeber
Universitätsverlag WINTER Gmbh
Herausgeber URL
http://www.jstor.org/stable/23509448
Datum der Datenerfassung
2019
Titel
"To meet a broader and wiser revolution:" Notions of collectivity in contemporary Mexican American drama
Sub types
  • article
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
57

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