{"id":39126,"date":"2014-12-29T23:48:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T23:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39126"},"modified":"2014-12-29T23:48:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T23:48:37","slug":"a-mestiza-in-the-borderlands-margarita-cota-cardenas-puppet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39126","title":{"rendered":"A Mestiza in the Borderlands: Margarita Cota-C\u00e1rdenas Puppet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantisjournal.org\/index.php\/atlantis\/issue\/archive?issue=34-1#AManzanas\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>A Mestiza in the <\/strong><\/em><strong>Borderlands<\/strong><em><strong>: Margarita Cota-C\u00e1rdenas <\/strong><\/em><strong>Puppet<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantisjournal.org\" target=\"_blank\">Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantisjournal.org\/index.php\/atlantis\/issue\/archive?issue=34-1\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 34, Number 1<\/a> (June 2012)<br \/>\npages 47-62<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.usal.es\/index.php\/ana-mo-manzanas\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ana Mar\u00eda Manzanas Calvo<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nDepartment of American Literature and Culture<br \/>\n<em>Universidad de Salamanca, Spain<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The article explores the formal and conceptual complexities of a novella that has so far escaped wide critical attention even though it tackles similar issues to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gloria_E._Anzald%C3%BAa\" target=\"_blank\">Anzald\u00faa&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3778\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Borderlands<\/em><\/a>. Like Anzald\u00faa&#8217;s <em>mestiza<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margarita_Cota-C%C3%A1rdenas\" target=\"_blank\">Cota-C\u00e1rdenas&#8217;<\/a> narrator finds herself floundering in uncertain territory, for she has also discovered that she cannot hold concepts or ideas within rigid boundaries. That state of dissolution of traditional formations is what Cota-C\u00e1rdenas situates at the center of the narrative. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14551\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Mestizaje<\/em><\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/unmpress.com\/books.php?ID=2210\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Puppet<\/em><\/a> does not appear as a comfortable and privileged locus, but as a painful ideological repositioning, a third space or element that works against totalizing narratives. The article illustrates how Cota-C\u00e1rdenas foregrounds the powerful identitary revision Anzald\u00faa would carry out in <em>Borderlands<\/em>, and contributes to the understanding of the self, of culture and the nation from the point of view of borderland subjectivities.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantisjournal.org\/old\/ARCHIVE\/34.1\/AMANZANAS_2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mestiza in the Borderlands: Margarita Cota-C\u00e1rdenas Puppet Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies Volume 34, Number 1 (June 2012) pages 47-62 Ana Mar\u00eda Manzanas Calvo Department of American Literature and Culture Universidad de Salamanca, Spain The article explores the formal and conceptual complexities of a novella that has so far escaped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1196,8],"tags":[18918,18916,18917,18920,18919,1474,18921],"class_list":["post-39126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-ana-m-manzanas","tag-ana-maria-manzanas-calvo","tag-ana-ma-manzanas","tag-atlantis","tag-atlantis-journal-of-the-spanish-association-for-anglo-american-studies","tag-gloria-anzaldua","tag-margarita-cota-cardenas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}