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carne, carnales, and the carnivalesque: Bakhtinian batos, disorder, and narrative discourses
Author(s) -
LIMÓN JOSÉ E.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1989.16.3.02a00040
Subject(s) - carnivalesque , poetics , elite , narrative , ethnography , sociology , politics , gender studies , literature , aesthetics , humanities , anthropology , art , poetry , political science , law
This paper critically juxtaposes the subjugating, dominant discourses of elite Mexican thinkers like Octavio Paz concerning Mexican male, working‐class, speech/body play with such performances as experienced in Mexican‐American south Texas. The latter are interpreted as a counterhegemonic universe of discourses against these authoritative elite narratives. Nonetheless the paper is reflexively conscious of its own interpretive stance in this relationship. [poetics, politics, ethnography, Mexican‐American]