Open AccessTowards a Geography of trauma: From El plan spiritual de Aztlán to the Birth of Chicana Spìritual Feminism
Author(s) -
Monica Got
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
revista canaria de estudios ingleses
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2530-8335
pISSN - 0211-5913
DOI - 10.25145/j.recaesin.2020.81.09
Subject(s) - ideology , nationalism , gender studies , feminism , interpretation (philosophy) , metaphor , sociology , militant , character (mathematics) , politics , aesthetics , art , philosophy , political science , linguistics , geometry , mathematics , law
The paper explores the unbreakable link between Chicana literature and its political/ ideological/militant/subversive component, based on a new interpretation of “cultural nationalism.” Explaining the sociopolitical motivations that led to the California student revolts of the 1960s and the Chicana Movement’s Plan Espiritual de Aztlán, I also discuss the ensuing falling-out between the feminine/feminist faction of the Movement and its androcentric majority. I draw on the formal/conceptual/linguistic hybridity of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera as a metaphor for the radical character of the entire Chicana literary phenomenon.