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      Fabric frontiers: thread, cloth, body, self in Latina literature in film

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      Author(s)
      Harper, M. P.
      Date
      2013
      Source Title
      Hispanic Review
      Print ISSN
      0018-2176
      Electronic ISSN
      1553-0639
      Publisher
      University of Pennsylvania Press
      Volume
      81
      Issue
      2
      Pages
      165 - 180
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      This article examines the relationship between self-formation and clothing as a contact zone in Sandra Cisneros's "Eleven," Achy Obejas's "We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?" and Alicia Partnoy's "The Denim Jacket" as well as in the film El Norte and the documentary Señorita extraviada. Exploring the cultural conflicts that unfold on the surface of clothing, I contend that these literary and cinematic texts offer richly nuanced moments in which a character interacts with a garment to illuminate the complex relations between biological bodies and social contexts. In these texts, cloth operates both as a limen and as the creased and occasionally threadbare map of a life; whether to take a garment off, put it on, throw it away, or hold on to it becomes a matter of ethical significance, of practicing a particular kind of relationship to oneself.
      Keywords
      Border
      Fabric
      Latina
      Contact zone
      Self
      Violence
      Ethics
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/49035
      Published Version (Please cite this version)
      https://doi.org/10.1353/hir.2013.0015
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