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

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dc.citation.epage180en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber2en_US
dc.citation.spage165en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber81en_US
dc.contributor.authorHarper, M. P.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-07T12:30:55Z
dc.date.available2019-02-07T12:30:55Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.departmentProgram in Cultures, Civilization and Ideasen_US
dc.description.abstractThis 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 SeƱorita 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.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1353/hir.2013.0015en_US
dc.identifier.eissn1553-0639
dc.identifier.issn0018-2176
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/49035en_US
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Pressen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1353/hir.2013.0015en_US
dc.source.titleHispanic Reviewen_US
dc.subjectBorderen_US
dc.subjectFabricen_US
dc.subjectLatinaen_US
dc.subjectContact zoneen_US
dc.subjectSelfen_US
dc.subjectViolenceen_US
dc.subjectEthicsen_US
dc.titleFabric frontiers: thread, cloth, body, self in Latina literature in filmen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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