scholarly journals Composing Her Growing Identities as a Mexican American

2020 ◽  
pp. 002205742097204
Author(s):  
Xiaodi Zhou
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
American Woman ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Early Adolescent ◽  
Cultural Hybridity ◽  
American Girl ◽  
Rural South ◽  
Mexican American Woman

This article studies the growing and changing cultural identifications of one early adolescent Mexican American girl as represented by her engagements with literacy. Her writing behaviors in particular manifested a changing cultural identity that reacted to and represented her response to a changing world. Her bilingualism and biculturalism manifested a dialogic innervation of distinct voices and truths, particularly set in the Trump-era United States. Through a theoretical framework of cultural hybridity and bordered identity, this study analyzes the complex linguistic, developmental, and cultural identities of a young Mexican American woman in the rural South.

scholarly journals Your True Colors

JCSCORE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-220
Author(s):  
Ana Guerin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
American Woman ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Mexican American Woman ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
True Colors

This poem reflects the author’s heartbreak, disappointment, and the realization that people may not show who they truly are to one. The author describes feeling disappointment and a sense of guilt from a previous relationship. The person she thought she knew turned out to be someone who did not align with her values. The author is a Mexican American woman who immigrated to the United States as a teenager from Mexico. She found within herself to educate herself through her adult life seeking to erase internalized patriarchy and oppression. Living through such divisive political environment between 2017 and 2020, she began to realize people around her, in specific the relationship illustrated in the poem, were not who she thought they were. The author describes the end of the relationship with a play on words declaring that she does not want to see this person’s dull colors again.

Flowers Disguised

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 100-123
Author(s):  
Soo Y. Kang
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
American Woman ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
Still Life ◽  
Virgin Of Guadalupe ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Mexican American Woman ◽  
Late Twentieth Century ◽  
Woman's Voice

Abstract Since the late twentieth century, Latina artists have used Catholic images, such as depictions of altars and the Virgin of Guadalupe, to speak both for themselves and for women’s issues at large. Maria Tomasula seems far from that norm, since she focuses on tightly constructed, dramatic still life, painted in the traditional European illusionistic manner. She reveals, however, Catholic influences and feminist messages in her flower paintings. This article aims to unveil the woman’s voice in the works of still life by Tomasula, as communicated through embedded Catholic symbolism and references. It will examine how her works evoke the home altar tradition as well as images of saints in martyrdom to speak for the Mexican American woman. This article also applies the concept of the abject, as espoused by Kristeva to denote a woman’s realm, to Tomasula’s art. Tomasula’s still lifes thus ultimately delineate a woman’s space and her discrete experience.

scholarly journals The Pain and Suffering of a Mexican American Woman With Mobility Impairment

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-61
Author(s):  
Janiece L. Walker ◽  
Tracie C. Harrison ◽  
Sherry G. Hendrickson
Keyword(s):  
Mexican American ◽  
American Woman ◽  
Mobility Impairment ◽  
Pain And Suffering ◽  
Mexican American Woman

UFO (Unusual Female Other) Sightings in Saucer Country/State: Metaphors of Identity and Presidential Politics

2020 ◽  
pp. 257-274
Author(s):  
Christina M. Knopf
Keyword(s):  
Mexican American ◽  
American Woman ◽  
Political Leader ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Political World ◽  
Mexican American Woman ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Political Norms

This final chapter shows us how a strong female lead might resist monstrosity in the pursuit of political power. As an abused, divorced, Mexican-American woman, Arcadia Alvarado, is solidly situated in the margins of the fictional US society depicted in Saucer Country. Despite being marked as monstrous because of her race and gender, Alvarado finds her strength in resisting the monstrous political norms that dominate her U.S. context, rather than embracing them. I In this science-fictional world (which reveals the real intersectional failings of the American political world), Alvarado transgresses her assigned role as marginalized “other” by powerfully performing as a political leader without becoming a monster.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document