Acolhendo o espírito de Carnaval: o grotesco e o carnavalesco em Klail City Death Trip Series de Rolando Hinojosa

2022 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-137
Author(s):  
Svetlana Yu. Pavlina ◽  
Maria I. Baranova
Keyword(s):  
Rolando Hinojosa ◽  
Literatura Chicana

RESUMO O presente artigo diz respeito às propriedades artísticas de uma das obras básicas da literatura chicana, Klail City Death Trip Series de Rolando Hinojosa, observadas através da perspetiva da cultura do riso popular. A pesquisa baseia-se na teoria de Bakhtin sobre o carnaval e o carnavalesco. A análise revela que o riso carnavalesco afeta o sistema de imagens, permeia o sistema de personagens e molda a estrutura do discurso dos romances. O caráter duplo dos personagens cômicos, que agem como uma força destrutiva e ao mesmo tempo são portadores da verdade, engloba a cultura do riso carnavalesco. Outro meio de representação do carnavalesco e do grotesco são as máscaras que os chicanos usam. O grotesco serve de ferramenta de sobrevivência para a comunidade chicana, retratada nos romances, ajudando-os a combater o medo do inevitável.

La novela chicana de Arizona: tradición y transgresión en Barrioztlán de Saúl Cuevas

1969 ◽  
pp. 31-50
Author(s):  
María Rita Plancarte Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Los Grupos ◽  
Literatura Chicana ◽  
Movimientos Sociales

La literatura chicana, como un corpus de textos artísticos específico y diferenciado, se ha forjado a partir de los movimientos sociales de los años sesenta, que lucharon por reivindicar los derechos civiles de los grupos hispanos de origen mexicano en los Estados Unidos. La lucha social generó debates sobre el ser y pertenecer a una comunidad cultural cuyos usos particulares la definían y diferenciaban, que tuvo como corolario la construcción de una expresión artística. La característica más relevante de esta producción –que ha abarcado todos los campos del arte y la cultura– es que ha buscado constituir un bagaje de signos cuyo valor estriba en su capacidad de cohesionar y representar a esta comunidad. En la novela chicana de Arizona se puede reconocer este compromiso como un denominador común, pues los novelistas tienen la preocupación de plantear el conflicto de los personajes con su espacio-tiempo. Al mismo tiempo se puede distinguir en ellos una permanente búsqueda de integrar en esa representación los diferentes discursos sociales que atraviesan a la sociedad chicana, así como de figurar el contacto, conflictivo también, con la sociedad anglosajona hegemónica. Por lo anteriormente me propongo analizar cómo Saúl Cuevas construye en Barrioztlán (1999) un lenguaje particular para expresar estéticamente la compleja experiencia cultural chicana y cómo fi gura una imagen del chicano del fi n de siglo, por medio de un proceso complementario de trasgresión, de seguimiento o identificación con de la tradición chicana.

The Intimacies of Conflict

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Y. Kim
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Korean War ◽  
The United States ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Transnational American Studies ◽  
Hollywood Films ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Rolando Hinojosa ◽  
Chinese Subjects

Though known primarily in the United States as “the forgotten war,” the Korean War was a watershed event that fundamentally reshaped both domestic conceptions of race and the interracial dimensions of US imperial endeavors as they took shape during the Cold War. The Intimacies of Conflictworks against the historical erasure of this event first by returning us to the 1950s, revealing the emotionally compelling dramas of interracial and transnational intimacy that were staged around this event in Hollywood films and journalistic accounts. Through detailed analyses of such works, this book illuminates how the Korean War enabled the emergence of not just a military multiculturalism but also a military Orientalism and a humanitarian Orientalism: cultural logics that purported to make surgical distinctions between Asians who were allies and those who were legitimately killable. This book also demonstrates how an emergent tradition of US novels, primarily by authors of color, provides an exemplary assemblage of cultural memory, illuminating the intimacies that join and divide the histories of Asian American, African American, and Chicanx/Latinx subjects, as well as Korean and Chinese subjects. Novels by eminent US writers like Susan Choi, Chang-rae Lee, Rolando Hinojosa, and Toni Morrison and the South Korean author Hwang Sok-yong speak to the trauma experienced by civilians and combatants while also evoking an expansive web of complicity in war’s violence. Drawing together both comparative race and transnational American studies approaches, this study engages in a multifaceted ethical and political reckoning with the Korean War’s unended status.

La opresión lingüística y la desconexión hogar/escuela en la literatura chicana

2013 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-132
Author(s):  
José Agustín Ruiz-Escalante ◽  
María Guadalupe Arreguín-Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Literatura Chicana

scholarly journals The Bakhtinian Carnival in Chicano Novels by Rolando Hinojosa

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina K. Bronich ◽  
Maria I. Baranova
Keyword(s):  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Main Ideas ◽  
Rolando Hinojosa ◽  
Literary Devices ◽  
The Town

The article discusses Rolando Hinojosa’s novels Klail City and The Valley about the 20 th century Chicano community. The analysis bears on the carnival theory by Mikhail Bakhtin. Carnivalesque images and literary devices examined in the novels create the feeling of the infinite festivity and prove the omnipresence of Bakhtinian carnival in the novelist’s early works. The fictional world of Rolando Hinojosa operates following the rules of the carnival. The life of the Chicano community is organized around the town square, where religious ceremonies are travestied and typical carnival rituals such as “the feast of fools,” election and dethroning of the King, carnival sacrifice, and “the funeral banquet” are perfomed. The analysis of Hinojosa’s novels using Bakhtin’s carnivalesque theory sheds light on the main ideas of Klail City Death Trip Series. The festive character of the bodily imagery represents the triumph of life over death, while the macabre laughter helps Chicanos to defeat their fear of death.

scholarly journals Ramón Saldívar. Chicano Narrative. The Dialectics of Difference. Madison/Londres: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1990.

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauro Zavala
Keyword(s):  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
The University ◽  
Literatura Chicana

El estudio de Ramón Saldívar ofrece un modelo para una posible historia de la literatura chicana, que además podría ser utilizado para estudiar cualquier otra producción cultural marginada del canon académico dominante. La estructura "diferencial" propuesta en este trabajo, interdisciplinaria y apoyada en diversas aproximaciones metodológicas, lleva al reconocimiento de la heterogeneidad de las formas de representación de la experiencia chicana.

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