The roaming texts of border literature

• Autores: Francisco A. Lomeli
• Localización: Evolving origins, transplanting cultures: literary Legacies of the news Americans / coord. por Laura Alonso Gallo; Antonia Domínguez Miguela (aut.), 2002, ISBN 978-84-95699-70-1, págs. 261-265
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This essay aims to examine the nature of border literature as a manifestation of what is termed "roaming texts." Much of the text attempts to establish some of the critical parameters of what constitutes a border, its cultural makeup, its epistemological meaning, and its unique qualities as they are understood mainly in a Chicano/Latino context. Much of the focus centers on explaining the landscape of physicality as it appears, briefly, in a variety of texts, particularly in terms of "re-narrations of heteroglossia or `textos movedizos.'" Therefore, binarity is couched as passé because of the increasing complications involved that imply complex and multi-textured texts that operate in a variety of directions.

    The essay concentrates on Ruben Martinez's The Other Side: Fault Lines, Guerrilla Saints and The True Heart of Rock 'N' Roll, which serves as the prime example to explain a new kind of ambiguity in border expression. In a sense, the examination of such a text unveils a postmodem source through which an emerging perception of reality can be found. The author's kaleidoscopic view of culture, (im)migration and people defies conventions and traditionalisms. He, then, captures a new sense of contemporary anthropology and sociology unlike any other. A new millennium is captured in vividly prophetic terms worth contemplating.