Redrawing the Boundary: From Carlos Fuentes’s La frontera de cristal (1995) to Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita’s Lunar Braceros 2125-2148 (2009)

  1. Ana Mª Manzanas Calvo 1
  2. Paula Barba Guerrero 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

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Revista:
Ex- Centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media

ISSN: 2585-3538

Año de publicación: 2019

Páginas: 122-135

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

This article traces the workings of the border in Carlos Fuentes’ La frontera de cristal, Alejandro Morales’ TheRag Doll Plagues, Alex Rivera’s film Sleep Dealer, and Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita’s Lunar Braceros 2125-2140. All the narratives can be considered borderland texts that illustrate the dialogue between literature and issuessuch as globalization, technology and colonial relations of power. While the border is still a place of detention andinterdiction in Fuentes’ novel, it mutates into virtual crossings in The Rag Doll Plagues and Sleep Dealer, to returnto barbed wire in Sánchez and Pita’s novella. From the logic of the border as a mechanism that may open or close,the article moves on to address the liminal situation of those who, although situated within the new versions of thenation-state, are considered permanent outsiders. This redrawing of boundaries allows us to revisit traditionalcategories of distinction such as the inside and the outside, and is evidence of the way colonial models ofsubjugation boomerang to the present

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