Negotiating Hospitality in Pat Mora's "Bilingual Christmas" and Sandra Cisneros's "It Occurs to Me I Am the Creative/Destructive Goddess Coatlicue"

Autores/as

  • Méliné Kasparian Université Bordeaux Montaigne

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/Lectora2023.29.5

Palabras clave:

literatura chicana, hospitalidad, opresión, migrantes, género

Resumen

Este artículo explora las conexiones entre hospitalidad y poder en dos poemas escritos por las autoras Chicanas contemporáneas Pat Mora y Sandra Cisneros, y reflexiona sobre cómo ambos denuncian la complicidad de ciertos discursos y prácticas hospitalarias con la opresión y la exclusión. Ambos poemas exploran la intersección entre hospitalidad, poder y desigualdad, e inciden en el diferencial de poder que subyace a toda relación de hospitalidad. La hospitalidad aparece en estos dos poemas como una fachada que oculta la marginalización y la explotación, la exclusión de los migrantes y posmigrantes y la sumisión de las mujeres a través de formas de autosacrificio. Sin embargo, ambos poemas revindican también la hospitalidad y ofrecen formas textuales de generosidad y cuidado, o una hospitalidad poética, en el modo en que acogen distintas voces, lectores, e historias. 

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2023-10-31

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[1]
Méliné Kasparian 2023. Negotiating Hospitality in Pat Mora’s "Bilingual Christmas" and Sandra Cisneros’s "It Occurs to Me I Am the Creative/Destructive Goddess Coatlicue". Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat. 29 (oct. 2023), 73–88. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1344/Lectora2023.29.5.