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• W1579244185 abstract "Postcolonial studies demand new ways of understanding identity and have developed concepts such as hybridity to address needs of identities that resist stringent classifications. For Chicana literature, authors like Gloria Anzaldua have emphasized mestiza, or hybridized identity, giving new meaning to what it means to live on border. However, this hybridized border identity cannot exist without first acknowledging theoretical and spatial aspects of border. This essay argues that hybridized border identity and geographic border location are elements of identity that must exist simultaneously. A prime example of a text that positions hybridized identity in relation to geographical contextualization is Who Would Have Thought It? by Mexican-American regionalist writer, Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton. In Ruiz de Burton's text, various forms of hybridity develop as lines between North/South/West, citizen/foreigner, white/black/Mexican, rich/poor, and public/private blur. It is through various regional spaces of New England, New York, Washington D.C, and Mexico that these hybridities develop, illustrating how an emphasis upon geographical locations can clarify hybridized identity within a physical location.Critical debate has arisen over ethics of readers' approaches to texts about social injustices and human Scholars like Joseph Slaughter have asserted that an ethical approach to reading demands an exploration of relationship between reader and a text's suffering characters. Slaughter argues that to create most effective empathy between reader and textual subject, readers should position themselves not as sufferer but instead as the humanitarian, subject position of one who already recognizes human dignity of wounded and attempts to relieve suffering. I extend Slaughter's idea one step further and assert that reader should not only be conscious of his or her relationship to sufferer, but also of his or her relationship to text that tells sufferer's story. In evaluating latter relationship, an exploration of preconceived notions about form is critical. Specifically, interrogating assumptions about literary form can ultimately result in a more ethical interpretation of texts pertaining to human suffering and social injustices. In exploring assumptions about literary form, I rely upon a genre whose very definition is based on form, short story, a genre bears weight of structural ideals such as brevity, totality, character development, and limited temporality. When one breaks down these assumptions, a greater reflective space, fewer representational characters, and a resistance to textual mastery can develop, stimulating a more ethical connection between reader and short story's characters. I locate my exploration of short story reading in a work by Mexican-American writer, Maria Cristina Mena, entitled Gold Vanity Set. On surface, this particular story follows many conventions of short story form; however, these conventions also work against themselves, creating a stereotypical portrayal of indigenous Mexicans that simultaneously voices concerns about oppression of this group. The ambiguous portrayal of this subaltern group makes Gold Vanity Set a valuable story to consider when exploring ethical reading, for awareness of assumptions about form helps readers make sense of Mena's textual ambiguity. My goal is not to propose a moral code for reading, but instead to explore various ways that one might achieve a more ethical relationship to text through deconstruction of literary assumptions that can impede realization of human rights and social justice for subaltern groups." @default.
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• W1579244185 title "Who Would Have Thought It?: Space and Hybridity in Chicana Literature and Literary Humanitarianism and the Short Story: Understanding How Genre and Ethics Intersect in The Gold Vanity Set" @default.
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