Paletitas de Guayaba=on a Train Called Absence (La Mujer

Paletitas de Guayaba=on a Train Called Absence (La Mujer Latina)

On a Train Called Absence/Paletitas de Guayaba was first published in Spanish by El Norte Publications (Albuquerque, 1991). The story is narrated in the first person by the protagonist, Marina, who is traveling by train from New Mexico to Mexico City in search of her identity, her history, and answers to many questions that are tormenting her. As the train carries her through the Mexican landscape, she has flashbacks of her life in New Mexico, a failed romance, and a previous journey. The narration also flashes forward to her arrival, and to her discoveries and adventures in Mexico, where she confronts both her historical and mythical past as well as her complex, multicultural present. The themes of hybrid identity, the Chicano movement, Mexican history, U.S.-Mexican relations, and female sexuality are explored, in a highly experimental and self-reflecting narratorial style that is lyrical, profound, and sometimes profane. Although there are many books describing the reality of life for Chicanos living in the United States, only a few books address the problem of identity with an actual journey back to the "madre patria" (Mexico). This experience allows the protagonist to deal directly with contemporary issues of identity and transculturation, and to reach a more transcendent understanding of her own history as a bilingual-bicultural manita/chicana/pocha and that of her fellow Chicanos and Mexicans. Paletitas de guayaba delivers the powerful lesson of how multiple identities and subject positions can be constructed from the other side of various international, inter-ethnic, and sexual borders. By combining this lesson with humor and a wonderfully executed language, the novel instructs at the same time that it entertains, and in this way seals its connection to the best of the Chicano oral tradition. Angie Chabram-Dernersesian Dictionary of Literary Biography 2009 La novela de Gonzales-Berry, como otras muchas novelas femeninas contemporÃ¡neas, se rebela contra las limitaciones tradicionales del bildungsroman femenino que, segÃºn el conocido anÃ¡lisis de Annis Pratt, se habÃa caracterizado de buena medida por su utilidad para "domesticar" a las mujeres lectoras. Marina, por el contrario, aprende a deshacerse de esos mecanismos culturales reductores y a establecerse a sÃ misma como persona madura y compleja. Manuel M. Martin-RodrÃguez Latin American Literary Review (Jan-June 1995)

Country	USA
Author	Erlinda Gonzales-Berry
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: Floricanto Press
EAN	9781888205206
Edition	Bilingual ed.
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	1888205202
Label	Floricanto Press
Manufacturer	Floricanto Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	208
PublicationDate	2009-10-30
Publisher	Floricanto Press
Studio	Floricanto Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Paletitas de Guayaba=on a Train Called Absence (La Mujer Latina)

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