Nei panni e nella pelle dell’‘altro’: abito, identità di frontiera e linea del colore in George Washington Gómez: A Mexicotexan Novel di Américo Paredes
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Américo Paredes, ibridità, razzismo, identità, vestitiAbstract
Lo studio analizza il primo romanzo di Paredes, George Washington Gómez: A Mexicotexan Novel, un’opera messico-texana dove l’ibridità, repressa da un contesto violento, razzista e fortemente polarizzato, si manifesta a più livelli. L’abito, gli accessori, o il dato fenotipico più evidente nella razzializzazione dell’identità, il colore della pelle, sono i segni, polisemici e sfuggenti, dell’identità negata.
In the other’s shoes and skin: frontier identity and the color line in Américo Paredes’ George Washington Gómez: A Mexicotexan Novel
The article analyzes the first novel by Américo Paredes, George Washington Gómez: A Mexicotexan Novel, a Mexican-Texan book which represents a multilayered perspective of hybridity, repressed within a violent, racist, polarized context: clothing, accessories, and the most evident phenotypic element in racializing identity – skin –, are polysemic and elusive signs of a negated identity.
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