.... After a brief summary of the novel, I turn to the narrative's treatment of community and individual identity. The essay traces the development of MotherTongue'sprincipal protagonists, Marfa and Jose Luis, pointing out that Martinez's narrative highlights the multiple misunderstandings that stem from...

... refugee from El Salvador. Mary becomes Marfa as she 152 MERIDIANS 11:2 embarks on what for her is a romantic adventure when she picks Jose Luis up from the Albuquerque airport. She falls in love with him, despite the fact that he mostly seeks comfort from her. One night Jose Luis imagines that Marfa...

... to their questions about the disappearances of their children. On April 30, 1977, fourteen Mothers gathered at the Plaza de Mayo for the first time (Bousquet 1982; Bouvard 1994; Fisher 1989). Azucena and two other founding Mothers-Marfa Eugenia Ponce de Bianco and Esther Ballestrino de Careaga-along with some...

... minimizeitsmostoppressivceharacteristiwcsh,ilecelebrating blacknesisn theirownpoweijitlways.Recognizintghemasorganicintellectualosfraceand racializedreproductioonpensa newcharacteirn LatinAmericanintellectuahl istory. Central to her autobiographical review of her experiences as a black woman in early twentieth-century Cuba was Marfa de los...

... Marfa, a character of popular Mexican film played by director and actress Maria Elena Velasco. In films such as Ni deAqu{Ni deAlla, La Comadrita,La Madrecita,LaPresidentaMunicipal,SorTequila,Tonto,TontoPero noTonto,and OkeyMisterPancho,la India Maria endures a series of comical mishaps due to her lack...

... deepen. Mariluz Franco Ortiz, Marfa Reinat Pumarejo, Hilda Llorens, and Isar Godreau write about racist violence toward school-aged boys and girls in Puerto Rico in the following terms: it is assumed that far from being a problem of self-esteem at the individual level, the ethnic-racial conflict must...

... York: Teachers College Press. Du Bois, W.E.B. (1918] 1990. TheSoulsofBlackFolk.New York: Library of America. Hurtado, Aida. 1996.TheColorofPrivilegeT:hreeBlasphemieosn RaceandFeminism. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Isasi-Dfaz, Ada Marfa. 1992. VivalaDlferenciaInl Special Section...

..., a chain oflinguistic associations along the paradigmatic axis suggests queerness: mariposa (butterfly) is connected to the words "marimacha"(dyke) and "maricon"(fag) through the prefix "mari" (and the prefix is etymologically linked back to Marfa, the Virgin Mary). Moreover, queer meaning is also...

..., Argentina, July 24-26. Hills Collins, Patricia. 1998. "La polftica de! pensamiento feminista negro." In ,Qui son IosestudiosdeMujeres?edited by Maryssa Navarro and Catharine R. Stimpson. Mexico. Fondo de Cultura Econ6mica. Lugones, Marfa. 2008. "Colonialidad y Genero: hacia un feminismo descolonial...

... or conjured with regard to Tubman? Walker, Morrison, Christian, Anzaldua, and others have taught us well that the creative and the critical, the artistic and the political, and the dreamscape and the historical are interwoven and do not adhere to the false dichotomies ofWestern epistemes. Finally, Marfa...

..., I want to return." The return evoked by volver is a noninnocent retrieval. It carries with it the hard-earned wisdom of what Marfa Lugones calls a "world-traveler"19-one who self-consciously occupies multiple worlds and seeks to make meanings across them. Lugones describes the "flexibility...

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... homogenouLsatina identity.Dejame Contarte (2001), inspiredbythe2000 censusa, ddressetsheeverydayoccurrencaensdparticularitieosfLatinas'livesthat cannotbequantifiedor tabulated.In The Marfa Chronicles (200 3),TeatroLunafocusesonthechallengefasced by Latino/aactorsandthestereotypeosfLatinos/aisn...

... the inclusion of the term gender, of plural conceptions of the family, and of reference to reproductive rights in the government's report to the UN on the status of Chilean women. 26 To the leaders of this assault on "gender rights," like Renovaci6nNaciona(lNational Renovation) Congresswoman Marfa Angelica...

...: HistoricalandTheoreticaPlerspectiveesd,ited by R. Torres and G. Katsiaficas. n-41. London: Routledge. Fregoso, Rosa Linda. 1993. TheBronzeScreen:ChicanaandChicanoFilmCultureM. inneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Garcia, Alma, ed. 1997. ChicanaFeminisTt hought:TheBasicHistoricalWritings.New York: Routledge. Herrera-Sobek, Marfa...

...., Mexico. Ediciones E6n. Martiatu, Marfa Ines. 2orr. "Algunas notas sabre raza y narrrativas femeninas. El que mas mira menos ve." NegraCubanaTeniaqueSer.July 8. Accessed November 1, 2016. httpsnegracubanateniaqueser.com/20rr/07/08/ algunas-notas-sobre-raza-y-narrativas-femeninas-el-que-mas-mira-menos-ve...

... by Jurema Werneck, Maisa Mendon~a. and Evelyn White. Rio de Janeiro: Pallas; Criola; Global Exchange. Lugones, Marfa. 2008. "Colonialidad y genera." Tabula Rasa, (9): 73-rnr. Accessed April rs, 20IO. httpwww.revistatabularasa.org/numero-9/o5lugones.pdf Mendoza, Brenny. 20IO. "La epistemologfa de! sur, la...

... to identify Puerto Ricans who were born and raised in the U.S. While the term originally had negative connotations, in the 1960s and 1970s U.S. born poets and writers such as Pedro Pietri, Tata Laviera, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Sandra Marfa Esteves, and Miguel Algarin co-opted Nuyorican as a positive, affirming...