Beyond Conflicts and Borders: Reconciliation and Latinotopia
This entry sheds lights on the concept of “Reconciliation and Latinotopia” as a pressing and ever-more popular subject matter that takes us beyond conflicts and borders as well as the historical and geographical site of the Mexican American borderlands. It demonstrates that reconciliation is pivotal...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses universitaires de Rennes
2013-06-01
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| Series: | Revue LISA |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/5338 |
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| Summary: | This entry sheds lights on the concept of “Reconciliation and Latinotopia” as a pressing and ever-more popular subject matter that takes us beyond conflicts and borders as well as the historical and geographical site of the Mexican American borderlands. It demonstrates that reconciliation is pivotal when discussing the United States. Historically speaking, one may go as far as to claim that reconciliation or, rather its absence, was the seed from which the Mexican American community emerged. Today, when addressing how to deal with the borderlands and how to go beyond this geographical site but also conflicts and dualities, reconciliation exerts a significant influence on the shaping of contemporary identities and the well-being of a community. Increasingly, the region is extending its influence to all parts of the United States and is gaining greater importance as an in-between space – in the sense of a glocal, geo-political and transcultural as well as aesthetic space beyond a third space – not only in the Americas but internationally. How and to what extent Latinotopia can eventually be perceived as a discursive site for reconciliation in the Third Millennium is the question this paper aims to answer by integrating socio-political, historical and literary works in an interdisciplinary manner and by suggesting considering Gilles Deleuze’s and Félix Guattari’s figure of the “rhizome” as an illustrative concept to capture Latinotopia theoretically and practically in further studies. |
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| ISSN: | 1762-6153 |