Hybridity and the Space of the Border in the Writing of Norma Elia Cantú

The creative and scholarly writing of Norma Elia Cantú focuses centrally on the tensions of borders that are eroding yet firmly in place. Cantú\u27s border pivots on the geographic space in which Mexico and the United States physically intersect, yet she probes at the same time several of the other tenuous cultural borders that postmodernity has brought into focus. Transcending distinctions between genres, languages, and cultures, Cantú undertakes innovative genre hybridity, visual-verbal hybridity, and the recombination of distinct cultural codes. Whether writing cultural criticism, autobioethnography, creative fiction, or poetry, Cantú locates herself at the intersection of the geographical and epistemological borders central to postmodernity

The Rider (2015-09-14)

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The Rider (2016-11-07)

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Del Norte: A collection of short stories y El corrido de Dani

Del Norte is the title name given to this first series of vignettes and short stories. The narratives are divided into four parts including a one act play that attempt to bridge the gap between the idea of a homeland as well as the Mexican American identity through the eyes of a migrant family and its major narrator. Unlike derivative associations with the term Del Norte in other academic disciplines, my interpretation of being from “Del Norte” is manifested into stories about a homeland omnipresent in the familial relationships described in my stories. The narratives exist within this paradigm. The themes discussed range from bilingualism in fiction, to colloquialisms, to displacement of the self, to violence in border communities. The work deals with the dichotomy of Mexican American culture and attempts to culminate the experience by those who transcend the boundaries of a region Del Norte

Page 09, Honoring Jose Cantu

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