Negotiating Hospitality in Pat Mora's "Bilingual Christmas" and Sandra Cisneros's "It Occurs to Me I Am the Creative/Destructive Goddess Coatlicue"
This article explores the link between hospitality and power in two poems by contemporary Chicana writers Pat Mora and Sandra Cisneros, reflecting on how these two poems denounce the complicity of certain discourses and practices of hospitality with oppression and exclusion. Both poems explore the...
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This article explores the link between hospitality and power in two poems by contemporary Chicana writers Pat Mora and Sandra Cisneros, reflecting on how these two poems denounce the complicity of certain discourses and practices of hospitality with oppression and exclusion. Both poems explore the intersection between hospitality, power and inequality, highlighting the power differentials at play beneath relationships of hospitality. Hospitality appears in the two poems as a cover-up for marginalization and exploitation, the exclusion of migrants and post-migrants and the subjugation of women through norms of self-sacrifice. However, the two poems also reclaim hospitality and offer textual forms of generosity and care, or poetic hospitality in the way they welcome in voices, readers, and stories.
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| spelling | doaj-art-07b5e7574a874ca29dc5cb03a9ec26272024-11-09T11:59:28ZcatUniversitat de BarcelonaLectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat1136-57812013-94702023-10-012910.1344/Lectora2023.29.5Negotiating Hospitality in Pat Mora's "Bilingual Christmas" and Sandra Cisneros's "It Occurs to Me I Am the Creative/Destructive Goddess Coatlicue"Méliné Kasparian0Université Bordeaux Montaigne This article explores the link between hospitality and power in two poems by contemporary Chicana writers Pat Mora and Sandra Cisneros, reflecting on how these two poems denounce the complicity of certain discourses and practices of hospitality with oppression and exclusion. Both poems explore the intersection between hospitality, power and inequality, highlighting the power differentials at play beneath relationships of hospitality. Hospitality appears in the two poems as a cover-up for marginalization and exploitation, the exclusion of migrants and post-migrants and the subjugation of women through norms of self-sacrifice. However, the two poems also reclaim hospitality and offer textual forms of generosity and care, or poetic hospitality in the way they welcome in voices, readers, and stories. https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/lectora/article/view/41303Chicana literaturehospitalityoppressionmigrantsgender |
| spellingShingle | Méliné Kasparian Negotiating Hospitality in Pat Mora's "Bilingual Christmas" and Sandra Cisneros's "It Occurs to Me I Am the Creative/Destructive Goddess Coatlicue" Lectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat Chicana literature hospitality oppression migrants gender |
| title | Negotiating Hospitality in Pat Mora's "Bilingual Christmas" and Sandra Cisneros's "It Occurs to Me I Am the Creative/Destructive Goddess Coatlicue" |
| title_full | Negotiating Hospitality in Pat Mora's "Bilingual Christmas" and Sandra Cisneros's "It Occurs to Me I Am the Creative/Destructive Goddess Coatlicue" |
| title_fullStr | Negotiating Hospitality in Pat Mora's "Bilingual Christmas" and Sandra Cisneros's "It Occurs to Me I Am the Creative/Destructive Goddess Coatlicue" |
| title_full_unstemmed | Negotiating Hospitality in Pat Mora's "Bilingual Christmas" and Sandra Cisneros's "It Occurs to Me I Am the Creative/Destructive Goddess Coatlicue" |
| title_short | Negotiating Hospitality in Pat Mora's "Bilingual Christmas" and Sandra Cisneros's "It Occurs to Me I Am the Creative/Destructive Goddess Coatlicue" |
| title_sort | negotiating hospitality in pat mora s bilingual christmas and sandra cisneros s it occurs to me i am the creative destructive goddess coatlicue |
| topic | Chicana literature hospitality oppression migrants gender |
| url | https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/lectora/article/view/41303 |
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