Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 2004
Publisher
University of Hawai'i Press
Abstract
For Chicana/o cultural critics, the border paradigm has defined the boundaries of writing and experience in contemporary Chicana/o autobiography, and has constituted a valuable contribution to American Studies. In fact, the unique voices coming from Chicana/o autobiography are expressed through a network of cultural codes involving liminality and hybridity, the rewriting of borders, and the challenging of boundaries created by mainstream cultures and official truth. Based on this deep relationship of border paradigm, Chicana/o experience, and the writing and representation of that experience, in this article I will discuss the possibility of building an organic and systematic methodology for studying autobiography.
Recommended Citation
VELASCO, J. (2004). “AUTOMITOGRAFÍAS”: THE BORDER PARADIGM AND CHICANA/O AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Biography, 27(2), 313–338.
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