Nebulous Boundaries: Geographies of Identity in El hombre del acordeón

Nebulous Boundaries: Geographies of Identity in El hombre del acordeón

Boundaries are never as definitive as they appear at first glance, for they create a broader zone, the borderlands, where the people, practices, and products from both sides comingle. Despite boundaries' demarcating intent, the borderlands they cross are a syncretic blend of the lands on each s...

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Main Author: Julie A Sellers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 2015-01-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Subjects:
Marcio Veloz Maggiolo
Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol39/iss1/6
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spelling doaj-3bdf56b616524e4ebeb9190dec2f28f62020-11-25T01:35:50ZengNew Prairie PressStudies in 20th & 21st Century Literature2334-44152015-01-0139110.4148/2334-4415.18145901481Nebulous Boundaries: Geographies of Identity in El hombre del acordeónJulie A SellersBoundaries are never as definitive as they appear at first glance, for they create a broader zone, the borderlands, where the people, practices, and products from both sides comingle. Despite boundaries' demarcating intent, the borderlands they cross are a syncretic blend of the lands on each side. The borderland as fictional setting draws our attention not to the fixedness of boundaries, but rather to their flexibility. Set in the Dominican-Haitian borderland, Marcio Veloz Maggiolo's El hombre del acordeón ('The Accordion Man') draws upon the dynamism of that geopolitical border to call into question other apparently definitive boundaries, thus challenging official religious, racial, and musical discourses of Dominicanness.http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol39/iss1/6Marcio Veloz Maggiolo
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Nebulous Boundaries: Geographies of Identity in El hombre del acordeón
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Marcio Veloz Maggiolo
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title Nebulous Boundaries: Geographies of Identity in El hombre del acordeón
title_short Nebulous Boundaries: Geographies of Identity in El hombre del acordeón
title_full Nebulous Boundaries: Geographies of Identity in El hombre del acordeón
title_fullStr Nebulous Boundaries: Geographies of Identity in El hombre del acordeón
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publisher New Prairie Press
series Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
issn 2334-4415
publishDate 2015-01-01
description Boundaries are never as definitive as they appear at first glance, for they create a broader zone, the borderlands, where the people, practices, and products from both sides comingle. Despite boundaries' demarcating intent, the borderlands they cross are a syncretic blend of the lands on each side. The borderland as fictional setting draws our attention not to the fixedness of boundaries, but rather to their flexibility. Set in the Dominican-Haitian borderland, Marcio Veloz Maggiolo's El hombre del acordeón ('The Accordion Man') draws upon the dynamism of that geopolitical border to call into question other apparently definitive boundaries, thus challenging official religious, racial, and musical discourses of Dominicanness.
topic Marcio Veloz Maggiolo
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