Ariana Vigil | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (original) (raw)
Address: Chapel HIll, North Carolina, United States
less
Uploads
Papers by Ariana Vigil
Abstract: This essay focuses on the character of Ana Pérez in Cherríe Moraga's 1992 play Heroes a... more Abstract: This essay focuses on the character of Ana Pérez in Cherríe Moraga's 1992 play Heroes and Saints, situating Pérez, a journalist, within contemporary US Latina/o literary and media studies. In the play, Pérez functions as a Malinche-like figure as she performs translative acts between the local protesters and her viewing audience. Her character gestures to the important role that Latina/o journalism may play in countering the mainstream Anglo media's often one-dimensional coverage of Latina/o communities and issues. However, Pérez's evolving role from translator to activist also acknowledges the limitations of media access, and in this sense the play illustrates Hector Amaya's concept of the " Latino public sphere paradox, " which questions the assumed positive relationship between access to media and access to political power. This essay offers a new perspective on an important piece of twentieth-century Chicana/o literature, focusing on an aspect of the play—media representation—that has received little attention. It demonstrates that research into the portrayal of media, especially journalism, in Chicana/o and Latina/o literature is productive and necessary.
This article reads Francisco Goldman's 2004 novel The Divine Husband as a transamerican foundatio... more This article reads Francisco Goldman's 2004 novel The Divine Husband as a transamerican foundation narrative. The author explains how Goldman's work challenges particular aspects of Latin American foundational texts, specifically via the relationships depicted between women's bodies and state institutions. In the character of María de las Nieves Moran, Goldman has created a woman who refuses to subject her body to any man or state. Moreover, the narrative structure of the work -focusing as it does on women's lives and women's stories -offers a rebuke to historical and literary accounts that have privileged men's lives and men's stories. Finally, in reading Goldman's work as a "transamerican" text, this article proposes a new perspective on the relationship between Central America and the United States. This perspective emphasizes the exchanges that have always taken place between different nations in the Americas, while it also argues for the inherent heterogeneity of Latina/o communities.
Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, 2009
Abstract: This essay focuses on the character of Ana Pérez in Cherríe Moraga's 1992 play Heroes a... more Abstract: This essay focuses on the character of Ana Pérez in Cherríe Moraga's 1992 play Heroes and Saints, situating Pérez, a journalist, within contemporary US Latina/o literary and media studies. In the play, Pérez functions as a Malinche-like figure as she performs translative acts between the local protesters and her viewing audience. Her character gestures to the important role that Latina/o journalism may play in countering the mainstream Anglo media's often one-dimensional coverage of Latina/o communities and issues. However, Pérez's evolving role from translator to activist also acknowledges the limitations of media access, and in this sense the play illustrates Hector Amaya's concept of the " Latino public sphere paradox, " which questions the assumed positive relationship between access to media and access to political power. This essay offers a new perspective on an important piece of twentieth-century Chicana/o literature, focusing on an aspect of the play—media representation—that has received little attention. It demonstrates that research into the portrayal of media, especially journalism, in Chicana/o and Latina/o literature is productive and necessary.
This article reads Francisco Goldman's 2004 novel The Divine Husband as a transamerican foundatio... more This article reads Francisco Goldman's 2004 novel The Divine Husband as a transamerican foundation narrative. The author explains how Goldman's work challenges particular aspects of Latin American foundational texts, specifically via the relationships depicted between women's bodies and state institutions. In the character of María de las Nieves Moran, Goldman has created a woman who refuses to subject her body to any man or state. Moreover, the narrative structure of the work -focusing as it does on women's lives and women's stories -offers a rebuke to historical and literary accounts that have privileged men's lives and men's stories. Finally, in reading Goldman's work as a "transamerican" text, this article proposes a new perspective on the relationship between Central America and the United States. This perspective emphasizes the exchanges that have always taken place between different nations in the Americas, while it also argues for the inherent heterogeneity of Latina/o communities.
Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, 2009