Forms of hybrid identity and first person narratives
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2009Autor
Buteler, María José
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Carballo, Mirian Alicia
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This research paper has two axes of analysis: the protagonists‘ construction of a hybrid
identity, and the choice of a hybrid genre by the authors to reflect the identity of the
protagonists who narrate their life stories. The House on Mango Street (1984) by Sandra
Cisneros shows how Esperanza Cordero fights to accept her identity as a MexicanAmerican woman. In Breath, Eyes, Memory. A Novel (1994) by Edwidge Danticat,
Sophie, Haitian-American, tries to adapt herself to a new culture and traditions without
leaving aside the culture and traditions passed on by her mother. Finally, in The Woman
Warrior. Memoirs of a Girlghood among Ghosts (1981) by Maxine Hong Kingston, its
protagonist, a Chinese-American woman attempts to understand her true identity living
in a culture which wants to erase her Chinese traditions. The three protagonists
construct hybrid identities and can only accept them when they accept their
interculturality and can ride on two cultures. At the same time, the three female
protagonists tell their life stories in an attempt to build their identities and to make sense
of their present. The construction of their hybrid identities is manifested in the choice of
a hybrid genre, a mixture of the genres of the autobiography, the novel, and the
autofiction. The three novels of the corpus transform, in a way, the autofiction by
borrowing some elements of the autobiography and the novel; the choice of this hybrid
genre can be considered a narrative strategy to reflect the hybrid identities of the
protagonists.
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