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- Title
Miraculous Migrations throughout a Chicanx Los Angeles: Negotiating Othered Spaces in John Rechy's The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez.
- Authors
Moreno, Michael
- Abstract
The search for a miraculous and more inclusive Aztlán within the ideological rubble of intracultural discrimination and violence is at the center of John Rechy's The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez (1991). The recovery of one's place/position in Los Angeles as a material site, a psychological location, and cultural sanctuary is an integral aspect in generating individual and collective narratives within Chicanx identity construction. Rechy challenges Los Angeles' cultural cartography and the tensions it creates with identities. As a queer Chicano, he has focused on how gender and sexuality are represented and othered throughout the Latinx community. As such, Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez reveals the spiritualized spaces of the "suburban barrios" hidden beneath the shadow of freeways, painted along neighborhood streets and walls, and sequestered behind domestic havens of those discredited and devalued within the Chicanx community. We discover, in fact, that challenging hegemonic powers of domination can reverse the erasure and silencing despite the normalizing endeavors of the Chicano patriarchy, the Roman Catholic Church, or the dominant white culture.
- Subjects
MIRACULOUS Day of Amalia Gomez, The (Book); RECHY, John, 1931-; LOS Angeles (Calif.) in literature
- Publication
Otherness: Essays & Studies, 2019, Vol 7, Issue 1, p99
- ISSN
1904-6022
- Publication type
Literary Criticism