Oscar Zeta Acosta and Nepantla: The Conceptual In-between
In this paper the concept of nepantla, which means ‘torn between ways’ in Nahuatl, the Aztec language, is applied to a reading of Oscar Zeta Acosta’s The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo in order to determine how in-betweenness is represented and constructed in the novel. Based on Gloria Anzaldúa’s...
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| Language: | English |
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CBS Open Journals
2015-03-01
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| Series: | American Studies in Scandinavia |
| Online Access: | https://192.168.7.25:443/index.php/assc/article/view/5162 |