This chapter examines artivism across the US-Mexican border. By selecting the works of six female artiv¬ists performed between 2016 and 2019, at the time of Donald Trump’s wall-based campaign, it investigates slam poetry’s ‘ability to enact border porousness both in terms of form and content, crisscrossing genres, cultures, and instances of identity’. In line with Gloria Anzaldúa’s theorisation of the conciencia de la mestiza, it demon¬strate that this kind of poetry creatively links self-reflection with social action, promoting resistance to geographical and political confines, and the creation of a collective consciousness of how violent actions commit¬ted at border are manifestations of gender, class, and ethnic oppression. The power of this hybrid performative poetry is evidenced by utilising discourse analysis and systematic functional linguistics which, applied to the selected corpus, reveal the importance of language’s agency in raising awareness among subaltern individuals and communities moving across the border.
‘My tongue doesn’t believe in boundaries’: A®tivism Across the US/Mexico Border
L. Carbonara
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2023-01-01
Abstract
This chapter examines artivism across the US-Mexican border. By selecting the works of six female artiv¬ists performed between 2016 and 2019, at the time of Donald Trump’s wall-based campaign, it investigates slam poetry’s ‘ability to enact border porousness both in terms of form and content, crisscrossing genres, cultures, and instances of identity’. In line with Gloria Anzaldúa’s theorisation of the conciencia de la mestiza, it demon¬strate that this kind of poetry creatively links self-reflection with social action, promoting resistance to geographical and political confines, and the creation of a collective consciousness of how violent actions commit¬ted at border are manifestations of gender, class, and ethnic oppression. The power of this hybrid performative poetry is evidenced by utilising discourse analysis and systematic functional linguistics which, applied to the selected corpus, reveal the importance of language’s agency in raising awareness among subaltern individuals and communities moving across the border.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
