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Title: Viewing the Afro-Mexican Female Revolutionary: Francisco Rojas Gonzalez's 'La negra Angustias'
Language: English
Authors: Kanost, Laura
Source: Hispania. Dec 2010 93(4):555-562.
Availability: American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Inc. 900 Ladd Road, Walled Lake, MI 48390. Tel: 248-960-2180; Fax: 248-960-9570; e-mail: AATSPoffice@aatsp.org; Web site: http://www.aatsp.org
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 8
Publication Date: 2010
Document Type: Journal Articles
Opinion Papers
Descriptors: Females, Novels, Mexicans, Blacks, Military Personnel, Sex Role, Justice, Poverty, Criticism, Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Nationalism, Authors, Sexuality
Geographic Terms: Mexico
ISSN: 0018-2133
Abstract: Francisco Rojas Gonzalez's 1944 novel "La negra Angustias" is recognized as the only novel of the Mexican Revolution that features a black woman military officer. Critics have observed that, although this semi-biographical novel portrays Angustias as a gender nonconformist who seeks justice for women and the poor, the conclusion ushers her firmly back to her expected place in society as she falls in love and becomes a self-sacrificing wife and mother. I argue that this apparent reversal is present throughout the novel in a narrative gaze that objectifies Angustias, ogling her brown, curvy body. Furthermore, Angustias herself appropriates the power of the gaze and orchestrates striking visual performances at key points in her trajectory. Thus, the novel foregrounds multiple relationships of viewer and viewed, as Rojas oscillates between rewriting and reiterating nationalist discourses, celebrating and negating the agency of his protagonist. (Contains 6 notes.)
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Number of References: 16
Entry Date: 2011
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