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From Counter to Hegemonic: Re-Mapping Ideology in Latina/o Life Writing from the War on Terror
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2013
- pp. 179-210
- 10.1353/bio.2013.0004
- Article
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This essay maps how life writing by Latin American immigrant and US born or raised Latina/o soldiers in the War on Terror illuminates the troubling ideological contours of an ongoing subaltern move from the margins to the center. Latin American and Latina/o Studies continue to be animated by contestatory claims to subaltern, oppositional, and counterhegmonic status predicated on such life writing genres as testimonio. By analyzing a new wave of life writing war genres that illustrate varied Latin American-cum-Latina/ocum-G.I. performances of hegemonic power, this essay seeks to de-center contemporary discourses about the purportedly inherent oppositional nature of Latina/o life writing, and to call for new paradigms in Latin American and Latina/o Studies.