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(2017) Borderlands and liminal subjects, Dordrecht, Springer.
Fernandez examines the significance of Murray's juxtaposition of a colonial narrative of cross-cultural contact with a contemporary narrative of postcolonial deterritorialized and displaced communities. Focusing on magical indigenous characters, Murray produces a Borderland Narrative that moves across time and between intersecting accounts of oppression. She reinforces the idea of "polyphonic meaning" rather than a singular colonizing narrative; and by utilizing pre-Hispanic mythology as a foundational narrative, she nonviolently critiques and resists the overarching European colonial project.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67813-9_5
Full citation:
Fernández, S. C. (2017)., A search for colonial histories: The conquest by Yxta Maya Murray, in J. Elbert Decker & D. Winchock (eds.), Borderlands and liminal subjects, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 85-103.
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