TY - JOUR AU - Maszewska, Jadwiga PY - 2018/11/23 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Mexican Village: Josefina Niggli’s Border Crossing Narrative JF - Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture JA - TM VL - IS - 8 SE - Articles DO - 10.1515/texmat-2018-0021 UR - https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/article/view/3751 SP - 352-364 AB - <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The paper presents Josefina Niggli (1910<strong>–</strong></span><span style="font-size: medium;">83), an American mid-twentieth-century writer who was born and grew up in Mexico, and her novel </span><em><span style="font-size: medium;">Mexican Village </span></em><span style="font-size: medium;">(1945). A connoisseur of Mexican culture and tradition, and at the same time conscious of the stereotypical perceptions of Mexico in the United States, Niggli saw it as her literary goal to “reveal” the “true” Mexico as she remembered it to her American readers. Somewhat forgotten for several decades, Niggli, preoccupied with issues of marginalization, hybridization, and ambiguity, is now becoming of interest to literary critics as a forerunner of Chicano/a literature. In her novel </span><em><span style="font-size: medium;">Mexican Village</span></em><span style="font-size: medium;">, set in the times of the Mexican Revolution, she creates a prototypical bicultural and bilingual Chicano protagonist, who becomes witness to the rise of Mexico’s modern national identity.</span></span></p> ER -