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BRUCE-NOVOA. La poesía de Rita María Magdaleno: en busca del corazón materno. Latinoamérica [online]. 2005, n.41, pp.81-102. ISSN 2448-6914.

“The Poetry of Rita María Magdaleno: In Search of the Maternal Heart”. In her poetry book, Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, & My Mother (2003), Magdaleno, Chicana poet from Arizona, searches for her mother, a version of the Malinche. Readers will recognize themes from Chicano literature: the border setting, love between conqueror and native woman, the pregnant woman abandoned by the foreign soldier. However, these themes undergo a revealing estrangement when reset in Germany. In post-World War II, the conqueror, a Chicano soldier from Arizona, fell in love with a German adolescent. When he did not take her along back to the U.S.A., although lacking documents, she followed him with her daughter. The effect resembles Freud’s Uncanny, up-dated by Homi Bhabha. The reunion with her maternal relatives in 1989 guides Magdaleno to the history of Nazism, an ideology that can be read as a reflection of Chicano cultural nationalism. When the reunion with her mother is frustrated, Magdaleno achieves a reencounter of sorts through a subtext of nature metaphors.

Palavras-chave : Chicana; Germany; Malinche; Uncanny.