People Should Not Die in June in South Texas
"People Should Not Die in June in South Texas" is a short story by Chicana writer Gloria E. Anzaldúa, published in 1984.[1]
Contents and analysis
[edit]The story is a fictionalized account of Gloria E. Anzaldúa's father dying while she was a child,[2] though Anzaldúa said it was "straight autobiography" and "as close to the truth as I get".[3] The narrator is a young girl named Prieta (though her precise age is never stated),[4] and Anzaldúa writes the story in a close, personal fashion.[5] Though the story is bilingual—written in both English and Spanish—the narrative is increasingly written in English as the story progresses; literary critic Mary Loving Blanchard writes that Anzaldúa's choice depicts Prieta "leaving behind [...] the language of her parents and moving toward individuation via adoption of another tongue".[6]
It is part of her collection of Prieta stories, most of which have not been published.[7]
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ Dahms 2012, pp. 9, 11.
- ^ Dahms 2012, p. 11.
- ^ Anzaldúa 1991, p. 2.
- ^ Dahms 2012, p. 12.
- ^ Blanchard 2005, pp. 34–35.
- ^ Blanchard 2005, p. 37.
- ^ Keating 2005, p. 11.
Works cited
[edit]- Anzaldúa, Gloria E. (July 1991). "On the borderlands with Gloria Anzaldúa". off our backs (Interview). Vol. 21, no. 7. Interviewed by Terri de la Peña. pp. 1–4.
- Dahms, Betsy (2012). "Shamanic urgency and two-way movement as writing style in the works of Gloria Anzaldúa". Letras Femeninas. 38 (2): 9–27.
- Keating, AnaLouise, ed. (2005). EntreMundos/AmongWorlds: New perspectives on Gloria E. Anzaldúa. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403977137.
- Blanchard, Mary Loving. "Reclaiming pleasure: Reading the body in 'People Should Not Die in June in South Texas'". In Keating (2005).
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