PT Journal
AU Barinova, M
TI Zenske hlasy karibske diaspory a treti prostor v performativnim textu Josefiny Baez
SO Gender a vyzkum / Gender and Research
PY 2022
BP 13
EP 31
VL 23
IS 1
DI 10.13060/gav.2022.003
DE Dominican literature; New York; migration; thirdspace; glocal communities; periphery; feminist critique of economy
AB This study focuses on how the Caribbean diaspora is reflected in the novel Levente no. Yolayorkdominicanyork by the New York-based Dominican artist Josefina Baez. Through dialogues and anecdotes the author depicts the everyday life of a community of women living in an apartment building located in a Hispanic neighbourhood in New York. In a close reading, I read the apartment building, called 'Ni e', as a metaphor of a glocal community. The novel can thus be read through the lens of the postcolonial debate about centre and periphery. I also analyse the work through the lens of the thirdspace theory, which is an especially important concept for some feminist critics of gentrification of the social space, such as Gloria Anzaldua and Barbara Hooper. My analysis of specific scenes from life on the periphery that the Ni e building and its inhabitants embody draws mainly on the theoretical work La subversion feminista de la economia by the Spanish feminist theorist Amaia Perez Orozco. Orozco's critique of capitalist economy and her philosophy of microeconomics is compared with Josefina Baez's representation of the notion of home.
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