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Chicano/a Multiplicity and In-betweenness in John Rechys City of Night ǡ ǡ ǡ ǡ ǯ City of Nightǡ ͳͻ͵ǡ Ǧ ǯ Ǥ ǡ ϐ ǡ Ȁ ǡ ǯ Ǥ ǡ ϐ Ǧ ǡ ǡ Ǧǡ ǡ nepantlaǤ ǣ ǡ ǡ Ǧǡ ǡ INTRODUCTION Ǧ ǡ ǡ ǡ ǡ ǡ Ǥ ȋÓ ʹͲͳͲǣ ͳȂʹǢ ×ǦÓ ʹͲͳͲǣ ͶͲȂͶͳȌǤ ǡ ϐ Ǥ ͳ ͳ ϐ Ǥ DzȀdz Dz dz Ǥ Ǧ Preliminary communication Received: 23 January 2015 Accepted: 9 March 2015 DOI: 10.15176/vol52no104 UDK 82.091

Chicano/a Multiplicity and In-betweenness in John Rechy’s City of Night

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John Rechy’s novel City of Night, published in 1963, predated the Chicano Movement and the scholarly concentration on Mexican American issues that came in the movement’s wake. However, many of the subjects that have preoccupied scholars since the beginning of the interdisciplinary field of Chicano Studies, such as the multiplicity of identities in the Chicano/a community, were anticipated in Rechy’s novel. Through an analysis of narrative techniques, such as the first person point of view and observational tone, the episodic structure and picaresque genre, this article outlines how multiplicity and in-betweenness, especially in terms of ethnicity and sexuality, are constructed in the novel and can be considered as an example of the conceptual space of nepantla.

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  • Chicano/a Multiplicity and In-betweenness in John Rechys City of Night

    City of Night nepantla

    INTRODUCTION

    Preliminary communication Received: 23 January 2015 Accepted: 9 March 2015DOI: 10.15176/vol52no104UDK 82.091

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    City of NightCityof Night

    City of Night City of Night

    City of NightCity of Night The Act of Reading John Rechy: Transnational Intertexts and Readers

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    CHICANO/AS

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    With His Pistol in His Hand I am Joaqun . Autobiography of a Brown BuffaloThe Revolt of the Cockroach People Faultline

    City of Night City of Night

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    CRITICAL REACTION TO THE CHICANO MOVEMENT AND CITY OF NIGHT

    Aztln: A Journal of Chicano Studies Aztln de Aztln

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    City of Night Minority Voices

    City of Night

    Border-lands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza mestizaje,

    Mestiza

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    Soy un amasamiento

    Borderlands/La Frontera

    nepantla

    Pachuco

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    tactics

    City of Night

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    Coatlicue, Borderlands City of Night

    City of Night City of NightBildungsroman

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    Bildungsroman

    City of NightCity of Night City of Night

    CITY OF NIGHT

    City of Night

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  • Chicano/a Multiplicity and In-betweenness in John Rechys

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    City of Night City of Night

    . Bildungsroman On the Road Bildungsroman

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    Bildungsroman Bildungsroman City of Night

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    picaresque

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    La Virgen de Guadalupe City of Night

    Virgen de Guadalupe La Virgen de Guadalupe

    The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

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    City of Night

    The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo.

    City of Night

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    Bildungsroman

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  • Chicano/a Multiplicity and In-betweenness in John Rechys

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    Escape

    isnt is one

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    Bildung-sroman

    CONCLUSION

    Bildungsroman City of Night,

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    City of Night City of Night, City of Night

    City of Night

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    City of Night City of Night City of Night

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    VIESTRUKOST CHICANO/A IDENTITETA I ME0USNOST U ROMANU CITY OF NIGHT JOHNA RECHYJA

    City of Night bildungsromane

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    nepantle City of Night

    nepantla

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