%0 Journal Article
%T En la frontera del decir: los ep¨ªgrafes en la narrativa de Sandra Cisneros
%A Spoturno
%A Mar¨ªa Laura
%J Estudios filol¨®gicos
%D 2011
%I Universidad Austral de Chile
%R 10.4067/S0071-17132011000100009
%X this article aims at exploring the enunciative-discursive construction and function of epigraphs in sandra cisneros's narrative work. this chicana writer's fiction evidences a particular constitutive encounter between english and spanish. cisneros resorts to the gaps which result as of this linguistic and cultural contact, producing a new discursive space in the gaps, which amounts to a new way of saying, making her literary voice distinct to the reader. according to our hypothesis, epigraphs are small (para) texts which account for a direct or alluded presence of spanish and emerge as sites of interlingual heterogeneity as they take part of different processes of linguistic-cultural negotiation and translation, which configure both a certain discursive image or ethos of the locutor responsible for the global enunciation.
%K epigraphs
%K discursive spaces
%K interlingual heterogeneity
%K ethos
%K reading gestures.
%U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0071-17132011000100009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en