This essay examines the transnational racial and ethnic politics of Marie Arana’s American Chica and Braulio Munoz’s The Peruvian Notebooks, two literary writings that feature characters who navigate Peruvian, US American, and Latinx connections. As each text’s characters migrate between Peru and the United States, they perform a range of regional, ethnic, and cultural identities that are circumscribed within US American and Peruvian national markers, and in so doing, they expose the myth of national homogeneity. I utilize performance as a theoretical lens through which to examine, first, characters’ transmissions of multiple identities and embodied conflicts and, second, an understanding of ethnic and racial categories as constructed. I investigate the extent to which performativity can function as a space through which to explore alternatives to the otherness that is imposed on transnational subject positions that challenge the boundaries of Latinidad.

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超越二元性：玛丽·阿拉纳 (Marie Arana) 的《美国奇卡》和布劳里奥·穆尼奥斯 (Braulio Muñoz) 的《秘鲁笔记本》的表演可能性

本文考察了玛丽·阿拉纳 (Marie Arana) 的《美国奇卡》(American Chica) 和布劳里奥·穆尼 (Braulio Munoz) 的《秘鲁笔记本》(The Peruvian Notebooks) 的跨国种族和民族政治，这两部文学作品的特色是人物在秘鲁、美国和拉丁裔之间的联系。当每个文本的字符在秘鲁和美国之间迁移时，它们表现出一系列受美国和秘鲁国家标记限制的区域、种族和文化身份，并且在这样做时，他们揭露了民族同质化的神话。我将表演作为一个理论视角，通过它首先检查角色对多重身份和具体冲突的传递，其次，对构建的种族和种族类别的理解。