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Article: Writing in the margin: maternal and indigenous space in 'Entrada libre.' (novel by Argentine author Ines Malinow) (Third World Women's Inscriptions)
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- College Literature
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- February 1, 1995
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Entrada libre (Free Entry, 1978),(1) by the Argentine Ines Malinow, presents a series of "cultures" in conflict: Hispanic/indigenous; Christian word/Quechua magic; paternal/maternal; and conscious/unconscious. In each case, the dominant culture confronts the marginal in a show of power and force in which the first entity threatens to destroy the second. Nevertheless, the presence of the marginal subverts the unity of the dominant discourse, which seeks to narrow all perspectives into a single voice. Instead, the marginal culture ruptures potential univocality and posits alternate voices.
Like many Latin American women writers, Malinow explores the representation of ...