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    "title": "Ambivalent Identities in US-Mexico Border Literature: A Short Survey",
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    "abstract": "<p>The essay introduces some of the main themes of Mexican American literature and suggests a connection with the phenomenology of the alien (Bernhard Waldenfels) and such resultant values as ambivalence and hybridity. This frame of reference allows a brief exploration of specific topics present in several US-Mexico border authors, including Rubén Martínez and the “zigzagging” consciousness of border life, Gloria Anzaldúa and the values of hybridity and indigenous ancestry, Tomás Rivera and intra-cultural conflict, Lucha Corpi and the clash between ideology and history, and Richard Rodriguez’ problems of assimilation and familial contradictions.</p>",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
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            "word": "US-Mexico Border"
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            "word": "Mexican American Literature"
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            "word": "Gloria Anzaldúa"
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            "word": "Phenomenology of the Alien"
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            "word": "Intra-Cultural Conflict"
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            "word": "assimilation"
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            "word": "Rubén Martínez"
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            "word": "Richard Rodriguez"
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            "word": "Tomás Rivera"
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        {
            "first_name": "Eduardo",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Ruiz",
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            "institution": "Other",
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    "date_submitted": "2024-10-22T18:09:44.879000-07:00",
    "date_accepted": "2025-05-30T19:54:57.552000-07:00",
    "date_published": "2026-01-08T08:20:08.841000-08:00",
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