Title Information
Title
Ficciones Cosmopolitas: Identidad y Desplazamiento en la Geotextualidad Latinoamericana del Siglo XXI
Name: Personal
Name Part
Yushimito del Valle, Carlos
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creator
Origin Information
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2016
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vi, 202 p.
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born digital
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Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2016)
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Ortega, Julio
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Director
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Clayton, Michelle
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Reader
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González, Aníbal
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Reader
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Brown University. Hispanic Studies
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sponsor
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theses
Abstract
This dissertation examines the representation of migrant subjects in the United States by a group of contemporary Latin American novelists: Edmundo Paz Soldán (Bolivia, b. 1967), Junot Diaz (Dominican Republic, b. 1968) and Yuri Herrera (Mexico, b. 1970). All of these authors are migrants themselves, who came to the United States, were educated in its institutions, and who currently maintain strong emotional and professional ties with this country. In order to observe the singularities of their vision, my work will address issues such as the configuration of identity of migrants in multicultural spaces, forms of negotiation with American institutions, and ways through which new communities or localities, inside or outside the place of welcome, are imagined in the global context. The theoretical framework of the Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism and Postcolonial Studies supports my analysis of Junot Díaz’s Drown (1996) and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2002), Yuri Herrera’s Señales que precederán al fin del mundo (2009) and Edmundo Paz Soldán’s novel Los vivos y los muertos (2009). In the spirit of transatlantic studies, my thesis also articulates its corpus from what Julio Ortega denominated as “geotextuality”: that is to say, a creative territory in which the cultural idea of the nation is secondary to a literary textuality that circulates freely through other horizons of meaning such as language, mediation, displacement and cultural hybridity.
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Migration
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Identity
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Contemporary Latin American Narrative
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Cosmopolitics
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Group identity
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Transnationalism
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Cosmopolitanism
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Postcolonialism
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Hospitality
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United States
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20160629
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spa
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Spanish
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10.7301/Z01V5CCC
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