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Thinking the body transcendent

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Thinking the body transcendent
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racial violence and the mystical imaginary in contemporary American literature
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ETD_2640
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.000053238
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eng
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theses
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Literatures in English
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Self in literature
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Spirituality in literature
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American literature--20th century
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Mysticism in literature
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Religion and literature--United States--20th century
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Race awareness in literature
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Twentieth-century literature and theory have offered no shortage of challenges to the unity of personal identity. What these undertakings leave largely unquestioned, however, is the prevailing understanding that personal identity is sealed within the confines of the physical body—the final uncontested frontier of Cartesian identity. Emerging from a matrix of recent American literature—by Don DeLillo, Charles Johnson, Tony Kushner, Toni Morrison, among others—is a counter-argument to the notion that the materially bounded self is separate from other such selves in space. For the “individual” to take shape as such, it must locate itself within a specific social identity, disavowing its connection with those who identify themselves differently: a process, these texts suggest,
that can unleash racial and ideological violence. My dissertation explores six late twentieth-century American novels and plays (1982 to 1998) that both dramatize this violent process and propose an alternative through images of humans dislocated from
their bodies and fusing metaphysically with other open selves across space. Whereas critics have shown how global magic realist literatures use images of the non-unified self to represent the split consciousness resulting from colonial domination, my project explores how recent American texts religiously inflect such images and then through them imagine the transcendence of racial divisions. Challenging the notion of the human as a material isolate, images of the open body represent a literary vision for more expansive inter-racial identifications and more actively inclusive social solidarities for twenty-first century America.
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by Erick Samuel Sierra
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Erick Samuel
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Brent Hayes
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2010
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2010
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doi:10.7282/T3NG4QP0
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ETD doctoral
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Sierra
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Erick
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2010-04-15 17:00:16
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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