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En los umbrales de la tardomodernidad: transformaciones discursivas en cinco novelas del Caribe insular.
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En los umbrales de la tardomodernidad: transformaciones discursivas en cinco novelas del Caribe insular.
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Mirna
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1972-
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Mirna Trauger
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Narváez
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Carlos Raúl
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Margaret
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Marcone
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Jorge
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Maduro
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Grisel
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Grisel Maduro
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2015-01
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2015
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This dissertation explores the discursive transformations in five novels written after 1969 by Hispanic Caribbean writers. Through a focus on language, on the relationship between history and fiction, on collective memory, and on the body, the author aims to show that these twentieth century novels straddle both modernism and postmodernism, exploring new ways of expressing their concerns while remaining rooted in modernist traditions. The first chapter examines the subversive use of proverbs, gossip, and superstition as a means of challenging the phallocentric thinking that relegates women to a position of alterity in La casa de la laguna by Puerto Rican writer Rosario Ferré and in En el tiempo de las mariposas by Dominican writer Julia Álvarez. The second chapter analyzes how Canción de Rachel, a testimonial novel written by Cuban writer Miguel Barnet, employs strategies generally associated with postmodernism in order to reevaluate the past and break free from its racist and dogmatic legacy. Rachel’s testimonial voice shares the narrative space with a plethora of other voices including the author/ethnographer’s. Their versions of the past are individual, fragmented and incomplete. The third chapter focuses on the fictionalization of history in La llegada by Puerto Rican writer José Luis González. The author analyzes the dialogue that the novel undertakes with the visual intertext, images taken from Our Islands and Their People as Seen with Camera and Pencil (1899), in order to show that historical writing as well as the photographic image are neither objective nor complete truths. In the final chapter, the author examines the strategies of transgression that are articulated from the lens of the sick body. The playful use of parody, intertextuality, ambiguity, and dispersion that distinguish Severo Sarduy’s previous works are still detectable in his last novel although they are intermixed with a desperate search for order and meaning. Sarduy opens a new discursive space for the abject body, in this case, the ill and dying body, and calls for a reinterpretation of illness that does not treat body and person as separate entities.
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Spanish
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Caribbean literature (Spanish) -- History and criticism
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (viii, 296 p. : ill.)
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Mirna Trauger
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Ferré, Rosario--Criticism and interpretation
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Alvarez, Julia--Criticism and interpretation
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Barnet, Miguel, 1940---Criticism and interpretation
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González, José Luis, 1926-1996--Criticism and interpretation
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ETD doctoral
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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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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after January 30th, 2017.
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