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Julia Alvarez & Junot Diaz
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Julia Alvarez & Junot Diaz
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the formation of boundaries in creating a new Dominican-American identity
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Coleman
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Vanessa
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1975-
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Vanessa Coleman
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Stuart Charme
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Rutgers University
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Camden Graduate School
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This essay will explore the concept of ethnicity in the stories and through the characters in the writings of Junot Diaz and Julia Alvarez. In particular, I will examine their critically acclaimed novels, Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) and Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), and how the authors' personal lives are reflected in these novels. Through the novels, I will examine the acculturation of Dominicans immigrating to the United States and consider how their narratives relate to the idea of a new Dominican-American identity. I will analyze how displacement, economics, and national expectations affect the characters' behaviors as they search for a new identity. Finally, I will evaluate, and corroborate with scholarship, the aspects of immigrants' former lives, and how their past and present ethnic identities have transformed with their attempt to balance both cultures, and establish an understanding of the immigrant and ethnic experience.
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Liberal Studies
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1 online resource (ii, 33 p.)
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M.A.
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Díaz, Junot, 1968-
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Alvarez, Julia
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Latin American literature--History and criticism
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Dominican Americans
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by Vanessa Coleman
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Camden Graduate School Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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ETD graduate
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Vanessa
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Vanessa Coleman
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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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