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SOLIDARITY, VIOLENCE, AND THE POLITICAL IMAGINATION:
CHICANA LITERARY IMAGININGS OF THE CENTRAL AMERICAN CIVIL
WARS, 1981-2005
by
Araceli Esparza
________________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(AMERICAN STUDIES AND ETHNICITY)
August 2010
Copyright 2010 Araceli Esparza
Object Description
| Title | Solidarity, violence, and the political imagination: Chicana literary imaginings of the Central American civil wars, 1981-2005 |
| Author | Esparza, Araceli |
| Author email | esparza@usc.edu; araceliesparza@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | American Studies & Ethnicity |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-05-18 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-08-05 |
| Advisor (committee chair) |
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson McKenna, Teresa |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Rowe, John Carlos Gómez-Barris, Macarena Tongson, Karen |
| Abstract | In Solidarity, Violence, and the Political Imagination: Chicana Literary Imaginings of the Central American Civil Wars, 1981-2005, I examine Chicana literary representations of political violence in the United States and Central America. I draw on literary works by Helena María Viramontes, Cherríe Moraga, Graciela Limón, and Ana Castillo as well as their personal papers in order to ask and answer the question: how and for what purposes did Chicana creative writers imagine the Central American civil wars? In answering this question, I trace these authors' changing imaginaries of hemispheric solidarity in the context of political violence. Taking an international and transnational focus allows me to mark the multiple shifts in Chicana feminist epistemology through the complex solidarities represented in my primary texts. Contrary to readings that find that Chicana creative writing forges transnational solidarity and Latina/o community, I argue that while my primary texts underscore these authors' commitments to working for social justice they do so without guaranteeing unity or mutual recognition between Chicanas and Central Americans. My project contributes to interventions that focus on literature and culture as central to theory making, political protest, and solidarity building within several interdisciplinary frameworks, including Chicana/o studies, Latin/a American studies, hemispheric American studies, feminist theory, and literary theory. I draw on and contribute to these fields by focusing on the themes of solidarity, disappearance, motherhood, and torture. |
| Keyword | Chicana feminism; Chicana/o literature; motherhood; political imagination; solidarity; torture; Central America |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Geographic subject (region) | Central America |
| Coverage date | 1981/2005 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3293 |
| Rights | Esparza, Araceli |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Esparza-3940 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Esparza-3940.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Full text | SOLIDARITY, VIOLENCE, AND THE POLITICAL IMAGINATION: CHICANA LITERARY IMAGININGS OF THE CENTRAL AMERICAN CIVIL WARS, 1981-2005 by Araceli Esparza ________________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (AMERICAN STUDIES AND ETHNICITY) August 2010 Copyright 2010 Araceli Esparza |
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