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DOMESTIC NEGOTIATIONS:
CHICANA DOMESTICITY AS A CRITICAL DISCOURSE
OF US LITERATURE AND CULTURE
by
Marci R. McMahon
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(ENGLISH)
December 2007
Copyright 2007 Marci R. McMahon
Object Description
| Title | Domestic negotiations: Chicana domesticity as a critical discourse of US literature and culture |
| Author | McMahon, Marci R. |
| Author email | mmcmahon@usc.edu |
| Degree | Juris Doctor / Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | English |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-10-17 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-11-06 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | McKenna, Teresa |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Gambrell, Alice Pulido, Laura Lopez, Tiffany Ana |
| Abstract | Domestic Negotiations: Chicana Domesticity as a Critical Discourse of US Literature and Culture reads the work of canonical prose-writer and poet Sandra Cisneros; Tejana visual artist and children's literature illustrator Carmen Lomas Garza; Los Angeles theater director and Hollywood actor Diane Rodríguez, specifically her collaboration with Puerto Rican playwright Migdalia Cruz; and Los Angeles painter and Hollywood set designer Patssi Valdez. The project identifies and analyzes what I call "domestic negotiations" acts asserted by contemporary Chicana authors and artists that strategically negotiate the boundaries of public and private space set up by various nationalisms, communities, and institutional affiliations. These negotiations, I argue, have become necessary survival strategies for Chicana authors and artists who desire to get their work "out there" in spaces steeped in stereotypical narratives -- such as the publishing industry, specifically the youth and children's literature market, cinema, television, theater, and the museum.; Each chapter is organized according to the various artistic modes and narrative strategies that Chicana artists use to disrupt and negotiate domestic confinement. These strategies include proto-feminist critiques of patriarchy, discourses of nostalgia, postnationalist feminist narratives, "domesticana" sensibilities, narratives of melodrama and sentimentality, and glamour. In Chapter 1, I pair together Tejana author Jovita González and New Mexican writer Cleofas Jaramillo, both writing in the early- and mid-twentieth century, to explore their "domestic negotiations" with dominant racialized discourses. Chapter 2 reads Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street and Carmen Lomas Garza's Cuadros de Familia and En Mi Familia as critical responses to a revivalism of patriarchal and nationalist ideologies in the late-twentieth century. In Chapter 3, I examine Diane Rodríguez's negotiations of the stereotypical confinement of Chicanas in the domestic role in popular culture, a stereotype rooted in a narrative of biological reproduction and motherhood. Chapter 4 closely reads Patssi Valdez's use of performance, punk, and avant-garde to negotiate dominant discourses of the Chicano/a movement, as well as hercritical role in shaping a visual vocabulary of Chicana domesticity in the museum and Hollywood. |
| Keyword | Chicana; Latina; domesticity; domestic; gender; race; nation |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| 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 |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m911 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | McMahon, Marci R. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-McMahon-20071106 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume48/etd-McMahon-20071106.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | DOMESTIC NEGOTIATIONS: CHICANA DOMESTICITY AS A CRITICAL DISCOURSE OF US LITERATURE AND CULTURE by Marci R. McMahon A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) December 2007 Copyright 2007 Marci R. McMahon |
