자료유형  

 학위논문

Control Number  

0015493951

International Standard Book Number  

9781687929617

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

860

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Arango, Abel.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

[Sl] : The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2019

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019

Physical Description  

229 p

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.

General Note  

Advisor: Medina, Ruben.

Dissertation Note  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2019.

Restrictions on Access Note  

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Summary, Etc.  

요약Images of dispossession and homelessness occupy a central place in a corpus of novels that span from the 1990s until today. Second-generation, Central American novelists linger on questions of displacement as the characters in their narratives repeatedly find themselves living without a permanent home or community. Together these works offer me a new way of understanding Central Americans' liminality, given that they serve as a site that details the tensions around who is permitted to enter and occupy everyday living spaces, and by extension, the nation-state. Discouraged to settle in their countries of origin and denied citizenship in the U.S., Central American populations are de-legitimized and rendered stateless. Against these conditions, I advance the trope of homelessness as a counter-discourse that challenges an outdated nation-state system grounded in regimes of nationality and citizenship. The novels in this study have a subversive aim as they dismantle and generate alternative understandings of national belonging built upon the lines of territory, language (English only) and phenotype (White European). Instead I argue for a transnational approximation, suggesting that the nation-state is far from complete, given that the subjects of my study redraw territorial lines, frustrate fixed nationalities, develop new subjectivities and ultimately claim a sense of place.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Literature

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Ethnic studies

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Latin American literature

Added Entry-Corporate Name  

The University of Wisconsin - Madison Spanish

Host Item Entry  

Dissertations Abstracts International. 81-04A.

Host Item Entry  

Dissertation Abstract International

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joongbu:568801