자료유형  

 학위논문

Control Number  

0017163530

International Standard Book Number  

9798384448327

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

860

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Neyra Tercero, Delia.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

[S.l.] : University of California, Berkeley., 2024

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024

Physical Description  

106 p.

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-03, Section: A.

General Note  

Advisor: Tarica, Estelle.

Dissertation Note  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2024.

Summary, Etc.  

요약This dissertation examines twenty-first century Central American and U.S. Central American women's literature that redefines the concepts of voice and silence within the period of armed conflict and beyond, thereby showcasing narrative and poetic alternatives to official historical accounts regarding this tumultuous period from the perspective of women. A recurring motif in this body of literature is the interplay between voice and silence, specifically what is "voiced" and what is kept silent for a myriad of reasons. For the women of Central America, the act of speaking or remaining silent is often loaded with political, social, and personal implications. This dissertation, in effect, seeks to explore voice and silence as they manifest in contemporary women's literature of Central America in order to analyze the particular nuances to these concepts and highlight the often ignored issues that are particular to women during war and postwar. Focusing on literature from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and California, this project highlights the experiences of Central and U.S. Central American women from multiple generations who have dealt with war and continue to grapple with the aftermath of the period of armed conflict in the isthmus. In effect, I argue that these women writers reveal how much is yet to be said regarding the traumatic experiences of war, poverty, migration and violence. Furthermore, I argue that silence appears as a tool of empowerment and protection for Central American women and its diaspora.This project maps the possibilities of meanings of voice and silence across four Central American spaces: El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the U.S. Central American diaspora in California. Chapter One analyzes voice and silence in Roza tumba quema (2017). Hernandez articulates the deleterious psychological and material effects of the epoch of armed conflict specifically for women. Through the employment of a third-person narrator, a lack of specific names, and an emphasis on mental dialogue and thinking processes, the Salvadoran writer explores the potential meanings of voice and silence in context of war and postwar El Salvador, opening up the possibilities for how one can narrate and interpret significant and even traumatic life events such as war through the medium of the novel. Specifically, I examine narrative voice as the points of view of women characters and the perspective of the guerrilla. Similarly, silence in the novel exhibits the presence of emotional trauma and stands as a tool for survival. As literary trauma scholar Cathy Caruth states, Roza tumba quema exemplifies a text that points to "a central problem of listening, of knowing, and of representing that emerges from the actual experience of the crisis" (5). Hernandez in effect demonstrates the precarious nature of listening, knowing and representing women's psychological trauma of the Salvadoran armed conflict and its repercussions on them and subsequent generations.Chapter Two centers the poetry of two contemporary poets: Nicaraguan Alejandra Sequeira and Guatemalan Carmen Lucia Alvarado. In this chapter, I analyze the manifestations of voice in silence in Sequeira's poetic collection Quien me espera no existe (2006) and Alvarado's Edad geologica del miedo (2018). These two Central American authors speak to the similar yet multifaceted experiences of Guatemalan and Nicaraguan individuals located within the postwar period and beyond, revealing and highlighting an inextricable relationship between silence, fear and death in the region's contemporary literature. Through its anaphoras, syntactic repetitions, apostrophes, and the content of the poems position silence as the voice of death and fear. Through such nuanced and complex definitions of silence, these Central American poets offer metapoetic ruminations and a reckoning of the psychosomatic repercussions of war, trauma and experiences of post-conflict societies simultaneously. In this way, the kind of silence that is present in the works of Sequeira and Alvarado speaks and communicates messages, and these messages carry out the work of remembering those who perished during the period of armed conflict and afterward in Central America. Through the poetic medium, these writers articulate a nuanced re-definition of silence and exhibit poetry's potential for accomplishing the work of recuperating individual and cultural memories.Chapter Three takes a dive into a few U.S. Central American/diasporic writers: Salvadoran-American Yesika Salgado, Salvadoran-American Leticia Hernandez-Linares and Guatemalan-American Maya Chinchilla. Through an analysis of their poetic collections, selections from Salgado's trilogy of poetic collections Corazon (2017) Tesoro (2018) and Hermosa (2019), Linares' mucha muchacha (2015), and Chinchilla's The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poetica (2014), I posit that contemporary U.S. Central American poetic writing stands as a mode for speaking about and processing significant events such as the experience of war and migration, communicating affective responses to these experiences by voicing and keeping silent, and engendering new possibilities and imaginaries for Central American immigrants and their descendants' personal and collective stories and identities beyond the paradigms of violence and poverty. Furthermore, the centering of women's voices in this specific archive demonstrates the urgency of this sector of the U.S. Central American diaspora to reevaluate and transform gendered, patriarchal norms that have kept women in bondage to silence for decades. It is in this way that U.S. Central American women poets are speaking up about often-silenced issues pertaining to this diasporic community and forging new possibilities of existing for U.S. Central American women.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Latin American literature.

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Literature.

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Hispanic American studies.

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Language.

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Creative writing.

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Central American women

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Women's literature

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Traumatic life

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Poetry

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University of California, Berkeley Hispanic Languages & Literatures

Host Item Entry  

Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-03A.

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