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1	Border Crossings and Transnational Movements in Sandra Cisneros’ Spatial Narratives Offer Alternatives to Dominant Discourse Vallecillo, Raquel D 30 March 2017 (has links) My study aims to reveal how ideologies, the way we perceive our world, what we believe, and our value judgments inextricably linked to a dominant discourse, have real and material consequences. In addition to explicating how these ideologies stem from a Western philosophical tradition, this thesis examines this thought-system alongside selections from Sandra Cisneros’ Woman Hollering Creek and Caramelo or Puro Cuento. My project reveals how Cisneros’ spatial narratives challenge ideologies concerning the border separating the United States and Mexico, which proves significant as the project of decolonization and understanding of identity formation is fundamentally tied to these geographical spaces. Through the main chapters in this thesis, it is proposed that Cisneros’ storytelling does not attempt to counter fixed ideas of spaces and identity or an alleged objective Truth and single History by presenting a true or better version, but offers alternative narratives as a form of resistance to dominant discourse. Sandra Cisneros Post Colonial Literature Chicana Literature Border Studies Borderlands Deconstructive Ethics identity nationalism border crossings spatial narratives Chicana/o Studies Latina/o Studies
2	Listening/Reading for Disremembered Voices: Additive Archival Representation and the Zong Massacre of 1781 Cartaya, Jorge E 27 March 2017 (has links) This thesis grapples with questions surrounding representation, mourning, and responsibility in relation to two literary representations of the ZONG massacre of 1781. These texts are M. NourbeSe Philip’s ZONG! and Fred D’Aguiar’s FEEDING THE GHOSTS. The only extant archival document—a record of the insurance dispute which ensued as a consequence of the massacre—does not represent the drowned as victims, nor can it represent the magnitude of the atrocity. As such, this thesis posits that the archival gaps or silences from which the captives’ voices are missing become spaces of possibility for additive representation. This thesis also examines the role voice and sound play in these literary texts and the deconstructive-ethical philosophies of Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Derrida. This thesis argues that these texts invoke the sonic materiality of voice in the service of responding to the disremembered dead through mourning and acknowledgment. English language and literature Middle Passage Zong massacre Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade M. NourbeSe Philip Fred D'Aguiar Toni Morrison Jean-Luc Nancy slavery archive ethics voice sound studies postcolonial deconstruction deconstructive ethics Caribbean Languages and Societies Comparative Literature Continental Philosophy Cultural History French and Francophone Literature

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Border Crossings and Transnational Movements in Sandra Cisneros’ Spatial Narratives Offer Alternatives to Dominant Discourse

Listening/Reading for Disremembered Voices: Additive Archival Representation and the Zong Massacre of 1781