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Beyond the borders of exile: Exile, immigration, and migration in U.S. women's writing.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Beyond the borders of exile: Exile, immigration, and migration in U.S. women's writing./
Author:	Alvarez Wilson, Sonia.
Description:	138 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-10A(E).
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3708078
ISBN:	9781321830194

Beyond the borders of exile: Exile, immigration, and migration in U.S. women's writing.
Alvarez Wilson, Sonia.

Beyond the borders of exile: Exile, immigration, and migration in U.S. women's writing. - 138 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2015.

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

This dissertation explores representations of trauma, healing, and memory in the literature of exile. Traditionally, analyses of this literature adhere to the parameters of ethnicity and national origin; however, I argue that an analytical focus on trauma, healing, and memory rather than ethnicity or national origin reveals discursive strategies that transcend cultural borders. I begin my analysis with a consideration of the representation of rupture from the homeland and its representation in Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia, America's Dream by Esmeralda Santiago, and Geographies of Home by Loida Maritza Perez. I argue that authors of the literature of exile portray the traumatic experience of rupture from one's homeland through the immediacy of domestic violence. I then turn to the common thread of folk medicine used by Ann Petry in her work The Street and Judith Ortiz Cofer's The Line of the Sun. These traditional faith practices, primarily brought to America through the slave trade, are utilized by the authors as a source of empowerment for the characters in their texts. A consideration across cultural lines reveals that this is a powerful counter-hegemonic strategy prominent in the landscape of exilic survival. Finally, utilizing Marianne Hirsch's framework of postmemory, I consider the prominent use of the photograph in Geographies of Home and Nicole Krauss's History of Love. This analysis demonstrates that whether migrant or immigrant, the search for the American Dream, or at least safe haven, follows discernable patterns of rupture, healing, and challenges of "acculturation." This three-tiered analysis reveals a community of exile portrayed by U.S. women authors and brings transnational and transcultural connections into relief.

ISBN: 9781321830194Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

Beyond the borders of exile: Exile, immigration, and migration in U.S. women's writing.
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