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Reimagining "Other" Latinx: Technicity and Spectrality as Alternatives to Othered Latinidades.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reimagining "Other" Latinx: Technicity and Spectrality as Alternatives to Othered Latinidades./
Author:	Martinez, Cynthia.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	271 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-03A.
Subject:	Literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13900620
ISBN:	9781085612210

Reimagining "Other" Latinx: Technicity and Spectrality as Alternatives to Othered Latinidades.
Martinez, Cynthia.

Reimagining "Other" Latinx: Technicity and Spectrality as Alternatives to Othered Latinidades. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 271 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2019.

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

This dissertation dialogues with current criticism in Latinx studies that attempts to destabilize conceptions of Latinidad by questioning the national, ethnic, racial, and formal limits that circumscribe the prevailing approaches to this construct. My dissertation examines the subject positions represented in literary writings that navigate U.S. American, Latinx, and Latin American connections. I problematize approaches to Latinidad that highlight national origin as its defining characteristic by investigating the ways in which such an approach risks conflating U.S. Latinx identities with their most established and historically visible national signifiers-i.e., Mexican American/Chicanx, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American. To this end, I analyze literary works by Latin/x American writers of Chilean, Peruvian, and Guatemalan origin or heritage and demonstrate the ways in which each utilizes metaphors of technology and ghosts-what I refer to as technicity and spectrality-to express a sense of displacement, invisibility, and "otherness" after migrating to the U.S. I broadly define technicity (e.g., a human body with prosthetic parts or the construction of self through memories mediated by film) and spectrality (e.g., ghostly hauntings) as crafted extensions of the mind and body. Each of these metaphors prompts characters in the texts that I examine to question how they define the human through encounters with uncanny "others", like prostheses and ghosts. These questions, in turn, cause characters to also probe the limits of constructed categories of identity such as Latinx or Latin American, as the tropes of technicity and spectrality are used by the authors that I study to parallel the experiences of subjects who are alienated with respect to prevailing identity categories in the lands in which they reside. I argue that technics and the spectral, metaphors that expose and denaturalize the constructs that we normalize (e.g., which traits are thought to define Latinx identity), provide a means to challenge the exclusionary practices imposed on subjects who are multiply situated. While I engage with the constructs of nation, race, and ethnicity in order to account for the multiple references at work to define Latinx identities, I also utilize a theoretical framework-i.e., technics and the spectral-that subverts these categories by emphasizing their constructedness. Accordingly, my project argues for alternative logics that challenge the limits of identity politics and that call for practices of belonging that account for difference.

ISBN: 9781085612210Subjects--Topical Terms:

537498
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