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Nathan, Vetri Janak. "Marvelous bodies : ambivalence in contemporary Italian literature and cinema of immigration /." May be available electronically:, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.
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Elmgren, Charlotta. "The Chronotope of Immigration in Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-61587.
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Jeffrey Eugenides‟ Middlesex can be ascribed to many genres, one of which is the novel of immigration. Mikhail Bakhtin has suggested that each genre, indeed any literary motif, can be defined by its own chronotope, literally “time space,” “the intrinsic connectedness of temporal and spatial relationships that are artistically expressed in literature.” The essay discusses the chronotope of immigration in Middlesex, and looks at how four specific intersections of time and space, embodied by the four houses inhabited by the Stephanides family, contribute to the unfolding of this particular immigration saga. The four houses can thus be seen to represent the key elements of this novel‟s instance of a chronotope of immigration, which brings up concepts such as assimilation, hybridity and “third space.” The essay also examines the relations of central characters to time, space and each other; the upstairs/downstairs and inside/outside dichotomies within each house providing interesting keys to inter-gender and inter-generational alienation within this chronotope of immigration.
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Keeling, Kari Lynn. "“To Make Myself for a Person”: The Bildungsroman in Modern Jewish-American Literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1440.
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Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers and Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky share many similarities: they both feature young Jewish protagonists who immigrate to America in search of the better life they believe America can provide. Though their novels have similar trajectories, each author answers the still relevant question of how immigrants might successfully assimilate into American culture in contrasting lights. Cahan's protagonist, in a superficial sense, achieves the "American dream," while Yezierska's Sara achieves a more modest success. However, Sara ultimately navigates the trials of cultural assimilation and identity formation more successfully. Levinsky gains monetary wealth by adapting to American values of independence and class mobility, but Sara achieves the much more valuable goal of a confident identity by tempering her embrace of these traditional American values and not rejecting her cultural origins.
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Andrade, Emily Y. "Illegal immigration : 6 stories from an American family." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1365172.
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Illegal Immigration: Six Stories from an American Family is a collection of stories derived from and inspired by the author's personal life experiences, dreams, and family history, as a Mexican American woman. The stories also hold distinct archetypal patterns, images, storylines and symbolism due to the author's connection to the collective unconscious through meditation. The stories tell character driven stories of adversity, and the search for home, and identity by linking main characters to their family members in each story. The collection as a whole reveals generational patterns, histories and connections not only present in the matriarchal bloodline of the collection, but from one human to another. The stories beckon the reader into an alternate reality created by these archetypal patterns inherent in all humans, in an attempt to transcend genres and find a place within the psyche where anything is possible.Illegal immigration -- Marco and Margarita -- La muerte de mi padre -- Together again -- Vivi and Ricardo -- The healer.
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Downes, Kathleen M. "Contagious Deadly Sins: Yellow Fever in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans Literature." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2065.
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Throughout the nineteenth century, New Orleans was repeatedly plagued by yellow fever epidemics. In this paper, cultural representations of yellow fever are considered in three novels: Baron Ludwig Von Reizenstein’s The Mysteries of New Orleans (1854-1855), George Washington Cable’s The Grandissimes (1880), and Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis’ The Queen’s Garden (1900). Because the etiology was unknown during the nineteenth century, yellow fever becomes a floating signifier on which to project the ills they observed in New Orleans society. Yellow fever thus becomes a representation of loose sexual mores, as well as a divinely retributive punishment for slavery, or a sign of adherence to an unequal, antiquated, aristocratic and un-American social system. Yellow fever, in these texts, exposes the struggles with race and racial superiority and illuminates tensions between groups of whites as New Orleans became an American city.
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Harrington, Katharine N. "Writing outside the box : exploring a nomadic alternative in contemporary French and Francophone literature /." View online version; access limited to Brown University users, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3174617.
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Babcock, Aaron C. "The Search for Belonging and Citizenship in U.S. Immigration Novels, 1887-1935." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1588546613448092.
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Alfonso-Forero, Ann Marie. "Translating Postcolonial Pasts: Immigration and Identity in the Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee, Elizabeth Nunez, and Jhumpa Lahiri." Scholarly Repository, 2011. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/577.
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This dissertation examines how postcoloniality affects identity formation in contemporary women's immigrant literature. In order to do so, it must interrogate the critical fields that are most interested in issues of national and cultural identities, migration, and the appropriation of women by both Western and postcolonial projects. By examining the fiction of Bharati Mukherjee, Elizabeth Nunez, and Jhumpa Lahiri through the triple lens of ethnic American studies, postcolonial theory, and transnational feminism, I will argue that theorizing postcolonial women's writing in the United States involves sustained analysis of how particular socio-political experiences are translated into the context of American identity. I am particularly interested in the manner in which female subjects in these texts navigate between the various and often contradictory demands placed on them by their respective homeland cultures and their new immigrant positions in the United States. Although each of these writers depict immigrant women protagonists who adapt to these demands in their own particular ways, a study of these characters' gendered and cultural identities reveals a powerful relationship between the manner in which women are figured into the preservation of the postcolonial nation-state and the ways in which these women utilize immigration as an occasion to appropriate and subvert this role in the establishment of a new, negotiated identity. This project draws on three important and current fields of interest to both cultural and literary studies. Postcolonial studies, which has been central to the study of literature by minority writers, provides a useful foundation for understanding hybrid identities, dislocation, and the ways in which empire gave rise to nationalisms that utilized women in the formation and preservation of the nation-state. Transnational feminist theories are critical to understanding the implications of nationalism's appropriation of women and their bodies in it projects, and are especially useful in establishing feminisms that are not limited by American or European definitions and that defy homogenizing the experiences of postcolonial women. They affirm that there are many strategies for employing female agency, and that we must consider the particular circumstances (economic, cultural, racial, national, gender) that allow women of color to favor one strategy over another. Finally, U.S. Ethnic studies will inform my readings of texts that are, at their core, narratives of immigration to the United States and the seeking out of the American Dream. However, this dissertation suggests, the precarious position of immigrants in a nation whose ideals and dominating mythology are marred by a dark history of racism and exclusionary practices plays an important role in the establishment of an ethnic American identity in the United States.
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Rivera, Perez Marianela. "North African immigration in contemporary Spain representations of the struggle for integration and power /." Diss., [Riverside, Calif.] : University of California, Riverside, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1957331761&SrchMode=2&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1269891493&clientId=48051.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2009.Includes abstract. Title from first page of PDF file (viewed March 23, 2010). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (p. ). Also issued in print.
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Stellin, Monica. "Bridging the ocean, thematic aspects of Italian literature of migration to Canada." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0010/NQ41510.pdf.
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Martín, Sandra Stickle. "MOROCCAN WOMEN AND IMMIGRATION IN SPANISH NARRATIVE AND FILM (1995-2008)." UKnowledge, 2010. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/766.
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Spanish migration narratives and films present a series of conflicting forces: the assumptions of entitlement of both Western and Oriental patriarchal authority, the claims to autonomy and self determination by guardians of women’s rights, the confrontations between advocates of exclusion and hospitality in the host society, and the endeavor of immigrant communities to maintain traditions while they integrate into Spanish society. Taking into consideration current theories of space, mobility, feminism, and assimilation, I center my analysis on four significant moments of migration: the inundation of Western media in other countries that inspires individuals to find alternatives to poverty and oppression; the trauma of the physical and emotional separation from the land of origin; the trials of adjustments to an unknown and, at times, hostile culture; and the construction of a new community within a host society.
The works give testimony to how contact with different cultures, religions, and languages has given way to a unique space between Western images and multicultural realities where power, identities, and destinies are negotiated. Exploring the patterns of displacement and gender roles, I point out how some authors align themselves with the power structures that stifle immigrants’ initiatives, while others choose to challenge the status quo. This space creates an opportunity for change propelled principally by the courage, agency, and mobility of female characters that weaken patriarchal domination in Muslim society and counter powerful Western ideologies. The resulting new culture imbued with personal values rekindles Hispanic-Moroccan historical links and opens the door to a revived multicultural, multilingual, multiethnic Spanish identity. I argue that the determination of the female characters is the key to the changes taking place in the twenty-first century Spanish society, which, according to Spanish migration narratives and films, could anticipate the dissolution of the Fortress Europe and the consolidation of integration. Establishing a dialogue between opposing forces, my analysis invites readers and viewers of the narrated process of immigration to consider their own personal positions on such a pressing issue.
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Rieley, Honor. "Writing emigration : Canada in Scottish romanticism, 1802-1840." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cbeac4b3-cb79-4c22-a308-03be120d2c26.
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This thesis is a study of the representation of emigration to Canada in Scottish Romantic periodicals and fiction, and of the relationship between these genres and the little-studied genre of the emigrant's guide. Chapter One tracks the Edinburgh Review and Quarterly Review's reviews of books on Canadian topics and demonstrates how the rival quarterlies respond to, and intervene in, the evolving public debate about emigration. Chapter Two examines depictions of Canada in Blackwood's Magazine and Fraser's Magazine, and reveals connections between these magazines' engagement with Canadian affairs and the concurrent reception of Scottish Romanticism in early Canadian literary magazines. Chapter Three argues for an understanding of the emigrant's guide as a porous form that acts as a bridge between nonfictional and fictional representations of emigration. Chapter Four reads novels with emigration plots in relation to the pressures of American, Canadian and transatlantic canon formation, arguing that these novels trouble the stark division between the American and Canadian emigrant experiences which was insisted upon by contemporary commentators and which continues to underpin criticism of transatlantic literary works. Chapter Five considers the relationship between Scottish Romanticism and nineteenth-century Canadian literature, a relationship which has often been framed in terms of the portability of a 'Scottish model' of fiction associated most strongly with Walter Scott. Overall, this thesis contends that foregrounding the literature of emigration allows for greater understanding of the synchronicity of Scottish Romanticism and the escalation of transatlantic emigration, offering an alternative to conceptions of Canada's colonial and transatlantic belatedness.
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Brown, Linda Joyce. "The literature of immigration and racial formation : becoming white, becoming other, becoming American in the late progressive era /." New York : Routledge, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39232180t.
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BAHIA, Ryanne Freire Monteiro. "Homens de letras, homens de ciência: discurso raciológico na literatura brasileira em Canaã, de Graça Aranha." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFC, 2016. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/17213.
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BAHIA, Ryanne Freire Monteiro. Homens de letras, homens de ciência: discurso raciológico na literatura brasileira em Canaã, de Graça Aranha. 2016. 233f. – Tese (Doutorado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza (CE), 2016.Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-05-30T12:05:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_tese_rfmbahia.pdf: 10011451 bytes, checksum: 90b825401398e2fcda820adb0c610225 (MD5)
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The starting question guiding this study is: how the races (s) discourse (s) is expressed (m) in Brazilian literature through the work Canaan (1902) Aranha? The overall aim of the thesis is to realize the racial speech modes of expression in the above work and establish the network of symbolic and social relations that dialogue directly and indirectly with his stance in his first novel which deals with immigration. More specifically, we seek to: a) analyze the way Aranha presented and discussed by means of their characters topics race, progress and civilization, key terms for the Brazilian racial speech; b) Peering social place Aranha and racial theories that influenced the "theses" presented in Canaan; c) Explore the way by which the racial ideology guided the debate on the bill of Brazil and the Brazilian identity; d) To investigate the senses of European immigration process (for Aranha, German) for Brazil and the relationship between blacks and whites in the early twentieth century and the beginning of the sword republic. Methodologically, there was a documentary research that had as data collection instrument to analyze the qualitative speech, following the basic guidelines of Orladi (1988, 1992, 1993) and Foucault (2009). In conclusion, it was realized that the literary work Canaan presented a kaleidoscope of related ideas to the common discourse at the time, since the nietzscheniano superman Lentz, passing to racial references Reef School to discuss, ultimately, the national identity and how this would be affected by foreign immigration phenomenon.
A pergunta de partida que norteia esse estudo é: de que forma o(s) discurso(s) raciológico(s) se expressa(m) na literatura brasileira por meio da obra Canaã (1902) de Graça Aranha? O objetivo geral da tese é perceber os modos de expressão do discurso raciológico na obra supracitada e estabelecer a rede de relações simbólicas e sociais que dialogam direta e indiretamente com sua postura em seu primeiro romance que trata sobre a imigração. De modo mais específico, buscamos: a) Analisar o modo pelo qual Graça Aranha apresenta e discute por meios de suas personagens os temas raça, progresso e civilização, termos-chave para o discurso raciológico brasileiro; b)Perscrutar o lugar social de Graça Aranha, bem como as teorias raciais que influenciaram as "teses" apresentadas em Canaã; c) Explorar o caminho, pelo qual o ideário racial pautou o debate sobre o projeto de Brasil e a identidade do brasileiro; d) Investigar os sentidos do processo de imigração europeia (no caso de Graça Aranha, dos alemães) para o Brasil e a relação entre negros e brancos no início do século XX e início da república da espada. Metodologicamente, realizou-se uma pesquisa documental que teve como instrumento de coleta de dados a análise do discurso qualitativa, seguindo as orientações elementares de Orladi (1988, 1992, 1993) e Foucault (2009). À guisa de conclusão, percebeu-se que a obra literária Canaã apresentou um caleidoscópio de ideias referentes ao discurso comum à época, desde ao super-homem nietzscheniano de Lentz, perpassando às referências raciais da Escola do Recife para discutir, em última instância, a identidade nacional e como esta ficaria afetada pelo fenômeno da imigração estrangeira.
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Temiz, Ayse Deniz. "Gens inconnus political and literary habitations of postcolonial border spaces /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2008.
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Meador, Margaret Emily. "Free in the Land of Freedom? The Experience of Latin American Immigrants in the United States." Thesis, Boston College, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/468.
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Thesis advisor: Sarah BabbThesis advisor: Elizabeth Rhodes
This paper, "Free in the Land of Freedom? The Experience of Latin American Immigrants in the United States," examines the situation of Latin American immigrants living in the United States. Looking at the issue from the fields of Sociology and Hispanic Studies, this thesis tries to understand the causes and effects of immigration on a personal level. In the sociological section, I use fourteen in-depth interviews to study the lives of undocumented immigrants in Austin, TX, who emigrated from a town in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. I examine their reasons for coming to the United States, their border-crossing experiences, their current daily lives, and their personal reflections. In the Hispanic Studies section of my thesis, I analyze the novels Esperanza's Box of Saints, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, and the movie El Norte. Although each piece portrays a distinct immigrant experience, presenting immigrants who come from different countries and life situations, a common theme runs throughout the works. This section emphasizes the notion that immigration to another country demands an examination of one's self in an attempt to better understand one's place in the world. Studying immigration from the perspectives of sociology and fictional literature suggests that immigrants create and maintain personal connections in order to reach a sense of comfort in their new surroundings
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2004
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Romance Languages and Literature
Discipline: College Honors Program
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Suárez, Garcia Fabio. "¡Che gallego!: Relaciones transatlánticas entre Galicia y Argentina en el siglo XX." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7959.
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The aim of this thesis is focused on demonstrating the strong influence that Galician immigrants exerted on the Argentinian society at the beginning of the 20th century. In this transatlantic literary study, the bonds between the old and the new continent will be established by analysing some of the authors who became affected by immigration and exile conditions: Xosé Neira Vilas, Luis Seoane and Alfonso Rodríguez Castelao. The thesis will also examine the Argentinian literature related to immigration, and how some relevant authors accepted or rejected stereotyping. Both views, the one from exiles and the one from local authors, were blended in order to study the mutual influence that both cultures have had upon each other. There has not been much research regarding literary links between Galician and Argentinian authors, therefore the main purpose of this work is to search for connections among different writers from both sides of the Atlantic. In addition, the thesis analyses the importance of mainstream ideas such as nation, transnationalism and transculturation, and how these concepts have changed throughout history due to common experiences of migration and exile.
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Sung, Yoo Kyung. "A Post-Colonial Critique of the (Mis)Representation of Korean-Americans in Children's Picture Books." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194907.
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This study explores how imagined communities based on U.S. mainstream values and social attitudes are embedded in multicultural children's literature through a critical content analysis of cultural representations in 24 Korean-American picture books. Korean-American culture is often defined through other Asian cultures in picture books and the collective interpretations of Asian culture perpetuate otherness and marginality of Korean-American culture. Otherness can be viewed through postcolonialism as a way to rethink and reconstruct the ways in which racial, ethnic, and cultural others have been repressed, misrepresented, omitted, and stereotyped by colonial mentality (Xie, 2000).The term "Asian American" was used after the Civil Rights movement by Asian Americans to claim a lawful right as representative citizens to reconstruct their own collective identities (Chae 2008). This collective identity of Asian American enhances misrepresentations of Korean culture as one of the Asian cultures. Korean-American culture in picture books is misrepresented through confusion with other Asian cultures, misunderstandings of Asian-Americans, and social mind-set of Korean-Americans. The study discusses the dominant social attitudes toward Korean-Americans as forever `new' foreigners because of the dominance of contemporary picture books which depict Korean-Americans only as recent immigrants. Ahmad (1996) states that postcolonial perspectives are often a polite way of saying "not-White" or Korean-Americans are "not-America-but-inside-America."A critical content analysis of 24 picture books published in the U.S. and 98 reviews of those books examines the representation and misrepresentation of Korean culture and Korean-American culture through the frame of critical discourse analysis and cultural studies. This study contributes to the previous studies of multicultural children's literature by differentiating from the collective approaches in which ethnic groups were grouped together in data collection and analysis.The findings of this study indicate that the "cultural diversity" celebbrated by U.S. multiculturalism has actually contributed to reinforcing the image of Korean-Americans as one of the Orientals by focusing too strongly on difference. The use of multicultural children's literature in classrooms needs to include a focus on difference as a tool used by readers to understand, not stereotype, a particular cultural group and should be combined with a focus on human connection and commonality.
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Daily-Bruckner, Mary Catherine. "I Was Never An American: Rejection and Disaffiliation in Twenty-First Century Immigration Narratives." Thesis, Boston College, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104159.
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Thesis advisor: Christopher WilsonThesis advisor: Carlo Rotella
This dissertation explores traditional patterns of immigration narratives and reads them alongside not only their contemporary, divergent counterparts but also historical moments that contribute to the narrative transformations. By way of this examination, literary changes over time become readable, highlighting the speed at which the rhetoric and aims of many immigration narratives became patently anti-America in the twenty-first century, significantly departing from the traditions established in the twentieth century, which, at their core still held pro-America aims. The first chapter, "The Solution is the Problem: Immigrant Narratives of Internment and Detention," considers nonfiction narratives regarding immigration detention within the borders of the United States. I read Monica Sone's Nisei Daughter and Edwidge Danticat's Brother I'm Dying as narratives that explore detention as central immigrant experience, exposing a chronicle of national suffering after attacks on American soil. When paired with Sone's work, Danticat's Brother I'm Dying reveals a shift in traditional narratives, exposing links to criminality and a move away from affiliation. In my second chapter, "The Helpless Helper: Illegality, Borders and Family Reunification," I study Thomas McCarthy's The Visitor, Courtney Hunt's Frozen River, and Wayne Kramer's Crossing Over. In these films, the suffering of immigrant families designated as somehow "illegal" are often displaced onto a white, parental "helper" figure in order to scrutinize their processing and treatment. These three independent films probe the ways in which economic, judicial, and political interests negatively affect family reunification policies. Additionally, The Visitor, Frozen River, and Crossing Over rely on an alternative point of view - that of American citizens rather than immigrants - as a way to further fragment traditional immigrant narrative structures, which instead favored immigrant-as-narrator constructs. In chapter three, "Considering Conditions of Possibility: Canonical Modes with Modern Concerns," I transition back to the immigrant's point of view and turn to traditional "high" literature. The narratives studied in this chapter retell canonical American novels before placing an important twist on the story: the decision to leave America rather than assimilate and aspire to the American Dream. Saher Alam's The Groom to Have Been and Joseph O'Neill's Netherland both make use of the narrative mode of the novel of manners while H.M. Naqvi's Home Boy and Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist draw upon the ethnic bildungsroman tradition. By treating immigrant experiences as literary through adaptations of canonical novels rooted in American success and integration, these four authors make the choice of writing their protagonists out of America all the more resonant. The final chapter of this project, "The End Product of Our Deep Moral Exhaustion: Alternative Genres and Immigration Narratives," pulls upon Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union and Philip Roth's The Plot Against America to ground a discussion of the role of alternate history in contemporary immigration narratives. From there, the chapter pushes out to include Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story as an example of speculative fiction. In each novel, a commentary on America's global social position is revealed by means of the degree to which the protagonists and their families do or do not become assimilated Americans, placing these novels in an intermediary position on the continuum of post-9/11 immigration narratives. Via my close readings, I aim to demonstrate the ways in which patterns of departure from traditional narratives became both enhanced and more rapidly altered at the start of the twenty-first century. The comparative work of this dissertation project allows access to a unique vision of twenty-first century America that is only available through the lens of immigration narratives, critiquing the modern nation's strengths, shortcomings, political climate, and social realities all while attending to conscious and significant modifications to traditional immigrant narratives
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2015
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English
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Madsen, Diana. "Relation between Crime and Immigration in the Nordic countries : A Narrative Literature Review on the period of 2015-2020." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för kriminologi (KR), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43957.
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The period 2015-2020 has remained limitless in terms of missing data on crime and immigration in the Nordic countries, starting from the number of irregular and undocumented migrants and asylum seekers, continuing with the underrepresented immigrant statistics in crime. This paper consists of a complex understanding of immigration processes across the Nordic region, establishing narrow themes associated with crime and immigration. The findings of this paper presented five essential links to the criminality among the immigrant population in the Nordic countries during 2015-2020, that were compiled from the majority of the current available studies in this research field. At this point, the paper represents official data from the Nordic countries and a narrow literature review of recent studies, which depicted immigrants as more often suspected of crimes compared to the ethnic populations, assuming that it could have established a false social identity of an individual with foreign background. The reason of that supposition is explained by the findings on migrants to be overrepresented in crime, biased “immigrant beliefs” and yet evident immigrant labelling.
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Kvidera, Peter James. "Narrating Americanization : space and form in U.S. immigrant writing, 1890-1927 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9461.
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Kebsi, Jyhene. ""Unauthorized Global Narratives: The Representation of Gendered Paperless Migration from the Arab World in Transnational World Literature and Cinema"." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17586.
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I explore the representation of irregular migration from the Arab world to Europe, North America and Australia, in particular Third World Arab women’s clandestine journeys to the global North. My study is centred upon the analysis of literary and cinematographic “illegal” immigration narratives that shed light on the movement of paperless Arab female citizens and their experiences in the countries of origin. My dissertation underlines the contradiction between the unrestricted movement of commercial goods from the global North to the South, and the restrictions placed on the movement of people from Third World countries to the developed world. Drawing upon transnational feminism and trying to build a located version of Arab transnational feminism(s), my main argument is that Third World Arab women have to strive against the subordination generated by male domination, as well as against the poverty and increased border regulation induced by globalization. My reliance on intersectionality complicates the otherwise flat category of the “Arab and Muslim females” on whose names Westerners so often speak.
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Chang, Tan-Feng. ""Writing between Empires: Racialized Women's Narratives of Immigration and Transnationality, 1850-WWI"." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1389040666.
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Lima, Raul Milton Silveira. "O personagem judeu na literatura brasileira." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8152/tde-12112007-132347/.
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Através do levantamento de obras, escritas entre 1920 e 1940, foi elaborada a pesquisa, que procura identificar elementos e personagens que compõem o judaísmo e/ou à cultura judaica. Paralelamente à pesquisa bibliográfica, também são estudadas as obras escritas por Gilberto Freyre no período, procurando-se visualizar o ponto de vista do autor sobre os judeus na história do Brasil. Para uma melhor compreensão da pesquisa e da obra de Freyre, foi traçado um panorama histórico da presença judaica no Brasil e da literatura brasileira a partir dos movimentos modernista e regionalista.This research was developed through a survey of works which were written between 1920 and 1940. It aims to identify elements and characters that belong to the Judaism or to the Jewish culture. At the same time, it covers the works written by Gilberto Freyre in the same period by analyzing the author\'s point of view on the Jewish participation in the Brazilian history. In order to better understand the research and Freyre\'s works, it was presented the picture of the presence of the jews in Brazil as well as the Brazilian literature (considering the \"Modernism\" and \"Regionalism\" as starting points).
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Arora, Kulvinder. "Assimilation and its counter-narratives twentieth-century European and South Asian immigrant narratives to the United States /." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3200730.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed March 1, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-248).
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Tallman, Brittany Ann. "The Question of Turkish Integration in the Context of German Identity Conceptions." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1300456390.
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Sanabria, Camila B. "The Red Front Door, A Memoir." DigitalCommons@USU, 2019. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7529.
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This is a creative thesis that contains two components: 1) a critical introduction that defends the representation of mixed-status families and deportation narratives, and 2) a memoir that depicts my experience with deportation and as a member of a mixed-status family. The second component of this thesis will consist of the first four chapters of my memoir, with the remaining chapters to be completed post-graduation. These chapters take place the years before my parents’ deportation and the year immediately after. The memoir is a coming-of-age story that explores my ethnic identity, along with themes such as insider versus outsider. This exploration is represented through the image of the red front door and is the central metaphor of this memoir.
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Icleanu, Constantin C. "A CASE FOR EMPATHY: IMMIGRATION IN SPANISH CONTEMPORARY MEDIA, MUSIC, FILM, AND NOVELS." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/hisp_etds/33.
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This dissertation analyzes the representations of immigrants from North Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe in Spain. As engaged scholarship, it seeks to better the portrayal of immigrants in the mass media through the study of literature, film, and music about immigration spanning from the year 2000 to 2016. Because misconceptions continue to propagate in the media, this dissertation works to counteract anti-immigrant, xenophobic representations as well as balance out overly positive and orientalized portrayal of immigrants with a call to recognize immigrants as human beings who deserve the same respect, dignity, and rights as any other citizen.
Chapter 1 examines and analyzes the background to immigration in Spain by covering demographics, the mass media, and political theories related to immigration. Chapter 2 analyzes Spanish music about immigration through Richard Rorty’s social theory of ‘sentimental education’ as a meaningful way to redescribe marginalized minorities as full persons worthy of rights and dignity. Chapter 3 investigates the representation of immigrants in Spanish filmic shorts and cinema. Lastly, Chapter 4 demonstrates how literary portrayals of immigrants written by undocumented immigrants can give rise to strong characters that avoid victimization and rear empathy in their readers in order to affect a social change that minimizes cruelty.
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Cebula, Sharon. "Basic Life Skills: Essays and Profiles on Immigration in Akron, Ohio." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1393403565.
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Kirschbaum, Saul. "Samuel Rawer: profeta da alteridade." Universidade de São Paulo, 2000. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8152/tde-02052002-160552/.
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Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo central contribuir para o resgate da obra de Samuel Rawet, principalmente através da análise de sua primeira coletânea, Contos do Imigrante, publicado em 1956. Buscou-se estabelecer o lugar de sua produção literária, sob duas óticas concomitantes e convergentes: a da literatura judaica produzida no Brasil e a da literatura brasileira no gênero que Rawet privilegiou, o conto. Na busca da consecução dessas metas, a pesquisa foi dividida em cinco partes: O capítulo primeiro, Fortuna Crítica de Samuel Rawet, apresenta um levantamento, ao longo da carreira de Rawet, sobre como se procedeu a recepção de sua obra pela crítica especializada; para tanto, foram pesquisados jormais, revistas de literatura e livros de crítica literária. Constatou-se que, em termos gerais, os especialistas sempre acolheram favoravelmente os textos de ficção publicados por Rawet, não obstante algumas poucas opiniões desabonadoras. Porém, o que surpreende, por sua escassez, é a quantidade de textos que tratam da obra de Rawet, a crescente indiferença dos analistas. O capítulo segundo, Uma Autobiografia, procura traçar um panorama da vida de Rawet, com absoluta ênfase para os aspectos relacionados com sua produção literária. Para tanto, foram compilados trechos de entrevistas concedidas por Rawet em diferentes momentos de sua carreira. Estes depoimentos foram contextualizados pelo autor por meio de análises das condições de vida dos judeus na Europa Oriental e de como se procedeu o grande êxodo da Rússia e da Polônia, principalmente para os Estados Unidos, mas também para o Brasil e para outros países americanos. O capítulo terceiro, Narratividade, Linguagem, Exclusão, analisa os primeiros cinco contos da coletânea Contos do Imigrante, ou seja, os contos em que Rawet se detém em protagonistas judeus, em suas relações com as respectivas famílias e com a comunidade judaica, grupos tradicionalmente tidos como pilares da vivência judaica. O capítulo quarto, A Responsabilidade Social, busca observar, por meio da leitura dos cinco contos não-judaicos da coletânea Contos do Imigrante, o surgimento da consciência social no jovem Samuel Rawet, na medida em que se sente, cada vez, mais um pensador brasileiro. Por fim, o capítulo quinto, Bibliografia Geral, relaciona todas as obras de Samuel Rawet e tudo o que foi escrito a seu respeito, de cuja existência o autor teve conhecimento, além de outras obras de caráter geral utilizadas no texto. Apesar de ter presente que essa relação é incompleta, acredito que poderá servir de ponto de partida para outros interessados, e espero ter dado um passo, ainda que modesto, no caminho de uma sistematização da bibliografia de e sobre Samuel Rawet, cuja importância é correlativa da importância do próprio Samuel Rawet para a literatura brasileira e para a produção cultural judaico-brasileira.This research has had as its central purpose to contribute for the rescue of Samuel Rawets work, mainly through the analysis of his first book, Contos do Imigrante (Immigrant stories), published in 1956. It was sought to establish the locus of his literary production, under two concomitant and converging optics: that of the Jewish literature produced in Brazil, and that of the Brazilian literature of the genre privileged by Rawet, the short story. Searching to attain these goals, the research has been divided into five parts: Chapter one, Samuel Rawets Critical Fortune, surveys the reception of Rawets works by the specialized critique alongside his career; newspapers, literature magazines, and books on literature critique were searched. It has been observed that, in general terms, specialists have always given Rawets fictional works a favorable welcome, notwithstanding some few dissonant opinions. However, what astonishes us, for its scarcity, is the number of texts dealing with Rawets work, the growing indifference of the critics. Chapter two, An Autobiography, tries to draw a panorama of Rawets life, with absolute emphasis on the aspects related to his literary production. For this purpose, passages extracted from interviews given by Rawet in different points of his career have been compiled. These testimonies were contextualized by the present author by means of analyses of Jewish life conditions in Eastern Europe and of the particularities of the great exodus from Russia and Poland, mainly to the United States but also to Brazil and other American countries. Chapter three, Narrativity, Language, Exclusion, analyses the first five stories in the anthology Contos do Imigrante, that is, those in which Rawet focuses on Jewish protagonists, the relationships with their respective families and with the Jewish community, groups that are traditionally held as pillars of the Jewish life. Chapter four, Social Responsibility, tries to observe, through the reading of the five "non-Judaic" stories of the anthology Contos do Imigrante, the appearance of a social conscience in the young Samuel Rawet as he feels more and more like a Brazilian thinker. At last, chapter five, General Bibliography, presents a list of Samuel Rawets books and all that has been written about him, of whose existence the present author has had acquaintance, besides other works of general character that the author has made use of. Despite being aware that this relation is not complete, I believe that it may serve as a starting point for other researchers, and I hope to have advanced a step, if modest, towards the systematization of a bibliography by and on Samuel Rawet, whose importance is correlate to the importance of Samuel Rawet himself for Brazilian literature and for the Jewish-Brazilian cultural production.
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Mouflard, Claire Angélique. "Prostitution chez Calixthe Beyala race, corps, regard /." CONNECT TO THIS TITLE ONLINE, 2007. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05292007-202601/.
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Morse, Daniel Lee. "Not quite white : Jewish literary identity, new immigration and otherness in America, 1890-1930." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9564.
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America’s ‘long early twentieth century’ (1890-1945) was a period of intense industrialization, urbanization, and immigration which fundamentally altered the character of the nation. Between 1900 and 1924, which saw the curtailing of immigration from southern and eastern Europe via the passage of the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act (successor to 1921’s stop-gap Emergency Quota Act), more than 14 million people flocked to the U.S. in search of economic opportunity, social equality, and freedom from religious and political oppression. Descendants of these ‘new immigrants,’ as they were called, were by the late twentieth century a staple of white American suburbia, but their progenitors were variously considered ‘off-white,’ ‘dark-white,’ or non-white, with attendant connotations of mental, physical, and moral inferiority. This research examines texts, authored by Jewish immigrants such as Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska, Rose Cohen, and Mary Antin, which were published between 1890 and 1930, when the onset of the Great Depression saw a rise in anti-Semitism that contributed to the decline in popularity of ‘up by the bootstraps’ Americana whose narratives chronicled, ostensibly, social assimilation and cultural integration; it considers the ramifications of writing in English for a native audience, which frequently alienated Jewish immigrants from their peers, and analyzes the manner in which the United States’ shifting social mores coincided with—and facilitated—new immigrants’ reappraisal of religion, education, commerce, and family life in the ‘new world’ of the west. It argues that the ambivalence contained within many of these texts was both a reaction to nativist prejudices and an effort to expose misconceptions present on both sides of the wildly popular Americanization movement, as well as exploring the way that such narratives attempted the redefinition of American philanthropic, educational and civic paradigms—the preponderance of which passionately espoused rhetoric of equality while reinforcing the stratification of the United States’ class system—into modes of interaction that accommodated difference while seeking to establish common ground upon which could be built a more inclusive, multiethnic future. Finally, it addresses the continuing relevance of these works as texts which both predict and presage modern modes of social interaction and discusses their future in an evolving literary canon that has, historically speaking, been an agent of western patriarchal hegemony.
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Adelman, Lizzie. "Strange at home, stranger abroad women, borderlands and the uncanny /." Connect to this thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/619.
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Traister, Laura. "Immigration and Identity Translation: Characters in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake as Translators and Translated Beings." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/335.
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Bharati Mukherjee’s 1989 novel Jasmine and Jhumpa Lahiri’s 2003 novel The Namesake both feature immigrant protagonists, who experience name changes and identity transformations in the meeting space of Indian and American cultures. Using the theory of cultural translation to view translation as a metaphor for identity transformation, I argue that as these characters alter their identities to conform to cultural expectations, they act as both translators and translated texts. Although they struggle with the resistance of untranslatability via their inability to completely assimilate into American culture, Jasmine and Gogol ultimately gain the ability to bypass the limitations of a foreigner/native binary and enter a space of negotiation and growth.
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Levillain, Stève. "Naissance et évolution d’une mentalité populaire urbaine au XXe siècle: paysage urbain et litterature populaire." Diss., University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5802.
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The literatures of Immigration from North Africa to France represent one of the constitutive fields of investigation for Postcolonial Francophone studies. As such, approaches to this are often locked in a postcolonial perspective. Through my courses in 20th century literature, I discovered several aspects of literature of immigration that relate to French popular literature. In light of this, my dissertation establishes a link between these two literary genres by analyzing the evolution of urban spaces in the Parisian periphery. The primary objective of this dissertation is to translate aspects of the contemporary issues of the French banlieues from a purely postcolonial perspective to questions of institutional choices in French city planning over the course of the past hundred and fifty years. The underlying assumption is that the spatial transformation that has taken place has affected the social interactions of the inhabitants and contributed to the evolution of a working class mentality. The expectation is that in-depth understanding of this interaction will allow me to explore the socio-cultural situation in France’s suburbs today.
Beginning with the renovation of Paris, undertaken by Haussmann in the second half of the nineteenth century, each of the five chapters of my dissertation corresponds to a particular moment of this evolution. For every chapter, I analyze the characters’ relationships with their spatial surroundings, as well as the nature of their social interactions with other residents. The first novels are the only ones of my corpus set in the interior part of Paris. As more and more of the urban working class is driven outside of the city limits by the renovations and the rapidly developing industry in the periphery, the texts illustrate the increasing social isolation and loss of agency for the characters. In aligning popular literature and literature of immigration on the same axis, my focus lies primarily on the geographical space, the banlieue, and its transformation in time.
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Davis-McElligatt, Joanna Christine. "'In the same boat now': peoples of the African diaspora and/as immigrants: the politics of race, migration, and nation in twentieth-century American literature." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/485.
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In this dissertation, I take seriously Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assertion that even though non-indigenous peoples in America "may have come over on different ships," they are all, in spite of and in the face of their particular ethnic, racial, gender, class, tribal, or national identities, nevertheless together "in the same boat now." In particular, in this project I reconstruct and reinterpret the process of migration, assimilation, and the realization of full sociopolitical participation in the United States in terms of the relationship between peoples of African descent--who were compelled to migrate as slaves across the Middle Passage, and who also voluntarily immigrated from various localities within the Black Atlantic--and select groups of immigrants from other locations around the globe. In my thesis, I concentrate on novels by William Faulkner, Paule Marshall, James Baldwin, Gayl Jones, and cartoonist Chris Ware, and examine closely how these authors, in their respective texts, work to restructure, reimagine, and thereby challenge the enshrined American narratives of national belonging and acculturation through literary constructions of the identities and experiences of peoples of African descent, as migrants themselves, in tandem with their social, political, economic, sexual, racial, and cultural engagements with other immigrants to the nation-state. In the introduction to my text, I survey and carefully synthesize diverse literary, historical, sociological, postcolonial, and feminist approaches to and theories of the problems of race, immigration, and nationalization, and formulate a new critical interdisciplinary framework for the mutual (de)construction of peoples of African descent as immigrants among immigrants in America.
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March, Jessica. "Self-selection : constructions of identity in migrant-Irish autobiography (1914-2004)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670055.
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Lincow, Jamie Agins. "La distopia en las novelas de Ana Maria Shua." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/75557.
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This dissertation focuses on the influence of political and social history in the novels of Ana María Shua, an Argentine author who critiques her own contemporary society based upon her nation’s history and her Jewish ancestry. It examines the relationships between individuals, such as parents and children, spouses, or friends to demonstrate that people are unable to change their own situation: the circularity of time and the repetition of the past will always haunt the inhabitants and marginalize them. This work analyzes Shua’s five novels: Soy paciente (1980), Los amores de Laurita (1984), El libro de los recuerdos (1994), La muerte como efecto secundario (1997), and El peso de la tentación (2007). These selected works explore the transformations of the protagonists through their interactions with their environment in order to prove that the individual will remain isolated within the hierarchies and institutions created by contemporary society. The introduction offers an overview of Shua’s biography and literary works as well as an exploration of the connections between the history of Argentina and the author’s novels. Chapter 1 focuses on the influence of history in the present and future of the protagonists in Los amores de Laurita, El libro de los recuerdos, and La muerte como efecto secundario. Chapter 2 makes use of Michel Foucault’s system of power to explore the way in which society victimizes the protagonists. The chapter studies: Los amores de Laurita, La muerte como efecto secundario, and El peso de la tentación. Chapter 3 analyzes the hierarchies established in the institutions and how they convert the body of the individual into a jail. The novels studied include: Soy paciente, La muerte como efecto secundario, and El peso de la tentación. Chapter 4 demonstrates how the history of Argentina is represented in the political and social institutions of El libro de los recuerdos, Soy paciente, and El peso de la tentación. It connects the contemporary desire of a utopian future with Jewish tradition and the hope of a messiah. The conclusions recapitulate the pessimistic, dystopian future that remains for each of the protagonists.
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Hounfodji, Raymond G. "Politiscopie du Roman Africain Francophone depuis 1990." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/145455.
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Both African writers and literary critics have long used the ideology of "Négritude" and the political commitment it generated as the theoretical basis for their works. However, since independence in Africa, this common practice started to lose momentum due to a shift in the social and political realities. Furthermore, in recent decades, new generations of African writers have moved away from the "Négritude" movement's beliefs. Nevertheless, there are still some nostalgic writers and critics who cling to this historic movement that shaped African literature and thought for half a century. The above two trends paved the way for my starting hypothesis: is it still possible to evaluate what Abiola Irele calls the "African imagination" in the narrative, and especially novels, without the traditional criteria of political commitment and ideology? To answer this fundamental question, I define my analytical method as a "politiscopie." This neologism is formed in the image of the word "radioscopie." "Politiscopie" combines the stem for politics, "politi-," with the suffix "-scopie," from the Latin scopium (instrument for viewing) and the Greek skopein (to look at). And I define "politiscopie" as the analytical examination of political discourse in literary text. This examination is stripped of the conscious or unconscious analytical tendency that I call "l'humeur idéologique des critiques," or "the ideological mood of critics. "This dissertation is divided into two parts and an introduction, in which I define political discourse based on L'archéologie du savoir by Michel Foucault. The first part--chapters one and two--is a "politiscopical" examination, an examination of political discourse in African novels since 1990. I discuss the explicit and implicit political discourse present in the considered novels. In the second part--chapters three and four, I attempt to tease out the triangular relationship between Africa, the writer, and the relevant political realities. I investigate the political representation of Africa by the new generations of African writers, and then I look at the impact of distance on those writers to see whether the location of the authors--abroad or on the African continent--affects the way they treat African political debates.
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Richardson, Sonia Delphine. "Réalités et fictions du travail de l'immigré Subsaharien dans la France postcoloniale." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/878.
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This dissertation investigates the representation of labor in postcolonial immigration in French and Francophone Literature and Films. I analyze construction of identity among male immigrants through labor in the two novels Le Docker Noir (1956) by Ousmane Sembène and Mirages de Paris (1937) by Ousmane Diop. Immigrant women's labor situations are explored in the domestic sphere in Une esclave moderne by Akofa or the movie La noire de by Ousmane Sembène. I argue that these women laborers are "doubly colonized" through both gender and class. Finally I contend that neither La Sape nor sport and sexual labor help the integration of immigrant workers in France. Rather, disillusion and exploitation put an end once again to the adventure of young African candidates to immigration.
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Ray, Sara Jaquette. "The ecological other : Indians, invalids, and immigrants in U.S. environmental thought and literature /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1906522191&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Muller, Adam Patrick Dooley. "The importance of being elsewhere : modernist expatriation and the American literary tradition." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35022.
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My dissertation concentrates on Americans writing at home and abroad in the inter-war period and contextualizes their expatriation with reference to debates between modernist critics over the nature and substance of the American literary tradition. I clarify the definitions of terms like "exile," "emigrant," and "expatriate" central to my analysis but muddied by years of misuse. I do so with reference to coercion, a concept which I develop in accordance with recent work in the philosophy of action. At the same time I make the case for a realist, causalist hermeneutics. Next I explore the aesthetic corollary to my argument with reference to the fiction, autobiography, and literary criticism of Gertrude Stein. I argue that Stein's decision to leave America must be viewed as uncoerced, and as therefore indicative of her emigration to France. Viewed as an emigrant, and not as an exile or expatriate, Stein can be shown to manifest tendencies in her work (towards subjectivity, abstraction, and retrospection) which reflect her dissociation from, rather than ongoing connection to, America. Lastly, I look closely at the work of Van Wyck Brooks and Harold Stearns, two modernist literary and culture critics whose writings on expatriation demonstrably influenced generations of subsequent biographers and intellectual historians. Steams and Brooks can be counted among the most articulate and vociferous proponents of literary change in America, and can be situated at the poles of a vigorous debate within the literary community of their day over whether American letters were better served from within or without the United States. I contrast Brooks' civic humanism with Steams' rugged individualism and identify in the debate over expatriation a powerful analogue to ongoing debates in literary and cultural critical circles referred to as "the culture wars."
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Bahia, Ryanne Freire Monteiro. "Homens de letras, homens de ciÃncia: discurso raciolÃgico na literatura brasileira em CanaÃ, de GraÃa Aranha." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2016. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=16955.
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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel SuperiorA pergunta de partida que norteia esse estudo Ã: de que forma o(s) discurso(s) raciolÃgico(s) se expressa(m) na literatura brasileira por meio da obra Canaà (1902) de GraÃa Aranha? O objetivo geral da tese à perceber os modos de expressÃo do discurso raciolÃgico na obra supracitada e estabelecer a rede de relaÃÃes simbÃlicas e sociais que dialogam direta e indiretamente com sua postura em seu primeiro romance que trata sobre a imigraÃÃo. De modo mais especÃfico, buscamos: a) Analisar o modo pelo qual GraÃa Aranha apresenta e discute por meios de suas personagens os temas raÃa, progresso e civilizaÃÃo, termos-chave para o discurso raciolÃgico brasileiro; b)Perscrutar o lugar social de GraÃa Aranha, bem como as teorias raciais que influenciaram as "teses" apresentadas em CanaÃ; c) Explorar o caminho, pelo qual o ideÃrio racial pautou o debate sobre o projeto de Brasil e a identidade do brasileiro; d) Investigar os sentidos do processo de imigraÃÃo europeia (no caso de GraÃa Aranha, dos alemÃes) para o Brasil e a relaÃÃo entre negros e brancos no inÃcio do sÃculo XX e inÃcio da repÃblica da espada. Metodologicamente, realizou-se uma pesquisa documental que teve como instrumento de coleta de dados a anÃlise do discurso qualitativa, seguindo as orientaÃÃes elementares de Orladi (1988, 1992, 1993) e Foucault (2009). à guisa de conclusÃo, percebeu-se que a obra literÃria Canaà apresentou um caleidoscÃpio de ideias referentes ao discurso comum à Ãpoca, desde ao super-homem nietzscheniano de Lentz, perpassando Ãs referÃncias raciais da Escola do Recife para discutir, em Ãltima instÃncia, a identidade nacional e como esta ficaria afetada pelo fenÃmeno da imigraÃÃo estrangeira.
The starting question guiding this study is: how the races (s) discourse (s) is expressed (m) in Brazilian literature through the work Canaan (1902) Aranha? The overall aim of the thesis is to realize the racial speech modes of expression in the above work and establish the network of symbolic and social relations that dialogue directly and indirectly with his stance in his first novel which deals with immigration. More specifically, we seek to: a) analyze the way Aranha presented and discussed by means of their characters topics race, progress and civilization, key terms for the Brazilian racial speech; b) Peering social place Aranha and racial theories that influenced the "theses" presented in Canaan; c) Explore the way by which the racial ideology guided the debate on the bill of Brazil and the Brazilian identity; d) To investigate the senses of European immigration process (for Aranha, German) for Brazil and the relationship between blacks and whites in the early twentieth century and the beginning of the sword republic. Methodologically, there was a documentary research that had as data collection instrument to analyze the qualitative speech, following the basic guidelines of Orladi (1988, 1992, 1993) and Foucault (2009). In conclusion, it was realized that the literary work Canaan presented a kaleidoscope of related ideas to the common discourse at the time, since the nietzscheniano superman Lentz, passing to racial references Reef School to discuss, ultimately, the national identity and how this would be affected by foreign immigration phenomenon.
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Lancaster, Lauren T. "Memory and Trauma in Edwidge Danticat’s Fiction." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1303495922.
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CHIODAROLI, SARA. "Voci migranti nella letteratura spagnola contemporanea." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Bergamo, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10446/26700.
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The phenomenon of immigration in contemporary Spain has led the country to face new forms of cultural production, as literature, proceeding from extra cultural contexts now included in the local territory. The post-colonial perspective has been meaningful to analyse the literary texts recollected in this work, but the sight proposed by Homi Komi Bhabha and Spivak needed to be revised according to a new historical context. The western metropolis that hosts the XXI century migrants is not anymore linked to a postcolonial and decolonized world, but to a new form of renovated colonialism, expressed in the enclosure of EU frontiers, in the political and media production of ‘illegality’ and in the economical slavery of the ‘North’ on the ‘South’. The “absence” of colonized people has been reactivated in the denial of existence of contemporary ‘il/legal beings’, invisible in the darkness of their irregular condition or, if they are legal, still not visible in the obscurity of stereotypes and racism of European citizens.
The analysis of some meaningful literary texts of immigrant authors living in Spain, such as Najat El Hachmi, Saïd El Kadaoui, Víctor Ombga and Sivia Cuevas-Morales, has shown interesting results on the variability of self-representation forms and on the effects that the anti-immigration EU policy has on the expression of the ‘in-between’ voices.
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Mauthes, Barbara. "José Watanabe et Doris Moromisato : deux écrivains nikkei-péruviens." Thesis, Cergy-Pontoise, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018CERG0894.
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Dans ce travail nous nous proposons d’étudier la poésie de deux écrivains nikkei-péruviens : José Watanabe et Doris Moromisato. Nous voulons observer comment elle témoigne d’un processus de construction identitaire. Avant d’aborder notre corpus, nous dressons un panorama historique et sociologique de la présence japonaise et nikkei en Amérique latine, et spécialement au Pérou, à travers notamment un examen des artefacts culturels destinés à rendre hommage à la communauté nikkei péruvienne qui s’est constituée au début du XXe siècle avec l’arrivée de main d’œuvre paysanne japonaise. Membres de cette communauté, fils et fille d’immigrés, Watanabe et Moromisato ont dû se définir comme péruviens d’origine japonaise, et l’ont fait pour une grande part en écrivant. Nous voulons montrer comment chacun exploite et intègre son héritage familial à son identité péruvienne. Nous traitons chaque auteur séparément dans le but de dégager plus clairement les points essentiels de leurs univers poétiques et de leur position face à leurs origines. Nous verrons ainsi que l’héritage culturel de Watanabe conditionne en parti sa posture de poète, et que sa vision du haïku japonais, tel que son père le lui a fait connaître enfant, révèle une conception particulière de son travail de poète. À l’inverse, les parents Okinawaïens peu instruits de Moromisato n’ont pu la mettre en contact avec la culture littéraire japonaise, et c’est une fois adulte qu’elle la rencontre telle qu’elle s’exporte. Issue d’un foyer renfermé sur les souvenirs d’un Okinawa rural, Moromisato envisage son identité multiple d’une façon différente que Watanabe, qui a grandi dans un foyer ouvert sur la culture autochtoneIn this work we aim to study the poetry of two Peruvian nikkei writers: José Watanabe and Doris Moromisato. We hope to see how it reflects a process of identity building. Before going into the texts, we will provide a historical and sociological overview of the Japanese and Nikkei presence in Latin America, especially in Peru, through an examination of cultural artefacts paying tribute to the Peruvian Nikkei community formed at the beginning of the 20th century with the arrival of Japanese peasant workers. As members of this community (both are children of immigrants), Watanabe and Moromisato had to define themselves as Peruvians of Japanese origin, and did so largely by writing. We intend to demonstrate how each utilizes their family heritage to their advantage, integrating it into their Peruvian identity. We will study each author separately in order to clarify the essential characteristics of their poetic universes and their position in relation to their origins. We will see that Watanabe’s cultural heritage partially conditioned his work as a poet, and that his vision of the Japanese haiku, as passed down by his father, reveals unique insight into his artistic work. Conversely, Moromisato's undereducated Okinawan parents were unable to bring her into contact with Japanese literary culture, and it wasn’t until she was an adult that she encountered it in its exported form. Moromisato, who was born into a home closed off from influences outside those originating in /who was born into a home that thrived on memories of rural Okinawa, sees his multiple identities differently than Watanabe, who grew up in an environment that was open to peruvian culture
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John, Helder. "A imigração alemã no Rio Grande do Sul na literatura alemã contemporânea : a formação de uma identidade híbrida." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/115780.
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O presente trabalho tem por objetivo analisar como a cultura do imigrante alemão é constituída em duas obras da literatura alemã atual que abordam a emigração do Hunsrück para o Rio Grande do Sul. Para isso, realizou-se, inicialmente, uma breve revisão dos contextos históricos alemão e brasileiro na primeira metade do século XIX. Em seguida, foi apresentado o processo de migração, a partir de cinco locais que representam esse movimento, desde a saída de sua terra até a chegada ao novo lugar. Além disso, sob o olhar pós-colonial presente na teoria literária atual, procurou-se destacar os conceitos de hibridização e de Terceiro Espaço relacionados ao contato de culturas e ao surgimento, a partir de então, de uma cultura híbrida. Posteriormente, após a apresentação das obras Menschen im Aufbruch (1998) e Das Mädchen am Rio Paraíso (2010), selecionadas como corpus da pesquisa, foram identificados os elementos principais que caracterizam os cinco locais do romance de migração e os elementos que estão relacionados ao contato entre as culturas brasileira e alemã e, principalmente, que indicam como é construída a cultura do imigrante alemão na Colônia de São Leopoldo. Por fim, a partir dos dados encontrados, foi realizada uma análise relacionando os elementos de ambas as obras que se aproximavam ou que divergiam. Desse modo, a partir dessa análise, verificou-se que, em ambas as obras, podem ser encontrados os cinco locais que constituem o movimento de migração, havendo, inclusive, aspectos semelhantes entre os romances. Com base na teoria pós-colonial, também se identificou, como ocorreu nas obras literárias o contato entre as culturas brasileira e alemã e, a partir das relações entre elas, como foi construída a cultura híbrida do colono alemão nos romances.This thesis aims at analyzing how the German immigrant culture is made based on two books of current German Literature which approach Hunsrück emigration to Rio Grande do Sul. In order to make it possible, a brief revision of both German and Brazilian historical context was made related to the first half of the nineteenth century. Afterwards, the process of immigration was introduced from five places which represent this movement, from the moment of leaving the land to the arrival at the new place. Besides, based on a post-colonial perspective present in current literary theory, the research focused on highlighting the concepts of hybridization and Third Space related to culture contact and to the ensuing beginning of a hybrid culture. Then, after the presentation of the books Menschen im Aufbruch (1998) and Das Mädchen am Rio Paraíso (2010), selected as research corpus, the main elements which characterize the five places of the Romance of Migration and the elements which are connected to the German and Brazilian culture were identified. As a result, they indicate how the culture of the German immigrant is built at São Leopoldo Colony. Finally, based on the data found, an analysis of convergent and divergent elements in both novels was made. Therefore, from this analysis, it was observed that the five places which constitute the migration movement were found in both books. There are even similar aspects in the novels. The post-colonial theory helped highlight the contact between Brazilian and German cultures as presented in the literary books and, from these connections, how the hybrid culture of the German settler is built in the novels.
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Ray, Sarah Jaquette 1976. "The ecological other: Indians, invalids, and immigrants in U.S. environmental thought and literature." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10352.
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xi, 233 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.This dissertation argues that a fundamental paradox underlies U.S. environmentalism: even as it functions as a critique of dominant social and economic practices, environmentalism simultaneously reinforces many social hierarchies, especially with regard to race, immigration, and disability, despite its claims to recognize the interdependence of human and ecological well-being. This project addresses the related questions: In what ways does environmentalism--as a code of behavioral imperatives and as a set of rhetorical strategies--ironically play a role in the exploitation of land and communities? Along what lines--class, race, ability, gender, nationality, age, and even "sense of place"--do these environmental codes and discourses delineate good and bad environmental behavior? I contend that environmentalism emerged in part to help legitimize U.S. imperial ambitions and support racialized and patriarchal conceptions of national identity. Concern about "the environment" made anxieties about communities of color more palatable than overt racism. Furthermore, "environmentalism's hidden attachments" to whiteness and Manifest Destiny historically aligned the movement with other repressive ideologies, such as eugenics and strict anti-immigration. These "hidden attachments" exist today, yet few have analyzed their contemporary implications, a gap this project fills. In three chapters, I detail nineteenth-century environmentalism's influence on contemporary environmental thought. Each of these three illustrative chapters investigates a distinct category of environmentalism's "ecological others": Native Americans, people with disabilities, and undocumented immigrants. I argue that environmentalism defines these groups as "ecological others" because they are viewed as threats to nature and to the American national body politic. The first illustrative chapter analyzes Native American land claims in Leslie Marmon Silko's 1991 novel, Almanac of the Dead . The second illustrative chapter examines the importance of the fit body in environmental literature and U.S. adventure culture. In the third illustrative chapter, I integrate literary analysis with geographical theories and methods to investigate national security, wilderness protection, and undocumented immigration in the borderland. In a concluding fourth chapter, I analyze works of members of the excluded groups discussed in the first three chapters to show how they transform mainstream environmentalism to bridge social justice and ecological concerns. This dissertation contains previously published material.
Committee in charge: Shari Huhndorf, Chairperson, English; Louise Westling, Member, English; David Vazquez, Member, English; Juanita Sundberg, Member, Not from U of 0 Susan Hardwick, Outside Member, Geography
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Juurmaa, Nora. "De Matsui Tarô (1917-2017), écrivain brésilien d’origine japonaise, à Andreï Ivanov (1971- ), écrivain d’origine russe vivant en Estonie : conception de la "mort" dans la littérature de deux communautés issues des migrations, de 1970 à 2010 pour la communauté nippo-brésilienne et de 2008 à 2016 pour la communauté russophone d’Estonie." Thesis, Lyon, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020LYSE3027.
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La présente étude se veut une analyse de la fonction de l’élément « mort » dans la fiction littéraire de MATSUI Tarô (1917-2017), auteur phare de la littérature japonophone du Brésil. Une comparaison est effectuée avec l’œuvre d’Andreï IVANOV (1971- ), grand nom de la littérature russophone d’Estonie. Cette thèse s’articule autour de l’argument de Michel Picard, lequel estime que dans le domaine littéraire, « quand on parle de la mort, on parle toujours d’autre chose » : « En premier lieu parce qu’il s’agit ici de tourner l’insurmontable difficulté de temporaliser l’intemporel instant mortel, mais surtout à cause des préoccupations véritables […] qui ne concernent bien entendu que la vie. Enfin celles-ci elles-mêmes ont clairement révélé qu’elles n’étaient que des espèces de symptômes, de métaphores ; que l’essentiel, dans ce topos comme chaque fois qu’il s’agit de la « mort », est inconscient. » Après avoir traité des questions relatives à l’histoire et aux politiques d’identité des communautés concernées – la communauté « japonaise » du Brésil et celle, russophone, d’Estonie –, cette thèse interroge la manière dont s’est construit le monde littéraire japonophone du Brésil. D'autres interrogations seront ensuite soulevées : pourquoi la mort apparaît-elle si souvent dans la fiction littéraire de Matsui ? Quelles fonctions ces morts occupent-elles dans son œuvre, ainsi que dans celle d’Ivanov ? Si le sujet abordé par les auteurs n’est pas la mort per se, quel est leur véritable propos ? Est-ce le passé qui meurt, comme cela semble être le cas dans La Cerisaie d’Anton Tchekhov ? Quelle est la relation de Matsui Tarô à ce passé ? Et dans le cas d’Andreï Ivanov ? Comment choisissent-ils, fût-ce de manière inconsciente, de voir le passé et de dialoguer avec lui ? Cette étude démontre que la « mort » dans les littératures de Matsui et Ivanov, s’il est un véhicule privilégié de critiques adressées par les deux auteurs à leurs communautés respectives, sert également à communiquer une vision d’avenir pour ces dernières — à savoir la proposition d’une assimilation complète. L’élément « mort » indique les raisons pour lesquelles ces auteurs refusent des concepts construits tels que « nous » (i.e. une communauté isolée)The present study proposes an analysis of the function of “death” in the literary fiction of MATSUI Tarô (1917-2017), a leading author in Brazilian Japanese-language literature. A comparison is carried out with the oeuvre of Andrei IVANOV (1971- ), a key author in Estonian Russian-language literature. This thesis is built around Michel Picard’s argument, which proposes that in the literary field, “when we speak about death, we always speak about something else”: “Firstly because the core of the matter is to circumvent the insurmountable difficulty of temporalizing [materialising] the timeless [immaterial] moment of death, but mostly because of the actual preoccupations […] that certainly only concern life. These [preoccupations] themselves have clearly revealed that they [are] no more than symptoms, metaphors of some sort; that the crux of the matter, in this topos as well as each time that “death” is concerned, is unconscious.”After examining the historical and political contexts of the communities in question – the “Japanese” community of Brazil and the Russian-language community in Estonia – this thesis questions the ways that the Japanese-language literary world has been constructed in Brazil. Other questions are then raised: why does “death” appear so frequently in Matsui Tarô’s literary fiction? What are the functions operated by these deaths in his and Andrei Ivanov’s oeuvre? If the subject matter addressed by the two authors is not death per se, what are the real preoccupations at stake? Is it the past that dies, in a way that it seems to be the case in Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard? How does Matsui Tarô relate to this past? What about Andrei Ivanov? How do they choose, be it unconsciously, to see the past and to dialogue with it? This study shows that while “death” functions, in the literatures of Matsui and Ivanov, as a privileged vehicle conveying the criticisms that the two authors address to their respective communities, it is also used as a tool to communicate a vision for the future of these communities — that is, the proposition of a complete assimilation. The element of “death” points out the reasons why these authors refuse constructed concepts such as “us” (i.e. an isolated community)
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Ponze, Adrian. "La crise argentine de 2001 et ses conséquences : un regard à travers la littérature et le cinéma argentin des années 2000." Thesis, Paris Est, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PESC0080/document.
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Ce travail est le résultat d'une recherche pluridisciplinaire basée sur l'hypothèse suivante : il existe une certaine porosité entre récits fictionnels et productions scientifiques en sciences sociales. A partir d‘un cadre théorique et méthodologique qui comprend la sociologie de la culture et la théorie littéraire et cinématographique, nous avons fait l‘analyse critique d'un corpus de textes de fiction relevant de la NNA (Nouvelle Narration Argentine) et de films relevant du NCA (Nouveau Cinéma Argentin), c‘est-à-dire des deux principaux courants artistiques auxquels une nouvelle génération d'auteurs, émergée en Argentine au début du XXIe siècle, a donné forme.Le corpus, d‘une quinzaine de romans et d‘autant de films, a été constitué selon un critère qui caractérise les œuvres choisies : la description de la crise en général et la présence spécifique d‘exclus économiques, en particulier les migrants (le départ d‘Argentins et l‘arrivée d‘étrangers), les villas miseria et leurs habitants, ainsi que la présence de membres de la diversité sexuelle.Nos recherches se sont orientées, d‘une part, vers les transformations observées dans les champs littéraire et cinématographique, notamment vers les changements touchant aux modes de production et de distribution des œuvres, et, d‘autre part, vers la manière dont sont représentés, dans les médias et les œuvres artistiques, les secteurs de la société traditionnellement exclus.L'observation de ces changements et modes de représentation à travers des récits fictionnels permet de confirmer l‘hypothèse de départ, dans la mesure où certains romans et films ont une valeur documentaire pour la recherche en sciences sociales, notamment dans des disciplines telles que l'histoire ou la sociologieThis work is the result of multidisciplinary research in which, using the theoretical and methodological framework of literary and film theory, and the sociology of culture, we have demonstrated that the boundaries between fiction and social science writing are porous. A corpus of fifteen fictional texts identified with the New Argentina Narrative (NAN) movement, and fifteen films made by the New Argentine Cinema (NAC) was analysed. New Argentina Narrative and NAC represent the production of a new generation of Argentine writers and filmmakers between 2000 and 2010. These works included the following topics: migrations from Argentina and immigration, poverty (the villas miseria inhabitants), and gender and sexual diversity in Argentina. The objectives of this study are to evaluate the transformations of Argentine society and how these were represented by a new generation of Argentine writers and filmmakers. Additionally, we have studied the influence of the socio-economic context on artistic expression. Thus, we have analysed not only the aesthetic dimension, but also the modes of production and distribution of Argentina literature and cinema, encompassing the processes of creation, editing and distribution. The observation of these processes through novels and films has allowed us to conclude that some literary and film fiction may have a documentary or testimonial value for research in social science disciplines such as history and sociology