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Women's Voices and Silences in the Contemporary Literature of Central America and Its U.S. Diaspora
Women's Voices and Silences in the Contemporary Literature of Central America and Its U.S....
Women's Voices and Silences in the Contemporary Literature of Central America and Its U.S. Diaspora

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20250211152720
ISBN  
9798384448327
DDC  
860
저자명  
Neyra Tercero, Delia.
서명/저자  
Womens Voices and Silences in the Contemporary Literature of Central America and Its U.S. Diaspora
발행사항  
[Sl] : University of California, Berkeley, 2024
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
형태사항  
106 p
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-03, Section: A.
주기사항  
Advisor: Tarica, Estelle.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2024.
초록/해제  
요약This dissertation examines twenty-first century Central American and U.S. Central American women's literature that redefines the concepts of voice and silence within the period of armed conflict and beyond, thereby showcasing narrative and poetic alternatives to official historical accounts regarding this tumultuous period from the perspective of women. A recurring motif in this body of literature is the interplay between voice and silence, specifically what is "voiced" and what is kept silent for a myriad of reasons. For the women of Central America, the act of speaking or remaining silent is often loaded with political, social, and personal implications. This dissertation, in effect, seeks to explore voice and silence as they manifest in contemporary women's literature of Central America in order to analyze the particular nuances to these concepts and highlight the often ignored issues that are particular to women during war and postwar. Focusing on literature from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and California, this project highlights the experiences of Central and U.S. Central American women from multiple generations who have dealt with war and continue to grapple with the aftermath of the period of armed conflict in the isthmus. In effect, I argue that these women writers reveal how much is yet to be said regarding the traumatic experiences of war, poverty, migration and violence. Furthermore, I argue that silence appears as a tool of empowerment and protection for Central American women and its diaspora.This project maps the possibilities of meanings of voice and silence across four Central American spaces: El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the U.S. Central American diaspora in California. Chapter One analyzes voice and silence in Roza tumba quema (2017). Hernandez articulates the deleterious psychological and material effects of the epoch of armed conflict specifically for women. Through the employment of a third-person narrator, a lack of specific names, and an emphasis on mental dialogue and thinking processes, the Salvadoran writer explores the potential meanings of voice and silence in context of war and postwar El Salvador, opening up the possibilities for how one can narrate and interpret significant and even traumatic life events such as war through the medium of the novel. Specifically, I examine narrative voice as the points of view of women characters and the perspective of the guerrilla. Similarly, silence in the novel exhibits the presence of emotional trauma and stands as a tool for survival. As literary trauma scholar Cathy Caruth states, Roza tumba quema exemplifies a text that points to "a central problem of listening, of knowing, and of representing that emerges from the actual experience of the crisis" (5). Hernandez in effect demonstrates the precarious nature of listening, knowing and representing women's psychological trauma of the Salvadoran armed conflict and its repercussions on them and subsequent generations.Chapter Two centers the poetry of two contemporary poets: Nicaraguan Alejandra Sequeira and Guatemalan Carmen Lucia Alvarado. In this chapter, I analyze the manifestations of voice in silence in Sequeira's poetic collection Quien me espera no existe (2006) and Alvarado's Edad geologica del miedo (2018). These two Central American authors speak to the similar yet multifaceted experiences of Guatemalan and Nicaraguan individuals located within the postwar period and beyond, revealing and highlighting an inextricable relationship between silence, fear and death in the region's contemporary literature. Through its anaphoras, syntactic repetitions, apostrophes, and the content of the poems position silence as the voice of death and fear. Through such nuanced and complex definitions of silence, these Central American poets offer metapoetic ruminations and a reckoning of the psychosomatic repercussions of war, trauma and experiences of post-conflict societies simultaneously. In this way, the kind of silence that is present in the works of Sequeira and Alvarado speaks and communicates messages, and these messages carry out the work of remembering those who perished during the period of armed conflict and afterward in Central America. Through the poetic medium, these writers articulate a nuanced re-definition of silence and exhibit poetry's potential for accomplishing the work of recuperating individual and cultural memories.Chapter Three takes a dive into a few U.S. Central American/diasporic writers: Salvadoran-American Yesika Salgado, Salvadoran-American Leticia Hernandez-Linares and Guatemalan-American Maya Chinchilla. Through an analysis of their poetic collections, selections from Salgado's trilogy of poetic collections Corazon (2017) Tesoro (2018) and Hermosa (2019), Linares' mucha muchacha (2015), and Chinchilla's The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poetica (2014), I posit that contemporary U.S. Central American poetic writing stands as a mode for speaking about and processing significant events such as the experience of war and migration, communicating affective responses to these experiences by voicing and keeping silent, and engendering new possibilities and imaginaries for Central American immigrants and their descendants' personal and collective stories and identities beyond the paradigms of violence and poverty. Furthermore, the centering of women's voices in this specific archive demonstrates the urgency of this sector of the U.S. Central American diaspora to reevaluate and transform gendered, patriarchal norms that have kept women in bondage to silence for decades. It is in this way that U.S. Central American women poets are speaking up about often-silenced issues pertaining to this diasporic community and forging new possibilities of existing for U.S. Central American women.
일반주제명  
Latin American literature
일반주제명  
Literature
일반주제명  
Hispanic American studies
일반주제명  
Language
일반주제명  
Creative writing
키워드  
Central American women
키워드  
Women's literature
키워드  
Traumatic life
키워드  
Poetry
기타저자  
University of California, Berkeley Hispanic Languages & Literatures
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-03A.
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■520    ▼aThis  dissertation  examines  twenty-first  century  Central  American  and  U.S.  Central  American  women's  literature  that  redefines  the  concepts  of  voice  and  silence  within  the  period  of  armed  conflict  and  beyond,  thereby  showcasing  narrative  and  poetic  alternatives  to  official  historical  accounts  regarding  this  tumultuous  period  from  the  perspective  of  women.  A  recurring  motif  in  this  body  of  literature  is  the  interplay  between  voice  and  silence,  specifically  what  is  "voiced"  and  what  is  kept  silent  for  a  myriad  of  reasons.  For  the  women  of  Central  America,  the  act  of  speaking  or  remaining  silent  is  often  loaded  with  political,  social,  and  personal  implications.  This  dissertation,  in  effect,  seeks  to  explore  voice  and  silence  as  they  manifest  in  contemporary  women's  literature  of  Central  America  in  order  to  analyze  the  particular  nuances  to  these  concepts  and  highlight  the  often  ignored  issues  that  are  particular  to  women  during  war  and  postwar.  Focusing  on  literature  from  El  Salvador,  Nicaragua,  Guatemala  and  California,  this  project  highlights  the  experiences  of  Central  and  U.S.  Central  American  women  from  multiple  generations  who  have  dealt  with  war  and  continue  to  grapple  with  the  aftermath  of  the  period  of  armed  conflict  in  the  isthmus.  In  effect,  I  argue  that  these  women  writers  reveal  how  much  is  yet  to  be  said  regarding  the  traumatic  experiences  of  war,  poverty,  migration  and  violence.  Furthermore,  I  argue  that  silence  appears  as  a  tool  of  empowerment  and  protection  for  Central  American  women  and  its  diaspora.This  project  maps  the  possibilities  of  meanings  of  voice  and  silence  across  four  Central  American  spaces:  El  Salvador,  Guatemala,  Nicaragua  and  the  U.S.  Central  American  diaspora  in  California.  Chapter  One  analyzes  voice  and  silence  in  Roza  tumba  quema  (2017).  Hernandez  articulates  the  deleterious  psychological  and  material  effects  of  the  epoch  of  armed  conflict  specifically  for  women.  Through  the  employment  of  a  third-person  narrator,  a  lack  of  specific  names,  and  an  emphasis  on  mental  dialogue  and  thinking  processes,  the  Salvadoran  writer  explores  the  potential  meanings  of  voice  and  silence  in  context  of  war  and  postwar  El  Salvador,  opening  up  the  possibilities  for  how  one  can  narrate  and  interpret  significant  and  even  traumatic  life  events  such  as  war  through  the  medium  of  the  novel.  Specifically,  I  examine  narrative  voice  as  the  points  of  view  of  women  characters  and  the  perspective  of  the  guerrilla.  Similarly,  silence  in  the  novel  exhibits  the  presence  of  emotional  trauma  and  stands  as  a  tool  for  survival.  As  literary  trauma  scholar  Cathy  Caruth  states,  Roza  tumba  quema  exemplifies  a  text  that  points  to "a  central  problem  of  listening,  of  knowing,  and  of  representing  that  emerges  from  the  actual  experience  of  the  crisis"  (5).  Hernandez  in  effect  demonstrates  the  precarious  nature  of  listening,  knowing  and  representing  women's  psychological  trauma  of  the  Salvadoran  armed  conflict  and  its  repercussions  on  them  and  subsequent  generations.Chapter  Two  centers  the  poetry  of  two  contemporary  poets:  Nicaraguan  Alejandra  Sequeira  and  Guatemalan  Carmen  Lucia  Alvarado.  In  this  chapter,  I  analyze  the  manifestations  of  voice  in  silence  in  Sequeira's  poetic  collection  Quien  me  espera  no  existe  (2006)  and  Alvarado's  Edad  geologica  del  miedo  (2018).  These  two  Central  American  authors  speak  to  the  similar  yet  multifaceted  experiences  of  Guatemalan  and  Nicaraguan  individuals  located  within  the  postwar  period  and  beyond,  revealing  and  highlighting  an  inextricable  relationship  between  silence,  fear  and  death  in  the  region's  contemporary  literature.  Through  its  anaphoras,  syntactic  repetitions,  apostrophes,  and  the  content  of  the  poems  position  silence  as  the  voice  of  death  and  fear.  Through  such  nuanced  and  complex  definitions  of  silence,  these  Central  American  poets  offer  metapoetic  ruminations  and  a  reckoning  of  the  psychosomatic  repercussions  of  war,  trauma  and  experiences  of  post-conflict  societies  simultaneously.  In  this  way,  the  kind  of  silence  that  is  present  in  the  works  of  Sequeira  and  Alvarado  speaks  and  communicates  messages,  and  these  messages  carry  out  the  work  of  remembering  those  who  perished  during  the  period  of  armed  conflict  and  afterward  in  Central  America.  Through  the  poetic  medium,  these  writers  articulate  a  nuanced  re-definition  of  silence  and  exhibit  poetry's  potential  for  accomplishing  the  work  of  recuperating  individual  and  cultural  memories.Chapter  Three  takes  a  dive  into  a  few  U.S.  Central  American/diasporic  writers:  Salvadoran-American  Yesika  Salgado,  Salvadoran-American  Leticia  Hernandez-Linares  and  Guatemalan-American  Maya  Chinchilla.  Through  an  analysis  of  their  poetic  collections,  selections  from  Salgado's  trilogy  of  poetic  collections  Corazon  (2017)  Tesoro  (2018)  and  Hermosa  (2019),  Linares'  mucha  muchacha  (2015),  and  Chinchilla's  The  Cha  Cha  Files:  A  Chapina  Poetica  (2014),  I  posit  that  contemporary  U.S.  Central  American  poetic  writing  stands  as  a  mode  for  speaking  about  and  processing  significant  events  such  as  the  experience  of  war  and  migration,  communicating  affective  responses  to  these  experiences  by  voicing  and  keeping  silent,  and  engendering  new  possibilities  and  imaginaries  for  Central  American  immigrants  and  their  descendants'  personal  and  collective  stories  and  identities  beyond  the  paradigms  of  violence  and  poverty.  Furthermore,  the  centering  of  women's  voices  in  this  specific  archive  demonstrates  the  urgency  of  this  sector  of  the  U.S.  Central  American  diaspora  to  reevaluate  and  transform  gendered,  patriarchal  norms  that  have  kept  women  in  bondage  to  silence  for  decades.  It  is  in  this  way  that  U.S.  Central  American  women  poets  are  speaking  up  about  often-silenced  issues  pertaining  to  this  diasporic  community  and  forging  new  possibilities  of  existing  for  U.S.  Central  American  women.
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