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At the Limits of Language and Latinidad: Queer Forms of Loss in Contemporary Literature
At the Limits of Language and Latinidad: Queer Forms of Loss in Contemporary Literature
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202104841
- ISBN
- 9798293892532
- DDC
- 820
- 저자명
- Cunha, Fernanda.
- 서명/저자
- At the Limits of Language and Latinidad: Queer Forms of Loss in Contemporary Literature
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of California, Berkeley, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 156 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-04, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Rodriguez, Juana Maria.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약At the Limits of Language and Latinidad: Queer Forms of Loss in Contemporary Literature examines the forms and functions of loss in US Latinx poetry and memoir published between 2014 and 2021. Putting new and queer formalisms in conversation with postcolonial psychoanalytic scholarship and critical ethnic studies, I connect the losses of my primary texts - which include loneliness, family separation and the rupture of kinship ties, PTSD, anxiety, and archival loss, to name a few - to longer hemispheric histories of imperialism, settler colonialism, and anti-Blackness in the Americas. I situate the publication of my primary texts and the losses they creatively give form to in a longer contemporary timeline of projects of nation-state building marked by the aftermath of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) , 9/11, and the subsequent carceral immigration policy of the 90s onward.In my dissertation, I argue that the formal incorporation of loss in my primary texts via sentimentalism, lyric and experimental poetry works against the ongoing systemic erasure of these losses from national and hemispheric memories, including hegemonic discourses of Latinidad as a state-led project of containment, carcerality, and other forms of social and literal death. Consequently, I read the literary aesthetic efforts to narrate, represent, and signify historical, archival, and personal loss in my primary texts as illuminating key contemporary discursive and psychic tensions within Latinidad itself.I posit that formal literary practices such as sentimentalism and melodrama, lyric poetry - including the sonnet, lyric address, and love poetry - , critical fabulation, and experimental poetic forms such as collage and found poetry reveal how contemporary hegemonic discourses of Latinidad, such as mestizaje/miscegenation, assimilation, settler colonialism, and immigration policy function through violent narrative occlusions that are simultaneously archived or evidenced at the formal and aesthetic level of my primary texts. Taking up postcolonial and psychoanalytic scholarship that theorizes loss at the center of structures and histories of language, I read the formal incorporations of historical and personal loss in my primary texts as registering the very limits of literature, writing, and language itself. Instead of writing toward a "whole" or "healed" self in the aftermath of loss, the authors of my primary texts and the aesthetic literary practices they take up offer an ethical and relational orientation toward the self, the other, and history that begins from and is energized by the distinct and shared losses they take up and signify.This dissertation contributes to scholarship in literary studies, critical ethnic studies, psychoanalysis and affect studies by following what may be labeled as the left turn in Latinx studies and theorizing the cultural politics of loss as a central impetus in contemporary Latinx literature.
- 일반주제명
- American literature
- 일반주제명
- Ethnic studies
- 일반주제명
- LGBTQ studies
- 키워드
- Sentimentalism
- 키워드
- Psychic tensions
- 기타저자
- University of California, Berkeley Ethnic Studies
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-04A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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