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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Warner, Eric John

Titel

Borderlands and identity—migration and representation

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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• ProQuest

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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This dissertation addresses the effects of globalization on literary and cinematic productions from the United States and Mexico in regard to the shared experiences of migration insofar as demonstrated by intensified levels of technology, movement, marginalization, and transformation of once national identities into transnational identities defined by culture and common experiences. At the same time, it also proposes a glimpse into the role of transnational companies and neo-liberal policies in diminishing the national identities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries into stateless-transnational subjects. In addition to contemplating theories of globalization, the selections for the corpus of this study physically or thematically originate from Northern Mexico, and the Mexican-American ideological border regions of the United States. From Northern Mexico, I will use examples from the written work of David Toscana, Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, Rosina Conde, and Rosario Sanmiguel, as well as cinematographic productions from Patricia Riggen, Gustavo Loza, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and María Novaro. From the US, I have made a similar two medium-based selection of written and visual cultural texts from Sandra Cisneros, Victor Villaseñor, Richard Rodríguez, and María Ripoll. In order to understand how these cultural texts embody the aforementioned indicators of globalization, this project embarks along the migratory path from south to north (with a few deviations) to demonstrate the role of identity in developing periphery literatures which take into account transnational, national, regional, and local affiliations juxtaposed with the consequences of globalization. Moreover, we will see the maturation and accomplishment of these fringe literatures into globally acclaimed and respected entities that now share the platform with other famed cultural works demonstrating their breadth, scope, and width.