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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Maggi, Diego Darío

Titel

Recordando la patria perdida: Identidad nacional y memoria en narrativas sobre la migración venezolana

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This dissertation focuses on the Venezuelan migration and refugee crisis in the twenty-first century. Through literary and film analysis and historical contextualization, I analyze how various written and audiovisual narratives represent the construction of the memory and national identity of Venezuelan migrants from dissimilar social classes and races. My work contributes to migration studies and film and literary criticism in Latin America by drawing attention to multimedia narratives that illustrate a migration crisis with global implications. The dissertation comprises four chapters. The first chapter analyzes three collective imaginary constructions that influence the memory and national identity of Venezuelan migrants. These constructions include Venezuelan nationalism based on the epic history of this country, the oil’s cultural impact in Venezuela, and the Venezuelan diaspora’s media representation as a symbol of the nation’s decline. The second chapter demonstrates how the novel La hija de la española (2021) by Karina Sainz Borgo depicts a repugnant Venezuela that contaminates the protagonist’s national identity and increases their nostalgia for a lost country. In the third chapter, I analyze how Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles’s novel Blue Label / Etiqueta Azul (2010) and Alejandro Bellame’s film Dirección Opuesta (2021) represent the protagonists’ fragmented memories and national identity within a Caracas symbolized as between rubble and ruins. The final chapter explores how the music videos “Me fui” (2019) by Reymar Perdomo and “Tonada del caminante” (2018) by Pía Páez shape the collective memory and resilience of Venezuelan migrants from the lower classes.