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▼a 9780438009813 |
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▼a Ramirez Mendez, Alejandro. |
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▼a Trans-Urban Narratives: Literary Cartographies and Global Cities in the Urban Imagination of Mexico and the U.S. |
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▼a [S.l.]:
▼b University of California, Los Angeles.,
▼c 2018. |
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▼a Ann Arbor:
▼b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,
▼c 2018. |
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▼a 239 p. |
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▼a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A. |
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▼a Adviser: Hector Calderon. |
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▼a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2018. |
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▼a This dissertation examines how narratives from Mexican and Mexican-American writers interconnect urban landscapes and cultures in the transnational context of the twenty-first century. This study focuses on what I call "trans-urban narratives," |
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▼a In Chapter One, I examine the intersection, interconnection and fusion of Mexico City and Chicago in post-national narratives. I analyze the short story "Chicago" (2008) by Juan Villoro, focusing on how the main character --a Mexican taxi driver |
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▼a In Chapter Two, I continue the social, political and cultural exploration of Chicago and Mexico City but through the analysis of Caramelo (2002) by Sandra Cisneros. In this chapter, I argue that the multiple trips between Chicago and Mexico City |
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▼a In Chapter Three, by analyzing Mexican-American writer Alejandro Morales's novel, The Rag Doll Plagues (1992), I introduce the intrinsic mechanisms of spatial decolonization that allow to heal processes of segregation, aberrant social practices, |
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▼a In Chapter Four, I analyze the material and immaterial connections between Mexico City and New York. In Valeria Luiselli's Los ingravidos (2011), I explore the ghostly, almost ethereal nature ( ingravidez) of her protagonists --a young woman li |
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▼a School code: 0031. |
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▼a Latin American literature. |
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▼a American literature. |
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▼a Comparative literature. |
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▼a University of California, Los Angeles.
▼b Spanish. |
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▼t Dissertation Abstracts International
▼g 79-10A(E). |
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▼t Dissertation Abstract International |
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▼a 0031 |
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▼a Ph.D. |
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▼a 2018 |
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▼a English |
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▼u http://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T14998804
▼n KERIS
▼z 이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다. |
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▼a ***1012033 |