Hacia una politica de identidad cultural en la narrativa de cuatro escritoras caribenas: Rosario Ferre, Nicholasa Mohr, Mayra Montero y Cristina Garcia.
详细信息
- 作者：Toral Aleman ; Begona.
- 学历：Doctor
- 年：2004
- 导师：Luis, William
- 毕业院校：Vanderbilt University
- 专业：Literature, Modern.;Literature, Caribbean.;Women's Studies.;Literature, American.
- ISBN：9780496745487
- CBH：3127284
- Country：USA
- 语种：English
- FileSize：12106472
- Pages：336
文摘
Caribbean migrations within and outside the region have contributed to redefine the concept of "nation" as a fixed, geographical space. In Puerto Rico and Cuba, national culture has traditionally been defined within national frontiers and the concept of "true" national literature has been legitimized by intellectuals and writers of both Islands. In the first decades of the twentieth century, Puerto Rican authors such as Antonio Pedreira celebrated Puerto Rico's Spanish heritage whereas others like Luis Pales Matos vindicated the African component of national culture. In that same period Cuban writers like Fernando Ortiz and Nicolas Guillen acknowledged Cuba's African heritage and their writings on blackness continued the nineteenth-century antislavery literary tradition promoted on the Island under Domingo del Monte's tutelage. This discourse on Puerto Rican and Cuban "nation-space" has claimed the Spanish language as well as Spanish and/or African culture.;To illustrate how this national discourse is reevaluated, I study the narratives of four Caribbean women writers: The House on the Lagoon (1995) by the Puerto Rican Rosario Ferre, In My Own Words: Growing Up Inside the Sanctuary of My Imagination (1994) by the Nuyorican Nicholasa Mohr, La ultima noche que pase contigo (1991) by the Cuban Mayra Montero, and The Aguero Sisters (1997) by the Cuban-American Cristina Garcia. Narrating from different "spaces," these women writers problematize the concept of "Caribbeanness" by incorporating multiple cultures in their rearticulation of identity. Montero reaffirms the African element of Caribbean culture in a trasnational context; Mohr, Garcia and Ferre---who has switched from Spanish to English in her new fiction---acknowledge Spanish, African and North American cultural legacies. Drawing on postcolonial theories, I show how these discourses that explore both gender and race issues revisit the patriarchal notion of History/Nation by dismantling not only the sexual, racial and cultural prejudices still present on both the Island and the continent, but also by ultimately questioning the history of slavery and colonialism in the Caribbean.