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Burke, Jessica Noelle.

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Bodies in transition: Identity and the writing process in the narrative of Carmen Boullosa (Mexico).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Bodies in transition: Identity and the writing process in the narrative of Carmen Boullosa (Mexico)./
Author:	Burke, Jessica Noelle.
Description:	199 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-08, Section: A, page: 2945.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-08A.
Subject:	Literature, Latin American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3188613
ISBN:	9780542306853

Bodies in transition: Identity and the writing process in the narrative of Carmen Boullosa (Mexico).
Burke, Jessica Noelle.

Bodies in transition: Identity and the writing process in the narrative of Carmen Boullosa (Mexico). - 199 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-08, Section: A, page: 2945.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2005.

This dissertation studies the relationship between body, identity and the writing process in the narrative work of the contemporary Mexican writer Carmen Boullosa. Boullosa uses the physical body as a metaphor for social identity in much of her work, and this study explores the relationship between representations of the physical body and the narrative corpus of Boullosa's fiction. By deconstructing our instituted notions of body, identity, and gender, Boullosa fragments both her characters' bodies as well as the "body" of the text, questioning traditional methods of presenting both. The particular and personal "histories" that she creates in her novels dialogue with and question the official History that often has excluded or silenced certain voices. Boullosa gives these marginalized groups a voice and a space from which they can express themselves. Chapter 1, "Dreadful Bodies," considers the treatment of childhood sexuality in Boullosa's early narrative work. Focusing on the author's first two novels, this chapter analyzes the function of the body in the formation of a notion of "self" and sexual identity in childhood and adolescence. Chapter 2, "Re-negotiating Colonial Bodies in Historiographic Metafiction," explores the different meanings attributed to colonial bodies---including those of women, children, slaves, prostitutes, pirates, and the indigenous people of the Americas---in fictitious plots that attempt to fill in the "gaps" in historical narrative. Central to discussion is the writing process in the fields of history and literature, and the problem of representation. The third and final chapter, "Consuming the Other," confronts fascinating cases of cannibalism, vampirism and other forms of consumption in Boullosa's fiction. The borders of the body are threatened, violated, blurred, erased, and yet paradoxically reinforced through incorporation of the "Other." Together these three chapters present a new focus on Boullosa's narrative work---one that considers the body in transition. The physical, metaphorical and textual bodies of Boullosa's narrative are works in progress, requiring the active participation of the reader in the construction of their meaning.

ISBN: 9780542306853Subjects--Topical Terms:

1024734
Literature, Latin American.

Bodies in transition: Identity and the writing process in the narrative of Carmen Boullosa (Mexico).
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