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Di Iorio, Lyn F.

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Killing Spanish: Doubles, dead mothers and other allegories of ambivalent United States Latino/a Caribbean identity (Cristina Garcia, Rosario Ferre, Loida Maritza Perez, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic).

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Title/Author:	Killing Spanish: Doubles, dead mothers and other allegories of ambivalent United States Latino/a Caribbean identity (Cristina Garcia, Rosario Ferre, Loida Maritza Perez, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic)./
Author:	Di Iorio, Lyn F.
Description:	186 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-01, Section: A, page: 0170.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-01A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3001819
ISBN:	0493104704

Killing Spanish: Doubles, dead mothers and other allegories of ambivalent United States Latino/a Caribbean identity (Cristina Garcia, Rosario Ferre, Loida Maritza Perez, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic).
Di Iorio, Lyn F.

Killing Spanish: Doubles, dead mothers and other allegories of ambivalent United States Latino/a Caribbean identity (Cristina Garcia, Rosario Ferre, Loida Maritza Perez, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic). - 186 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-01, Section: A, page: 0170.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2000.

My dissertation explores novels by contemporary U.S. Latina Caribbean writers in which ambivalence about origins is expressed through allegorizing the origin as a dead woman. My interest in the trope of allegory---the subject of Chapter One---derives from my idea that U.S. Latino/a literature is now at what Frantz Fanon described as the "second phase"---the allegorical stage---of a literary evolution starting with assimilation and ending in national literatures, a notion complicated by the hybrid nature of contemporary U.S. Latino/a writings. My focus shows that literary strategies such as character doubling and magical subplots are due to allegorical structure, not magical realism, and allows me to address issues raised recently by theorists of minority literature. For example, in Chapter Two, "Allegory's Magical Fragments in Cristina Garcia's The Aguero Sisters," I explore the notion of linkage---between magical realism in Latin American works and in those by American minority writers, discussed by Jose David Saldivar in The Dialectics of Our America---concluding that Garcia's magical realism is a by-product of her novel's allegorical structure. In Chapter Three, I show, by examining Rosario Ferre's transition from autora puertorriquena to U.S. Latina writer, that Ferre---the only Latino/a author to have written books in both Spanish and English emerges as a writer in English by sacrificing "Spanish" through the death of the mother in her last book. In my final chapter, "'That Animals Might Speak': Doubles and the Uncanny in Loida Maritza Perez's Geographies of Home," I demonstrate how the presence of doubles and the memory of an uncanny encounter with a dying woman are reterritorializations of life in the Dominican Republic. The protagonist of Geographies of Home resolves her ambivalence about originary gender roles by taking on a masculinized, individualist American identity enabling her repressesion of memories of a violent past. These allegories of the killing of "Spanish" Caribbean origins---accomplished in these narratives through the deaths of potent mother figures---allow the protagonists, daughters of murdered or sacrificially marked mothers, to take on ambivalent, assimilative identities as U.S. Latina subjects.

ISBN: 0493104704Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

Killing Spanish: Doubles, dead mothers and other allegories of ambivalent United States Latino/a Caribbean identity (Cristina Garcia, Rosario Ferre, Loida Maritza Perez, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic).
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