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Y así les nació la conciencia. Las emociones políticas en Balún Canán de Rosario Castellanos y Abeng de Michelle Cliff

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dc.contributor.advisorLuis Marentes
dc.contributor.advisorRoberto Márquez
dc.contributor.advisorBarbara Zecchi
dc.contributor.authorOsorio, Pilar
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.date2024-03-28T16:18:41.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T15:37:15Z
dc.date.available2025-02-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.submittedFebruary
dc.date.submitted2020
dc.description.abstractIn this dissertation, I track the political emotions present in Abeng by Jamaican Michelle Cliff and Balún Canán by Mexican Rosario Castellanos in order to identify the personal notions of justice held by each of the protagonists. Their personal definitions of justice are tangible in the protagonists' actions and the narrators' tone and decisions. In this research, I engage in a close reading analysis of the emotional legacies that each girl-protagonists accept or reject from the adults around them, their friends, and fiction. I use a theoretical framework based on affect theory (specifically political emotions) and concepts from moral philosophy (e.g. reification, recognition, and epistemic justice), in order to question the conceptualization of the traditional and feminine Bildungsroman. By comparing a book written in English (Abeng) with one written in Spanish (Balún Canán), I advance an understanding of Latin America as a political identity shaped by a shared experience of postcoloniality, which goes beyond language barriers.
dc.description.degreeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
dc.description.departmentHispanic Literatures & Linguistics
dc.description.embargo2025-02-01T00:00:00-08:00
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7275/jwax-2881
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2129-125X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/18122
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2924&context=dissertations_2&unstamped=1
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectLatin American Literature
dc.subjectAbeng
dc.subjectMichelle Cliff
dc.subjectBalún Canán
dc.subjectRosario Castellanos
dc.subjectpolitical emotions
dc.subjectBildungsroman
dc.subjectCaribbean Languages and Societies
dc.subjectLatin American Literature
dc.subjectLatina/o Studies
dc.titleY así les nació la conciencia. Las emociones políticas en Balún Canán de Rosario Castellanos y Abeng de Michelle Cliff
dc.typecampusfive
dc.typearticle
dc.typedissertation
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