Onward Toward a New Horizon with Junot Díaz’s Oscar Wao

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dc.contributor.advisorHarrison, Marlen
dc.contributor.authorBurdett, Cherene LeeAnne
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLee, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-29T04:08:10Z
dc.date.available2024-02-29T04:08:10Z
dc.date.issued2020-06-25
dc.description.abstractMost research on Junot Díaz’s Oscar Wao has been explored on diasporic negatives highlighting on an infinite regression in dictatorship and the resistance against these dictatorships in forming an authentic identity between conflicting cultures. Diasporic subjects are doomed to be assimilated and thrown back into the Hegelian rubric. What has been underexplored is the pull away from the negative nature of diaspora in creating a new consciousness in exploring transnational literature. I am pursuing this research because I want to highlight on how feminine recovery unpowers this infinite regression in creating a more modern approach in examining cultures and genders living between conflicting borders. I'm using Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands and Hélène Cixous’s Newly Born Woman because both theorists illuminate how the text performs as a mestiza who battles between opposing borderlands synthesizing a new consciousness within the divine feminine. I'm applying this theory by examining the text’s narrative, character identity, and language structures. This research is significant because embracing borderlands enacts feminine progression through difference which is significant in a growing cultural and gendered world. Future research on this topic should examine how transnational literature forms alliances, juxtaposed with other cultural literature, in sharing and borrowing from each other as a way to evolve.
dc.description.degreeMaster Arts
dc.description.programEnglish
dc.description.schoolCollege of Online and Continuing Education
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10474/3820
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherSouthern New Hampshire University
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dc.rightsAuthor retains all ownership rights. Further reproduction in violation of copyright is prohibited.
dc.rightsHolderBurdett, Cherene LeeAnne
dc.subject.lcshLiterature
dc.subject.lcshRhetoric and Composition
dc.subject.lcshWomen's Studies
dc.subject.otherBorderlands
dc.subject.otherCixous
dc.subject.otherDiaspora
dc.subject.otherDivine Feminine
dc.subject.otherFeminism and Literature
dc.subject.otherOscar Wao
dc.titleOnward Toward a New Horizon with Junot Díaz’s Oscar Wao
dc.typeThesis

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