Harrison, MarlenBurdett, Cherene LeeAnne2024-02-292024-02-292020-06-25https://hdl.handle.net/10474/3820Most 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.en-USAuthor retains all ownership rights. Further reproduction in violation of copyright is prohibited.LiteratureRhetoric and CompositionWomen's StudiesBorderlandsCixousDiasporaDivine FeminineFeminism and LiteratureOscar WaoThesis