Park, Jungwon
(2009)
IMAGINAR SIN FRONTERA:VISIONES ERRANTES DE NACIÓN Y COSMOPOLITISMO DESDE LA PERIFERIA.
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
This dissertation revisits the U.S.-Mexico borderlands to examine its neoliberal transformation intensified by globalization in order to address new aesthetic subjectivities that challenge this violent process from the peripheral experience and imagination. Despite increasing interest in the academic field, Border Studies have been trapped by hybridity theory -whose celebrative interpretations of the border phenomena frequently ignore social inequality and neutralize cultural conflicts- developed by Homi Bhabha and García Canclini, among others. Breaking with this postmodern frame, I explore the heterogeneous realities and marginal subjects particularly in relation to the crisis and the reformulation of two major and conflictive concepts: "cosmopolitanism" and "nation." I argue that for Border Studies to be effective, they have to respond to new scenarios of "peripheral" voices and experiences as they have been emerging along the U.S.-Mexico border and beyond. My dissertation thus focuses on narrative analysis of the topics that configure marginal languages and cultures: undocumented migratory labor and border crossing, the cholo community, popular border saints, narco-world and "bare life," feminicide in Ciudad Juárez and maquiladora workers. From Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Gloria Anzaldúa, the texts of embodied border identities I analyze attempt to dismantle binary models -the "borderless" and the "bordered"- of the idea of 'great community,' to demonstrate the representational crisis of a national or bi-national perspective that intensifies monolithic claims, and to offer different and even alternative ideas of community in a globalized context.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
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| Date: |
28 January 2009 |
| Date Type: |
Completion |
| Defense Date: |
19 November 2008 |
| Approval Date: |
28 January 2009 |
| Submission Date: |
8 December 2008 |
| Access Restriction: |
No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Hispanic Languages and Literatures |
| Degree: |
PhD - Doctor of Philosophy |
| Thesis Type: |
Doctoral Dissertation |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
ÉLMER MENDOZA; ÓSCAR LIERA; ARTURO PÉREZ-REVERTE; DE NADIE/NO ONE; GLOBAL RUINS; GRACIELA LIMÓN; JESÚS MALVERDE; LUIS HUMBERTO CROSTHWAITE; MAQUILAPOLIS/ CITY OF FACTORIES; MEXICO-GUATEMALA BORDER; ROBERTO BOLAÑO; THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA; U.S.-MEXICO BORDER |
| Other ID: |
http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-12082008-105038/, etd-12082008-105038 |
| Date Deposited: |
10 Nov 2011 20:09 |
| Last Modified: |
15 Nov 2016 13:53 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/10206 |
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