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1001 ▼a Ramirez Mendez, Alejandro.
24510 ▼a Trans-Urban Narratives: Literary Cartographies and Global Cities in the Urban Imagination of Mexico and the U.S.
260 ▼a [S.l.] : ▼b University of California, Los Angeles., ▼c 2018
260 1 ▼a Ann Arbor : ▼b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, ▼c 2018
300 ▼a 239 p.
500 ▼a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
500 ▼a Adviser: Hector Calderon.
5021 ▼a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2018.
520 ▼a This dissertation examines how narratives from Mexican and Mexican-American writers interconnect urban landscapes and cultures in the transnational context of the twenty-first century. This study focuses on what I call "trans-urban narratives,"
520 ▼a In Chapter One, I examine the intersection, interconnection and fusion of Mexico City and Chicago in post-national narratives. I analyze the short story "Chicago" (2008) by Juan Villoro, focusing on how the main character --a Mexican taxi driver
520 ▼a In Chapter Two, I continue the social, political and cultural exploration of Chicago and Mexico City but through the analysis of Caramelo (2002) by Sandra Cisneros. In this chapter, I argue that the multiple trips between Chicago and Mexico City
520 ▼a In Chapter Three, by analyzing Mexican-American writer Alejandro Morales's novel, The Rag Doll Plagues (1992), I introduce the intrinsic mechanisms of spatial decolonization that allow to heal processes of segregation, aberrant social practices,
520 ▼a In Chapter Four, I analyze the material and immaterial connections between Mexico City and New York. In Valeria Luiselli's Los ingravidos (2011), I explore the ghostly, almost ethereal nature ( ingravidez) of her protagonists --a young woman li
590 ▼a School code: 0031.
650 4 ▼a Latin American literature.
650 4 ▼a American literature.
650 4 ▼a Comparative literature.
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690 ▼a 0295
71020 ▼a University of California, Los Angeles. ▼b Spanish.
7730 ▼t Dissertation Abstracts International ▼g 79-10A(E).
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791 ▼a Ph.D.
792 ▼a 2018
793 ▼a English
85640 ▼u http://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T14998804 ▼n KERIS
980 ▼a 201812 ▼f 2019
990 ▼a 관리자 ▼b 관리자