Border places, frontier spaces: Deconstructing ideologies of the Southwest

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dc.contributor.advisorCantú, Norma E.
dc.contributor.authorBarrera, Cordelia Eliza
dc.contributor.committeeMemberWoodson, Linda Townley
dc.contributor.committeeMemberSaldívar-Hull, Sonia
dc.contributor.committeeMemberGonzalez, Gabriela
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-25T22:34:07Z
dc.date.available2024-01-25T22:34:07Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractIn this dissertation, I bring together Border Theory and frontier ideologies in the Southwest to argue that the search for individual identity via the historiographic re-telling of stories is central to uncovering the metaphorical power of border places and frontier spaces. Cross-cultural re-tellings allow me to reconstruct these tropes syncretically to transcend individual difference with the aim of cohering the experiences of Anglo, Native American, Mexican-American, and Chicana/o cultures. A close reading of works by Chicana/os, Mexican-Americans, American Indians, and Euro-Americans in the Southwest points to parallel ideas of the need for an inclusive, third space consciousness to usher social, political, and cultural change on the borderlands. The movement of the works I critically study through the lens of border theory involves a response, as well as a challenge to Euro-centered ways of seeing and presenting the world. Works by authors as diverse as Cormac McCarthy, Larry McMurtry, Leslie Marmon Silko, Arturo Islas, Américo Paredes, and Eve Raleigh and Jovita González, provide the base from which I examine ideas about storytelling, time, personal identity, and the bond between individuals and a Southwestern geography. Importantly, these works either demand alternative conceptions of understanding time, place, and space, or reveal how the linearity of Euro-centered conceptions of time, place, and space have resulted--ironically--in the false utopian visions of a conquering people.
dc.description.departmentEnglish
dc.format.extent231 pages
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.isbn9781109297225
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12588/2471
dc.languageen
dc.subjectActivism
dc.subjectAmerican Southwest
dc.subjectBorder Studies
dc.subjectSocial Geography
dc.subjectThird Space Feminism
dc.subject.classificationAmerican literature
dc.subject.classificationHispanic American studies
dc.subject.classificationAmerican studies
dc.subject.classificationGeography
dc.subject.lcshBorderlands -- Southwestern States
dc.subject.lcshStorytelling -- Southwestern States
dc.subject.lcshGroup identity -- Southwestern States
dc.titleBorder places, frontier spaces: Deconstructing ideologies of the Southwest
dc.typeThesis
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thesis.degree.departmentEnglish
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Texas at San Antonio
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy

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