Cuerpo, or a spatial-material rhetoric: embodied approaches using Chicana third space feminism for understanding and teaching literacy on the border

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dc.contributor.advisorHum, Sue
dc.contributor.authorHinojosa, Yndalecio Isaac, Jr.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberCantú, Norma E.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberWoodson, Linda T.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMermann-Jozwiak, Elisabeth
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-09T22:25:21Z
dc.date.available2024-02-09T22:25:21Z
dc.date.issued2015
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dc.description.abstractThis dissertation introduces cuerpo, the Spanish word for body, as a spatial-material rhetoric for understanding and teaching literacy on the border. As a theoretical framework, I developed cuerpo to argue two points: literacy takes place and occurs within a place, and the material conditions of discourse are interactive and relational with place in the form of interactive rhetorical actions. I explored how literacy and literacy practices manifest with and in spatial-material-rhetoric juncture(ings); three dimensional processes that interpellate the body by concurrence or circumstance. Cuerpo will offer practitioners four contributions within the interdisciplinary contexts of rhetoric and composition, literacy studies, and Chicana/o studies. First, cuerpo expands literacy scholarship to spotlight literacy practices that manifest and are manifested on Latin@ bodies in the borderlands. Second, cuerpo highlights location, materiality, and rhetoric juncture(ings) within the context of concepts of literacy and literacy practices by spotlighting how bodies exist with and in a place, and junctures offer a three dimensional approach for theorizing the production of bodies, especially in relation to place(s). Third, cuerpo builds on and expands Chicana rhetoric, specifically the concept of a theory in the flesh by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Analdúa. As a framework, cuerpo augments a theory in the flesh from a self-reflexive abstraction into practical actualization for literacy studies. Fourth, cuerpo makes concrete abstract notions of third space by offering a framework to contextualize bodies to places. Contextualizing the anatomy of space(s) generates an organic third space that is reflexive, toward alterity and difference in particular.
dc.description.departmentEnglish
dc.format.extent220 pages
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.isbn9781339034348
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12588/3995
dc.languageen
dc.subjectBodies
dc.subjectBorder
dc.subjectChicana
dc.subjectLiteracy
dc.subjectRhetoric and Composition
dc.subjectThird space
dc.subject.classificationRhetoric and Composition
dc.subject.lcshLiteracy -- Study and teaching
dc.subject.lcshMexican American women
dc.titleCuerpo, or a spatial-material rhetoric: embodied approaches using Chicana third space feminism for understanding and teaching literacy on the border
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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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