عنوان

New Tales of Trauma, Memory, and Historical Fiction in Postcolonial Caribbean, Iberian, and Afro-Lusophone Women's Writing

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انگلیسی

New Tales of Trauma, Memory, and Historical Fiction in Postcolonial Caribbean, Iberian, and Afro-Lusophone Women's Writing

[Thesis]

Robinson, Ellen Ryan

Birkenmaier, Anke

Indiana University

2020

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Ph.D.

Indiana University

2020

I investigate how women writers from both the Iberian peninsula and the former colonies of Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, and Puerto Rico come to terms with the end of Iberian occupation-imperialism and disparate political transitions in historical fiction from the 1980s-2010s. This dissertation compiles a multilingual corpus of works by women writers who are writing on war, trauma, memory, and gendered violence. I argue that the political transitions after the independence movements of the 1960s-1980s produced a literary boom of feminist writers that has not received enough attention from critics. I propose a transatlantic and trans-Iberian bridging of three separate geo-political spheres connected by ideology, politics, feminism, and postcolonialism.

Hispanic American studies

Hispanophone Africa

Hispanophone Caribbean

Lusophone

Spanish literature

Women's literature

Birkenmaier, Anke

Robinson, Ellen Ryan

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[Thesis]

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