Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Advisor
Calvin, Ritch | Forbis, Melissa | Tan, E.K..
Date
2014-12-01
Keywords
Latin American literature | Chicana/o, economic violence, racial and sexual violence, religious violence
Department
Department of Comparative Literature.
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77220
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
In the mid-twentieth to late-twentieth century, a number of Mexican laborers came to the United States to search for more working opportunities. After settling in the U.S. | they had to adjust to the harsh environment, poor working conditions, and multiple discrimination in Anglo-American society. Also, many Chicanas suffered from religious and patriarchal violence inside their community. This thesis examines different types of violence against Chicana/o migrants in the U.S. from 1950 to 2000, including economic violence, religious violence, racial discrimination, and sexual violence. In both Chicana/o community and white society, Chicanas/os have to deal with different kinds of violence against them. Here, I focus on three novels--Helena MarÃa Viramontes's Under the Feet of Jesus, Ana Castillo's So Far from God, and Emma Pérez's Gulf Dreams--and analyze different kinds of violence against Chicana/o migrants respectively. I argue that how multiple discrimination intersect to result in the inferiority and marginalization of Chicana/o migrants. Furthermore, I investigate the protagonists' response to the violence in the novels and how they subvert established racial, sexual, and classist ideologies in the male-dominated community and U.S. white society. | In the mid-twentieth to late-twentieth century, a number of Mexican laborers came to the United States to search for more working opportunities. After settling in the U.S. | they had to adjust to the harsh environment, poor working conditions, and multiple discrimination in Anglo-American society. Also, many Chicanas suffered from religious and patriarchal violence inside their community. This thesis examines different types of violence against Chicana/o migrants in the U.S. from 1950 to 2000, including economic violence, religious violence, racial discrimination, and sexual violence. In both Chicana/o community and white society, Chicanas/os have to deal with different kinds of violence against them. Here, I focus on three novels--Helena María Viramontes's Under the Feet of Jesus, Ana Castillo's So Far from God, and Emma Pérez's Gulf Dreams--and analyze different kinds of violence against Chicana/o migrants respectively. I argue that how multiple discrimination intersect to result in the inferiority and marginalization of Chicana/o migrants. Furthermore, I investigate the protagonists' response to the violence in the novels and how they subvert established racial, sexual, and classist ideologies in the male-dominated community and U.S. white society. | 120 pages
Recommended Citation
YEN, TZU-LING, "Violence against Chicanas from 1950 to 2000" (2014). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 3049.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/3049