Postales turísticas en la narrativa, el cine y otros discursos mediáticos contemporáneos en la República Dominicana | Postales turísticas en la narrativa, el cine y otros discursos mediáticos contemporáneos en la República Dominicana

Authors

Zaida Maribel corniel lineweaver

Type

Text

Type

Dissertation

Advisor

Vernon, Kathleen | Flesler, Daniela | Burgos Lafuente, Lena | Pérez Melgosa, Adrián | Martínez San Miguel, Yolanda.

Date

2015-12-01

Keywords

Caribbean studies | gender, migration, race, Tourism

Department

Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature.

Language

es

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/11401/77689

Publisher

The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.

Format

application/pdf

Abstract

Abstract of the Dissertation Postales turísticas en la narrativa, el cine y otros discursos mediáticos contemporáneos en la República Dominicana by Zaida Corniel Lineweaver Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Languages and Literature Stony Brook University 2015 In this dissertation I examine representations of the relationship between local inhabitants and tourists in literature, film and media of the Dominican Republic. I explore the concept of “contact zones†(Mary Louis Pratt) in reference to tourism, and how the tourist industry reshaped national spaces bringing displacement and creating new borders inside the nation. I also analyze literary representations of the Dominican diaspora looking back at the Dominican Republic when travelling there as tourists, and ask whether “imperial eyes†are sometimes present in this travel narratives. I also show how, since the late 1990’s, the neo-colonial discourse that surfaced through touristic propaganda has been challenged by writers and artists who are returning the gaze through performance, movies, drawings, and literary texts. In Chapter One I analyze the tourist gaze and displacement through the first magazine in this field, Bohío, which reproduces a colonial discourse in order to sell the country as a paradisiacal place, linking the arrival of tourism with the conquistadores. I also analyze the short-story collection Emoticons by Aurora Arias, and the novel Sueños de Salitre by Carmen Imbert Brugal. In Chapter Two, I analyze Junot Díaz’s novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints to explore how the diaspora’s homecoming destabilizes the dominant narrative of the Dominican nation. In Chapter Three I examine the sexualization of the Caribbean body and space, and some of the artistic challenges to this sexualization and appropriation that have appeared in the last few years in film and visual art. I include the movies Sanky Panky I and II, directed by José Enrique Pintor, the performances The More I Dance and The Land Columbus Loved Best by Nicolás Dumit Estévez and Grrrringo, by the Swiss artist Ingo Giezendanner, a drawing collection that chronicles a tour between New York, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. | 225 pages

Recommended Citation

corniel lineweaver, Zaida Maribel, "Postales turísticas en la narrativa, el cine y otros discursos mediáticos contemporáneos en la República Dominicana | Postales turísticas en la narrativa, el cine y otros discursos mediáticos contemporáneos en la República Dominicana" (2015). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 3480.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/3480