BROKEN BOUNDARIES: ALTERNATIVE FUTURES IN WOMEN’S LITERATURE OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH (1984-2006)

dc.contributor.advisorMillar, Lanie
dc.contributor.authorClementi, Jordan
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-07T22:14:42Z
dc.date.available2024-08-07T22:14:42Z
dc.date.issued2024-08-07
dc.description.abstractDISSERTATION ABSTRACTTitle: Broken Boundaries: Alternative Futures in Women’s Literature of the Global South (1984-2006) How do Black women in the Global South envision alternative futures which subvert the prescribed patriarchal futures that dominate discourse? My dissertation examines the works of three Black authors from the Global South, specifically from Cameroon, Mozambique and Puerto Rico—Werewere Liking, Paulina Chiziane, and Mayra Santos-Febres, respectively—who write new futures in their works by redressing ways in which women are removed from narratives of the present and the past in order to build power to change the future. This dissertation seeks to join their works together through a deterritorialized understanding of the Global South, an economically marginalized space which exists in the unevenness of development across the globe. These writers explore ways in which they can challenge and subvert patriarchal boundaries placed on them to break them and redraw them as they see fit. Patriarchal systems oppress women and alternative solutions to social issues in various ways to maintain dominance. The works by these authors explicitly challenge that suppression; they succeed in breaking away by subverting language and expectations to find ways to sabotage dominant discourses. Each author intentionally reads genre, language, or cultural practice in a way which subverts dominant discourse and instead reads it in a way that benefits their needs. The primary outcome of this is that it redresses ways in which women are erased from narratives of the past and present, negating their creative solutions to present issues which not only affect them but everyone in the broader society. On top of that, these narratives then allow women to envision alternative futures which do not conform to the often grim and violent predictions of patriarchal discourse about the future. Their texts essentially demonstrate pathways which can be used to unwind the present and follow alternative routes into the future. My project attempts to demonstrate the diverse demonstrations of ingenuity which go into the vision of alternative futures and the ways that specific contexts can arrive at those futures through subversions of established genres, language, and cultural practices.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/29806
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.subjectAlternative Futuresen_US
dc.subjectCaribbeanen_US
dc.subjectFeminismen_US
dc.subjectRomance Langugaesen_US
dc.subjectWomen's Liberationen_US
dc.titleBROKEN BOUNDARIES: ALTERNATIVE FUTURES IN WOMEN’S LITERATURE OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH (1984-2006)
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of Romance Languages
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.leveldoctoral
thesis.degree.namePh.D.

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