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Geographies of transit: representations of the Dominican body in contemporary film and literature

Medina Vilariño, Kristina

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Title
Geographies of transit: representations of the Dominican body in contemporary film and literature
Author(s)
Medina Vilariño, Kristina
Issue Date
2012-12
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Meléndez, Mariselle
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Meléndez, Mariselle
Committee Member(s)
  • Goldman, Dara E.
  • Tosta, Antonio L.
  • Torres, Arlene
Department of Study
Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
Discipline
Spanish
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
  • Geographies
  • Geographies of Transit
  • Transit
  • Migration
  • Caribbean
  • tourism
  • Dominican Republic
  • body
  • space
  • colonial desire
  • Geographies of Home
  • Puerto Rican
  • representations of Dominicans
  • Caribbean sexuality
  • Caribbean racial identity
  • Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic
  • Dominican migration to United States
  • Dominican migration to Puerto Rico
  • Dominicans in Puerto Rico
  • psychosomatic discourse
  • sick bodies
  • disability in the Caribbean
  • colonial discourse
  • travel Caribbean, Caribbean movement
Language
es
Abstract
This dissertation examines the literary and cinematic constructions of Dominican bodies in the context of different geographical locations: the Dominican Republic, the United States, Puerto Rico, and Haiti. I argue that the artistic representations of these bodies are marked by issues of race, gender, and migration in which the Dominican body is always perceived in transit from one locality to another. The dissertation also looks at how colonial history and present-day economic structures affect the manner in which the main characters viewed their own bodies in relationship to others within very specific national spaces.
Graduation Semester
2012-12
Type of Resource
  • text
  • image
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Copyright 2012 Kristina Medina Vilariño

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