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application/pdf es text Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01 The student, Cristina Gonzalez Martin, accepted the attached license on 2024-07-11 at 17:19. The student, Cristina Gonzalez Martin, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2024-07-11 at 17:22. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2024-07-12 at 10:56. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #21055 on 2025-02-04 at 21:16:59 Contemporary Canary Islands Cuba Puerto Rico eng A contracorriente: Resistencias transoceánicas en Canarias, Cuba y Puerto Rico Gonzalez Martin, Cristina F 2024-07-12 Meléndez, Mariselle Meléndez, Mariselle Fornoff, Carolyn Irigoyen-García, Javier Ledesma, Eduardo Transoceanic Studies Archipelagic Studies Blue Humanities Insularity Literature Cultural Studies A contracorriente: Transoceanic Resistances in the Canary Islands, Cuba y Puerto Rico, engages two emerging theoretical fields in the blue humanities: transoceanic and archipelagic studies. These theories, I argue, encourage ways of thinking a contracorriente, that is, they help redefine space and identity in ways that disrupt colonial continuums, recentering geographies and narratives that have been historically relegated to the margins of empire. Adopting the ocean as an analytical framework for advancing cross-regional, interdisciplinary research on timely global topics, this thesis traces an ongoing history of sexual, racial and environmental violence particular to these geopolitically enclosed spaces. I focus on contemporary literary and cultural productions that deploy otros saberes or suppressed forms of syncretic knowledge to problematize and resist imperial interventions in the Canary Islands, Cuba, Puerto Rico, archipelagos with a shared history of occupation and dispossession. From the confinement of queer individuals in island colonies by totalitarian regimes, to the desolation brought upon by recent (un)natural disasters and crises, devastating dystopias set in not-too-distant futures, and finally ending with a post-pandemic reality defined by the impact of mass tourism and digital nomads, the works explored in my dissertation challenge established boundaries, periods, and regions within the Spanish-speaking world when approached as a constellation. This work aims to question and push the limits of the Latin American and Iberian canons. I propose the ocean as an (alter)native epistemological space that questions and surpasses Western capitalist coloniality and its definitions of race, gender, sovereignty and belonging, in current dialogue among neocolonial regions. 2024-08 Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/2142/125715 Copyright 2024 Cristina F. González Martín Spanish and Portuguese Spanish University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ph.D. Dissertation