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Palencia-Roth, Michael Palencia-Roth, Michael Castro, Nancy E. Goldman, Dara E. Tosta, Luciano Flores-Rodriguez, Daynali 2011-05-25T15:02:22Z 2011-05-25T15:02:22Z 2011-05-25T15:02:22Z 2011-05 This dissertation analyzes how Caribbean-American writers living elsewhere challenge common ideas about power, violence and oppression through the reinterpretation of Caribbean dictatorial regimes in their fiction, and how their stories fare in comparison to other narrative traditions such as the Latin American dictator novel genre. The works of Julia Alvarez (The Dominican Republic), Edwidge Danticat (Haiti) and Junot Díaz (The Dominican Republic) share thematic and biographical similarities and reveal an emerging aesthetic with definite textual and thematic traits that I identify as Trans-Caribbean, a poetics with four main constitutive aspects. First, it addresses the tensions between individualism and collectivism in Caribbean discourse. Second it addresses the implicit role of logo centrism in shaping cultural narratives. Third, it presents fragmentation as a phenomenon that is both discursive and thematic. Finally, it develops the multiple strategies of visual and linguistic disruption in order to suspend normative representations of Caribbean identity. Trans-Caribbean Poetics is trans-continental, fragmentary, personal, relational and multilingual and suggests a plausible model to analyze discursive relations in a transnational context. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2011-03-10T22:50:11Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Flores-Rodriguez_Daynali.pdf: 1931975 bytes, checksum: 650d06cd5aad88800f0ec90abfa0d1c5 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-25T15:02:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Flores-Rodriguez_Daynali.pdf: 1931107 bytes, checksum: 358ba2e0c568b4163f8117afded4dd74 (MD5) license.txt: 4063 bytes, checksum: afa89bcceb6ee5bc88839c16ac9a4f15 (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/24226 en Copyright 2011 Daynali Flores-Rodriguez Trans-Caribbean Poetics Caribbean literature Latin American literature Caribbean literature - History and criticism Latin American literature - history and criticism Junot Diaz Edwidge Danticat Julia Alvarez Caribbean fiction - 20th century Towards a trans-Caribbean poetics: A new aesthetic of power and resistance Comparative & World Literature 1771 Comparative Literature 1120 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:Comparative Litertre -UIUC 10KS1120PHD