The phenomenon of self-translation in Puerto Rican and Puerto Rican U.S. diaspora literature written by women : the cases of Esmeralda Santiago's AmĂ©rica's Dream (1996) and Rosario FerrĂ©'s The House on the Lagoon (1995), from a postcolonial perspective
This research aims to understand self-translation as a postcolonial, social, political, cultural and linguistic phenomenon and it focuses on how it communicates a hybrid transcultural identity that not only challenges the monolingual literary canons and concepts of national homogeneous identities, but also subverts to patriarchal society. Thus, I understand self-translation as a mean of empowerment and contestation. The cases under study are Puerto Rican writers Rosario FerrĂ© and Esmeralda Santiago, and their novels The House on the Lagoon and AmĂ©ricaâs Dream, written in English and translated into Spanish by the authors themselves. I believe that Rosario FerrĂ© and Esmeralda Santiago are representative of a group of writers, artists and intellectuals who through their work originated from the island and from the U.S. Diaspora, have aimed to give voice to a Puerto Rican postcolonial hybrid identity that has been silenced until recently. Therefore, they disrupt the official national cultural and linguistic discourse about the Puerto Rican identity that has been weaved by the Spanish language in opposition to U.S. colonialist attempts of linguistic and cultural assimilation. This dissertation is located
Sambolin, Aurora
Translation Studies ; Postcolonial Studies ; Comparative Literature ; Puerto Rican Literature ; Self-Translation ; Gender Studies ; Linguistic Hybridity
The phenomenon of self-translation in Puerto Rican and Puerto Rican U.S. diaspora literature written by women : the cases of Esmeralda Santiago's AmĂ©rica's Dream (1996) and Rosario FerrĂ©'s The House on the Lagoon (1995), from a postcolonial perspective. This research aims to understand self-translation as a postcolonial, social, political, cultural and linguistic phenomenon and it focuses on how it communicates a hybrid transcultural identity that not only challenges the monolingual literary canons and concepts of national homogeneous identities, but also subverts to patriarchal society. Thus, I understand self-translation as a mean of empowerment and contestation. The cases under study are Puerto Rican writers Rosario FerrĂ© and Esmeralda Santiago, and their novels The House on the Lagoon and AmĂ©ricaâs Dream, written in English and translated into Spanish by the authors themselves. I believe that Rosario FerrĂ© and Esmeralda Santiago are representative of a group of writers, artists and intellectuals who through their work originated from the island and from the U.S. Diaspora, have aimed to give voice to a Puerto Rican postcolonial hybrid identity that has been silenced until recently. Therefore, they disrupt the official national cultural and linguistic discourse about the Puerto Rican identity that has been weaved by the Spanish language in opposition to U.S. colonialist attempts of linguistic and cultural assimilation. This dissertation is located
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