Advisory Committee Chair
Sue J Kim
Advisory Committee Members
Carlos L Orihuela
Daniel J Siegel
Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
2011
Degree Name by School
Master of Arts (MA) College of Arts and Sciences
Abstract
This thesis examines the processes of gendering and sexing as seen in the short fiction of contemporary Latino authors Junot DÃaz and Nicholasa Mohr, and focuses especially on how the ideological constructions of gender and sexuality, particularly those of machismo, maternity, and marriage, interact with notions of nationality, ethnicity, race, and class. The stories in DÃaz's Drown and Mohr's Rituals of Survival and In Nueva York illuminate the mechanics of these ongoing, complex ideological processes, revealing the crucial role gendering and sexing play in forming and regulating a working-class, U.S. Latino body. The characters of these stories negotiate stark dichotomies and rigid gender roles by subverting some and embracing others, thus revealing that there are multiple masculinities and femininities.
Recommended Citation
Santiago, Ana Maria, "Rituals of Resistance in Contemporary Latino Fiction: Queering Masculinity, Matrimony, and Motherhood in the Works of Junot DÃaz and Nicholasa Mohr" (2011). All ETDs from UAB. 2898.
https://digitalcommons.library.uab.edu/etd-collection/2898
