“Fiction makes a better job of the truth”: dialogism, oppositional consciousness and re-membering in the novels of Helena María Viramontes

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dc.check.chapterOfThesisintroduction,1,2,3,conclusion, appendix A
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dc.contributor.advisorFinnegan, Nualaen
dc.contributor.authorMcNamara, Niamh
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-02T11:33:59Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.date.submitted2014
dc.description.abstractThis thesis comprises close textual analyses of Chicana author Helena María Viramontes' two published novels, Under the Feet of Jesus (1995) and Their Dogs Came With Them (2007). These analyses fall under three broad frameworks: space, time and body. Chapter One engages with the first of these frameworks, space, and explores concepts of cognitive mapping and heteroptopias. Chapter Two, which looks at time, employs theories of intertextuality and the palimpsest, while Chapter Three looks at the interrrelationship between mythology and images of the body in the texts. This study emerges five years after the publication of Viramontes' last novel, Their Dogs Came With Them, but offers fresh insight into the contribution of the author to both the Chicano literary tradition and also the U.S. canon through her critique of hegemonic power structures that suppress not only the voices of lower class ethnic citizens but also of ethnic writers. In particular, her work chastises the paucity of attention given to ethnic women writers in the U.S. This thesis reaffirms Viramontes' position as one of the most important writers living and writing in the U.S. today. It corroborates her work as a contestation against ethnic and gender suppression, and applauds the craftsmanship of her narrative style that delicately but decisively exposes the socio-political wrongs that occur in ocntemporary U.S. society.en
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dc.identifier.citationMcNamara, N. 2014. “Fiction makes a better job of the truth”: dialogism, oppositional consciousness and re-membering in the novels of Helena María Viramontes. PhD Thesis, University College Cork.en
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/1956
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dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://library.ucc.ie/record=b2099140
dc.rights© 2014, Niamh McNamara.en
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dc.subjectHelena Maria Viramontesen
dc.subjectChicanaen
dc.subjectChicano Studiesen
dc.subjectUnder the Feet of Jesusen
dc.subjectTheir Dogs Came With Themen
dc.subjectTomas Riveraen
dc.subjectDialogismen
dc.subjectMythologyen
dc.subjectFeminismen
dc.subjectCaliforniaen
dc.subjectTwentieth century U.S. literatureen
dc.subjectComparative studiesen
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dc.title“Fiction makes a better job of the truth”: dialogism, oppositional consciousness and re-membering in the novels of Helena María Viramontesen
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD (Arts)en
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