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Alarcon, Mariana P. Brady, Mary Pat Cheyfitz, Eric T. Diaz, Ella Maria 2021-09-09T17:40:35Z 2021-09-09T17:40:35Z 2021-05 ProQuest Submission ID: 12502 ProQuest Publication ID: 28492446 https://hdl.handle.net/1813/109705 https://doi.org/10.7298/y3c0-pn55 15049532 213 pages My dissertation outlines the ways in which a comparative study of Native American, First Nations, and Chicanx narratives of erasure and presence reveals remarkable and significant shared characteristics. This extensive comparison demonstrates these narratives’ similar modes of theorizing representations of the body and its violent absenting, their similar if distinct concerns about the nature of colonial violence and its legacies, and their similar understandings of and strategies for cultural continuity that bypass settler colonial definition. I examine their approaches to representing and navigating the violence of enforced absence and the technologies that create absence, and to exploring how it conditions the strategies for survival that exceed it, arguing that they thus articulate subjectivities that insist on an enduring presence outside the conceptual and linguistic jurisdiction of the state and its technologies. For example, they query nationalist melancholic politics and discourses on ghostliness even as they rethink ghostliness in their own discursive traditions in order to mark both absence and presence. But these similarities, as well as the entangled histories that complicate those similarities, have gone unnoticed by Chicanx and Native scholarship, and so I aim to address that paucity. The purpose of this dissertation is thus to investigate and compare narrative and artistic strategies for processing and representing ghostliness and presence in Chicanx and Native American literature and cultural production. en Chicano literature Native American literature U.S. Latino literature Living in Excess: Narrating Violence and Presence in Native American and Chicana Literature dissertation or thesis https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/15049532 application/pdf English Language and Literature Cornell University Doctor of Philosophy Ph. D., English Language and Literature https://hdl.handle.net/1813/59810 Publication Cornell Theses and Dissertations Alarcon, Mariana 5893a6ea-7af3-41d7-abc6-04bcd26ab5df open.access open.access <Publication xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/1.1/" id="06ff0bf0-2575-4e1b-829c-31d86d9b1cfd"> <Type xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/vocab/COAR_Publication_Types">http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_1843</Type> <Language>en</Language> <Title>Living in Excess: Narrating Violence and Presence in Native American and Chicana Literature</Title> <PublishedIn> <Publication> </Publication> </PublishedIn> <PublicationDate>2021-05</PublicationDate> <DOI>https://doi.org/10.7298/y3c0-pn55</DOI> <Authors> <Author> <DisplayName>Alarcon, Mariana</DisplayName> <Affiliation> <OrgUnit> </OrgUnit> </Affiliation> </Author> </Authors> <Editors> </Editors> <Publishers> <Publisher> <OrgUnit /> </Publisher> </Publishers> <Keyword>Chicano literature</Keyword> <Keyword>Native American literature</Keyword> <Keyword>U.S. Latino literature</Keyword> <Abstract>My dissertation outlines the ways in which a comparative study of Native American, First Nations, and Chicanx narratives of erasure and presence reveals remarkable and significant shared characteristics. This extensive comparison demonstrates these narratives’ similar modes of theorizing representations of the body and its violent absenting, their similar if distinct concerns about the nature of colonial violence and its legacies, and their similar understandings of and strategies for cultural continuity that bypass settler colonial definition. I examine their approaches to representing and navigating the violence of enforced absence and the technologies that create absence, and to exploring how it conditions the strategies for survival that exceed it, arguing that they thus articulate subjectivities that insist on an enduring presence outside the conceptual and linguistic jurisdiction of the state and its technologies. For example, they query nationalist melancholic politics and discourses on ghostliness even as they rethink ghostliness in their own discursive traditions in order to mark both absence and presence. But these similarities, as well as the entangled histories that complicate those similarities, have gone unnoticed by Chicanx and Native scholarship, and so I aim to address that paucity. The purpose of this dissertation is thus to investigate and compare narrative and artistic strategies for processing and representing ghostliness and presence in Chicanx and Native American literature and cultural production.</Abstract> <Access xmlns="http://purl.org/coar/access_right" > </Access> </Publication>