2026-09-20T12:23:41Zhttps://ecommons.cornell.edu/server/oai/request

oai:ecommons.cornell.edu:1813/704312026-05-15T19:45:17Zcom_1813_35col_1813_47

Vazquez Enriquez, Emily Celeste Castillo, Debra Paz-Soldan, Jose Edmundo Banerjee, Anindita 2020-08-10T20:24:20Z 2022-06-08T06:00:12Z 2020-05 ProQuest Submission ID: 11927 ProQuest Publication ID: 27835924 https://hdl.handle.net/1813/70431 https://doi.org/10.7298/1ts5-5472 13254429 184 pages Framed within the fields of Border and Migration Studies and the Environmental Humanities, Border Biomes: Coexistence and Interference on American Migration Trails, examines how 21st -century Mexican, Mexican American, and Chicanx literature and art depict dynamic, unstable geographies that defy common notions of fixed, inanimate borders and become sites of encounters where ontological limits are questioned. Proposing the concept of border biomes, this project thinks through border forests, rivers, and deserts to argue that they are central figures of representation through which the authors and artists I write about challenge rigid categorizations of territorial boundaries, memorialize and expose the intense entanglement of human and nonhuman entities against the backdrop of border demarcations, and defy and reimagine normative ways of coexistence with nonhuman worlds. I make this argument with the analysis of works by Ana Teresa Fernández, Cristina Rivera Garza, Emiliano Monge, Emmy Pérez, Rafael Ramírez Heredia, and Valeria Luiselli, and with the study of the literary and artistic collaborations between Dolores Dorantes and Zoe Leonard, and between Jenea Sanchez and Lauren Strohacker. I study how these authors address the detrimental consequences of border security measures over both people and the environment, the intimate, conflictive, and often lethal encounters between migrants and border ecologies, and the deep-seated relationships linking these biomes with their inhabitants. Through a coalescence of academic inquiry and field work, this dissertation foregrounds the multi-layered connections between biomes, geopolitical articulations, migrants, and border communities, thus becoming a contribution for a nascent field that focuses on the mutual entanglements of human and nonhuman agents surrounded by border settings. en Border Studies Chicanx Literature and Art Environmental Humanities Mexican American Literature and Art Mexican Literature Migration Studies Border Biomes: Coexistence and Interference on American Migration Trails dissertation or thesis https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/13254429 application/pdf Romance Studies Cornell University Doctor of Philosophy Ph. D., Romance Studies https://hdl.handle.net/1813/59810 Publication Cornell Theses and Dissertations Vazquez Enriquez, Emily Celeste 5893a6ea-7af3-41d7-abc6-04bcd26ab5df open.access open.access <Publication xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/1.1/" id="01477edb-c4ec-46fc-ab5c-375bcb3f415f"> <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>Border Biomes: Coexistence and Interference on American Migration Trails</Title> <PublishedIn> <Publication> </Publication> </PublishedIn> <PublicationDate>2020-05</PublicationDate> <DOI>https://doi.org/10.7298/1ts5-5472</DOI> <Authors> <Author> <DisplayName>Vazquez Enriquez, Emily Celeste</DisplayName> <Affiliation> <OrgUnit> </OrgUnit> </Affiliation> </Author> </Authors> <Editors> </Editors> <Publishers> <Publisher> <OrgUnit /> </Publisher> </Publishers> <Keyword>Border Studies</Keyword> <Keyword>Chicanx Literature and Art</Keyword> <Keyword>Environmental Humanities</Keyword> <Keyword>Mexican American Literature and Art</Keyword> <Keyword>Mexican Literature</Keyword> <Keyword>Migration Studies</Keyword> <Abstract>Framed within the fields of Border and Migration Studies and the Environmental Humanities, Border Biomes: Coexistence and Interference on American Migration Trails, examines how 21st -century Mexican, Mexican American, and Chicanx literature and art depict dynamic, unstable geographies that defy common notions of fixed, inanimate borders and become sites of encounters where ontological limits are questioned. Proposing the concept of border biomes, this project thinks through border forests, rivers, and deserts to argue that they are central figures of representation through which the authors and artists I write about challenge rigid categorizations of territorial boundaries, memorialize and expose the intense entanglement of human and nonhuman entities against the backdrop of border demarcations, and defy and reimagine normative ways of coexistence with nonhuman worlds. I make this argument with the analysis of works by Ana Teresa Fernández, Cristina Rivera Garza, Emiliano Monge, Emmy Pérez, Rafael Ramírez Heredia, and Valeria Luiselli, and with the study of the literary and artistic collaborations between Dolores Dorantes and Zoe Leonard, and between Jenea Sanchez and Lauren Strohacker. I study how these authors address the detrimental consequences of border security measures over both people and the environment, the intimate, conflictive, and often lethal encounters between migrants and border ecologies, and the deep-seated relationships linking these biomes with their inhabitants. Through a coalescence of academic inquiry and field work, this dissertation foregrounds the multi-layered connections between biomes, geopolitical articulations, migrants, and border communities, thus becoming a contribution for a nascent field that focuses on the mutual entanglements of human and nonhuman agents surrounded by border settings.</Abstract> <Access xmlns="http://purl.org/coar/access_right" > </Access> </Publication>