Haunted things: Examining trauma and resistance in the fiction of Helena Maria Viramontes

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dc.contributor.advisorBender, Ashley
dc.contributor.committeeMemberWest, Genevieve
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBarker, Jamie
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMyers, Aimee
dc.creatorMcGahey, Wendy Beth
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-22T19:20:31Z
dc.date.available2023-02-22T19:20:31Z
dc.date.created2022-08
dc.date.issued2022-08-01T05:00:00.000Z
dc.date.submittedAug-22
dc.date.updated2023-02-22T19:20:32Z
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines how material objects function in the works of Helena María Viramontes to reveal the traumatic experiences of her Chicana characters. It simultaneously questions how the critical lenses of thing theory and hauntology can expand our understanding of individual, cultural, and historical trauma. As a result of this study, readers should have a greater appreciation of the way that things can function to help expose not only fictional, but also real forms of racism and cultural oppression—the result of deliberate, systemic inequality and marginalization. If we can give things the attention they deserve, we can begin to see what Viramontes’ characters are desperately missing: sometimes the basic, human need for food, clothing, and shelter, but always the psychological need for safety, connection, purpose, and love.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11274/14446
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectMexican American
dc.subjectViramontes
dc.subjectThing theory
dc.subjectMaterialism
dc.subjectHauntology
dc.subjectTrauma
dc.subjectChicana
dc.subjectLiterature
dc.subjectTrauma theory
dc.subjectDecolonial
dc.subjectFeminism
dc.subjectIndigenous
dc.titleHaunted things: Examining trauma and resistance in the fiction of Helena Maria Viramontes
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialtext
thesis.degree.collegeCollege of Arts and Sciences
thesis.degree.departmentEnglish, Speech, and Foreign Languages
thesis.degree.grantorTexas Woman's University
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Art

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