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Resisting Erasure: Undocumented Latinx Narratives

Alex, Stacey Margaret
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3270-7866
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563164119840926

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2019, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Spanish and Portuguese.
Anchored in Latino Critical Race Theory, this project analyzes undocumented Latinx narratives across theater, comics, memoir, and music as decolonial cultural production and counter-storytelling. It investigates how each form is used to build affective ties with audiences, call on them to reflect on their own positionality, and imagine new social realities. This is accomplished by simulating the violence of deportation and positioning undocumented communities as foundational to building networks of support and resistance. The works examined here rely on surrogates to publicize and justify everyday undocumented disobedience that otherwise would not be shared for fear of deportation. Critically reading these texts in educational settings is urgently needed to decolonize multicultural approaches that include Latinx literature in apolitical and celebratory ways. Moreover, attending to the diverse and, at times, contradictory perspectives and approaches to social transformation found across these works positions undocumented communities as dynamic social agents that draw on a wide variety of ways to forge a politics of possibility.
Paloma Martinez-Cruz (Committee Chair)
Frederick Luis Aldama (Committee Member)
Ana Elena Puga (Committee Member)
282 p.
American Literature; American Studies; Hispanic American Studies; Hispanic Americans; Latin American Studies; Literature; Political Science; Teaching; Theater
human migration, immigration, Latinx, undocumented, DACA, deportation, civil disobedience, theater, comics, memoir, music, resistance, decoloniality, counter-storytelling, agency

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  • Alex, S. M. (2019). Resisting Erasure: Undocumented Latinx Narratives [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563164119840926

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Alex, Stacey. Resisting Erasure: Undocumented Latinx Narratives. 2019. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563164119840926.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Alex, Stacey. "Resisting Erasure: Undocumented Latinx Narratives." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563164119840926

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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