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Disestabilishing Patriarchy and Racism through Intersectionality and Sorority: A Feminist Analysis of The House on Mango Street and The Women of Brewster Place
Navarro Salas, Marina
Neumann, Claus-Peter (dir.)
Universidad de Zaragoza,
FFYL,
2024
Filología Inglesa y Alemana department, Filología Inglesa area
Graduado en Estudios Ingleses
Abstract: [Español]: El propósito de este trabajo es presentar un estudio de las obras literarias de The House on Mango Street, de Sandra Cisneros, y de The Women of Brewster Place, de Gloria Naylor, con especial hincapié en la interseccionalidad y la sororidad como estrategias sociales para combatir el dominio masculino y las convenciones culturales y sociales de ambas obras. Con la intención de representar una versión femenina de los hechos, Cisneros y Naylor muestran en sus libros las situaciones sociales precarias, como el racismo o el machismo, que dos grupos de mujeres de distintos barrios/guetos de EE.UU. tienen que afrontar en su día a día. A pesar de que ambas obras presentan de manera individual mujeres resilientes, el apoyo de una comunidad femenina es lo que permite a estas personajes enfrentarse a las estructuras sociales. Por tanto, este estudio es un intento de explorar cómo la represión y opresión que sufren las chicanas y las afroamericanas se representan a través de diferentes símbolos y cómo la interseccionalidad y el sentido de comunidad permiten a estas mujeres liberarse de la marginalización o, al menos, soñar con ello.
[English]: The aim of this paper is to present a study of the literary works The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, and The Women of Brewster Place, by Gloria Naylor, with a focus on intersectionality and sorority as social strategies to overcome male dominance and social conventions in the Chicano and African-American cultures. With the intention of representing a female version of the facts, Cisneros and Naylor show in their books the precarious social situations, such as racism or male chauvinism, two female communities from different barrios/ghettos of the USA (Chicano and African-American respectively) have to face daily. Although The House on Mango Street and The Women of Brewster Place have resilient individual women, the support of a collective and diverse womanhood is what allows these female characters to confront social structures. Thus, this study is an attempt to explore how Chicana and African-American repression and oppression are depicted throughout different symbols in both works and how intersectionality and sorority permit these women to get rid of their marginalization or at least, to dream about it.
[English]: The aim of this paper is to present a study of the literary works The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, and The Women of Brewster Place, by Gloria Naylor, with a focus on intersectionality and sorority as social strategies to overcome male dominance and social conventions in the Chicano and African-American cultures. With the intention of representing a female version of the facts, Cisneros and Naylor show in their books the precarious social situations, such as racism or male chauvinism, two female communities from different barrios/ghettos of the USA (Chicano and African-American respectively) have to face daily. Although The House on Mango Street and The Women of Brewster Place have resilient individual women, the support of a collective and diverse womanhood is what allows these female characters to confront social structures. Thus, this study is an attempt to explore how Chicana and African-American repression and oppression are depicted throughout different symbols in both works and how intersectionality and sorority permit these women to get rid of their marginalization or at least, to dream about it.
Tipo de Trabajo Académico: Trabajo Fin de Grado
Notas: Resumen disponible también en inglés.
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