Social space, language, and consciousness in Helena Mariaviramontes's under the feet of Jesus
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes social space with the tool postmodern theories of space in the specific case of agricultural workers portrayed in Helena Maria Viramontes's under the feet of jesus. Language and conciousness are the main vehicles by wich Estrella, the central protagonist of the nove...
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[Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada
2004
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This paper analyzes social space with the tool postmodern theories of space in the specific case of agricultural workers portrayed in Helena Maria Viramontes's under the feet of jesus. Language and conciousness are the main vehicles by wich Estrella, the central protagonist of the novel, liberates herself from the dominant social discourseslinguistic, racial, economic, and gemder-that position her as a neocolonial subject.
Keywords: Chicana literature-postcolonial literate-race-sociolinguistic-postmodern space theory |
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