Who Gets to Go on the American Road? New Perspectives on the American Road: Jessica Bruder’s and Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland and Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive
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Data de Publicação: | 2023 |
Tipo de documento: | Dissertação |
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Título da fonte: | Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) |
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Resumo: | The American road narrative genre is a quintessential genre in American literature as it deals with themes that are inseparable from the country’s formation and from the construction of American identity. Often set in the mythical landscapes of the American West, these narratives convey the promises of spatial and social mobility that characterize the American Dream and that are made possible by going on the road. Nevertheless, this possibility of mobility has been reserved to traditional road heroes — white, heteronormative men — and systemically excluded minorities from accessing the road in the same terms. Consequently, this had an impact on how American road narratives written and starred by minorities have been received and analyzed. This dissertation engages with narratives written and starred by women, namely Nomadland (2017/2020) and Lost Children Archive (2019), in order to understand how they position themselves in the matrix of the genre and how they adhere to or deconstruct the hegemonic discourses that shape it. The main conclusion is that women’s American road narratives are complex and paradoxical: sometimes they adhere to the traditional genre’s structures that have systemically excluded them, other times they subvert them. This means that, for the analysis of women’s narratives to be fruitful and complete, scholars should rethink the way the approach the genre, and avoid to the dichotomies and hegemonic discourses that have permeated it. This conclusion implies that narratives that intersect gender, class and ethnicity should be regarded as highly valuable as they offer refreshing perspectives for American road narratives in the 21st century. |
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Who Gets to Go on the American Road? New Perspectives on the American Road: Jessica Bruder’s and Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland and Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children ArchiveEstrada americanaOeste americanoNarrativas femininasNomadlandLost Children ArchiveEstrada americanaOeste americanoNarrativas femininasDomínio/Área Científica::Humanidades::Línguas e LiteraturasThe American road narrative genre is a quintessential genre in American literature as it deals with themes that are inseparable from the country’s formation and from the construction of American identity. Often set in the mythical landscapes of the American West, these narratives convey the promises of spatial and social mobility that characterize the American Dream and that are made possible by going on the road. Nevertheless, this possibility of mobility has been reserved to traditional road heroes — white, heteronormative men — and systemically excluded minorities from accessing the road in the same terms. Consequently, this had an impact on how American road narratives written and starred by minorities have been received and analyzed. This dissertation engages with narratives written and starred by women, namely Nomadland (2017/2020) and Lost Children Archive (2019), in order to understand how they position themselves in the matrix of the genre and how they adhere to or deconstruct the hegemonic discourses that shape it. The main conclusion is that women’s American road narratives are complex and paradoxical: sometimes they adhere to the traditional genre’s structures that have systemically excluded them, other times they subvert them. This means that, for the analysis of women’s narratives to be fruitful and complete, scholars should rethink the way the approach the genre, and avoid to the dichotomies and hegemonic discourses that have permeated it. This conclusion implies that narratives that intersect gender, class and ethnicity should be regarded as highly valuable as they offer refreshing perspectives for American road narratives in the 21st century.O género narrativo da estrada americana é essencial na literatura americana, pois aborda temas indissociáveis da formação do país e da construção da identidade americana. Frequentemente localizadas nas paisagens míticas do Oeste americano, estas narrativas transmitem as promessas de mobilidade espacial e social que caracterizam o sonho americano, que se torna possível quando se viaja na estrada. No entanto, esta possibilidade de mobilidade tem estado reservada aos tradicionais heróis da estrada — homens, brancos, heteronormativos — e tem, sistematicamente, excluído as minorias de acederem à estrada nos mesmos termos. Isto causou, consequentemente, um impacto na forma como as narrativas da estrada americana escritas e protagonizadas por minorias têm sido recebidas e analisadas. Esta dissertação aborda narrativas escritas e protagonizadas por mulheres, nomeadamente Nomadland 2017/2020) e Lost Children Archive (2019), de forma a entender como estas se posicionam na matriz do género, e como aderem a ou desconstroem os discursos hegemónicos que o moldam. A principal conclusão retirada é que as narrativas femininas da estrada americana são complexas e paradoxais: por um lado, compactuam com as estruturas tradicionais do género, estruturas essas que as têm sistematicamente excluído, por outro lado subvertem-nas. Assim, para que a análise das narrativas femininas seja proveitosa e completa, deve repensar-se a forma como o género tem sido abordado, evitando as dicotomias e os discursos hegemónicos que têm feito parte do mesmo. Esta conclusão implica que as narrativas que envolvem género, classe e etnia devem ser vistas como essenciais, já que oferecem novas perspectivas para as narrativas da estrada Americana no século XXI.Oliveira, Isabel Maria Lourenço deRUNAlmeida, Catarina Moura Reis2023-10-09T10:47:25Z2023-05-092023-03-232023-05-09T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/158769TID:203300580enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-03-11T05:41:17Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/158769Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T03:57:17.374316Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Who Gets to Go on the American Road? New Perspectives on the American Road: Jessica Bruder’s and Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland and Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive |
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Who Gets to Go on the American Road? New Perspectives on the American Road: Jessica Bruder’s and Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland and Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive |
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Who Gets to Go on the American Road? New Perspectives on the American Road: Jessica Bruder’s and Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland and Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive Almeida, Catarina Moura Reis Estrada americana Oeste americano Narrativas femininas Nomadland Lost Children Archive Estrada americana Oeste americano Narrativas femininas Domínio/Área Científica::Humanidades::Línguas e Literaturas |
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Who Gets to Go on the American Road? New Perspectives on the American Road: Jessica Bruder’s and Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland and Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive |
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Who Gets to Go on the American Road? New Perspectives on the American Road: Jessica Bruder’s and Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland and Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive |
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Who Gets to Go on the American Road? New Perspectives on the American Road: Jessica Bruder’s and Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland and Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive |
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Who Gets to Go on the American Road? New Perspectives on the American Road: Jessica Bruder’s and Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland and Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive |
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Who Gets to Go on the American Road? New Perspectives on the American Road: Jessica Bruder’s and Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland and Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive |
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Almeida, Catarina Moura Reis |
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Almeida, Catarina Moura Reis |
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Oliveira, Isabel Maria Lourenço de RUN |
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Almeida, Catarina Moura Reis |
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Estrada americana Oeste americano Narrativas femininas Nomadland Lost Children Archive Estrada americana Oeste americano Narrativas femininas Domínio/Área Científica::Humanidades::Línguas e Literaturas |
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Estrada americana Oeste americano Narrativas femininas Nomadland Lost Children Archive Estrada americana Oeste americano Narrativas femininas Domínio/Área Científica::Humanidades::Línguas e Literaturas |
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The American road narrative genre is a quintessential genre in American literature as it deals with themes that are inseparable from the country’s formation and from the construction of American identity. Often set in the mythical landscapes of the American West, these narratives convey the promises of spatial and social mobility that characterize the American Dream and that are made possible by going on the road. Nevertheless, this possibility of mobility has been reserved to traditional road heroes — white, heteronormative men — and systemically excluded minorities from accessing the road in the same terms. Consequently, this had an impact on how American road narratives written and starred by minorities have been received and analyzed. This dissertation engages with narratives written and starred by women, namely Nomadland (2017/2020) and Lost Children Archive (2019), in order to understand how they position themselves in the matrix of the genre and how they adhere to or deconstruct the hegemonic discourses that shape it. The main conclusion is that women’s American road narratives are complex and paradoxical: sometimes they adhere to the traditional genre’s structures that have systemically excluded them, other times they subvert them. This means that, for the analysis of women’s narratives to be fruitful and complete, scholars should rethink the way the approach the genre, and avoid to the dichotomies and hegemonic discourses that have permeated it. This conclusion implies that narratives that intersect gender, class and ethnicity should be regarded as highly valuable as they offer refreshing perspectives for American road narratives in the 21st century. |
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