Date of Award
5-2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
College/School
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department/Program
English
Thesis Sponsor/Dissertation Chair/Project Chair
Jeffrey Gonzalez
Committee Member
Jonathan Greenberg
Committee Member
Adam Rzepka
Abstract
This thesis examines the way migrant fiction evolves the use of women's stories. By examining this evolution, I argue that many migrant women writers explore misogyny within their representations of their home and adopted cultures. Using The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (1983), The Affairs of the Falcons by Melissa Rivero (2019), and The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston (1976), I explain the techniques these writers use to establish the mistreatment and marginalization their protagonists face. I clarify these works by presenting examples of women gaining agency despite the struggles they encounter. This thesis analyzes how the female protagonists become resilient in spite of the misogyny they face.
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Recommended Citation
Medina, Fiorella, ""Neither Here Nor There" : Migrant Women and the Cycle of Cultural Masculine Superiority" (2022). Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects. 1029.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/etd/1029