Bodily matters : the female Dominican diaspora in Angie Cruz’s Dominicana

The aim of this article is to analyze Angie Cruz’s novel Dominicana from a multicultural and gender perspective focusing on how Cruz introduces the female body as a metaphor for the immigrant experience lived by Dominican Women during the 1960s in the United States. Also, this paper studies how the...

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Autor: Arce Álvarez, María Laura
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Murcia
Repositorio:DIGITUM. Depósito Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Murcia
OAI Identifier:oai:digitum.um.es:10201/132930
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10201/132930
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Dominican American literature
Gender studies
Border studies
Diaspora
Intersectionality
Literatura dominicanoamericana
Estudios de género
Estudios fronterizos
Diáspora
Interseccionalidad
CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura
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Sumario:The aim of this article is to analyze Angie Cruz’s novel Dominicana from a multicultural and gender perspective focusing on how Cruz introduces the female body as a metaphor for the immigrant experience lived by Dominican Women during the 1960s in the United States. Also, this paper studies how the female body becomes a metaphorical border in the diasporic experience for the central character as a way to depict an essentially female in-between-space. Thus, Cruz rewrites and recreates from the female body the diasporic experience of Dominican women immigrants in New York from an intersectional perspective.