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dc.contributor.authorBurger, Hans
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-15T23:47:36Z
dc.date.available2020-10-15T23:47:36Z
dc.date.issued2011-05
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11122/11355
dc.descriptionThesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2011en_US
dc.description.abstractCounterhistory in the Literature of Juárez deals with three novels portraying a series of unsolved murders in the city of Juárez, Mexico, including Stella Pope Duarte's If I Die in Juárez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders, and Roberto Bolano's 2666. The author argues that each novel creates an alternate historical record of the murders, as well as conditions in the city at large, which counters the understanding of the crimes which has been imposed by hegemonic forces in the Mexican and American governments. Because of their oppositional tactics, the author terms all three novels counterhistories, a word with complex and sometimes contradictory meanings in both literary criticism and metahistorical thought. The author explores various ideas of counterhistory and documents the ways each novel fulfills a counterhistorical purpose, as well as the ways in which the unique qualities of the novelistic form empower the creation of oppositional and polemical meanings.en_US
dc.description.tableofcontentsIntroduction -- 1. Authenticity and the negative sublime in "If I die in Juárez" -- 2. Direct and indirect truth in "Desert blood: the Juárez murders" -- 3. The banality of evil in 2666 -- Conclusion -- Works cited.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectAlicia Gaspar de Albaen_US
dc.subjectRoberto Bolañoen_US
dc.subjectcrimes against womenen_US
dc.subjectMexicoen_US
dc.subjectliterary criticismen_US
dc.subjectliterary interpretationen_US
dc.subjectfictionen_US
dc.subjectCiudad Juárezen_US
dc.subjectmurder victims in literatureen_US
dc.titleCounterhistory in the literature of Juárezen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.degreemaen_US
dc.identifier.departmentDepartment of Englishen_US
refterms.dateFOA2020-10-15T23:47:36Z


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