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1. Carrillo, Loretta. The search for selfhood and order in contemporary Chicano fiction.
Degree: PhD, Department of English, 1979, Michigan State University
URL: http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:41965
Subjects/Keywords: Mexican American literature (Spanish); American literature – Mexican American authors
Carrillo, L. (1979). The search for selfhood and order in contemporary Chicano fiction . (Doctoral Dissertation). Michigan State University. Retrieved from http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:41965
Carrillo, Loretta. "The search for selfhood and order in contemporary Chicano fiction." 1979. Doctoral Dissertation, Michigan State University. Accessed January 22, 2020. http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:41965.
Carrillo, Loretta. "The search for selfhood and order in contemporary Chicano fiction." 1979. Web. 22 Jan 2020.
Carrillo L. The search for selfhood and order in contemporary Chicano fiction. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Michigan State University; 1979. [cited 2020 Jan 22]. Available from: http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:41965.
Carrillo L. The search for selfhood and order in contemporary Chicano fiction. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Michigan State University; 1979. Available from: http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:41965
2. Rivera, Christopher, 1980-. Admission as submission: Richard Rodriguez's autobiographies as an epistemology of penetration.
Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2010, Rutgers University
URL: http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.000053278
My dissertation is a study and contextualization of the three ethnic autobiographies of Chicano public intellectual Richard Rodriguez, The Hunger of Memory: The Education of… (more)
My dissertation is a study and contextualization of the three ethnic autobiographies of Chicano public intellectual Richard Rodriguez, The Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982), Days of Obligation: An Argument with my Mexican Father (1992), and Brown: The Last Discovery of America (2003). Since the publication of Hunger of Memory, Rodriguez is identified as being against political programs like affirmative action or a "poster boy" for right-wing politics. I argue for a more critical approach to Rodriguez's controversial role in Chicana/o and Latina/o literary and cultural studies. I explore the evolution of the author-protagonist, Richard, and highlight how his struggles are exemplary of postcolonial subjects negotiating their way through Americanization. Assimilation produces psychosexual discourses that I analyze as particular to a colonized subject's identity that is ambivalently positioned as at once typically American yet always outside the definition of what it means to be "authentically American." Building upon Octavio Paz's "penetration paradigm" and expanding the implicit queer reading of la chingada and el rajado metaphors defined in Laberinto de la soledad (1950), my project articulates how the concepts of penetration, rejection, and ambivalence become strategies of resistance postcolonial subjects manipulate in pursuit of (in)authentic Americanism. Spanning the U.S.-Mexican border, Rodriguez narrates the location the deviant, brown subject assumes in historical and present narratives of nation formation. Rodriguez presents a colonized American subject who openly defends and explores various ambivalent processes of acculturation and assimilation. Instead of adhering to Paz's notion of impervious national masculinity, Rodriguez narrates his experiences as prototypical of the life of a deviant and dark subject who acknowledges the benefits and losses of openly admitting to inhabiting ambivalent locations in culture. Recognizing the relationship nations and individuals have with their ambivalence regarding penetration and rejection becomes crucial because admission is read as submission in the epistemology of penetration that my project delineates. Through close reading the autobiographies of Rodriguez, I identity a subtext of desire; it is a desire for memory, for the creation of alternative narratives and alternative spaces for postcolonial American life and subjectivity.
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Advisors/Committee Members: Rivera, Christopher, 1980- (author), Sifuentes, Ben (chair), Decena, Carlos (co-chair), San Miguel, Yolanda Martinez (internal member), Stokes, Larry La Fountain (outside member).
Subjects/Keywords: American literature – Mexican American authors; Postcolonialism in literature; Autobiographical memory in literature; Gay authors – United States – Biography; Assimilation (Sociology) in literature
Rivera, Christopher, 1. (2010). Admission as submission: Richard Rodriguez's autobiographies as an epistemology of penetration . (Doctoral Dissertation). Rutgers University. Retrieved from http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.000053278
Rivera, Christopher, 1980-. "Admission as submission: Richard Rodriguez's autobiographies as an epistemology of penetration." 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, Rutgers University. Accessed January 22, 2020. http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.000053278.
Rivera, Christopher, 1980-. "Admission as submission: Richard Rodriguez's autobiographies as an epistemology of penetration." 2010. Web. 22 Jan 2020.
Rivera, Christopher 1. Admission as submission: Richard Rodriguez's autobiographies as an epistemology of penetration. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Rutgers University; 2010. [cited 2020 Jan 22]. Available from: http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.000053278.
Rivera, Christopher 1. Admission as submission: Richard Rodriguez's autobiographies as an epistemology of penetration. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Rutgers University; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.000053278
3. Cota-Torres, Edgar. LA REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA"LEYENDA NEGRA" EN LA FRONTERA NORTE DE MÉXICO:.
Degree: PhD, Philosophy, 2006, Penn State University
URL: https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/7359
► ABSTRACT This dissertation studies the negative discourses associated with cultural and literary representations of Mexico's northern border. Specific focus is made on principal border cities… (more)
▼ ABSTRACT This dissertation studies the negative discourses associated with cultural and literary representations of Mexico's northern border. Specific focus is made on principal border cities of Baja California by three contemporary writers from this region: Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz, Luis Humberto Crosthwaite and Rosina Conde. These authors present similar and also distinctive narrative approaches to this border with which they challenge the stereotypical visions of the United States and of Central Mexico. Mexican border cities such as Mexicali and Tijuana are often equated with sin, corruption, political and social negligence, and lawlessness by American media. These images, deeply imprinted in the social imagination of Mexico's northern neighbor, have created what is known in the border region as the Black Legend, a term associated with a derogatory border perception that usually encompasses, but is not limited to drug dealing, prostitution, alcoholism and betting. At the same time, a similar negative narration arises in Mexico about its northern frontier: the border has been perceived as a weakened first line of defense against the threatening influence of the United States, an idea born out of the Mexican American war, and later reinforced during the Mexican Revolution, and the Prohibition. Chapter one recounts pertinent theoretical approaches applicable to the Mexican border. Historical events as well as the present day perspectives from both countries will be the central topics of the second chapter. Chapter three is dedicated to the analysis of Trujillo Munoz's detective narrative from El festín de los cuervos. La saga fronteriza de Miguel Ángel Morgado. These stories explore the reencounter of a border native to his native land. It is through the process of the main character's recuperation of his roots that the author questions and presents another version of the Black Legend. Chapter four concentrates on several short stories written by Luis Humberto Crosthwaite and depicts the complexity of daily life on the border. It is by means of the lives of the fronterizos, the border natives, that this author humanizes the border, thus accepting some of the implications of the Black Legend by simultaneously dispelling border stereotypes. Chapter five explores several short stories written by Rosina Conde. Her stories have a unique quality; the majority of her protagonists are women who are in constant search of an independent voice, and whose images also work as a metaphoric representation of the border. As a result of their struggles the women challenge the exclusionary border stereotypical stigma of the United States and Central Mexico. This dissertation proposes "revolutionary zonkeism" as a metaphor for understanding how these writers construct their border realities to reiterate the negative representations of the border, and how this functions as a resistance culture to combat the history of violence that leads to the leyenda negra of the US/Mexico border.
Subjects/Keywords: Mexican-American Culture and Literature; Mexican Northern Border Authors; Mexican-american Border region
Cota-Torres, E. (2006). LA REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA"LEYENDA NEGRA" EN LA FRONTERA NORTE DE MÉXICO: . (Doctoral Dissertation). Penn State University. Retrieved from https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/7359
Cota-Torres, Edgar. "LA REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA"LEYENDA NEGRA" EN LA FRONTERA NORTE DE MÉXICO:." 2006. Doctoral Dissertation, Penn State University. Accessed January 22, 2020. https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/7359.
Cota-Torres, Edgar. "LA REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA"LEYENDA NEGRA" EN LA FRONTERA NORTE DE MÉXICO:." 2006. Web. 22 Jan 2020.
Cota-Torres E. LA REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA"LEYENDA NEGRA" EN LA FRONTERA NORTE DE MÉXICO:. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Penn State University; 2006. [cited 2020 Jan 22]. Available from: https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/7359.
Cota-Torres E. LA REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA"LEYENDA NEGRA" EN LA FRONTERA NORTE DE MÉXICO:. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Penn State University; 2006. Available from: https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/7359
4. de Veritch Woodside, Vanessa. Forging Alliances across Fronteras: Transnational Narratives of Female Migration and the Family.
Degree: Spanish and Portuguese, 2012, University of New Mexico
► This dissertation examines the effects of transnational migration on women with particular attention to the (re-)negotiation of personal and cultural identity resulting from the… (more)
▼ This dissertation examines the effects of transnational migration on women with particular attention to the (re-)negotiation of personal and cultural identity resulting from the adoption of novel roles within Chicana narratives of Mexican migration. Chapter One offers a historical background regarding the U.S.-Mexico border, (im)migration, and more specifically, women and migration, as well as an overview of pertinent Chicano migrant literature that serves as an appropriate point of departure for discussion of Chicana re-writings of such texts. This discussion offers border feminism as a framework for analyzing the representation of evolving feminine roles and familial configurations in the context of transnational migration within contemporary cultural production. Chapter Two discusses the novels Across the Great River (1989) by Irene Beltrán Hernández and Trini (1986) by Estela Portillo Trambley as precursors to post-millennial works addressing issues of immigration and the family. Chapter Three directs attention to Across a Hundred Mountains (2007) by Reyna Grande and La línea (2006) by Ann Jaramillo in light of three cinematographic works with common thematics—La misma luna (2007), Sin nombre (2009), and Which Way Home (2009). Chapter Four focuses upon political condemnations of personal tragedies in The Guardians (2007) by Ana Castillo, utilizing reflections on The Cariboo Cafe' (1985) by Helena María Viramontes, and again invoking discussion of aforementioned films to understand these works as paradigmatic narrative and cinematographic calls to action, while also introducing other literary genres—namely testimonials, ethnographies, and juvenile fiction—that similarly call for social change. Finally, Chapter Five discusses transnational families and migration in the context of multiculturalism and cultural coalitions, highlighting the narrative and cinematographic works as instruments to demand social and political activism that transcends borders. The conclusion places the texts within the context of evolving trends in migrant literature to demonstrate how they challenge the nationalist discourse of Mexican narratives of immigration and the masculinist discourse of earlier Chicano migrant texts by focusing upon the re-definition of gender and national identities, and embracing the migrant as a theoretical subject through the restoration of his or her humanity. Advisors/Committee Members: Rebolledo, Tey Diana, Lamadrid, Enrique, López, Kimberle, Lomelí, Francisco.
Subjects/Keywords: Mexican American literature (Spanish); American literature – Mexican American authors; Mexican American women in literature; Emigration and immigration in literature; Mexican-American Border Region – Emigration and immigration – In literature; European Languages and Societies; Latin American Languages and Societies
de Veritch Woodside, V. (2012). Forging Alliances across Fronteras: Transnational Narratives of Female Migration and the Family . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of New Mexico. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1928/20813
de Veritch Woodside, Vanessa. "Forging Alliances across Fronteras: Transnational Narratives of Female Migration and the Family." 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of New Mexico. Accessed January 22, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1928/20813.
de Veritch Woodside, Vanessa. "Forging Alliances across Fronteras: Transnational Narratives of Female Migration and the Family." 2012. Web. 22 Jan 2020.
de Veritch Woodside V. Forging Alliances across Fronteras: Transnational Narratives of Female Migration and the Family. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2012. [cited 2020 Jan 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1928/20813.
de Veritch Woodside V. Forging Alliances across Fronteras: Transnational Narratives of Female Migration and the Family. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1928/20813
5. Longo, Teresa S. Code-switching in bilingual Chicano literature.
Degree: MA, 1981, Montana Tech
URL: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/5399
Subjects/Keywords: Mexican American literature (Spanish); Bilingualism and literature.; American literature Mexican American authors.
Longo, T. S. (1981). Code-switching in bilingual Chicano literature . (Masters Thesis). Montana Tech. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/5399
Longo, Teresa S. "Code-switching in bilingual Chicano literature." 1981. Masters Thesis, Montana Tech. Accessed January 22, 2020. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/5399.
Longo, Teresa S. "Code-switching in bilingual Chicano literature." 1981. Web. 22 Jan 2020.
Longo TS. Code-switching in bilingual Chicano literature. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Montana Tech; 1981. [cited 2020 Jan 22]. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/5399.
Longo TS. Code-switching in bilingual Chicano literature. [Masters Thesis]. Montana Tech; 1981. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/5399
University of California – Riverside
6. Contreras, Alicia. The Campaign for Literary Practice: Mexican American Writers in the Age of Realism and Regionalism, 1885-1940.
Degree: English, 2015, University of California – Riverside
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6td9255s
► "The Campaign for Literary Practice" provides an intervention into American literary studies by reframing Mexican-American writings from 1885 to 1940 as central to understanding the… (more)
▼ "The Campaign for Literary Practice" provides an intervention into American literary studies by reframing Mexican-American writings from 1885 to 1940 as central to understanding the value and limits of realism and regionalism. The key intervention of this project is the concept "the campaign for literary practice" that illustrates these writers' attempts to navigate the literary marketplace of their time and partake in professional authorship, for income as well as status. In order to encourage new readings of U.S. literary genres and history, each chapter examines an aspiring yet struggling Mexican-American writer alongside a commercially successful contemporary.Chapter 1, "'I'll Publish Your Cowardice All Over California': Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don in the Age of Howells and American Realism," considers the first Mexican American to publish fiction in English alongside William Dean Howells, 'the Dean' of American letters. Using these writers' 1885 novels, I argue for a reconfiguration of East Coast-dominated realist studies based on Ruiz de Burton's literary production in California. Chapter 2, "Mexican Vistas in an Expansionist Literary Marketplace: Stephen Crane's 'Form and Color' and María Cristina Mena's New Regionalism," offers a new generic framework through which to study Mena's early twentieth-century 'local colorist' writings. As 'new regionalism,' Mena's stories on Mexico emerge authoritatively in response to previous ruminations on the country, such as those written by the naturalist writer Crane for newspapers and magazines. Chapter 3, "'Why Do You Hate the South?': The Limits of Visionary Regionalism in González and Raleigh's Caballero and Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!," reads Caballero and Absalom as failed 'southern romances' of the late 1930s. Together, these novels offer alternative, imaginative, and visionary ways of reading the Southwest and South during the United States' major mid nineteenth-century wars. My final chapter, "Regionalism, Geomodernism, and the Depressions of John Steinbeck and Américo Paredes," explores the major novels of these writers against the Great Depression and World War II. Paredes's work, in the end, demonstrates the way global awareness emerges in the region, even if it is at odds with the nation and its rulers.
Subjects/Keywords: American literature; American studies; Ethnic studies; American literary history; American literary realism; American literary regionalism; Chicana/o literature; History and criticism; Mexican American authors
Contreras, A. (2015). The Campaign for Literary Practice: Mexican American Writers in the Age of Realism and Regionalism, 1885-1940 . (Thesis). University of California – Riverside. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6td9255s
Contreras, Alicia. "The Campaign for Literary Practice: Mexican American Writers in the Age of Realism and Regionalism, 1885-1940." 2015. Thesis, University of California – Riverside. Accessed January 22, 2020. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6td9255s.
Contreras, Alicia. "The Campaign for Literary Practice: Mexican American Writers in the Age of Realism and Regionalism, 1885-1940." 2015. Web. 22 Jan 2020.
Contreras A. The Campaign for Literary Practice: Mexican American Writers in the Age of Realism and Regionalism, 1885-1940. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Riverside; 2015. [cited 2020 Jan 22]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6td9255s.
Contreras A. The Campaign for Literary Practice: Mexican American Writers in the Age of Realism and Regionalism, 1885-1940. [Thesis]. University of California – Riverside; 2015. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6td9255s
7. Johnson, Leigh. Domestic Violence and Empire: Legacies of Conquest in Mexican American Writing.
Degree: English, 2011, University of New Mexico
► This dissertation posits that writers can symbolically represent domestic violence to critique unjust gender relations as well as iniquitous US policy toward Mexican Americans. I… (more)
▼ This dissertation posits that writers can symbolically represent domestic violence to critique unjust gender relations as well as iniquitous US policy toward Mexican Americans. I use the term domestic violence because it most closely describes the double voiced discourse women engage to critique communities that condone violence against women as well as a country that perpetrates violence against Mexican Americans within its borders. Put broadly, domestic violence refers to threats of sexual, emotional, or psychological abuse within the home. Furthermore, patriarchal control over womens agency, sexuality, and mobility in turn-of-the-century texts also indicates domestic violence through social and historical conditions. Violence is especially evident throughout this project as women's rights challenge patriarchal structures and civil rights challenge racist policies. Revealing the perilous gains of women and Mexican Americans, social backlash encourages explosions of domestic violence. For this reason, each chapter explores the historical and social contexts surrounding scenes of domestic violence. Mexican American women remain tenuously between the spaces of home and nation as they experience domestic violence from state and familial institutions. Because these women are not safe within their homes, they have to participate in a broader societal push to define, describe, and defend themselves against domestic violence. Their resistance comes with a price—women, especially women of color, who resist patriarchal violence may be seen as cultural traitors, exposing their men to criticism from dominant society. The first chapter shows how women's speech both uncovers and masks narratives of domestic violence through allegory using the testimonios taken for the Bancroft project on California history. The second chapter examines how the historical romance genre incorporates scenes of domestic violence against women's protected space in the home and nation. The third chapter reveals how representations of domestic violence within Mexico reflect colonial anxieties about conquest and domestic policy. American travel writers' encounters with domestic violence in Mexico reflect the anxieties surrounding American entitlement to Mexico and the bodies of the people living there. The fourth chapter observes limitations on women's ability to leave violent situations within the home or the nation. This chapter utilizes scenes by Mexican American men, as they write about (and blame women for) domestic violence. The fifth chapter celebrates women writers' activism through literary motherwork. Though these texts, with the exception of the last chapter, precede the Chicano Movement, they are politically engaged in a struggle to define and defend la raza through their intellectual agendas.' Advisors/Committee Members: Aleman, Jesse, Rebolledo, Tey Diana, Reyes, Barbara, Saldivar-Hull, Sonia.
Subjects/Keywords: Mexican American women – Crimes against – History; Mexican American women – Abuse of – History; Mexican American women in literature; Family violence in literature; Mexican American women authors; Sex role – Political aspects – United States – History; Sex role – Political aspects – Mexico – History
Johnson, L. (2011). Domestic Violence and Empire: Legacies of Conquest in Mexican American Writing . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of New Mexico. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1928/12859
Johnson, Leigh. "Domestic Violence and Empire: Legacies of Conquest in Mexican American Writing." 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of New Mexico. Accessed January 22, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1928/12859.
Johnson, Leigh. "Domestic Violence and Empire: Legacies of Conquest in Mexican American Writing." 2011. Web. 22 Jan 2020.
Johnson L. Domestic Violence and Empire: Legacies of Conquest in Mexican American Writing. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2011. [cited 2020 Jan 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1928/12859.
Johnson L. Domestic Violence and Empire: Legacies of Conquest in Mexican American Writing. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1928/12859
Texas State University – San Marcos
8. Vigil, Joseph J. Escaping the Chicano Patriarchy: Chicana and Queer [email protected] Identity Struggles in the [email protected] Novel and in America.
Degree: MA, Literature, 2013, Texas State University – San Marcos
URL: https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/4886
► While efforts have been made to include [email protected] literature into the North American canon, works by Chicanas and queer [email protected] remain underrepresented. Meanwhile, Chicanas and… (more)
▼ While efforts have been made to include [email protected] literature into the North American canon, works by Chicanas and queer [email protected] remain underrepresented. Meanwhile, Chicanas and queer [email protected] themselves still face racial, gender-based, and sexual oppression from dominant, hegemonic American social forces and from some heterosexist male members of their own ethnic group. This thesis is an exploration of how Chicana and queer [email protected] authors present within their novels their struggles to form and assert autonomous identities. It also serves as a discussion of how these ethnic subgroups have historically faced such identity formation obstacles. This examination leads to a suggested pedagogy that will engage and promote the academic success of such oppressed individuals, thus ensuring their representation in the educational field and aiding in their identity formations despite the limiting cultural expectations that they constantly face Advisors/Committee Members: Mejia, Jaime A. (advisor), Lochman, Daniel (committee member), Martinez, Sergio (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Chicano literature; Queer literature; Chicana literature; Heterosexism; Gender; Identity formation; Patriarchy; American literature – Mexican American authors – History and criticism; Sex in literature; Race in literature; Mexican Americans in literature; Mexican American women in literature; Gays' writings, American – History and criticism; Homosexuality and literature – United States; Hispanic American gays – Intellectual life; Sexual minorities
Vigil, J. J. (2013). Escaping the Chicano Patriarchy: Chicana and Queer [email protected] Identity Struggles in the [email protected] Novel and in America . (Masters Thesis). Texas State University – San Marcos. Retrieved from https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/4886
Vigil, Joseph J. "Escaping the Chicano Patriarchy: Chicana and Queer Chica[email protected] Identity Struggles in the [email protected] Novel and in America." 2013. Masters Thesis, Texas State University – San Marcos. Accessed January 22, 2020. https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/4886.
Vigil, Joseph J. "Escaping the Chicano Patriarchy: Chicana and Queer [email protected] Identity Struggles in the [email protected] Novel and in America." 2013. Web. 22 Jan 2020.
Vigil JJ. Escaping the Chicano Patriarchy: Chicana and Queer [email protected] Identity Struggles in the [email protected] Novel and in America. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Texas State University – San Marcos; 2013. [cited 2020 Jan 22]. Available from: https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/4886.
Vigil JJ. Escaping the Chicano Patriarchy: Chicana and Queer [email protected] Identity Struggles in the [email protected] Novel and in America. [Masters Thesis]. Texas State University – San Marcos; 2013. Available from: https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/4886
9. Calvillo, Verónica. MI CASA ES SU CASA: LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DE LA IDENTIDAD CHICANA Y EL DESARROLLO DE LA DOMÉSTICA EN LA NARRATIVA CHICANA.
► The development of the Chicano/a identity has prevailed as a main theme in a vast variety of Chicano/a Literature. This study analyses the construction of… (more)
▼ The development of the Chicano/a identity has prevailed as a main theme in a vast variety of Chicano/a Literature. This study analyses the construction of identity in female protagonists as they develop a domestic profession in the private and public sectors. The novels Face of An Angel written by Denise Chávez and Trini written by Estela Portillo-Trambley as well as selected poems written by Pat Mora set the stage for a dialogue between domestic workers and their employers as both parties negotiate their own identity and subsistence in a society where their presence involves a give and take for economic reasons. The female characters develop a better understanding of their own culture, community and themselves through domestic work and their interactions with other domestic workers in the narratives. Domestic work becomes a profession for the female characters and a tool to mediate their identity between private and public spheres. This study takes an interdisciplinary approach as it analyses the narratives not only from a literary perspective but from a sociological one. Mary Romero and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelos extensive studies have highlighted the importance of domestic workers and their contributions in society. Gloria Anzaldúa's work has contributed to this study as the concept of the new mestiza plays an important role in identity formation. This study closely analyses the similarities between sociological studies of domestic workers and their identity formation and the representation of domestic workers in Chicano/a Literature. The outcome of this study analyses similarities between domestic workers and their representation in literature. It also studies how domestic workers have made an attempt to redefine their identity and have struggled to be recognized as individuals who have a valuable profession that can truly be valued in society and its literature. Advisors/Committee Members: Rebolledo, Tey Diana, Reyes, Bárbara, López, Miguel, Lamadrid, Enrique.
Subjects/Keywords: Women household employees in literature; Mexican American women in literature; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature; American literature – Mexican American authors – History and criticism; Chavez; Denise – Criticism and interpretation; Mora; Pat – Criticism and interpretation; Trambley; Estela Portillo; 1936- – Criticism and interpretation
Calvillo, V. (2011). MI CASA ES SU CASA: LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DE LA IDENTIDAD CHICANA Y EL DESARROLLO DE LA DOMÉSTICA EN LA NARRATIVA CHICANA . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of New Mexico. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1928/13129
Calvillo, Verónica. "MI CASA ES SU CASA: LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DE LA IDENTIDAD CHICANA Y EL DESARROLLO DE LA DOMÉSTICA EN LA NARRATIVA CHICANA." 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of New Mexico. Accessed January 22, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1928/13129.
Calvillo, Verónica. "MI CASA ES SU CASA: LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DE LA IDENTIDAD CHICANA Y EL DESARROLLO DE LA DOMÉSTICA EN LA NARRATIVA CHICANA." 2011. Web. 22 Jan 2020.
Calvillo V. MI CASA ES SU CASA: LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DE LA IDENTIDAD CHICANA Y EL DESARROLLO DE LA DOMÉSTICA EN LA NARRATIVA CHICANA. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2011. [cited 2020 Jan 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1928/13129.
Calvillo V. MI CASA ES SU CASA: LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DE LA IDENTIDAD CHICANA Y EL DESARROLLO DE LA DOMÉSTICA EN LA NARRATIVA CHICANA. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1928/13129
10. Rivera, Diana Noreen. Remapping the U.S. "Southwest": Early Mexican American Literature and the Production of Transnational Counterspaces, 1885-1958.
► This dissertation brings to light a legacy of Mexican American spatial resilience that troubles Anglo-centric constructions of the Southwest, its history, and cultural formation as… (more)
▼ This dissertation brings to light a legacy of Mexican American spatial resilience that troubles Anglo-centric constructions of the Southwest, its history, and cultural formation as a byproduct of westward expansionism. This project argues that early Mexican American writers offer an alternative paradigm of transnationalism for understanding the literature, culture, and geography of the U.S. Southwest as it has been imagined in Anglo American cultural production about the region. For early Mexican American writers, the Southwest was not a quaint literary region but a space of historic transnational zones of contact, commerce, and cultural geography where they maintained degrees of agency. I examine the writings of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Fray Angélico Chávez, Federico Ronstadt, and Américo Paredes for their "transnational counterspaces." I use this term, which draws from spatial theories by Henri Lefebvre and Edward Soja, to describe their vocalizations of the Southwest produced in the face of their respective Anglo counterparts such as Willa Cather and other members of the Santa Fe and Taos writers colonies, Walter Noble Burns, J. Frank Dobie, and Walter Prescott Webb. I take an interdisciplinary approach dialoging with Chicano/a, borderlands, and American literary studies within a historical framework to chart how early Mexican American writings reclaim the region by mapping transnational heritages belonging to Mexican American and Chicano/a communities. Advisors/Committee Members: Alemán, Jesse, Cotera, Maria, Washburn, Kathleen, Emilio, Zamora.
Subjects/Keywords: Mexican American literature; Mexican American authors; History and criticism; American literature; Southwest; Southwestern states; Chicano/a; biculturalism; transnationalism; U.S.-Mexico Border studies; cartography and literature; cultural space; María Amparo Ruiz de Burton; Fray Angélico Chávez; Federico Ronstadt; Américo Paredes; literary criticism
Rivera, D. N. (2014). Remapping the U.S. "Southwest": Early Mexican American Literature and the Production of Transnational Counterspaces, 1885-1958 . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of New Mexico. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1928/24592
Rivera, Diana Noreen. "Remapping the U.S. "Southwest": Early Mexican American Literature and the Production of Transnational Counterspaces, 1885-1958." 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of New Mexico. Accessed January 22, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1928/24592.
Rivera, Diana Noreen. "Remapping the U.S. "Southwest": Early Mexican American Literature and the Production of Transnational Counterspaces, 1885-1958." 2014. Web. 22 Jan 2020.
Rivera DN. Remapping the U.S. "Southwest": Early Mexican American Literature and the Production of Transnational Counterspaces, 1885-1958. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2014. [cited 2020 Jan 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1928/24592.
Rivera DN. Remapping the U.S. "Southwest": Early Mexican American Literature and the Production of Transnational Counterspaces, 1885-1958. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1928/24592
11. Somoza, Oscar U. VISION AXIOLOGICA EN LA NARRATIVA CHICANA .
Degree: 1977, University of Arizona
Subjects/Keywords: Mexican American literature (Spanish) – History and criticism.; American literature – Mexican American authors – History and criticism.
Somoza, O. U. (1977). VISION AXIOLOGICA EN LA NARRATIVA CHICANA . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Arizona. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290443
Somoza, Oscar U. "VISION AXIOLOGICA EN LA NARRATIVA CHICANA ." 1977. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Arizona. Accessed January 22, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290443.
Somoza, Oscar U. "VISION AXIOLOGICA EN LA NARRATIVA CHICANA ." 1977. Web. 22 Jan 2020.
Somoza OU. VISION AXIOLOGICA EN LA NARRATIVA CHICANA . [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona; 1977. [cited 2020 Jan 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290443.
Somoza OU. VISION AXIOLOGICA EN LA NARRATIVA CHICANA . [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Arizona; 1977. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290443
Central Connecticut State University
12. Albrizio, Eileen M. Wearing Costumes and Crossing Borders: Search for Self in Chicano/a Literature.
Degree: Department of English, 2008, Central Connecticut State University
URL: http://content.library.ccsu.edu/u?/ccsutheses,1179
► The purpose of this thesis is to explore the complexities surrounding the acceptance of personal and cultural identity for protagonists in Chicano/a literature. By way… (more)
▼ The purpose of this thesis is to explore the complexities surrounding the acceptance of personal and cultural identity for protagonists in Chicano/a literature. By way of close reading analysis and methodological comparison, I delve into three literary texts written by Chicano/a authors to understand the inimitable factors that contribute to the protagonists' struggle with identity. Moving through Jos Antonio Villarreal's Pocho, John Rechy's City of Night, and Gloria Anzalda's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, I examine how the three protagonists' search for self is unique to other literary characters of mixed culture due on some level to their ethnicity and being raised in the proximity of the Mexican border. Each protagonist is an American of Mexican decent. Each is brought up in a United States town that borders Mexico. These homes all rest along that long strip of geography that separates two nations, the border that Anzalda states, "created a shock culture, a border culture, a third country, a closed country" (Anzalda 33). It is a living thing, made of people of confused cultures. It is constantly changing, insecure, like the people who live on its edge, a people who are neither here nor there, but in between. They are a people in conflict with themselves, in search of an identity. The protagonists in these novels are inheritors of that personal insecurity. Villarreal's Richard Rubio, Rechy's nameless narrator, and Anzaldua's Gloria, are all instilled with a need to strip away the self that places them on the border and find a new identity, a self that is neither Mexican nor American, one that is not formed by the ideology of their parents or ancestors, but an identity that is distinctly their own. Richard, the first of the Rubio family to be born in the United States, never experienced Mexico first-hand and cannot connect with his family's cultural attitudes. Because he has no point of reference for understanding, he comes to dislike his Mexican identity. However, the color of his skin, his dialect and his parentage make him an outcast amongst white Americans. Richard is both alienated from his family and from society. Because of this extreme alienation, he metaphorically strips himself naked in an attempt to become a completely autonomous person. Rechy's narrator, a young man, who, sexually abused by his father and emotionally tormented by his mother, works hard to deny the emotional trauma of his youth by escaping his El Paso home. Relying on his beautiful body, he enters into the seedy cities of night, hustling men for sex, sleeping in hovels, and existing on the edge. Hustling is a way to take control of the abuses inflicted on him by his father as well as a means to hide or deny his homosexuality. He wears his body like a mask, covering the intense need for love and compassionate companionship that lies beneath. Richard and Rechy's narrator wish to abandon their old identity completely, then don a new skin, one that is separate and unique from the child they once were. The problem is… Advisors/Committee Members: Sugg, Katherine.
Subjects/Keywords: American literature – Mexican American authors – History and criticism; Mexican Americans – Ethnic identity – In literature
Albrizio, E. M. (2008). Wearing Costumes and Crossing Borders: Search for Self in Chicano/a Literature . (Thesis). Central Connecticut State University. Retrieved from http://content.library.ccsu.edu/u?/ccsutheses,1179
Albrizio, Eileen M. "Wearing Costumes and Crossing Borders: Search for Self in Chicano/a Literature." 2008. Thesis, Central Connecticut State University. Accessed January 22, 2020. http://content.library.ccsu.edu/u?/ccsutheses,1179.
Albrizio, Eileen M. "Wearing Costumes and Crossing Borders: Search for Self in Chicano/a Literature." 2008. Web. 22 Jan 2020.
Albrizio EM. Wearing Costumes and Crossing Borders: Search for Self in Chicano/a Literature. [Internet] [Thesis]. Central Connecticut State University; 2008. [cited 2020 Jan 22]. Available from: http://content.library.ccsu.edu/u?/ccsutheses,1179.
Albrizio EM. Wearing Costumes and Crossing Borders: Search for Self in Chicano/a Literature. [Thesis]. Central Connecticut State University; 2008. Available from: http://content.library.ccsu.edu/u?/ccsutheses,1179
13. Funderburk, Cheryl. The Borderlands in Puerto Rico : Creating New Identities.
Degree: 2010, East Carolina University
► Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera is one of the most influential books on border theory, but because her theories are rooted in her experiences in the… (more)
▼ Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera is one of the most influential books on border theory, but because her theories are rooted in her experiences in the Rio Grande Valley between Texas and Mexico, they cannot be indiscriminately applied to all Latinos in the United States. Cultural differences among nations must be taken into account in order to fully understand the border experiences of immigrants from different Hispanic nations. This is especially apparent when trying to apply Borderlands to Puerto Rican literature. The differences in the political situations between Puerto Rican culture and the Chicana culture that Anzaldúa writes about require a reexamination of Anzaldúa's theories in order to apply them to the border experiences of Puerto Ricans in the U.S. This thesis looks at texts from three Puerto Rican authors – Rosario Ferré's The House on the Lagoon, Judith Ortiz Cofer's The Line of the Sun, and Nicholasa Mohr's In Nueva York – through the framework of Borderlands to see how the border experience of Puerto Ricans affects cultural changes in language, religion, and women's roles. The changes in language are eased somewhat by Puerto Rico's official policy of English-Spanish bilingualism. However, Spanish is still the cultural language of the island in much the same way that English is the cultural language of the United States and, as Ferré and Ortiz Cofer show, an inability to speak Spanish in Puerto Rico is as limiting as an inability to speak English in the United States. However, in Puerto Rican neighborhoods in the U.S., the two languages have blended together to create an interlanguage, Spanglish, which reflects the blending of cultures in these communities and eases the transition between languages, allowing Puerto Rican immigrants to keep their national identity while participating fully in life in the U.S. With religion, the situation is different. Many Puerto Ricans practice what Anzaldúa calls "a folk Catholicism" (49), defined as Roman Catholicism syncretized with Creole religions, such as Santería and Espiritismo in Puerto Rico. The House on the Lagoon shows how these Creole religions are separated on the island by racial and class differences while The Line of the Sun and In Nueva York illustrate how Santería and Espiritismo have blended into a third religion called Santerismo. Because of the differences between the Puerto Rican and U.S. interpretations of mental health, these religions are used as healing practices as well, supplanting American psychology for many Puerto Ricans living in the U.S., allowing them to keep a vital connection to island culture. The changes in women's roles in Puerto Rican culture are symbolized by the changes in the role of wives in family life. Anzaldúa's discussion of the influence of the Hispanic concepts of marianismo and machismo on family life exemplifies the limitations for Latinas who follow a traditional life in the U.S. However, as Ferré, Ortiz Cofer, and Mohr show in their works, these concepts can be manipulated, refined, and discarded…
Subjects/Keywords: Literature, Latin American; Borderlands (Anzaldúa); Frontera, La; House on the lagoon, The; Line of the sun, The; In Nueva York; Puerto Rican literature – 20th century – History and criticism; American literature – Puerto Rican authors; American literature – Mexican American authors; Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands; Ferré, Rosario. House on the lagoon; Cofer, Judith Ortiz. Line of the sun; Mohr, Nicholasa. In Nueva York
Funderburk, C. (2010). The Borderlands in Puerto Rico : Creating New Identities . (Thesis). East Carolina University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10342/2829
Funderburk, Cheryl. "The Borderlands in Puerto Rico : Creating New Identities." 2010. Thesis, East Carolina University. Accessed January 22, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/2829.
Funderburk, Cheryl. "The Borderlands in Puerto Rico : Creating New Identities." 2010. Web. 22 Jan 2020.
Funderburk C. The Borderlands in Puerto Rico : Creating New Identities. [Internet] [Thesis]. East Carolina University; 2010. [cited 2020 Jan 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10342/2829.
Funderburk C. The Borderlands in Puerto Rico : Creating New Identities. [Thesis]. East Carolina University; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10342/2829
14. Brito, Aristeo, Jr. Paraíso, caida y regeneración en tres novelas chicanas .
► Paraíso, Caída y Regeneración en tres novelas chicanas is a detailed literary analysis of three well-known chicano novels: Pocho, Bless Me, Ultima and Peregrinos de… (more)
▼ Paraíso, Caída y Regeneración en tres novelas chicanas is a detailed literary analysis of three well-known chicano novels: Pocho, Bless Me, Ultima and Peregrinos de Aztlán. The approach is the utilization of the "paradise-fall-regeneration" pattern as a means to study the three stages of the principal characters' development. By identifying and characterizing this process within each of these novels, this writer acquires a better understanding as to what constitutes the characters' self-perception as well as their relation to the reality around them. This fictitious representation of Chicano life in turn sheds light on the three novelists' perceptions of what Chicano reality is and how it is reflected in their works. Pocho is a clear manifestation of the "fall" from Mexican traditional culture. The old characters* geographic and spiritual removal from what they consider the paradisal state and the slow eroding process of their cultural system is what the novel is about. Although the characters make a vain attempt at the preservation of these values, the defeat is clearly manifested in their children's acculturation, especially in the protagonist, Richard. At the end of the novel there is no indication that the characters attain some sort of regeneration. On the contrary, there is only chaos, a disintegrated marriage, and a psychologically disoriented protagonist. Bless Me, Ultima offers a much broader view of the "paradise-fall-regeneration" pattern and appears on various planes. Culture, from the protagonist's point of view, is not seen as conflict or as a fall but as an affirmation of cultural roots. Paradisal remnants of the New Mexican heritage are still manifest in contemporary life; thus, the fall is no more than the protagonist's coming of age. This fallen state is temporary and at the end of the novel the protagonist gathers all the knowledge acquired through his life experience and builds a positive world view. This new stage in life is what represents regeneration. Moreover, the incursion into the ancestral roots of New Mexican culture and the knowledge acquired in the writing of the novel is in itself an act of regeneration for the author. In this manner, the regenerative state in Bless Me, Ultima is also represented outside its fictitious boundaries. Peregrinos de Aztlán is by far the most complex of the three novels. It also represents the extreme "fall" of man. There is no paradise for the characters but a continuous degeneration of humanity on every conceivable plane. For the characters there is no salvation and human life can well be considered hell. Paradise is characterized by dreams and illusions which serve to help tolerate the dehumanizing existence of the characters. The regenerative state, consequently, is non-existent within the world of Peregrinos de Aztlán. Nevertheless, the work itself is an act of regeneration for the author and for the Chicano Movement because it is an act of rebellion. Méndez exposes a realistic condition of the two societies in which Chicanos live and offers the Chicano…
Subjects/Keywords: Mexican American literature (Spanish); American literature – Mexican American authors.; Villarreal, José Antonio. – Pocho.; Anaya, Rudolfo A. – Bless me, Ultima.; Méndez M., Miguel. – Peregrinos de Aztlán.; Literature, American.
Brito, Aristeo, J. (1978). Paraíso, caida y regeneración en tres novelas chicanas . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Arizona. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10150/298768
Brito, Aristeo, Jr. "Paraíso, caida y regeneración en tres novelas chicanas ." 1978. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Arizona. Accessed January 22, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/298768.
Brito, Aristeo, Jr. "Paraíso, caida y regeneración en tres novelas chicanas ." 1978. Web. 22 Jan 2020.
Brito, Aristeo J. Paraíso, caida y regeneración en tres novelas chicanas . [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona; 1978. [cited 2020 Jan 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/298768.
Brito, Aristeo J. Paraíso, caida y regeneración en tres novelas chicanas . [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Arizona; 1978. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/298768
15. ZARAGOZA, COSME M. DEL XIX AL XX: LA NOVELA AZTLANENSE EN ESPANOL.(CHICANO, MEXICAN).
► My thesis begins with the rapid tracking down of a word that demands the acknowledgment of a territory in its own right: Aztlan. I trace… (more)
▼ My thesis begins with the rapid tracking down of a word that demands the acknowledgment of a territory in its own right: Aztlan. I trace this term from prehispanic times up to the present in order to formulate the mythical, historical, cultural, and literary characteristics of a conglomerate that is currently identifiable and recognizable as the Chicano people of Aztlan. The main hypothesis of this work, which is to establish a coherent starting point for the study of the Aztlanese novel written in Spanish, is set within a historical-literary context. As a consequence, this thesis cannot encompass all the Aztlanese narratives written in Spanish; instead, it focuses specifically on two works – from the 19th and 20th centuries, respectively – that I consider the first and foremost historical-literary links. El hijo de la tempestad (1892), by Eusebio Chacon, and Peregrinos de Aztlan (1974), by Miguel Mendez, are the first texts that exhibit a clear literary awareness. I have what such concepts imply within an artistic framework. I am fully convinced that these two narrative texts are the first and foremost links in the Aztlanese novel as it currently exists, particularly in those novels written in Spanish. In some fashion, these two trail blazing novels constitute concrete examples that can help to establish and systematize, on the basis of specifically literary formulations, the literary tradition of the complex and heterogenous literary phenomenon which is Aztlan. My approach is restricted to a method that recognizes a literary work as a semi-autonomous structure – that is, one which exhibits structural relations with other facts and phenomena outside itself. The second chapter traces the meaning and location of the concept Aztlan, and it notes that the said concept is a myth and a spiritual rallying point among Chicanos. The chapter also comments on the principal aspects of the history of people of Mexican origin in the United States, as well as the so-called "Chicano Movement". The third chapter discusses the principal literary tendencies with regard to esthetic phenomena. It delimits the concept of the novel, the parameters of Aztlanese expression – particularly of works written in Spanish – and, of course, my approach. Each of the two following chapters is devoted to one of the two novels at issue. Each chapter studies the concept and function of literature held by its novel's author, as well as the structural process exemplified by each of the texts. Significantly, both novels display characteristics that allow them to be classified with modern and contemporary Latinamerican novels, respectively: El hijo de la tempestad clearly fits in with Naturalism, Peregrinos de Aztlan in with Superrealism. Advisors/Committee Members: Grant, A. T. (committeemember), Nelson, L. O. (committeemember), Conrad, Clifton F. (committeemember).
Subjects/Keywords: American fiction – Mexican American authors – History and criticism.; Spanish American fiction – History and criticism.
ZARAGOZA, C. M. (1984). DEL XIX AL XX: LA NOVELA AZTLANENSE EN ESPANOL.(CHICANO, MEXICAN). (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Arizona. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187742
ZARAGOZA, COSME M. "DEL XIX AL XX: LA NOVELA AZTLANENSE EN ESPANOL.(CHICANO, MEXICAN). " 1984. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Arizona. Accessed January 22, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187742.
ZARAGOZA, COSME M. "DEL XIX AL XX: LA NOVELA AZTLANENSE EN ESPANOL.(CHICANO, MEXICAN). " 1984. Web. 22 Jan 2020.
ZARAGOZA CM. DEL XIX AL XX: LA NOVELA AZTLANENSE EN ESPANOL.(CHICANO, MEXICAN). [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona; 1984. [cited 2020 Jan 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187742.
ZARAGOZA CM. DEL XIX AL XX: LA NOVELA AZTLANENSE EN ESPANOL.(CHICANO, MEXICAN). [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Arizona; 1984. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187742
16. Ochterbeck, Cynthia Clayton. Code-switching in Mexican-American literature: uses of Spanish in short-stories by Roberta Fernández, Rudolfo Anaya, and Carmen Tafolla.
Degree: MA, english, 2012, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1992-THESIS-O16
Subjects/Keywords: english.; Fernandez, Roberta; Anaya, Rudolfo A.; Tafolla, Carmen, 1951-; Major english.; Code switching (Linguistics); American literature - Mexican American authors.; Bilingualism.
Ochterbeck, C. C. (2012). Code-switching in Mexican-American literature: uses of Spanish in short-stories by Roberta Fernández, Rudolfo Anaya, and Carmen Tafolla . (Masters Thesis). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1992-THESIS-O16
Ochterbeck, Cynthia Clayton. "Code-switching in Mexican-American literature: uses of Spanish in short-stories by Roberta Fernández, Rudolfo Anaya, and Carmen Tafolla." 2012. Masters Thesis, Texas A&M University. Accessed January 22, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1992-THESIS-O16.
Ochterbeck, Cynthia Clayton. "Code-switching in Mexican-American literature: uses of Spanish in short-stories by Roberta Fernández, Rudolfo Anaya, and Carmen Tafolla." 2012. Web. 22 Jan 2020.
Ochterbeck CC. Code-switching in Mexican-American literature: uses of Spanish in short-stories by Roberta Fernández, Rudolfo Anaya, and Carmen Tafolla. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2012. [cited 2020 Jan 22]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1992-THESIS-O16.
Ochterbeck CC. Code-switching in Mexican-American literature: uses of Spanish in short-stories by Roberta Fernández, Rudolfo Anaya, and Carmen Tafolla. [Masters Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1992-THESIS-O16
17. Miller-Purrenhage, John Philip. Native American, Chicano, and Western American literatures : finding common ground.
Subjects/Keywords: Anaya, Rudolfo A. – Criticism and interpretation; McMurtry, Larry – Criticism and interpretation; Erdrich, Louise – Criticism and interpretation; Love medicine; Candelaria, Nash – Criticism and interpretation; Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948 – Criticism and interpretation; American literature – Indian authors; American literature – Mexican American authors; American literature – West (U.S.); American literature – White authors
Miller-Purrenhage, J. P. (2004). Native American, Chicano, and Western American literatures : finding common ground . (Doctoral Dissertation). Michigan State University. Retrieved from http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:33170
Miller-Purrenhage, John Philip. "Native American, Chicano, and Western American literatures : finding common ground." 2004. Doctoral Dissertation, Michigan State University. Accessed January 22, 2020. http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:33170.
Miller-Purrenhage, John Philip. "Native American, Chicano, and Western American literatures : finding common ground." 2004. Web. 22 Jan 2020.
Miller-Purrenhage JP. Native American, Chicano, and Western American literatures : finding common ground. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Michigan State University; 2004. [cited 2020 Jan 22]. Available from: http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:33170.
Miller-Purrenhage JP. Native American, Chicano, and Western American literatures : finding common ground. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Michigan State University; 2004. Available from: http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:33170
18. Minster, Christopher W. Narration and time in Pocho and ...y no se lo trago? la tierra.
Subjects/Keywords: Rivera; Tomás; 1935- – y no se lo tragó la tierra; Villareal; José Antonio. Pocho; American literature Mexican authors History and criticism
Minster, C. W. (1997). Narration and time in Pocho and ...y no se lo trago? la tierra . (Masters Thesis). Montana Tech. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/3057
Minster, Christopher W. "Narration and time in Pocho and ...y no se lo trago? la tierra." 1997. Masters Thesis, Montana Tech. Accessed January 22, 2020. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/3057.
Minster, Christopher W. "Narration and time in Pocho and ...y no se lo trago? la tierra." 1997. Web. 22 Jan 2020.
Minster CW. Narration and time in Pocho and ...y no se lo trago? la tierra. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Montana Tech; 1997. [cited 2020 Jan 22]. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/3057.
Minster CW. Narration and time in Pocho and ...y no se lo trago? la tierra. [Masters Thesis]. Montana Tech; 1997. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/3057
19. Avila, Edward A. Conditions of (Im)possibility : necropolitics, neoliberalism, and the cultural politics of death in contemporary Chicana/o film and literature.
Degree: Literature, 2012, University of California – San Diego
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7sh1f55b
► This dissertation argues that the selected literary and filmic texts examined in this study offer critical reconfigurations of the intersecting processes of neoliberal rationalities and… (more)
▼ This dissertation argues that the selected literary and filmic texts examined in this study offer critical reconfigurations of the intersecting processes of neoliberal rationalities and the necropolitical order of power along the U.S.-Mexico border. Moreover, the texts examined in this dissertation refocus our attention on critical representations of social abandonment, denationalization, and the production of disposable life under contemporary neoliberal capitalism along the border region. Chapter 1, "The Maquila Complex : Necropolitical Landscapes and the Cartographies of Abandonment," examines the ways in which the film documentaries Maquilapolis : City of Factories (2006) and Señorita Extraviada : Missing Young Women (2001) and the novel Desert Blood : The Juárez Murders (2005) critically articulate and engage with cultural narratives and images of feminicide and anti- female terror. This chapter focuses on the ways in which these seemingly two different film documentaries (re)configure the "conditions of possibility" underwriting various forms of social and political abandonment, exceptionality, and denationalization. Chapter 2, "Reification, Disposability, and Resistance," continues looking at these three same texts in order to investigate the ways in which these distinct genres of Chicana/o cultural production articulate and reconfigure feminicide in relation to social reification, commodity fetishism, and cultural narratives of disposability. This chapter attempts to look at these two texts primarily through the Marxist concept of reification in order draw attention to the ways in which these texts imaginatively represent violence against women beyond immediate circumstances and towards a complex, contradictory narrative that captures the historicized gender, racial, and class dimensions of violence. Chapter 3, "What 'We' Do Abroad : Transnational Adoption and Liberal Internationalism under Contemporary Neoliberalism at the Borderlands," engages with the cultural representations of the neoliberal (b)order along the Mexico-U.S. borderlands. Linking Foucauldian analyses of neoliberal governmentality with critiques of liberal internationalism and transnational adoption, this chapter investigates the ways in which the novel Desert Blood : The Juárez Murders and the film Bordertown (2008) configure neoliberal rationalities embedded in the technologies of governing that produce discourses of blame, mismanaged life, and failed motherhood in relation to U.S. narratives of child rescue and humanitarian interventionism
Subjects/Keywords: American literature Mexican American authors Themes, motives History and criticism; Mexican American literature (Spanish) Themes, motives History and criticism; Mexican-American Border Region In literature Crimes against Women; Mexican-American Border Region In motion pictures Crimes against Women; Marginality, Social, in literature; Marginality, Social, in motion pictures; Mexican-American Border Region Neoliberalism
…understanding of American Studies and more profound respect for archival research. The many hours… …temporary residence for thousands of Mexican male laborers working the smelters and railroads… …an alliance with the local Mexican elite personified in the figure of dictator Porfirio… …authors draw attention to the social transformations emerging from this form of economic… …dispossession.1 In the early 1940s, U.S. interests in acquiring Mexican labor would redefine…
Avila, E. A. (2012). Conditions of (Im)possibility : necropolitics, neoliberalism, and the cultural politics of death in contemporary Chicana/o film and literature . (Thesis). University of California – San Diego. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7sh1f55b
Avila, Edward A. "Conditions of (Im)possibility : necropolitics, neoliberalism, and the cultural politics of death in contemporary Chicana/o film and literature." 2012. Thesis, University of California – San Diego. Accessed January 22, 2020. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7sh1f55b.
Avila, Edward A. "Conditions of (Im)possibility : necropolitics, neoliberalism, and the cultural politics of death in contemporary Chicana/o film and literature." 2012. Web. 22 Jan 2020.
Avila EA. Conditions of (Im)possibility : necropolitics, neoliberalism, and the cultural politics of death in contemporary Chicana/o film and literature. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – San Diego; 2012. [cited 2020 Jan 22]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7sh1f55b.
Avila EA. Conditions of (Im)possibility : necropolitics, neoliberalism, and the cultural politics of death in contemporary Chicana/o film and literature. [Thesis]. University of California – San Diego; 2012. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7sh1f55b
20. Hernández, Bernadine Marie. Sexing Empire : The Ontology of Racialized Gender and Sexuality in the Hemispheric Southwest through Mexican American and Chicana Narrative.
Degree: 2015, University of California – San Diego
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0wf2t9qk
► This dissertation sets out to trace the material and social relations and legacies of racialized gender and sexuality from 1870 to the contemporary moment in… (more)
▼ This dissertation sets out to trace the material and social relations and legacies of racialized gender and sexuality from 1870 to the contemporary moment in the hemispheric Southwest through Mexican American (Californiana, Tejana, Hispana) and Chicana narrative by examining multiple empires and governances, Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. This dissertation aims to trace the sexual economies of the Southwest in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to interrogate how gender and sexuality is materially used for production and reproduction and how historical relations inform notions of racialized gender and sexuality for Chicana bodies in the contemporary moment. This study traverses a long historical period not to trace a colonial historical moment, but rather, to trace a colonial and then imperial legacy of productive to unproductive racialized sexualities between dominant and subordinate populations in the Southwest. It intervenes in Chicana/o Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and American literary history as it traces the shifts in economic systems and sexual economies and how those shifts after 1848 produce gender and sexual norms. In addition to this examination, this dissertation utilizes decolonial and Chicana feminist theory to interrogate how Mexicana gender and sexuality is informed by black and native bodies and how sexual economies produce material relations and racialized gender and sexuality. The literary narratives of the Mexican American and Chicana works I examine trace matters of sexualization, sex, and gender in the late nineteenth, early twentieth, and the contemporary moment, particularly the critical role sexual and gender arrangements have in creating categories of differentiation and distinguishing the subjugated from the subjugator. The social classification that racialized gender and sexuality regulates is not a fixed and/or ignored act, but rather a perversely critical one. Imperial governance in the nineteenth-century depended on the regulation and surveillance of sexual economies and their changing histories of productivity. This is the first significant point this dissertation makes. Wrestling with is the ever- evolving comparative framework between Mexican American/ Chicana, Native, and Black Studies and the co-constitutive relations between these different "groups" throughout history, I argue that the tensions and literary strategies used in the Mexican American narrative and legal cases I examine uncover the contradictory and co-constitutive position of Mexican American female. Lastly, the dissertation has a long historical lineage, which frames the last chapter and the discourse of the excessive Chicana in the contemporary moment. Tracing a history of gender and sexual norms in the Southwest that informs the processes of differentiation and the regulation and management of certain bodies, I utilize multiple historical flashpoints to untangle how racialized gender and sexuality informs proper subjects of the borderlands and forgets the historical elements persistent in…
Subjects/Keywords: Southwest, New Sex role; Mexico Sex role; American literature Criticism and interpretation Mexican American authors; Mexican literature Criticism and interpretation; Sex role in literature; UCSD Dissertations, Academic Literature (Discipline)
…racialized gender and sexuality. The literary narratives of the Mexican American and Chicana works… …the Mexican American narrative and legal cases I examine uncover the contradictory and co… …constitutive position of Mexican American female. Lastly, the dissertation has a long historical… …through Mexican American (Californiana, Tejana, Hispana) and Chicana2 narrative by… …while the elite land-holding Mexican American female reproduces the U.S. nation-state in…
Hernández, B. M. (2015). Sexing Empire : The Ontology of Racialized Gender and Sexuality in the Hemispheric Southwest through Mexican American and Chicana Narrative . (Thesis). University of California – San Diego. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0wf2t9qk
Hernández, Bernadine Marie. "Sexing Empire : The Ontology of Racialized Gender and Sexuality in the Hemispheric Southwest through Mexican American and Chicana Narrative." 2015. Thesis, University of California – San Diego. Accessed January 22, 2020. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0wf2t9qk.
Hernández, Bernadine Marie. "Sexing Empire : The Ontology of Racialized Gender and Sexuality in the Hemispheric Southwest through Mexican American and Chicana Narrative." 2015. Web. 22 Jan 2020.
Hernández BM. Sexing Empire : The Ontology of Racialized Gender and Sexuality in the Hemispheric Southwest through Mexican American and Chicana Narrative. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – San Diego; 2015. [cited 2020 Jan 22]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0wf2t9qk.
Hernández BM. Sexing Empire : The Ontology of Racialized Gender and Sexuality in the Hemispheric Southwest through Mexican American and Chicana Narrative. [Thesis]. University of California – San Diego; 2015. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0wf2t9qk
21. Griffin, Megan Jenison. Partisan rhetorics.
Degree: PhD, 2010, Texas Christian University
URL: https://repository.tcu.edu:443/handle/116099117/4234
Subjects/Keywords: Women United States Attitudes History 19th century.; American literature Women authors History and criticism.; Women and literature United States History 19th century.; Mexican War, 1846-1848 Influence.; Mexican War, 1846-1848 Literature and the war.; United States Territorial expansion History 19th century.
Griffin, M. J. (2010). Partisan rhetorics . (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas Christian University. Retrieved from https://repository.tcu.edu:443/handle/116099117/4234
Griffin, Megan Jenison. "Partisan rhetorics." 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas Christian University. Accessed January 22, 2020. https://repository.tcu.edu:443/handle/116099117/4234.
Griffin, Megan Jenison. "Partisan rhetorics." 2010. Web. 22 Jan 2020.
Griffin MJ. Partisan rhetorics. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas Christian University; 2010. [cited 2020 Jan 22]. Available from: https://repository.tcu.edu:443/handle/116099117/4234.
Griffin MJ. Partisan rhetorics. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas Christian University; 2010. Available from: https://repository.tcu.edu:443/handle/116099117/4234
22. Hidalgo, Melissa Martha. Schooling La Raza : a Chicana/o cultural history of education, 1968-2008.
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8t69s3wd
► My dissertation, "Schooling La Raza : A Chicana/o Cultural History of Education, 1968-2008," interrogates the function of memory, the politics of representation, and the educational… (more)
▼ My dissertation, "Schooling La Raza : A Chicana/o Cultural History of Education, 1968-2008," interrogates the function of memory, the politics of representation, and the educational formation of subjectivity in the creation of what I am calling a Chicana/o cultural history of schooling. I focus on the integral role that schooling and educational processes play in the formation of Chicana/o subjectivity as expressed in various forms of cultural production that emerged in the decades after the Movimiento era. I synthesize theories of gender, sexuality, racial formation, multiculturalism, and critical pedagogy in my analyses of Chicana/o cultural production of schooling and education. I argue that formal and informal educational spaces and pedagogical relationships play a central role in activating the emergence and articulation of racialized, gendered, and non-normative or queer identity formations in an array of recent cultural production by Chicanas/os. The artistic and cultural expressions I examine in this project provide an avenue for understanding how Chicanas/os remember and recreate moments of individual and collective educational struggle in the post-Movimiento, 'multicultural' decades of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. These works of Chicana and Chicano cultural production, I argue, attest to the simultaneous oppression and potential liberation of schooling and education in this country for Chicanas/os and other racialized and subjugated groups. In short, "Schooling La Raza" analyzes historical shifts in ideologies of and relationships to education and schooling, while opening up space to imagine alternative possibilities for the liberation of the educated Chicana/o subject
Subjects/Keywords: Mexican Americans Education; Mexican Americans Psychology; Chicano movement Psychological aspects; American literature Mexican American authors History and criticism Themes motives; Multiculturalism in literature History and criticism; Multiculturalism in motion pictures History and criticism; Gays in literature History and criticism; Gays in motion pictures History and criticism; Gender identity in literature History and criticism; Gender identity in motion pictures History and criticism; Cultural assimilation Mexican Americans
…George Sánchez refers to as the "Mexican American generation" and their children who would… …associated with the term, I also speak generally and descriptively of Mexican American and other US… …disproportionate amount of Chicanos and Mexican American get drafted and die for the United States. El… …tracked Chicanas/os and Mexican American students away from higher education. Other student… …later, in helping Mexican Americans to acculturate to US American ways of living. This history…
Hidalgo, M. M. (2011). Schooling La Raza : a Chicana/o cultural history of education, 1968-2008 . (Thesis). University of California – San Diego. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8t69s3wd
Hidalgo, Melissa Martha. "Schooling La Raza : a Chicana/o cultural history of education, 1968-2008." 2011. Thesis, University of California – San Diego. Accessed January 22, 2020. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8t69s3wd.
Hidalgo, Melissa Martha. "Schooling La Raza : a Chicana/o cultural history of education, 1968-2008." 2011. Web. 22 Jan 2020.
Hidalgo MM. Schooling La Raza : a Chicana/o cultural history of education, 1968-2008. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – San Diego; 2011. [cited 2020 Jan 22]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8t69s3wd.
Hidalgo MM. Schooling La Raza : a Chicana/o cultural history of education, 1968-2008. [Thesis]. University of California – San Diego; 2011. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8t69s3wd


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Ukrainian comedian Zelensky leads presidential race
By bne IntelliNews February 1, 2019
Volodymyr Zelensky, a comic who plays the role of a spoof president in a Ukrainian televised show, has unexpectedly become the favourite to win the nation's presidential elections in March, according to two new credible polls released on January 31.
Among decided voters, Zelensky has 23.0% support, compared to 16.4% for President Petro Poroshenko and 15.7% for ex-PM Yulia Tymoshenko, according to a poll conducted among 11,000 respondents between January 16 and 29 by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS), the Razumkov Center and the Socis Center for Social and Market Research.
Zelensky's lead was confirmed by a second poll released the same day. Among decided voters, Zelenskiy has 19.0% support, compared to 18.2% for Tymoshenko and 15.1% for Poroshenko, according to the Rating Sociological Group, which conducted its survey among 6,000 respondents between January 16 and 24.
At the same time, about 14.4% remain undecided, compared to 20.9% in Rating's December poll. Both polls indicated that more voters now believe Zelensky has a legitimate chance to become president.
Zelensky, a close associate of controversial Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, was officially registered as a presidential candidate by the nation's Central Election Commission (CEC) on January 30. The comedian was nominated by his newly-created party The Servant of the People.
"A shock"
"The candidacy of comedian Zelensky is no longer a joke," Zenon Zawada at Kyiv-based brokerage Concorde Capital wrote in a note on February 1. "His [...] surge in the polls comes as a shock to Ukraine's establishment, turning the entire election landscape upside down."
The January polls indicate that Zelensky is getting the major portion of undecided voters, who see nothing positive in the establishment candidates, Zawada added. "It appears that many Ukrainians were waiting for Zelensky to officially declare his candidacy — which he did on national television on New Year's Eve — before voicing their support. It also appears that Ukrainians are so dissatisfied with their elites that they're willing to trust an actor with no political experience, who merely plays the role of a noble, responsible president."
Zawada believes that Zelensky's candidacy creates "enormous" destabilisation risks for the country. "We had the view that Poroshenko would have been able to 'massage' the election result to win given that Tymoshenko was his only main rival. He won't be able to do that so easily with two competitors who have enough support between them to challenge vote manipulations and organise mass protests," the expert added.
Zawada also wrote in the note that Russia will also be looking for opportunities to take advantage of election-related chaos. "These tensions are further heightened by Poroshenko being anathema to either Tymoshenko (his long-time enemy) or Zelensky (backed by rival oligarch Kolomoisky) becoming president."
Nato referendum, "zero tax declaration"
Last week, Zelensky disclosed the main points of his election programme, according to which the candidate is going to hold a referendum on the country's joining Nato. "Ukraine's progression to Nato and other security alliances is a guarantee of our safety, in which I believe and which should receive confirmation by means of a referendum,"the document reads.
The army should be "a prestigious service, where the skills and knowledge obtained would be successfully used in the real sector of the economy as well," and the budget for the army should stop being a "feedbox" for "cabinet generals", but provide adequate service conditions and development for serviceman instead. "My objective is to ensure that servicemen's salary is at the level of the Nato standards," Interfax news agency quoted Zelensky as saying in his programme.
"Law enforcement agencies should cease economic pressure on the business community and return to fulfilling their proper duties of ensuring security of citizens. It's time we restore trust in law enforcement authorities which we cherished in the beginning of the reform. The SBU [Ukrainian Security Service] will not deal with economic crimes," the candidate added.
Zelensky is also going to introduce a one-time "zero tax declaration" for businesspeople who declare and legalise their incomes.
Consumer lender majority owned by Czechia's richest man Petr Kellner mulls Hong Kong listing that could raise more than $1bn.
Zelenskiy's Servant of the People party still riding wave of popularity. Looks set to win by far largest share of vote and possibly outright majority.
Under pressure Turkish president who fired central bank governor last week leaves no doubt he is at the monetary helm.
Discussions are ongoing on whether Russia's largest companies will be able to maintain stable long-term oil output with Siberian brownfields alone, without tapping into challenging Arctic offshore fields.
Newly elected President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wants to change the law to extend lustration to officials who held high-level posts following the 2014 Euromaidan, including former president Petro Poroshenko.

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At what stage of its development is my company at?
How do I optimize my processes?
How do I generate new business ideas?
Which business segments should I serve in the future?
These are questions that we as consultants always get asked during the course of our day-to-day work. The issue of "How can I position my business to ensure it is fit to face the future?" occupies the minds of many entrepreneurs in the print and media industry in particular. Every day we discuss with our clients which levers need to be activated, in order to enable new business segments to be identified and tapped – or how a media company makes proper use of its (often long unexploited) potential and returns to profitability.
The initial basis for any entrepreneurial action is extensive mapping and analysis of the status quo. As part of a "due diligence" audit, a thoroughly neutral analysis of which problem areas exist is provided, which then enables an appropriate strategy to solve these problems to be formulated.
Our focus is on e-business print, web-to-print, SaaS, automation, remote publishing and quality management. We see major opportunities particularly in new sales channels, especially when these dovetail with the client's business.
zipcon consulting's guiding maxims:
Optimize costs in ways that make sense
Employ resources more efficiently
Identify and develop markets
Implement expert knowledge
Our due diligence concept covers six core segments
Prepress includes tackling topics, such as automation, standardization and in-time production. zipcon consulting ascertains the status quo and devises corporate optimization proposals.
Target audience: print and media service providers, production agencies.
Topic: automation, standardization and in-time production – these are current prepress issues. Media-neutral data storage, database/layout linkage as well as thoroughly topical issues like remote publishing, workflow architectures, color and quality management, augmented reality, cross media et al are increasing the pressure on modern companies to perform.
Objective: zipcon consulting paints a picture of the status quo during its on-site analysis and drafts a series of optimization proposals to extensively automate and standardize production. Workflow systems as well as color and quality management can be included in the analysis and action recommendations as an option.
Production focuses on analog-to-digital transformation and the development of hybrid production facilities (offset and digital print). zipcon ascertains what the status quo is and highlights changes.
Target audience: print service providers, in-house printers, digital print providers.
Topic: analog-to-digital transformation in the industry is causing one or two problems. Even the development of hybrid production facilities (offset and digital print) requires new workflows, new materials route planning and sophisticated logistics. If you add color and quality management and gearing up for PSO- and ISO-conform production, this means that many companies are confronted by massive challenges.
Objective: the zipcon team conducts an on-site status quo analysis, highlighting the tasks/changes that need to be performed/made and drafts an implementation plan that details how and when each step needs to be taken. Workflow systems as well as color and quality management can be included in the analysis and action recommendations as an option.
Publishing includes a large number of topics and challenges, which need to be tackled by publishers. zipcon consulting provides support in the form of briefings on various solutions and action recommendations.
Target audience: publishers, publishing companies, editorial teams, media service providers.
Topic: cross-media, multichannel production, iPad and iPhone apps, web-to-print, remote publishing – digital approval workflows – the wealth of topics that publishers have to deal with currently is inexhaustible. If you consider these issues in conjunction with online technologies and modern automation workflows, many publishers are confronted with requirements that they can hardly cope with.
Objective: the clear objective of the zipcon consultants on site is on the one hand to brief clients on the various solution options available, and on the other to verify what a company can action on its own or what further steps need to be taken to ensure that it can do so on its own. Analysis is followed by action recommendations and "hands-on" instruction/guidance.
Print/ MIS
Management Information Systems (MIS) and JDF make significant demands on print companies. zipcon consulting analyzes JDF suitability and provides assistance in selecting the appropriate MIS.
Topic: management information systems (MIS) and JDF roll-out make significant demands on print companies not only during the roll-out process, but further back during preliminary checks and preparations and when selecting the right system. The exact description of processes and defining what is to be automated in particular often overwhelms both print company practitioners and management.
Objective: "helping companies to help themselves" – that is the credo behind this offering. The zipcon team maps the most important processes together with the company's project team, analyzes the "JDF suitability" of the entire company and provides assistance with selecting the appropriate MIS. Optional on-site coaching is provided during MIS project planning and roll-out phases.
E-Business Print
E-Business Print includes topics like online print stores, remote publishing, online customer portals, web-to-print, which are causing a stir right now. zipcon consulting analyzes potential, ascertains the effort and expense involved and makes recommendations.
Target audience: print & media service providers, publishers, online providers.
Topic: online print stores, remote publishing, online customer portals, web-to-print – all these issues are creating a major stir. People often only realize that launching a store involves a great deal more than renting an existing online offering and that the path to commercial success forces them to rethink once their first project has failed. Even researching into the right market niches and appropriate products is drastically underestimated.
Objective: zipcon consulting ascertains which online offering is best suited to the company's existing customer base and analyzes which potential new customers can be gained with what offering/effort and expense. A call-to-action document and a specific recommendation for a suitable offering are produced once the analysis (company and market) has been completed.
Vision + Strategy
Entrepreneurs often need to give thought to the right strategy and the future of their company and make decisions. Together with the company's senior management team, Bernd Zipper maps its status quo and defines change management processes.
Topic: what potential does my company have? What's next? How do I earn money in the future? How do I need to position my company? All these (usually unanswered) questions indicate that an entrepreneur needs to tackle the issue of strategy and vision. Yet just attending a workshop/seminar won't do the trick, and creating a strategy and vision alone or together with your management team is often not enough to help achieve objectives.
Objective: Bernd Zipper identifies the company's status quo together with its senior management team and evaluates markets, products and potential. Once that analysis has been completed, the necessary change management processes and tools are defined and submitted in the form of a call-to-action document. Optional on-site coaching is provided during the project planning and roll-out phases.
Our offer to your company
zipcon consulting has put together a special consultancy package that delivers a clearly defined service at a fixed price to help your company to help itself.
As part of our "due diligence" concept, the client is provided with a brief evaluation of the status quo of their company and the appropriate optimization and change recommendations from experienced experts within the zipcon network. A consultancy team is selected to match the specific remit, which is defined in advance either by phone or in a personal meeting, and then begins work at the company.
A corresponding offer and a deadline schedule are agreed in advance based on the terms of reference. The price of a corporate "due diligence" project depends on company size and the specific remit.
zipcon consulting terms this its "Corporate Test Rig" – i.e. it puts the concepts, processes, strategies, workflows and value chains of the client company to the test and verifies not only whether they work in practice but also whether implementation can be actioned within an appropriate timeframe.
This new kind of compact analysis (maximum of five days) can be performed immediately to the benefit of the client. If the terms of reference that result from this analysis are more complex than anticipated, then a schedule of activities and an action recommendation (as to what can be achieved when and how) are provided at the very least as part of this initial analysis.
Here's what our clients have to say
Dr. Kai Hudetz
CEO IFH Institut für Handelsforschung GmbH, Germany
Bernd Zipper is an absolute man of conviction, who exudes an enthusiasm that's infectious. Working with him is really great fun!
Hans Scheffer
Co-Founder and CEO helloprint, The Netherlands
Bernd Zipper is an icon in the European online print industry. As one of the few, Bernd is extremely well informed about the latest trends and facts and has a clear view on the future of the online printindustry, unlike others. Therefore, i highly recommend Bernd Zipper and Zipcon as a strategic partner.
Günther Longo
CEO Longo AG, Italy
New inspiration, specific strategy recommendations, substantiated methods and implementation examples: zipcon consulting played a significant advisory and mentoring role during Longo's repositioning process, going about its work systematically, professionally and displaying astuteness and insight. We look forward to a great working relationship in the future too.
Thomas Petermann
CEO WDS Pertermann GmbH, Germany
Bernd Zipper is always a key asset. I not only value his vigilant gaze beyond the usual horizon, but his down-to-earthness above all, which gives the insane dynamism in our industry a structure that people can get a handle on.
Wim Koning
Business Development Screen Europe, The Netherlands
Bernd Zipper has a very good view and opinion on the fact that added value applications make the difference for Print- and Marketing Service Providers. I have been evangelizing added value applications for many years and therefore had a positive click with Bernd directly after our first meeting.
Prof. Frank Romano
Professor Emeritus RIT, USA
Bernd Zipper is a thinker. Bernd Zipper is a philosopher. Bernd Zipper is a person, who is taken technology and found the applications for. He has been an innovator, he was one of the first to see the applications of PDF. He was one of the first to see the applications of JDF. And then he was one of the first to understand and be passionate about web to print. Bernd Zipper is the person who is our guy into the future of the printing industry.
Andreas Schrägle
CEO RATHGEBER GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
We value Bernd Zipper as an accomplished partner with a distinct clarity of vision. This combined with his likable personality, high degree of e-business print know-how and large network of contacts were key factors in enabling us to achieve our objectives.
Markus Hutter
CEO HUTTER DRUCK GmbH & Co KG, Austria
We have been operating in the same business environment for more than ten years now and e-business print has been a major topic of discussion. We are convinced that you can rely on Bernd Zipper to provide substantiated insider knowledge and professional assistance in this new business segment.
Stefan Harder
CEO harder-online GmbH, Germany
In his blog articles he asks interesting questions and rubs salt into the wounds of the print industry without really mincing his words.
Ralf Schlözer
Director On Demand Printing & Publishing Services, Info Trends Ltd, United Kingdom
Few people have such a profound understanding of web-to-print and e-commerce as Bernd Zipper, and somebody, who can encapsulate their knowledge in terms that anyone can understand, is even rarer. A visit to the Online Print Symposium is highly recommended.
Stephan Bühler
Head of Online Print Sales dierotationsdrucker.de, Germany
Always a good-humored and popular guy – a networker, who is at home in the online print world, who patently feels comfortable in this environment and is held in high esteem. In his presentations, which are liberally peppered with facts and figures and to some extent with provocative statements and challenges, he attempts to waken the print community from its deep slumber. I think the speed at which he delivers his presentations is his way of saying that time is of the essence!
OLU'YOMI OJO
Chief Idea Officer Printivo Limited, Nigeria
What Bernd Zipper is doing for the online print industry and the global printing industry as a whole is awesome. Zipcon today has become a connection point for every decision maker and stakeholder in the industry. This is not just good for everyone, it was what the industry need at the moment.
Dr. Michael Fries
Former CEO Onlineprinters GmbH – diedruckerei.de, Germany
Bernd Zipper has been an influential player in the world of Internet and print for many years. He uses his experience, his contacts, events and his consultancy services to drive the evolution of the industry and the medium of "print" forward.
zipcon consulting GmbH is a consultancy to the communications, print and media industry that does business worldwide. The company regards itself as an independent technology and strategy consultancy that takes an integrated approach. In the last few years zipcon has also authored the D/A/CH Web-to-Print Study and various detailed case studies about MIS, e-business print and multichannel publishing.
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