When the "other" is ourselves : imperial legacies, tourist imaginaries, and the representation of difference in Chicana/o travel writing and cultural production
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation begins with the premise that the founding assumptions undergirding the interdisciplinary field of Tourism Studies have necessarily, if not inevitably, engendered a set of critical lacunae around race and ethnicity. Specifically, these assumptions have functioned to circumscribe any racial paradigm in which people of color are anything but the objects of touristic inquiry. "When the 'other' is ourselves: imperial legacies, tourist imaginaries, and the representation of difference in Chicana/o travel writing and cultural production" asks what subjectivities are (re)formed when the supposed "Other" is doing the touring, particularly when that someone encounters what she senses is an exoticized or fetishized reflection of herself. Through an examination of Chicana/o memoirs, visual art, and fiction that center Mexican-American (actual and imagined, factual and fictionalized) experiences of touristic mobility, this study considers new and different questions about identity, difference, and representation in literary and cultural discourses.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Copyright date | 2010 |
| Publication date | 2009, c2010; 2009 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Garcia, Vida Mia |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Program in Modern Thought and Literature. |
| Primary advisor | Saldívar, Ramón, 1949- |
| Thesis advisor | Saldívar, Ramón, 1949- |
| Thesis advisor | Ebron, Paulla A, 1953- |
| Thesis advisor | White, Richard |
| Thesis advisor | Wolf, Bryan Jay |
| Advisor | Ebron, Paulla A, 1953- |
| Advisor | White, Richard |
| Advisor | Wolf, Bryan Jay |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Vida Mia Garcia. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Program in Modern Thought and Literature. |
| Thesis | Ph.D. Stanford University 2010 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2010 by Vida Mia Garcia
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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