Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.14/1
http://www.csulb.edu/divisions/students/mcnair/2024-03-28T14:20:08ZThe Reader as Detective: Intertextuality in Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/120672
The Reader as Detective: Intertextuality in Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives
Gonzales, Matthew
Born out of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories about the amateur detective C. Auguste Dupin, the genre of detective fiction centers itself around the phenomenon that is the detective character. A contemporary example of detective fiction, Roberto Bolaño’s Los detectives salvajes (The Savage Detectives) is a first-person narrative told in three parts about the lives of two poets, Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, and their investigative search for the mysterious founder of a poetry movement. Despite being the protagonists of this search, however, Arturo and Ulises are never actually present in the text. By inverting the two-story narrative structure established by Poe and hiding his protagonists throughout a multitude of narrative voices and intertextual literary references, Bolaño is not only able to foreground Mikhail Bakhtin’s conception of social heteroglossia; he is also able to place the reader in the role of the detective. Through a focused analysis of the role of the detective in literature, I hope to show how Bolaño—drawing upon Poe and upon the influence of his Latin American literary predecessor, Jorge Luis Borges—transforms the detective reader into a confused witness, and thus, reinvents the detective genre according to its postmodern and Latin American context.
2014-05-14T00:00:00ZThe Reader as Detective: Intertextuality in Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/120468
The Reader as Detective: Intertextuality in Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives
Gonzales, Matthew
Born out of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories about the amateur detective
C. Auguste Dupin, the genre of detective fiction centers itself around the
phenomenon that is the detective character. A contemporary example of
detective fiction, Roberto Bolaño’s Los detectives salvajes (The Savage
Detectives) is a first-person narrative told in three parts about the lives of
two poets, Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, and their investigative search
for the mysterious founder of a poetry movement. Despite being the
protagonists of this search, however, Arturo and Ulises are never actually
present in the text. By inverting the two-story narrative structure
established by Poe and hiding his protagonists throughout a multitude of
narrative voices and intertextual literary references, Bolaño is not only
able to foreground Mikhail Bakhtin’s conception of social heteroglossia;
he is also able to place the reader in the role of the detective. Through a
focused analysis of the role of the detective in literature, I hope to show
how Bolaño—drawing upon Poe and upon the influence of his Latin
American literary predecessor, Jorge Luis Borges—transforms the
detective reader into a confused witness, and thus, reinvents the detective
genre according to its postmodern and Latin American context.
2014-05-13T00:00:00ZWomen in the South Asian Diaspora of East Africa, 1972-2013
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.14/38
Women in the South Asian Diaspora of East Africa, 1972-2013
Alva, Suraj
South Asian women began settling in the East African countries of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania in the late 19th century. They joined their husbands and other male relatives who first came as indentured laborers recruited by the British Crown and later transitioned into a subculture of traders. As traders, South Asians took near complete control of the East African economy which attracted the antagonism of colonial settlers and African aspirations. During the colonial period, due to the increasing wealth and westernization of South Asians in East Africa, the women in the diaspora began exiting the private domain and entering the public sphere. African antagonism after independence led to the exodus of the diaspora in the 1970s. In the 1990s, East African governments, caving into international pressure, allowed for the return of members of the diaspora promising an improved situation. However, South Asian returnees including women entrepreneurs and professionals witnessed and still continue to experience discrimination. Such a situation is partly the result of short-sighted policies stipulated by international aid agencies that allowed for the return of the diaspora and should not solely be attributed to the historical relationship between members of the diaspora and the greater African population.
2013-07-03T00:00:00ZFamily Planning vs. Women’s Rights: The Case of Quinacrine Sterilization in Chile
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.14/37
Family Planning vs. Women’s Rights: The Case of Quinacrine Sterilization in Chile
Martinez, Jazmin
Since its development during the 1970s in Chile, 100,000 women have been chemically sterilized with Quinacrine worldwide, which is still not FDA approved and has been banned by the WHO. While clinical research exists about this method, conditions that led to the emergence of this particular sterilization method have gone unexplored. The study explored how it was that this method came about under the rule of an authoritarian regime which implemented pronatalist policies. This phenomenon was then used to explore the broader concern regarding the difficulties of implementing comprehensive reproductive rights in developing countries with complex cultures and politics. Chile also demonstrates the dangers associated with trying to implement solely reproductive rights without considering the larger aspects of women’s rights. Furthermore, the article examined the reasons behind a push for sterilization as a method of birth control in developing countries in place of less hazardous methods. And lastly, the study examined the degree to which women are left with no other choice but to opt for experimental forms of contraception such as Quinacrine. The case of Chile is more than forced eugenics on poor women, although that is part of the phenomenon, the study focused on the obstacles third world women have in gaining full women’s rights.
2013-06-19T00:00:00Z