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Decolonial delinquency: Gender, sexuality, and criminality in Latina/o gang literature and film

Garcia, Frank

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Title
Decolonial delinquency: Gender, sexuality, and criminality in Latina/o gang literature and film
Author(s)
Garcia, Frank
Issue Date
2020-11-17
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
  • Parker, Robert D
  • Rodriguez, Richard T
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
  • Parker, Robert D
  • Rodriguez, Richard T
Committee Member(s)
  • Rana, Junaid
  • Jenkins, Candice M
Department of Study
English
Discipline
English
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
  • Latina/o literature
  • Latina/o film
  • gangs
  • queer theory
  • critical race theory
Abstract
Decolonial Delinquency studies the representation of violence and criminality in Latina/o literature and film since 1950. The project analyzes a range of genres, including fiction, autobiography, poetry, and documentary, to uncover how cultural production discloses a systemic impetus to gang violence in working-class communities of color. In doing so, this dissertation reveals how these texts position gangs as resistant subcultures for persons whom the United States colonizes.
Graduation Semester
2020-12
Type of Resource
Thesis
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Copyright 2020 Frank Garcia

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