Property, Mobility, and Epistemology in U.S. Women of Color Detective Fiction

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Main Author:	Istomina, Julia
Language:	English
Published:	The Ohio State University / OhioLINK 2015
Subjects:	African American Studies American History American Literature American Studies Asian American Studies Black Studies Caribbean Literature Caribbean Studies Comparative Literature Epistemology Ethnic Studies Gender Studies Glbt Studies Hispanic American Studies Latin American History Latin American Literature Latin American Studies Native American Studies Performing Arts Womens Studies US women of color literature US multiethnic detective fiction US feminist detective fiction feminist epistemology hardboiled character testimony border studies diaspora domestic mystery
Online Access:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429191876

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spelling	ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu14291918762021-08-03T06:30:16Z Property, Mobility, and Epistemology in U.S. Women of Color Detective Fiction Istomina, Julia African American Studies American History American Literature American Studies Asian American Studies Black Studies Caribbean Literature Caribbean Studies Comparative Literature Epistemology Ethnic Studies Gender Studies Glbt Studies Hispanic American Studies Latin American History Latin American Literature Latin American Studies Native American Studies Performing Arts Womens Studies US women of color literature US multiethnic detective fiction US feminist detective fiction feminist epistemology hardboiled character testimony border studies diaspora domestic mystery This project explores how U.S. women of color detective fiction novels interpret and revise methods for obtaining and transmitting knowledge while operating within political and economic climates that discipline and occlude oppositional narratives, historiographies, and identifications. U.S. women of color detective fiction emerged in the early 1990s during a time when institutions began to incorporate historically marginalized perspectives, but also when American and transnational corporate initiatives sought to stigmatize and profit from poor women of color. The novels featured in this project make use of a genre that is invested in creating exceptionally intelligent and capable detectives who seek to identify and correct social injustice. In the process, these novels employ historiographic epistemologies that are typically elided in Anglo-European philosophical and narrative productions. Historiographic epistemologies are theories concerning the encoding and transmission of knowledge that also serve as mediations regarding the composition of history, testimony, and narrative. Through the use of historiographic epistemologies, U.S. women of color detective fiction novels reveal the creative and narrative-building aspects of logical reasoning employed by detective fiction and rationalist discourse more broadly.Moving from the local with Barbara Neely's Blanche on the Lam, to the transnational with Lucha Corpi's Black Widow's Wardrobe and Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders, to the global with Charlotte Carter's Coq au Vin and Lupe Solano's Havana Nights, this project identifies connections and distinctions among these texts that in turn enable a more nuanced understanding of how precarity is constituted through the pervasive, implicit division between domestic (white) space and public (surveillanced) space. In their use of a genre that reflects institutional and social structural alignments and in their employment of non-European epistemologies such as second sight, jazz, conocimiento, spiritual mestizaje, and public motherhood, the novels featured in this project also emphasize the fact that categories of difference are dynamic and that the uniqueness of each individual experience within the U.S. matrix of institutional and social power creates unique modes of resistance. As a result, the larger critical contribution of this project is its identification of connections between place-based, decolonial, and global womanist theories of subjecthood and space that test the predictability of the gender-race-class intersectional lens of analysis. 2015-05-22 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429191876 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429191876 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.
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topic	African American Studies American History American Literature American Studies Asian American Studies Black Studies Caribbean Literature Caribbean Studies Comparative Literature Epistemology Ethnic Studies Gender Studies Glbt Studies Hispanic American Studies Latin American History Latin American Literature Latin American Studies Native American Studies Performing Arts Womens Studies US women of color literature US multiethnic detective fiction US feminist detective fiction feminist epistemology hardboiled character testimony border studies diaspora domestic mystery
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Property, Mobility, and Epistemology in U.S. Women of Color Detective Fiction

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