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Mira Muchacha: The Latinx Bildungsroman in Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X
<p>This thesis explores how the Bildungsroman’s traditional narrative transforms into a window to the Latinx experience in Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X. The traditional Bildungsroman features white, male, and European protagonists, according to Louis F. Caton in “Romantic Struggles: The …
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“I, Too, Am an Occupied Territory”: Border Crossings and Personal Sovereignty in Three Novels by Dominican American Women
… Dominican American women. Through readings of In the Name of Salomé by Julia Alvarez, Dominicana by Angie Cruz, and The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, I argue that patriarchal forms of authority remove female autonomy by trespassing on personal boundaries, and that the renegotiation of that power is …