Browsing 2019 Spring English Senior Honors Theses (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Harper, Rachel"
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Write my way out : the power of words against erasure in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Julia Alvarez's How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)Since the days of the conquistadors, erasure has been an inherent facet of Dominican identities. Similarly, the pressures of immigrants to blend into United States culture and stifle their "otherness" only added to the ...