Graduation Year
2015
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
English
Reader 1
Warren Liu
Reader 2
Thomas Koenigs
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© 2015 Jennifer R. Thomson
Abstract
Motivated by the lack of scholarship surrounding female characters in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, I sought to examine the distinct identities of four female characters. The collapse of dualities and embodiment of hybridity in Ursula, Pilar Ternera, Amaranta, and the Remedios women reveals the hegemonic power structures that are disrupted by these empowered women. The exploration of these women and their relationships to gendered dichotomies points to the potential of their identities in enacting colonial resistance and reclaiming traditional cultural heritage.
Recommended Citation
Thomson, Jennifer, "Gendered Resistance & Reclamation: Approaches to Postcolonialism Modeled by Female Characters in One Hundred Years of Solitude" (2015). Scripps Senior Theses. 654.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/654
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
