Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
Date of Award
12-2012
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Dr. Caroline Miles
Second Advisor
Dr. Marci R. McMahon
Third Advisor
Dr. Melynda Nuss
Abstract
This thesis closely reads, Margaret Mitchell’s, Gone with the Wind and Caballero, co-authored by Jovita González and Eve Raleigh, to illustrate how women in two separate regions of the Southern United States were transformed by the effects of a historical war setting. While these two literary texts deal with distinctive social, political, and historical contexts, they both highlight factors that contributed to the Southern woman’s alteration: colonization, gender roles and a historical war--setting that ironically liberated women. As a result, the female characters of each story become progressive by the events that take place with and during their respective wars. I argue that these two novels illustrate how the Civil War and the U.S./ Mexican War functioned as catalysts for liberating Southern women.
Granting Institution
University of Texas-Pan American
Comments
Copyright 2012 Jessica Banda Vela. All Rights Reserved.
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