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Codeswitching In Bildungsroman: A 21st Century Comparative Study, Julie Ann Deyrup
Codeswitching In Bildungsroman: A 21st Century Comparative Study, Julie Ann Deyrup
Masters Theses
This thesis examines how the literary voice of Hispanics in the United States is forming through the mixing, or codeswitching, of the Spanish and English languages in the genre Bildungsroman of the Twenty-First Century. It discusses the theoretical framework in written codeswitching and analyzes the application of these studies in most recent Spanish-English texts of the biographical genre Bildungsroman: Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo.
The research presented here looks in detail at the various methods and applications of written codeswitching in a literary text and how the successful and prevalent …