Thèse soutenue

La frontière entre les États-Unis et le Mexique : espace identitaire du Chicano
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Auteur / Autrice : Catherine Lejeune
Direction : Geneviève Fabre
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Études anglophones
Date : Soutenance en 1992
Etablissement(s) : Paris 7

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This study deals with the us-mexico border from an original point of view, that of an agent of community life : in the past, what was known as the spanish borderlands, then as the mexican borderlands was a place of cultural conflits but also of much interaction between the various groups that inhabited the region : the fact that the 1848 war transformed this frontier into an international boundary in no way altered its significance as a category : its still extremely heterogeneous populations have complex relations with one another, and the relationship they hae with the border is of a very particular nature. For the chicanos who are the product of the historal break between the two countries, the border is a focal point of identification : their identity is formed around it. The survey i carried out on the representations of the border in the collective imagination of the chicanos show its strategic role in the identity process of the border population of mexican descent in the us, and also reveals that beyond its physical reality, the border is a mental space.