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Antonia Castaneda has utilized scholarship from women’s studies and Mexican-American history to examine nineteenth-century liter
Antonia Castaneda has utilized scholarship from women’s studies and Mexican-American history to examine nineteenth-century liter
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2019-11-17
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Antonia Castaneda has utilized scholarship from women’s studies and Mexican-American history to examine nineteenth-century literary portrayals of Mexican women. As Castaneda notes, scholars of women’s history observe that in the United States, male novelists of the period—during which, according to these scholars, women’s traditional economic role in home-based agriculture was threatened by the transition to a factory-based industrial economy— define women solely in their domestic roles of wife and mother. Castaneda finds that during the same period that saw non-Hispanic women being economically displaced by industrialization, Hispanic law in territorial California protected the economic position of "Californianas" (the Mexican women of the territory) by ensuring them property rights and inheritance rights equal to those of males.
For Castaneda, the laws explain a stereotypical plot created primarily by male, non-Hispanic novelists: the story of an ambitious non-Hispanic merchant or trader desirous of marrying an elite Californiana. These novels’ favorable portrayal of such women is noteworthy, since Mexican-American historians have concluded that unflattering literary depictions of Mexicans were vital in rallying the United States public’s support for the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). The importance of economic alliances forged through marriages with Californianas explains this apparent contradiction. Because of their real-life economic significance, the Californianas were portrayed more favorably than were others of the same nationality.
Which of the following could best serve as an example of the kind of fictional plot discussed by Antonia Castaneda?
选项
A、A land speculator of English ancestry weds the daughter of a Mexican vineyard owner after the speculator has migrated to California to seek his fortune.
B、A Californian woman of Hispanic ancestry finds that her agricultural livelihood is threatened when her husband is forced to seek work in a textile mill.
C、A Mexican rancher who loses his land as a result of the Mexican-American War migrates to the northern United States and marries an immigrant schoolteacher.
D、A wealthy Californiana whose father has bequeathed her all his property contends with avaricious relatives for her inheritance.
E、A poor married couple emigrate from French Canada and gradually become wealthy as merchants in territorial California.
答案
A
解析
Application
According to the passage, Castafieda focuses on a particular plot in which an elite Californiana is pursued by a non-Hispanic merchant or trades for the purpose of gaining economic advantage.
A Correct. The story of a non-Hispanic land speculator wedding a Californiana who is likely, based on the inheritance rights granted her by the Hispanic law in territorial California, to inherit her father’s vineyard would precisely fit the plot that Castafieda discusses.
B This description fails to identify the ethnicity of the Californianas husband and the reason he married her, so there is no way to determine whether the story would from Castaneda’s plot.
C Castaneda’s plot involves a non-Hispanic male protagonist, so a Mexican rancher could not play the main male role in such a story.
D The presence of a wealthy Californiana who inherits property might make this story seem to be an example of the fictional plot that Castafieda discusses, but there is no mention of a non-Hispanic merchant or trader who seeks her hand in marriage.
E Simply taking place in territorial California would not make a story an appropriate example of the plot discussed by Castaneda.
The correct answer is A.
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