Browsing by Author "Benigno Trigo"
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Vaquer Fernandez, Kadiri Jovina (2019-05-09)Department: SpanishIn this dissertation, I explore the practice of provocation as a recurrent feature and strategy present in Puerto Rican cultural production of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. I study provocation as ...
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Alvarado Bordas, Sandra Patricia (2018-01-25)Department: Spanish and PortugueseThe representation of female subjectivity in Latin America literature reflects a tension between the patriarchal dominant discourses that has shaped the imaginary of female subjects bodies and women writers that seek to ...
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Solodkow, David Mauricio (2009-04-08)Department: SpanishIn my dissertation I analyze the discursive construction of cultural identities during the first century of European colonial occupation in the Americas. In order to do so, I explore a broad variety of colonial discourses ...
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Mengolini, Clara (2015-08-25)Department: SpanishSilvina Ocampo belonged to a prestigious intellectual group in Argentina that had its heyday in the 1930s with the foundation of Sur, the most important intellectual magazine in Latin America until the 1950s. The writers ...
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Parodi, Marco Massimo (2017-08-14)Department: Spanish and PortugueseSome works of fiction by Puerto Rican authors present characters that have one surprising characteristic in common: a void of individuality. What would constitute the core of these personae has been displaced to the point ...
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Maddox IV, John Thomas (2014-05-16)Department: Spanish and PortugueseSPANISH AND PORTUGUESE “Dramas of Memory: Slavery and African Oral Traditions in the Historical Novels of Manuel Zapata Olivella and Ana Maria Gonçalves” John Thomas Maddox IV Dissertation under Professors Earl E. Fitz ...
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El realismo mágico y la interseccionalidad de la representación de la prostitución en Latinoamérica Rodriguez Sabogal, Alexandra (Yudy) (2017-08-25)Department: SpanishMagical Realism, an influential style of writing in Latin America, allows the writers that deploy it, a wide range of possibilities to transgress their political, spatial and temporal boundaries. In my dissertation, I ...
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del Pozo Martinez, Alberto (2010-07-30)Department: SpanishSPANISH AND PORTUGUESE EL RETRATO DE ARTISTA EN HISPANOAMÉRICA: HISTORIA DE UN GÉNERO A TRAVÉS DE LAS NOVELAS DE ROBERTO BOLAÑO ALBERTO DEL POZO MARTÍNEZ Dissertation under the direction of Professor Andrés Zamora This ...
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Selcke, Gretchen Susan (2015-07-21)Department: SpanishIn the Spanish Caribbean and its diaspora, the cultural consequences of “not belonging” predominate works by Cuban authors Zoé Valdés and Oscar Hijuelos, Dominican authors Junot Díaz and Loida Maritza Pérez, and Puerto ...
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Davidovich, Karin (2014-09-29)Department: SpanishThis dissertation analyzes testimonial accounts by female survivors of the last dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983) in the form of cultural productions that started to appear from the 1990s to the first decade of the ...
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Valdés, Vanessa Kimberly (2007-04-20)Department: Spanish and PortugueseIn this dissertation I utilize Toni Morrison’s Sula (1973), Helena Parente Cunha’s Mulher no Espelho (1983), Rosario Ferré’s Vecindarios excéntricos (1999), and Carmen de Monteflores’s Singing Softly / Cantando bajito ...
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Miseres, Vanesa (2010-10-19)Department: Spanish and PortugueseMy dissertation is concerned with women’s travel writing and its connections to the discursive construction of gender and nation in the 19th-century. I examine in detail four insightful accounts by four prominent female ...
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Sutton, Camille Jordan (2014-02-28)Department: SpanishThis dissertation offers a new approach to the 20th century Latin American prose writers Macedonio Fernández (Argentina, 1874-1952), Felisberto Hernández (Uruguay, 1902-1964), and Clarice Lispector (Brazil, 1920-1977). My ...
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West, Ty Hill (2014-11-25)Department: SpanishThis dissertation questions the viability of nation-building in nineteenth-century Mexico through an analysis of travel writing, the circulation of documents, and the representation of subjects in transit. I study a wide ...