Browsing by Department "Spanish and Portuguese"
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(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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(2016-06-29)Department: Spanish and PortugueseThis dissertation studies the representation of national identity in twenty-first-century Argentine culture. I examine how and to what extent the 2001 economic and political crisis, often understood as a turning point in ...
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(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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(2010-12-06)Department: Spanish and PortugueseIn my dissertation I rethink the relationship between the nation and literature of nineteenth century Mexico by establishing an “imaginary dialogue” among the Mexican writers Servando Teresa de Mier (1765-1827) and Ignacio ...
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(2007-04-12)Department: Spanish and PortugueseSPANISH AND PORTUGUESE DIMENSIONES DE LA TEMPORALIDAD DE LA MODERNIDAD ESTÉTICA EN AMÉRICA LATINA FÁTIMA REGINA NOGUEIRA Dissertation under the direction of Professor Cathy Login Jrade This dissertation explores the ...
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(2006-08-01)Department: Spanish and PortugueseThe theater of Gabriel Téllez, better known as Tirso de Molina, frequently contains elements of female disguise and cross-dressing. In this study, the author examines four plays by Tirso de Molina in which female disguise ...
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(2019-07-19)Department: Spanish and PortugueseThis dissertation explores the way in which the poetry and plays of Ferreira Gullar (Brazil, 1930-2016), Miguel Piñero (Puerto Rico/New York, 1946-1988), and Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (Cuba, 1950-) go about imagining utopian ...
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(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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(2009-12-15)Department: Spanish and PortugueseIn this study, I analyze Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas and Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis, La amortajada and The Shrouded Woman by María Luisa Bombal, Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo, and João Guimarães Rosa’s Grande Sertão: ...
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(2009-07-30)Department: Spanish and PortugueseThis study examines the cultural cross-pollination occurring between Spain and Portugal during the early modern period. More specifically, it argues that a number of Portuguese authors––including Manuel de Faria e Sousa, ...
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(2011-12-10)Department: Spanish and PortugueseThis dissertation traces contemporary theories perceiving the border as an abstract concept mostly defined by migration and crossing processes between Mexico and the United States. My purpose is to decentralize and ...
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(2012-11-29)Department: Spanish and PortugueseIn the early modern period, theater thrived in convents across Spain and Portugal. This dissertation takes a closer look at the phenomenon through the lens of spatial theory and theorists such as Henri LeFebvre, Michel de ...
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(2016-12-13)Department: Spanish and PortugueseMy dissertation addresses the legal, philosophical, theological, social, intellectual, and literary framework around Mateo Alemán’s Guzmán de Alfarache (1599, 1604), which heavily influenced a large number of writers in ...
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(2007-07-26)Department: Spanish and PortugueseThis project explores the mechanisms of appropriation and re-elaboration of the metropolitan Baroque discourse by educated criollos in Colonial Peruvian society. Examining Juan de Espinosa Medrano’s works (which include a ...
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(2005-04-08)Department: Spanish and PortugueseIn Don Quixote, Cervantes captivates the reader with an unattainable Dulcinea, and he also presents to the reader a parade of female characters from a broad range of social, cultural, and economic backgrounds to portray ...
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(2019-03-25)Department: Spanish and PortugueseDefining the culture produced during the Spanish Transition following the Francoist dictatorship as hedonist and apolitical has become one of the most repeated commonplaces in contemporary Spanish cultural studies. By ...
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(2007-09-05)Department: Spanish and PortugueseThis study examines the tensions and variations of the surrealist aesthetic in Spain, specifically in the late poetic, dramatic, and graphic works of the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca. While many intellectuals recognize ...
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(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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(2006-04-21)Department: Spanish and PortugueseThe validity of “development” in Latin America as a cultural force has not been thoroughly questioned – either by those from the industrialized world or by Latin American politicians, technicians, and military personnel. ...
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(2010-07-13)Department: Spanish and PortugueseThis dissertation analyzes three key Latin American regionalist novels: Los de abajo (1915), Doña Bárbara (1929), and Grande sertão: veredas (1956). Specifically, it provides an innovative study of three female characters—la ...