This study examines the comic vision of Miguel de Cervantes as manifested in his masterpiece, Don Quixote de la Mancha. Employing theories stemming principally from Mikhail Bakhtin and Michel Foucault, I look at how Cervantes ...

This 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 ...

This dissertation explores both the Hispanic and Anglo-American modernist traditions from the common standpoint of the palimpsest. Central to the diverse body of modernist writings is the appropriation of French symbolism, ...

In the late twentieth century, Latin American national governments reformed their fiscal programs according to free-market policies, and, at the same time, they propelled a new understanding of well-being. Developed under ...

After the groundbreaking invention of the printing press, which led to the creation of a burgeoning literary market, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw an exceptional increase in the production of literature about ...

Due to the cultural and political influences of the Cuban Revolution, the Boom literary movement, and poststructuralism, autobiography has received little attention in Latin American literature. This dissertation argues ...

The Whitening Project in Venezuela, ca. 1810-1950 Alana Alvarez Dissertation under the direction of Professor Ruth Hill Simon Bolívar’s (1783-1830) still-popular and demagogical notion of the Venezuelan ...

This 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 ...

This 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 ...