Browsing by Department "Spanish & Portuguese"
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(2021-05-04)Department: Spanish & PortugueseThis dissertation examines the presence of fossils in nineteenth-century literature of the Americas. It argues that human and nonhuman ancient bones are more accurately understood if analyzed at the intersection of museum, ...
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(2023-07-20)Department: Spanish & PortugueseNarrative Nomads: Resistance in the 21st-Century African Hispanophone analyzes contemporary narratives from Equatorial Guinea and the Western Sahara, two former Spanish colonies in Africa. In the decades since the end of ...
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(2023-07-10)Department: Spanish & PortugueseThis study examines how eight Afro-Brazilian, Dominican, and Haitian women from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries created fiction and poetry for aesthetic and social-justice purposes. My baseline questions are: How ...
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(2022-05-17)Department: Spanish & PortugueseThis dissertation is the most comprehensive survey of slavery in Afro-Latin American literary narrative to date. Of the approximately 12.5 million Africans trafficked in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, an estimated 7 million ...