Purdue University
UMass-Amherst
Providence College
University of Kentucky
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Televisual Subjectivities In Pepe Rojo’S Speculative Fiction From Mexico: 1996-2003,
2016
University of California, Los Angeles
Televisual Subjectivities In Pepe Rojo’S Speculative Fiction From Mexico: 1996-2003, Stephen C. Tobin
Alambique: Revista académica de ciencia ficción y fantasia / Jornal acadêmico de ficção científica e fantasía
Pepe Rojo, a key author often tied to the Mexican cyberpunk movement of the 1990s, has been most effective in articulating a kind of visual dystopia in the country that focuses upon television as a key site for constructing dislocated subjectivities. His writing reacts to larger shifts occurring in the country’s field of vision that have been catalyzed by the neoliberal political-economic policy changes and have altered the way in which the mass media culture industry in Mexico functioned in the 1990s. This brought a multitude of changes in how the media industry functioned both internally and externally, ultimately ...
“La Receta” Como Literatura Del Progreso: La Primera Novela De Anticipación Científica De Ecuador,
2016
Universidad de Los Hemisferios (Ecuador)
“La Receta” Como Literatura Del Progreso: La Primera Novela De Anticipación Científica De Ecuador, Iván Rodrigo-Mendizábal Irm
Alambique: Revista académica de ciencia ficción y fantasia / Jornal acadêmico de ficção científica e fantasía
El artículo versa sobre la primera obra de anticipación científica de Ecuador, la novela-folleto La Receta, relación fantástica (1893) de Francisco Campos Coello. A partir de un viaje extraordinario en el tiempo, posibilitado por una receta mágica, un hombre del XIX va a finales del XX para constatar los cambios dados en su ciudad. El autor, siguiendo la estética de Jules Verne, usa la novela para fabular una fantasía utópica, así como hacer un balance prospectivo del progreso alcanzado en Ecuador, gracias a una política pública y educativa que ha beneficiado a la nación. Se discute hasta qué punto la ...
Eugenia En Su Contexto: Utopía Y Proyecto Alterno De Nación,
2016
University of California - Davis
Eugenia En Su Contexto: Utopía Y Proyecto Alterno De Nación, Miguel García
Alambique: Revista académica de ciencia ficción y fantasia / Jornal acadêmico de ficção científica e fantasía
En fechas recientes la novela Eugenia: esbozo novelesco de costumbres futuras (Mérida, 1919), escrita por el doctor, funcionario público y pedagogo Eduardo Urzaiz, se ha vuelto una pieza clave para entender la ciencia ficción mexicana y latinoamericana, al ser uno de los ejemplos tempranos de especulaciones futuristas y por integrar en su discurso a la eugenesia, una ciencia alrededor de la cual se desarrolló un movimiento global cuyos alcances se siguen mapeando hoy en día. Sin embargo, dos problemas principales han impedido el entendimiento cabal de la novela: 1) una insuficiente comprensión de la relevancia de las ideas eugenésicas no ...
Ecopsychology Revisited: For Whom Do The “Nature” Bells Toll? (In Progress),
2016
European Ecopsychology Society
Ecopsychology Revisited: For Whom Do The “Nature” Bells Toll? (In Progress), Jorge Conesa-Sevilla
Jorge Conesa-Sevilla PhD
"[...] A recurring theme in “ecopsychology,” in its present and inchoate form, is the continuation and extension of “spirit” in juxtaposition with other privileged and/or habitually preferred (perhaps even psychologically needed) practices or causes (spirituality-somethings, farcical chemistry or physics, yoga, coopted and partially understood indigenous lore, extreme diets, and various fetishes). That these mostly emotion-laden, unreasoned, and/or idiosyncratic amalgamations are prevalent says more about the psychological needs of the persons espousing these sentiments or beliefs (their hobbies or interests) than about “nature.” Certainly, it is nothing new that humans project their hopes, desperations, and wish-fulfillment thinking onto the shifting ...
Poetic Illiteracy And Cultural Insularity: The Crisis Of Cultural Nationalism In Virgilio Piñera's La Isla En Peso,
2016
University of Alberta
Poetic Illiteracy And Cultural Insularity: The Crisis Of Cultural Nationalism In Virgilio Piñera's La Isla En Peso, Stephen A. Cruikshank
The Quiet Corner Interdisciplinary Journal
The twentieth-century Cuban poet Virgilio Piñera was both a radical and rebellious writer who wrote against the national discourses of his time. In his acclaimed poem La isla en peso Piñera challenges the Neobaroque discourse of Cuban identity by describing Cuba as 'insular' rather than innovative. The following article argues that La isla en peso, like a prophetic letter, seems to have foreseen seventy years earlier what the modern literary critic Abraham Acosta has recently described as a "threshold of illiteracy," that is, a disruption or illiterate interference of one's critical reading by exposing the contradictions of cultural nationalism ...
Global Ecologies And The Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches Edited By Elizabeth Deloughrey, Jill Didur, And Anthony Carrigan,
2016
University at Albany, State University of New York
Global Ecologies And The Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches Edited By Elizabeth Deloughrey, Jill Didur, And Anthony Carrigan, Joshua Bartlett
The Goose
Review of Elizabeth Deloughrey, Jill Didur, and Anthony Carrigan's Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches.
Nepantla As Her Place In The Middle: Multilingualism And Multiculturalism In The Writings Of Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz,
2016
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Nepantla As Her Place In The Middle: Multilingualism And Multiculturalism In The Writings Of Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz, Nicole Lynn Gomez
Doctoral Dissertations
In this dissertation, I analyze a selection of Sor Juana’s works in the context of bilingual and bicultural studies. I infer that the author’s language acquisition and cultural sensitivity were interrelated, both affecting the other and influencing her writing. I argue that her bilingualism correlated with her cultural sensitivity and sympathy towards marginalized groups. In her works, the author employs a variety of strategies to denounce discrimination and repression as well as rhetoric that promotes tolerance of other cultures and resistance to oppression. I explore these strategies in her texts and apply relevant theory in order to fully ...
How Latin America Saved The World And Other Forgotten Futures,
2016
Iowa State University
How Latin America Saved The World And Other Forgotten Futures, Rachel Haywood Ferreira
World Languages and Cultures Publications
Latin America saved the world—and didn't—many times over in texts written in the 1950s, the incubation period for genre sf in the region. The forward-looking 1950s produced much source material for today's retrofuturist longings, rather than generating many of those longings of their own. This article draws from some twenty-five fictional works by Latin American authors published in the Argentine magazine Más Allá [Beyond], an affiliate of Galaxy Science Fiction, between 1953 and 1957. I'm interested in exploring these past images of the future to think about questions such as to whom the future belonged ...
Stranger In A Strange Land: The Discourse Of Alienation In Gómez De Avellaneda's Abolitionist Novel Sab,
2016
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Stranger In A Strange Land: The Discourse Of Alienation In Gómez De Avellaneda's Abolitionist Novel Sab, Stacey Schlau
Stacey Schlau
No abstract provided.
Fragmentation And Multiplicity In Cuban-American Identity: In Cuba I Was A German Shepherd By Ana Menéndez And Memory Mambo By Achy Obejas,
2016
Graduate Center, City University of New York
Fragmentation And Multiplicity In Cuban-American Identity: In Cuba I Was A German Shepherd By Ana Menéndez And Memory Mambo By Achy Obejas, Daimys E. Garcia
All Graduate Works by Year: Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Maria Lugones offers a new way of perceiving the world, which makes visible that fragmentation is not a valuable and transgressive understanding of identity, as Western philosophy and some political theory suggests. What Lugones believes in, as a strategy of resistance to the dominant gaze, is multiplicity – mestizaje. Using Lugones’s framework, this thesis will look at the different aspects of Cuban-American characters in In Cuba I was a German Shepherd by Ana Menéndez and Memory Mambo by Achy Obejas. Each novel offers insight into how characters develop and understand themselves (and others) when they use language that shows that ...
José Tamayo In Spanish America, 1949-1951,
2016
Fordham University
José Tamayo In Spanish America, 1949-1951, Carey Kasten
Teatro: Revista de Estudios Culturales / A Journal of Cultural Studies
“José Tamayo in Spanish America, 1949-1951” relies on previously overlooked archival material from Spain and Spanish America to reconstruct the performance schedule and study the financial management and critical reception of the Lope de Vega Company in Cuba, Puerto Rico and Colombia. In doing so, it sheds new light on Tamayo’s administration of the artistic agenda and fiscal needs of his company’s international tour, helping us to understand how Tamayo built and cultivated his growing fame, at home and abroad, in the early part of his career. The performance calendar featured in the article’s appendix provides a ...
Missing The Boat? Signaling Haiti's Role In Vega's "Encancaranublado",
2016
Dickinson College
Missing The Boat? Signaling Haiti's Role In Vega's "Encancaranublado", Mariana F. Past
Faculty and Staff Publications By Year
For more than three decades, critics of Ana Lydia Vega’s 1982 short story “Encancaranublado” (“Three Men and a Boat”) have wrestled with the question of the boat at the center of the tale. Often, discussions contemplate whether the Caribbean protagonists—male migrants fleeing adverse economic and political conditions in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba—can most aptly be sited in “the same boat,” geopolitically speaking; not in the same boat; or in an indeterminate imagined space somewhere in between. Critical interpretations situate the story in comparative political, consumerist, and literary cultural terms: for example, Johanna Emmanuelli-Huertas links ...
A Daring Voice: Confessional Poetry Of The 1970s From Argentina And The United States,
2016
Washington University in St. Louis
A Daring Voice: Confessional Poetry Of The 1970s From Argentina And The United States, Julia Eva Leverone
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Daring to confront difficult socio-political realities on the page, Argentine and United States poets writing in the late 1960s and early 1970s strove against systems of silence. Implementing direct and indirect poetics, each set of poets embodied, in differing and overlapping ways, elements of the confessionalist mode, at once relational and witnessing. Their poetry in collections from these particular years reflected the risk in their auto-positioning as subjects within their poems and with complex relationships with their audience, and in their usage of language, sometimes fragmented, protective, or urgent. They committed personal experience to the page, and in conveying their ...
Subjective Identity Takes Flight: Magical Realism In Birdman,
2016
Liberty University
Subjective Identity Takes Flight: Magical Realism In Birdman, Kelly Kramer
Montview Liberty University Journal of Undergraduate Research
Analysis of magical realism in the film Birdman.
Constructing Marianismo In Colonial Mexico,
2016
University of Tennessee
Constructing Marianismo In Colonial Mexico, Kathryn A. Buchanan
University of Tennessee Honors Thesis Projects
No abstract provided.
Medical Education Through The Fiction Of Julio Cortázar,
2016
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Medical Education Through The Fiction Of Julio Cortázar, Blake Barton
University of Tennessee Honors Thesis Projects
No abstract provided.
Karina Miller. Escrituras Impolíticas. Anti-Representaciones De La Comunidad En Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, Osvaldo Lamborghini Y Virgilio Piñera. Pittsburgh, Pa: Instituto Internacional De Literatura Iberoamericana - Universidad De Pittsburgh, 2015., Pilar Cabrera Fonte
Dissidences
No abstract provided.
Page, Joanna. Creativity And Science In Contemporary Argentine Literature. Between Romanticism And Formalism. Calgary: University Of Calgary Press, 2014.,
2016
Missouri Western State University
Page, Joanna. Creativity And Science In Contemporary Argentine Literature. Between Romanticism And Formalism. Calgary: University Of Calgary Press, 2014., Miguel Rivera-Taupier
Dissidences
No abstract provided.
Luis H. Castañeda. Comunidades Efímeras. Grupos De Vanguardia Y Neovanguardia En La Novela Hispanoamericana Del Siglo Xx. New York: Peter Lang, 2015.,
2016
University of Colorado, Boulder
Luis H. Castañeda. Comunidades Efímeras. Grupos De Vanguardia Y Neovanguardia En La Novela Hispanoamericana Del Siglo Xx. New York: Peter Lang, 2015., Jose Miguel Herbozo
Dissidences
No abstract provided.
Saona, Margarita. Memory Matters In Transitional Peru. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.,
2016
Salem State University, Massachusetts
Saona, Margarita. Memory Matters In Transitional Peru. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014., Stephenie Young
Dissidences
No abstract provided.
