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Escritura Crí­Tica Orgánica Para Deconstruir La Opresión Femenina: Propuesta Nepantlera A Redefinir La Pedagogía De La Creación Literaria, Hilda Y. Sotelo

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PREFACIO

¿Cuáles son los códigos lingüísticos opresores o cautiverios (Lagarde, 2005) dirigidos hacia las mujeres obligándolas a abandonar su actividad sociocultural (artística y literaria) y a perpetuar el ciclo de la víctima? ¿Es la escritura crítica orgánica (ECO) una herramienta pedagógica y decodificadora funcional para la enseñanza del arte y la creación literaria? En este trabajo feminista analizo a través de la investigación cualitativa y cuantitativa crítica, el fenómeno de las opresiones, y la pedagogía de la violencia entretejida en la relación binaria y jerárquica (hombre-mujer) en el ambiente académico y sociocultural de Ciudad Juárez. Consideré centro de cautiverio, el …

Black River, William Ramon Daugherty

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I'M Never Fine, Joseph S. Lezza

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ABSTRACT

Title of Thesis: I'm Never Fine

Joseph S. Lezza, Master of Fine Arts, 2019

Thesis Directed by: Nelson Cardenas, Ph. D.

The University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Creative Writing

During the course of my father's fifteen-month battle with pancreatic cancer, and in its oceanic aftermath, I became both intimately and uncomfortably familiar with the phrase "I'm fine." It developed into a practical and efficient tool for bringing about a quick shift in subject whenever my family situation came under question by a well-meaning friend, trepidatious relative and even during an unexpectedly emotional phone call with my …

Fortune Favors The Brave, Melissa Anne Nurczynski

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Historical novel set in Ancient Rome.

Las Incontestables Formas De Las Sombras, Belen Puente Pereda

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not applicable

Mental Illness And Its Relationship To The Unreliable Narrator In A Work Of Creative Fiction, Shereen Siewert

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This Thesis examines the style of unreliable narration in which mental illness plays a significant role, through a work of creative fiction. The work has been conceived through an analysis of previously published works with similar themes: Atonement, by Ian McEwan; Emma,by Jane Austin; We Were Liars,by E. Lockhart; the 2010 Martin Scorcese film adaptation of Shutter Island; and A Beautiful Mind, a 2001 Ron Howard film. Drawing on theories of technique from Mario Vagas Llosa and John Gardner, this study sets out to demonstrate how unreliable narration is defined while highlighting the degree of intentionality the mentally ill narrator …

The Prometheus Chord, James Stone

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The scope of the work began to take shape in the winter of 2014. The initial thought was to write a contemporary update to the Promethean myth from the point of view of Generation-X. Elements of the story also strongly draw from a fusion of influential works from J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye to The Who's 1973 rock opera Quadrophenia and Wes Anderson's 2009 film The Darjeeling Limited. The story is framed around three main characters which are tied to larger than life symbolic representations of mankind's creative endeavors. The protagonist' mother, Sylvia is closely rendered through …

Ofelia The Saint, Samuel H. Duarte

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Ofelia the Saint takes place between 1954 and 1979, during a period in which the Mexican economy boomed with rapid industrialization which included the mining industry. It centers around a young woman named Ofelia who rises up against a multinational mining company (Empreza Stil) that forces itself upon her ancestral land and traces her passage from birth to womanhood, challenging authority and inspiring the women in her village to break away from gender constraints and reclaim their land along the way. When I imagined Ofelia living in the village, she emerged as a playfully rebellious, strong-willed ten-year-old girl, ready to …

Anfibia, Martha Carolina Davila Diaz

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Anfibia es una exploración poética de la relación con el propio cuerpo, en particular de los momentos en que se evidencia el modo en que operan en este los procesos de generización y feminización. Esta exploración se concreta mediante la confluencia de dos elementos: la herencia de la metáfora animal como camino para explicar las virtudes, defectos, características y roles de los seres humanos, y la tecnología como extensión de nuestra corporalidad. Anfibia es la mirada atrás sobre la historia personal con el fin de identificar las circunstancias en que los discursos únicos, los conceptos normativos que forjan la subjetividad, …

The Healer, Crystal Hurd

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This fictional work explores the friendship between a girl with healing powers and a boy disfigured in a farm accident.

Hedgehogs, Oscar Antonio Moreno Huizar

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An anxious college freshman who befriends a party-loving junior girl and both hatch a plan to escape from the border to California, trying to save a mutual friend and escape their dark pasts.

La Muralla Stories, Irma Leticia Nikicicz

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La Muralla Stories is a short story collection depicting Tex-Mex characters within the geographical and social context of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Reanimation (Afterlife Rebellion Book 1), Nicole A. White

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Reanimation (Afterlife Rebellion Book 1) is the first book in a young adult science fiction and fantasy duology about a group of ghosts and a teenage necromancer who must come to terms with a corrupted afterlife. The overarching goal was to craft an accessible fantasy, with its characters being unfamiliar with genre conventions so that readers who were as well could have an entry point into the category, and familiar readers could enjoy new interpretations of the canon. Traditional character archetypes and stereotypes that have been proven to impede representation in the genre and deter new readership are subverted or …

Still In Kushimoto (A Novel), Warren Decker

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"Still in Kushimoto" is a novel told from the perspective of a young American man named Zim who finds himself at a campground at the southern tip of Japan's Honshu Island in the rural town of Kushimoto. He makes a New Year's resolution to write in a journal in a conscious attempt to find the narrative of his own life. The novel takes the form of present day journal entries, interwoven with recollected past events in alternating chapters. As the story of the past moves forward, towards the end of the novel it merges with the present, but Zim finds …

Soot & Shadow, Christa Crawford

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Soot & Shadow is a creative nonfiction-based collection of poetry that focuses on the themes of freedom and loss. The manuscript delves into the lives of immigrant women, specifically those affected by the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and those who came to America as the brides of American servicemen following WWII. Based on eyewitness testimony, the poetry attempts to capture the essence of the events, the devastating tragedy, love, loss, and the freedom these women sought as they discovered Truth through adversity. The poetry itself explores various poetic genres while attempting to push against the confines of the page. …

El Vuelo De Las Mil Mariposas: Historias Y Mitos De Mujeres, Fiorella D. Manrique Ponce

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Colección bilingüe de diez cuentos que exploran los roles de la mujer moderna en relación con mitos de mujeres de diferentes partes del mundo.

While The Sun Breaks Up In The Sky, Jesus Joseph Pena

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Bass Reeves: A Screenplay, James Walzel

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This Thesis does not have an abstact.

Perder Así­, Francisco Javier Barraza Alonzo

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Poemario sobre futbol, relaciones padre e hijo, violencia.