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Beckett's Masculinity: New Interpretations Of Beckett In 21st C, Jennifer Jeffers Dec 2015

Beckett's Masculinity: New Interpretations Of Beckett In 21st C, Jennifer Jeffers

Jennifer M. Jeffers

From Murphy to Rockaby to Worstward Ho, Beckett’s Masculinity illustrates how Samuel Beckett’s work functions as a testament to the site of memory for the historically erased twentieth-century Protestant, Anglo-Irish community. Jennifer Jeffers ably shows how Beckett converted his own personal traumatic loss of a masculine, patriarchal national identity into a sustained group of obsessive images in his texts. As Beckett’s work matured, he utilized the strategies of emasculation and gender distortion to dismantle Western masculinity. Beckett’s Masculinity shows that Western hegemonic masculinity was a source of private trauma and anxiety for Beckett; yet, he eventually transformed the twentieth-century …


Sacrificio, Violencia Y Nación En Lituma En Los Andes De Mario Vargas Llosa, Cesar Valverde Dec 2011

Sacrificio, Violencia Y Nación En Lituma En Los Andes De Mario Vargas Llosa, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


Modelos Masculinos Y Violencia En Sanctuary Y Crónica De Una Muerte Anunciada, Cesar Valverde Dec 2010

Modelos Masculinos Y Violencia En Sanctuary Y Crónica De Una Muerte Anunciada, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

This essay analyzes how two novels, William Faulkner’s Sanctuary and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold, present masculine models that juxtapose power and violence during times of social crisis. Both novels present violent masculinities that overcome peaceful masculinities, in conflicts that result in murders and rapes; but rather than acuse the individuals responsible for the violent acts, the texts point out the social mechanisms that inexorably move the authors of the crimes. In both works we also see violence against women and resulting public deaths of men wrongly accused, which happen due to an inability to adapt to …


Pasado Soterrado Y Ánima Reprimida En La Muñeca Reina Y Chac Mool, Cesar Valverde Dec 2003

Pasado Soterrado Y Ánima Reprimida En La Muñeca Reina Y Chac Mool, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


Del Relato A La Pantalla: La Alteridad En Cabeza De Vaca, Cesar Valverde Dec 1998

Del Relato A La Pantalla: La Alteridad En Cabeza De Vaca, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


Del Relato A La Pantalla: La Alteridad En Cabeza De Vaca, Cesar Valverde Dec 1998

Del Relato A La Pantalla: La Alteridad En Cabeza De Vaca, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


"Nación Y Masculinidad En La Narrativa Decimonónica: El Caso De Sab Y Aves Sin Nido", Cesar Valverde Dec 1997

"Nación Y Masculinidad En La Narrativa Decimonónica: El Caso De Sab Y Aves Sin Nido", Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado, Cesar Valverde Dec 1997

Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


"Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado", Cesar Valverde Dec 1997

"Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado", Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado, Cesar Valverde Dec 1997

Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.