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El Ascendiente Latinoamericano En La Literatura Euskaldun: “Realismo Mágico”, “Literatura Mundial” Y La Emergencia Del Campo Literario Vasco, Gustavo Jimenez Vaquero Feb 2022

El Ascendiente Latinoamericano En La Literatura Euskaldun: “Realismo Mágico”, “Literatura Mundial” Y La Emergencia Del Campo Literario Vasco, Gustavo Jimenez Vaquero

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My dissertation, “El ascendiente latinoamericano en la literatura euskaldun: ‘realismo mágico’, ‘literatura mundial’ y la emergencia del campo literario vasco” (“The Latin American Ascendency of Basque Literature: ‘magical realism,’ ‘world literature’ and the emergence of the Basque literary field”), analyzes the influence of Latin American literature in the formation of modern Basque literature vis-a-vis contemporary debates of World Literature. Contradicting the nationalist agenda governing the metanarrative elaborated by Basque literary histories, my work uncovers the Latin American ascendency of modern Basque literature in the canonical works of a group of Basque writers who played a key role in the modernization …


Transfigurations Of The News: True Fictions, Strange Thresholds, Jeffrey Peer May 2019

Transfigurations Of The News: True Fictions, Strange Thresholds, Jeffrey Peer

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This dissertation compares twentieth-century literary journalism from the U.S. and Mexico, with a focus on the nonfiction novel and the Mexican chronicle. The dissertation considers the two genres both historically and theoretically, in order to distinguish the borders between literature and unscrupulous journalism. North American journalism is at the heart of a crisis over the epistemological status of facts and their place in our political discourse. Some have argued that works of literary nonfiction can damage social norms like journalistic objectivity. Others argue that forms like the chronicle and the nonfiction novel can describe experience better than news reports. This …


No Se Puede Ser Cubano En Cualquier Parte: La Metáfora Del Derrumbe En La Fiesta Vigilada Y Cien Botellas En Una Pared, Mariana Romo-Carmona Jan 2013

No Se Puede Ser Cubano En Cualquier Parte: La Metáfora Del Derrumbe En La Fiesta Vigilada Y Cien Botellas En Una Pared, Mariana Romo-Carmona

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En el umbral del siglo XXI, las novelas de de Antonio José Ponte y Ena Lucía Portela representan una literatura de gran complejidad, cuya narrativa urbana produce ciertas cualidades estéticas distintivas y notables.