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Édouard Glissant : Du Dé-Lire Verbal Au Discours Maîtrisé, Katell Colin-Thébaudeau

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This article questions the experience of delirium of the character of Marie Celat and places it in relation to the violence of identity and cultural alienation linked to the history of the West Indies. Using the word “Odono” as a pretext, which was transmitted to the character by a family tale, the text tackles the problem of the identity and origin of the subject. In Marie Celat’s delirium, the reference to “Odono” opens the way for diverse positions on the subject of enunciation, stretching the historical truth into an a-temporal, a-spatial, “out of chronology” event. The words juxtapose each other …

Le Goût Des Jeunes Filles De Dany Laferrière : Du Chaos À La Reconstruction Du Sens, Nathalie Courcy

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This paper analyses the way politics, society and the representation of speech is structured in Le goût des jeunes filles, Dany Laferrière’s fourth novel. How do the events told and the disorganised narration itself symbolise the unspeakable? Moreover, how does the characters’ speech rebuild the meaning of existence, and how does Laferrière see the future? Chaos, madness, all that overtakes or destroys the norm, anchors fiction in an attempt to reorganize reality and the imaginary.

Par-Delà Le Chaos : Aube Tranquille De Jean-Claude Fignolé, Lucienne J. Serrano

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This article analyses how Fignolé’s book puts into words an unbearable state sprung from the chaos of slavery. This is an oxymoronic writing experience, because how can the unspeakable be named? Writing is not thought here, but rather a driving force digging into an intimate movement of rebellion and using language in a glib form, free from conscious meaning and logic, in order to reveal a preconscious meaning. The writer then becomes an archaeologist of pain. He tries to transcribe the scream in splintered space and time, so that memory finds landmarks once again. Writing thus becomes an experience aiming …

Folie De L'Écriture, Écriture De La Folie Dans La Littératureféminine Des Antilles Françaises, Pascale De Souza

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

There are many female characters with sick/mutilated bodies in Guadeloupe and Martinique’s female literature. Madness, anorexia, self-mutilation, even the suicide of these female characters not only denounce a repressive social order inherited from the history of slavery, but also represent means to affect a social environment that is not responsive to the female quest for identity. Madness, crisis or acts of self-mutilation allow them to escape (“marronnage”) a system, which tries to negate their very existence.

Boletín V.10:No.1 (2004), Fordham University Latin American And Latino Studies Institute

Boletín (Fordham University. Latin American and Latino Studies Institute)

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Introduction: Los Angeles Studies And The Future Of Urban Cultures, Raul Villa, George J. Sanchez

Raul Villa

This special issue of American Quarterly focuses on Los Angeles as an emblematic site through which the scholarship of American studies can be examined. As a city shaped by eighteenth-century European colonization, nineteenth-century U.S. territorial expansion, and twentieth-century migration, Los Angeles has come to embody both the hopes and fears of Americans looking to the future. It is a city in which the local is deployed in complex practices of identity and community formation within the broader networks of globalization that continue to define and redefine what constitutes America. The articles in this volume address the complexities of the city's …

Mariguano, Juan Ochoa

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

This book is in many ways autobiographical, but at the same time attempts to tell the story of the many silent characters that have long been omitted from most works on border life. By “silent characters” I am referring to those who operate on the margins of a marginalized society. The reader will be allowed to glimpse inside the life of a social group that values silence and indifference as basic survival skills.

It is this value on silence and indifference that have forced these stories to go unrecorded for so long. Aside from meeting my thesis requirements, it is …

Portrait: Les Nombreuses Facettes De Toussaint Louverture, Jean Metellus

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Toussaint Louverture's groundbreaking revolutionary war against slavery in the French colony of Saint-Domingue has earned him a well-deserved place in the history of anti-colonial movements. Despite his arrest and subsequent deportation to France, he is remembered as one of the founders of the first Haitian nation. Metellus goes beyond this image of the Haitian leader and captures him in all his complexity; his limits as a human being and as a leader. However, Metellus ultimately wants us to remember Toussaint Louverture as one of the founders of the anti­colonial movement.

Guide To The Microfilm Collection In The Spanish Colonial Research Center, National Park Service, Joseph Sánchez

Spanish Colonial Research Center

The finding guide contains a brief description of each document in the collection, its archive of origin, page length, date, a reference number and reel number where it is located.

Documents in the collection are digitized and available on New Mexico Digital Collections under the title UNM Spanish Colonial Research Center.

Creación Y Resistencia: La Narrativa De Diamela Eltit (Book Review), Claudia Ferman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

El volumen se propone el análisis de la obra más reciente de la escritora chilena Diamela Eltit, obra ha alcanzado trascendencia internacional y que ya posee una importante materia crítica que la discute. La colecciín no incluye trabajo crítico sobre Mano de obra (2002), texto que es posterior a la publicación del volumen. Como Lagos indica en el prólogo, ese interés merecía una nueva colección de artículos después del volumen publicado también por Cuarto propio en colaboración con Para Textos en 1993, Una poética de literatura menor: la narrativa de Diamela Eltit, compilado por Juan Carlos Lértora, quien también contribuye …

Boletín V.9:No.2 (2004), Fordham University Latin American And Latino Studies Institute

Boletín (Fordham University. Latin American and Latino Studies Institute)

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A Conversation With Velma Pollard, Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

Noted poet, novelist, linguist, and educator, Velma Pollard was Visiting Professor of English at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia, during the fall semester of 2001 when I conducted the following interview. John Martin, my graduate assistant at the time, assisted me in videotaping and transcribing our conversation, which took place in her cottage at the University on December 3, 2001.

Gender, Discourse, And Desire In Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature, Cristina Ferreira-Pinto

Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures

This study by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto explores the poetic and narrative strategies twentieth-century Brazilian women writers use to achieve new forms of representation of the female body, sexuality, and desire. Female writers discussed include: Gilka Machado, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Marcia Denser, and Marina Colasanti. While creating new forms, these writers are also deconstructing cultural myths of femininity and female behavior. In order to understand these myths, the book also presents new readings of some male-authored canonical novels by Jose de Alencar, Machado de Assis, Manuel Antonio de Almeida, and Aluisio Azevedo. The specific focus on female sexuality and desire acknowledges the …

Bargaining In Two Languages: Conversational Functions Of Transactional Code-Switching, Lotfi Sayahi

Languages, Literatures and Cultures Faculty Scholarship

Studies on the pragmatic functions of code-switching, in opposition to its macro sociolinguistic significance or syntactic structure, have been largely influenced by Gumperz's pioneering classification presented in the chapter he dedicated to this topic in his 1982 book, Discourse strategies. Many other taxonomies followed Gumperz's initial proposal (Appel and Muysken 1987, Poplack 1988, Romaine 1989, Heller 1992) in spite of the usually claimed difficulty in interpreting and predicting the exact functions of code-switching in any given bilingual context. Their purpose has been to identify the sociopragmatic motivation for the occurrence of a particular code-switched utterance and ultimately classify it under …

Central America And The Burden Of The Past, Félix Masud-Piloto

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The Politics Of Asylum: Salvadoran Women And U.S. Policy, Jennifer Gerrard

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Antecedentes Del Operativo Cóndor En El Paraguay: La Conexión De Estados Unidos De América, Macial A. Riquelme

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Central American Labor Migration, 1980-2000, Ana A. Peña López

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Protestant Vs. Catholic, José Soltero

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Montes Azules: Who Is Really Destroying The Rainforest?, Kari Lydersen

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Humboldt Park Looks To The Past To Fight Gentrification, Harvey Henao

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Odyssey To The North: Salvadoran Identities - American Lives, Michael Millar

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At A Glance..., Jonathan Moller, Rigoberta Menchú Tum

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African American And Hispanic American Dialogue Through Music, Caleb Dube

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En Las Manos Un Pequeño País: Política Y Poética En El Salvador (1884-2004), Rafael Lara-Martínez

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Gringo Chapín: Seven Perspectives On Being Guatemalan-American, William Barillas

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Land Struggles In Honduras, Kari Lydersen

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Latino Images In U.S. Mainstream Print, Raymundo Ortega

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Los Símbolos De La Abuela Que Son También Los Deseos Del Corazón: En Torno A "Más Espacio", Ilia Casanova-Marengo

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The Negro Is Paid To Dance, Matilde E. López, Karin Killian

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