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Son For Everybody: Exploring Afro Cuban And African American Relations Through Langston Hughes’ Translations Of Nicolas Guillén’S Poetry, Hayley R. Fernandez

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis was to analyze the translation decisions made in Cuba Libre, Translated from the Spanish By Langston Hughes and Ben Frederic Carruthers, and to explore the contemporary image of Nicolás Guillén as expressed in recent projects regarding his work and legacy. Particular attention was paid to the historical and social frameworks Guillén employed in his own work and the same frameworks he and his poetry have been associated with in recent years. The larger importance of this piece was to take a look at how international Blackness existed and was worked with in literature at the …

Otherness, Peronism, And Violence In Juan Diego Incardona's Saga Celinense, Sergio L. Andruccioli

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Juan Diego Incardona is one of the most relevant voices in the so-called “Nueva Narrativa Argentina” (New Argentinean Narrative)”—a literary movement originating circa 1983 that has renewed Argentinean literary production and redefined historical identity in Latin American literature. Through an analysis of Incardona’s Villa Celina (2008), El campito (2009), Rock barrial (2010), and Las estrellas federales (2016)—a quartet known as “Saga Celinense”—this dissertation explores a new cartography (not seen before in Argentinean literature) of the peripheral slums away from the Capital City as hotbeds of a strong political ideology—namely, Peronism. These communities have been historically marginalized, ignored, and made invisible …

Primitivismo Y Poesía Femenina En El Cono Sur: Gabriela Mistral, Alfonsina Storni Y Juana De Ibarbourou, Ramon Muniz

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Primitivism is a philosophical attitude and artistic view based on the search for origins. It is linked to a simpler conception of life and has been used as a strategy to critique modernity through literature and art, as well as a means to subvert traditional and academicist paradigms in cultural production. Although most scholars have considered Primitivism as a problem of Western ideology, Erik Camayd-Freixas, Marianna Torgovnick, and Ben Etherington have shown that Primitivism is present in all cultures and that its strategies have been deployed to deal with racial, ecological, economic, artistic, and gender issues.

My dissertation analyzes the …