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Confessing Nuns: Gender, Hierarchy, And Institutionalized Power In Early Modern Hispanic Literature, Jason Michael Stinnett
Confessing Nuns: Gender, Hierarchy, And Institutionalized Power In Early Modern Hispanic Literature, Jason Michael Stinnett
Doctoral Dissertations
My dissertation discusses the inversion of power dynamics between nuns and the Catholic Church during the Early Modern period in Spain and in the New World. I study how Santa Teresa de Ávila, Catalina de Erauso, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz use traditional modes of male thought and action regarding feminine weakness in order to realize their own agendas and participate in arenas generally forbidden to women. In analyzing how these women reinforce the weaknesses and strengths of the gender binary through written confession, I am able to trace their appropriation of power and authoritative voice in spaces …
Avatars Des Independances En Afrique: Ahmadou Kourouma Et Mongo Beti, Falone Domle Jiejup
Avatars Des Independances En Afrique: Ahmadou Kourouma Et Mongo Beti, Falone Domle Jiejup
Masters Theses
This thesis analyzes Les Soleils des Independances (1968) by Ahamadou Kourouma and Trop de Soleil Tue l’Amour (1999) by Mongo Beti with the main objectives of examining how the postcolonial societies in Africa are touhced by many kind of problems addressed by authors in literature. In fact, the two books chosen for this exercise cover the question of the disappearance of traditional beliefs, the poor management of economical and political aspects of the societies, the dictatorship under the name of democracy, corruption as a norm, and many other points. In both Ahmadou Kourouma’s and Mongo Beti’s work, poor and vulnerable …