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Centering Community Voices Through Children's Literature: Co-Authoring An #Ownvoices Picture Book For The Maine Migrant Education Program, Melanie Shelton

Master's Theses

Since its inception, the field of migrant education has been characterized by a tension between honoring the subjectivity of migrant families and positioning them as victims. This same tension exists in the analysis of children’s picture books that depict the daily lives of migrant farmworkers. In response to Eve Tuck’s (2009) call for a moratorium on damage-centered research in the field of education, this report describes the collaboration process between a representative of the Maine Migrant Education Program and a migrant

farmworker and her family to write, illustrate, and present an autobiographical picture book. Las aventuras, travesuras, y peligros del …

"Si Tú No Fueras Tan Poco, Yo No Sería Tanto": El Catolicismo Español, El Fanatismo Religioso Y El Atraso Intelectual, Karl Douglas Groneman

Master's Theses

The question of Spain's stagnation with respect to other European countries has intrigued academics for centuries. In this thesis, I will be focusing on the intellectual stagnation of Spain. Some blame said stagnation on the monarchy, on economic policies, or on a lack of standardized education. Despite all of these are contributing factors, one area that is worth investigating further is intellectual stagnation due to religious fanaticism.This thesis examines 9 texts from the late 1800s until the early 1900s (1870-1930). Many themes are present in this study: censorship, ideological exaggeration, clerical corruption, Church authority, the family, and spiritual consolation. I …

Desde La Caballería A La Cristiandad: La Transformación Espiritual De Don Quijote, Amanda Kathleen Verduin

Master's Theses

Este presente trabajo es un análisis literario, histórico y teológico del protagonista de la obra famosa de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha. Esta tesina presenta el argumento que Alonso Quijano experimenta una transformación espiritual significativa, desde el momento en que pierde el juicio y se reinventa en el caballero andante, don Quijote, hasta el momento en que muere en su lecho, alabando a Dios por su misericordia. Específicamente, asevero que esta transformación parece a la transformación que Jesucristo describió como el vínculo que se establece entre Dios y la persona que vuelve …

Tejidos Urbanos: Representaciones Literarias Y Visuales De La Memoria En La Ciudad Imaginada, Marina Marisela Alvarez

Master's Theses

The urban imaginary is that which bases itself in a real physical and concrete space,

but is a construction created through the lense of a city's inhabitants. This thesis follows

narratives that have reconfigured the cities of México City, San Juan and Caracas from the

novels Hotel DF (2010), Simone (2011) and the film Pelo Malo (2013) respectively. These

contemporary Latin American & Caribbean narratives provide insight into sentiments

about one's country. Néstor García Canclini and Henri Lefebvre have argued the city is a

whole, and therefore it is analyzed as a microcosm and epicenter of its nation. With

emphasis …

La Escritura Subversiva De Reinaldo Arenas Por Medio De La Conformación De La Masculinidad Trágica, La Masculinidad Disidente Y La Masculinidad Homosexual, Pablo J. Vega

Master's Theses

Hace poco más de dos años me matriculé en tres cursos con el único fin de escapar del departamento de filosofía, sin ni tan siquiera imaginar que aquella decisión iba a cambiarme por completo. En ese semestre tuve la oportunidad de tomar un curso sobre la novela de la revolución y la dictadura en Latinoamérica y entre los textos que leímos estuvo incluida la autobiografía de Arenas, Antes que anochezca. En dicho texto hubo dos cosas que me llamaron la atención y de las cuales he seguido investigando y pensando a lo largo de la carrera. En primer lugar, me …

Spanish Women Remembered In Elena Quiroga's Tristura, Escribo Tu Nombre And A Enferma, Ellen Patricia Brugliera

Master's Theses

The Silenced Women in Spain

Through three novels written by Spanish author, Elena Quiroga (1921-1995), this thesis intends to develop a better comprehension of women's role and identity during the Second Republic in Spain (December, 1931-1936), and under Franco's almost 40 year reign between 1936 and 1975.

Although the Republic sought to initiate change for women via constitutional and legislative reforms, the forms of mobilization occurred under male tutelage, and the Republic's lack of strategy combined with organizational fragmentation led, in some ways, to the immobilization of women. Because the society was in flux, these attempts at reform were also …

Testimony, Remhi And Senselessness In Guatemalan Memory, Melissa Jean Boroughs

Master's Theses

This thesis argues that the fragmented form of the Guatemalan collective memory concerning the genocide can be more clearly understood by analyzing and comparing testimonial literature, documentaries, the Truth Commission report, a novel, and works of performance art. All of these works are considered to be artifacts of memory of the Guatemalan genocide, each one offering a different perspective on the past and present of Guatemala.

Naturalism, Murder, And Identity In Three Short Stories Of Ramon Ferreira, Haley Lee Osborn

Master's Theses

En sus varios cuentos premiados el autor cubano Ramón Ferreira le enseña a su lector el lado más oscuro y violento de la sociedad cubana de manera crudamente verosímil. Durante la época en que escribió, entre 1950 y 1960, mientras que el país sufría turbulencia política y social, Ferreira creaba historias sensacionalistas que mostraban escenas de asesinatos, ladrones, prejuicios, obsesiones, vicios, y cuestiones relacionadas con la falta de justicia en Cuba. Desde Cuba, Ferreira se inspiró en la evolución y el gran viaje del naturalismo que comenzó en Francia con Zola, pasando por España con Pardo Bazán, Sudamérica con varios …

Literary And Visual Representations Of Traumatic Memory Of The Pinochet Dictatorship In Chile, Alison Tange

Master's Theses

This thesis presents an analysis of six narratives that contribute to the collective memory of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. In this study, I attempt to pinpoint the commonalities, motivations, and differences in three literary texts - Un día de octubre en Santiago (Carmen Castillo, 1982), Mi verdad (Marcia Alejandra Merino, 1992), La vida doble (Arturo Fontaine, 2010), and three documentary films - La Flaca Alejandra (Carmen Castillo, 1993), Chile, la memoria obstinada (Patricio Guzmán, 1997), and Mi vida con Carlos (Germán Berger, 2008). These literary and visual narratives are deliberate efforts to shape the memories of the dictatorial past …

Grotesco Zoomoãårfico En El Otonãéo Del Patriarca, Crônica De Una Muerte Anunciada Y Del Amor Y Otros Demonios De Gabriel Garciã A Maãårquez, Jaime Peãårez

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Estructura Y Sentido En Las "Novelas Ejemplares De Cíbola", Dulce Maria H. Lawrence

Master's Theses

El propósito de la tesis es analizar el mundo que Ramón José Sender crea en la novela, estudiando su expresión artística. La expresión artística se basa precisamente en la creación del mundo de la novela. En ese mundo el hombre se mueve en contra de la corriente de la vida siendo guiado por las fuerzas naturales.. La naturaleza le sirve de guía, tomando parte activa en la vida del hombre en la novela.

The Search For Liberty In The Theatre Of Alfonso Sastre, Dorothy Thornton Hunter

Master's Theses

Alfonso Sastre, born in 1926, was a child during the Spanish Civil War. His temperament and personality were shaped by a Spain in the state of transition. He has seen coups d'états, dictatorship, a republic and monarchy. With each change of government Spain was searching for a way to unite her divided self, a self which had been divided since the Moors invaded Spain in the eighth century. Sastre has reflected Spain's search for liberty and has produced what he calls a "Theatre of Social Agitation, "the fundamental theme of which is revolution. With this type of theatre Sastre proposes …

Characteristicas Psicologicas De "El SeñOr Presidente De Miguel Angel Asturias, Estela Alonso Pandiello

Master's Theses

El objetivo del presente estudio es de llegar a conclusiones sabre las caracteristicas psicol6gicas y alteraciones psiquicas de los principales personajes y los efectos de esas alteraciones en la sociedad, tal como son expuestas por Miguel Angel Asturias eri una de sus novelas de mas resonancia e impacto emocional en el lector y en el estudioso de la literatura hispanoamericana: "El Sefior Presidente".

The Speech Of The Andean Mestizo In The Novels Of Ciro Alegria, Catherine Thorburn Neale

Master's Theses

This inquiry is made and presented from the point of view of a language teacher. After a student has acquired the basic skills of reading, writing, and speaking the foreign language, a most practical medium with which to continue his language study is literature. As well as gaining an understanding of people through literary study, he also may see the language in use as a tool for communication and become aware of some possibilities of it as an artistic medium. This study is concerned with the works of the Peruvian writer Ciro Alegria, who includes in his novels many examples …

The Orderly Chaos Of Camilo José́ Cela, Christian William Hearon

Master's Theses

Camilo José Cela, a philosopher and a consummate artist, has produced a series of works which individually and as a group, are a careful combination of idea and form. One work cannot adequately be understood unless it is also seen in context with Cela's other works. Each of the novels, short stories, essays and travel books, is united to the others by Cela' s overall existential philosophical outlook, and each rests on and at the same time illuminates the others.

El Cristiano Viejo En La Estructura Social De La Espana Del Siglo Do Oro, Orencio. Aguilera

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

La Influencia Existencialista En Algunos Autores Espanoles Del Siglo Xx, Dulce Maria Perea

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Alejo Carpentier : CivilizacióN Y Barbarie, MaríA Luisa P. ValdéS

Master's Theses

El proposito de este trabajo sera demostrar la interpretacion y la importancia que Alejo Carpentier da a los terminos 'Civilizacion" y "Barabarie". El pensamiento del autor, en la mayor parte de sus obras gira alrededor de estos dos conceptos que provocan, precisamente, el conflicto en que se ven envueltos los protagonistas, que no saben o no pueden leegar a una solucion valida.

Se ha de insistir principalmente en el tema de la barbarie, por ser esta la preoccupacion mayor del autor, visible en la mayoria de sus obras. El aspecto negativo tiene, en la mente de Carpentier, una importancia mucho …

La Obra De Gabriel Garcia Marquez : Mito Y Critica, Maria Aranzabal Garcia

Master's Theses

El propósito de eate estudio será mostrar la importancia que tienen el mito y la cr tica dentro de la narrativa del escritor Gabriel Garcia Marquez. La novela Cien anos de soledad ha sido escogida como centro de este trabajo porque en ella se ve mejor expresado el tema que nos ocupa, Serán mencionadas otras obras de Garcia Marquez solo como referencia, en aquellos aspectos que sirvan para mejor aclarar el contenido de este estudio.

Cesar Vallejo: Investigacion Sobre Sus Temas Y Su Tecnica Poetica, Consuelo. Samaryk

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

El Tema De La Muerte En Al Novela "La Muerte De Artemio Cruz" De Carlos Fuentes, Felina Noris Roine

Master's Theses

Uno de los elementos de mas importancia en el desarrollo de la humanidad en los ultimos dos siglos lo constituye el progreso de la ciencia y sus consecuencias tecnicas, que establacen el analisis como base de las cosas, propiciando asi una falta de fe, de creencia, que trae consigo la decadencia de la religion. Al dejar de ser la religion el centro de la vida del hombre, este ha perdido su relacion con el reino transcendental del ser quedando solo en un mundo que no provee respuestas a sus necesidades espirituales. Al hombre cambiar de una fe en el orden …

The Artistic Deformation Of Reality : An Ideological Portrait Of Tyranny In Tirano Banderas And El Señ̃Or Presidente, Roebrta Wynne Cohen

Master's Theses

Tyrants speak with many voices, bold many poses, and cast many shadows, but inevitably all wear the same face--the tragic face of tyranny itself. Many artists have painted the portrait; few have captured the essence of its tragedy. Valle Inclan and Asturias, each in his own way, depict the world of tyranny as grotesque and absurd in order to show the tragic condition of man. It is my intent to describe and analyze this grotesque world of tyranny, as portrayed in Tirana Banderas and Senor Preeidente; to compare the techniques used by each writer to create this world; to interpret …

A Comparative Study Of The Uses Of Por And Para, Peggy D. Hart

Master's Theses

The purpose of this paper is to compare the Spanish prepositions por and para with the objective of developing a relatively effective approach to the teaching of these prepositions to native speakers of English.

Resumen De Caracteristicas De Romulo Gallegos, Hilda Del Blanco

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Analisis Literario De El Gesticulador De Rodolfo Usigli, Luz Maria Alvarez

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Romanticismo Y Realismo En Tamayo Y Baus, Ofelia. Garcia

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Gabriela Mistral: Estudio Psicologico-Literario De "Locas Mujeres", Julia. Guerrero

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Juana La Loca En La Historia Y En El Teatro De Tamayo Y Baus, Remember Maceo Gomez

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Temas En "Locas Mujeres" De Gabriela Mistral, Sylvia. Hjorth

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

El Elemento Tragico En Buero Vallejo, Jesus Manuel Ortiz

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.