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Mapping Memory: Locational Memory In The First-Person Narrative Of Three Latinx Writers, Stephanie R. Beasley Jan 2022

Mapping Memory: Locational Memory In The First-Person Narrative Of Three Latinx Writers, Stephanie R. Beasley

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

Locational memory, which relies upon our natural inclination to store and recall images, adds spatial orientation to a narrative, and provides an accessible framework for the recreation of the past in first-person narrative. The power of locational imagery as a device of memory is both historically and scientifically supported. It is essential to the system of artificial memory that the ancient Greeks called a memory palace, described by both Mary Carruthers and Paul Ricouer. Scientifically, studies show that the strongest autobiographical memories are based on visual imagery and that recall of specific locations provides a cognitive basis for the recreation …


Más Allá De La Comisión De La Verdad Y Reconciliación: Memoria, Cuerpo Y Producción Cultural De Mujeres En El Perú (2005–2013), Otilia M. Mendiolaza Feb 2020

Más Allá De La Comisión De La Verdad Y Reconciliación: Memoria, Cuerpo Y Producción Cultural De Mujeres En El Perú (2005–2013), Otilia M. Mendiolaza

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation examines literary and cinematographic works concerning the war between the Peruvian Armed Forces and the Peruvian Communist Party Shining Path (1980-2000) produced by contemporary women artists. In particular, it analyzes how these works reveal topics overlooked by the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Peru (CVR) published on August 28, 2003. To do so, it studies the socio-political and cultural factors that contributed to the violation of human rights during the internal military conflict, especially of women, focusing on questions of memory, identity, and the body. The dissertation analyzes Rocío Silva Santisteban’s poetry collection Las hijas …


Lost In Violence : Forging Memories From Legacies Of Neglect In Spanish And Peruvian Contemporary Novels, Jonathan James Oliveri Jan 2020

Lost In Violence : Forging Memories From Legacies Of Neglect In Spanish And Peruvian Contemporary Novels, Jonathan James Oliveri

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

This dissertation constitutes an examination and approximation of neglected violent pasts through an analysis of a selection of contemporary Spanish and Peruvian novels. The Spanish novels in question are as follows: Las leyes de la frontera (2012) written by Javier Cercas; Talco y bronce (2017) authored by Montero Glez; Yonqui (2014) and Cuando gritan los muertos (2018) written by Paco Gómez Escribano; and lastly Lumpen (2015) co-authored by Gómez Escribano and Luis Gutiérrez Maluenda. Additionally, the Peruvian novels which play a fundamental role in the present study are: Lituma en los Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa (1993); El cazador ausente …


La Muerte, La Memoria Y La Filosofía Existencial En La Literatura Testimonial Pos-Dictatorial De Primo Levi, Jorge Semprún Y Jacobo Timerman, Andrew Mcnair Apr 2014

La Muerte, La Memoria Y La Filosofía Existencial En La Literatura Testimonial Pos-Dictatorial De Primo Levi, Jorge Semprún Y Jacobo Timerman, Andrew Mcnair

Senior Theses and Projects

What effect does the ubiquity of death in a traumatic experience have on an individual's memory and soul, and how is this manifested in one's written testimony? Through the analysis of their philosophical introspection, the testimonies of Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved, Jorge Semprún's Literature or Life, and Jacobo Timerman's Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number meditate on the atrocities they experienced during Levi and Semprún's incarceration under the Nazi regime in Europe between 1942 and 1945, and Timerman's imprisonment under the regime of Jorge Rafael Videla in Argentina between 1976 and 1983. The …


Identidad, Exilio Y Memoria En La Narrativa De Tres Autoras Argentinas (Luisa Futoransky, Tununa Mercado Y Luisa Valenzuela), Elsa Menendez Della Torre Jan 2011

Identidad, Exilio Y Memoria En La Narrativa De Tres Autoras Argentinas (Luisa Futoransky, Tununa Mercado Y Luisa Valenzuela), Elsa Menendez Della Torre

Wayne State University Dissertations

Se investiga la narrativa de Luisa Futoransky, Tununa Mercado y Luisa Valenzuela y la influencia del alejamiento de Argentina, afectaron sus perspectivas e identidad. Sus narrativas se posicionan en el movimiento literario posmoderno por su rompiemiento con los cánones narrativos convencionales. La metodología utilizada para este proyecto incluye teorías de Phillipe Lejeune y Silvia Molloy (autobiografia), Serge Doubrovsky (autoficcion) y Julia Kristeva (exilio y feminismo) entre otros. Se consideran también los acercamientos de diversos críticos y psicólogos en lo que respecta al exilio y a la memoria. Posteriormente se analiza la obra narrativa de Luisa Futoransky y su aproximación a …