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Manuel Puig Y Los Espacios Queer : Una Tercera Lectura De La Realidad, Matthew Berg

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Manuel Puig es una de las figuras más importantes de la literatura latinoamericana. Si bien comparte la capacidad de capturar la realidad latinoamericana con sus contemporáneos, Puig es único en su interpretación del mundo a su alrededor desde la perspectiva queer, como corresponde a su estatus de hombre gay. Además, el tejido de referencias populares en sus novelas para representar la realidad, los personajes y sus vidas demuestra una práctica de la comunidad queer de tomar elementos populares y aplicarlas a la vida nuestra, haciendo una lectura queer de estas obras y haciéndolas aplicar a nuestra realidad. De esta manera, …

Los Hilos Históricos Y Literarios Que Unen A En El Tiempo De Las Mariposas De Julia Álvarez Y Un Día En La Vida De Manlio Argueta, Ingrid Torres

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Un día en la vida del salvadoreño Manlio Argueta y En el tiempo de las mariposas de la dominicana Julia Álvarez realzan las vidas y la tragedia de una familia campesina durante la Guerra Civil de El Salvador y las mundialmente conocidas hermanas Mirabal. Aunque ambas familias protagonistas estén en polos opuestos de la pirámide social de ambas naciones, a través de este trabajo se explorarán las conexiones literarias e históricas entre ellas, especialmente su naturaleza testimonial, el hecho de que son productos del exilio, de la experiencia del sobreviviente y además de lo crucial que es mantener tanto la …

The Function Of The Culinary Art In The Latin American Literature Of The Twentieth Century : Simbología Culinaria En Las Obras De Cómo Agua Para Chocolate, Arráncame La Vida Y Corazón’S Café, Esther Schmidt

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

The following theses will be developed by describing the purpose of the culinary arts in Latin American Literature. This paper will describe which feelings it creates for their audience.

The following books are going to be the basic study lines: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. Arráncame la vida by Angeles Mastretta and the short story Corazón’s Café by Judith Coffer Ortiz. Laura Esquivel, wrote this novel in the form of twelve recipes in which the reader gets to know about her life that happened during the Mexican Revolution. However, the most important messages sent throughout the entire novel, …

El Juego Del Lenguaje : La ConfiguracióN Del "Yo" En La Narrativa De Norah Lange Y Rosa Chacel, Berta C. Roldan

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Labyrinths of the Language: Shaping the "I" in Norah Lange and Rosa Chacel's Narrative

Although the Avant-Garde movement spread internationally in the early 1900's, very few women in Spain and Latin America were recognized for their contributions to a new style of prose. The purpose of this thesis is to study the representation of the subject and the fragmentation of the "I" in the narrative of Norah Lange and Rosa Chacel. Both writers were iconoclastic in the use of new forms and influenced the way literature and the arts were perceived in their era. They marked a new beginning to …

Drum Of Poetry, Drum Of War, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The Aztec upright drum, tlalpan huehuetl, stood totally silent in the Metropolitan exhibit from Mexico, headless, covered with a swirling visual text which includes two carved eagles and three jaguars, each uttering the sign of holy conflagration in war," blazing water" on one side a transfigured warrior rising up in eagle attire—quauhtlehuanitl" eagle rising," a figure of the sun from dawn to midday—and opposite him a drooping eye at the axis of a quincunx, pierced south to north by a short, angular dart—the calendrical sign 4 Motion, the name of this fifth age of the world, destined to collapse in …

Entrevista Con Rogelio Sinán, Alina Camacho Gingerich, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Rogelio Sinan, seud6nimo de Bernardo Dominguez Alba y maestro de varias generaciones de escritores panameios, ha cultivado casi todos los g6neros; se ha distinguido como cuentista, poeta, novelista y director teatral. Nace el 25 de abril de 1904 en Taboga, una islita en el Pacifico, a unos 5 kil6metros de la ciudad de Panama. Publica en 1929, en Roma,. su primer libro de poesias, Onda, poemario con el que introduce la vanguardia a las letras panamefias. En 1970 Sinin regresa a su pais, donde explica literatura a los estudiantes del Instituto Nacional. En 1937 lo nombran c6nsul de Panama en …

Aspects Of Prose Style In Three Chicano Novels: Pocho, Bless Me, Ultima, And The Road To Tamazunchale, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

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Chicanismo: The Rebirth Of A Spirit, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Reviewed Work: The Road to Tamazunchale by Ron Arias

A Bibliographic Introduction To Twenty Manuscripts Of Classical Nahuatl Literature, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This bibliography is offered as a preliminary guide for students and professionals interested in the texts of the indigenous Nahuatl cultures of Mexico. It is the bibliography I would wish to have were I to begin again my own investigations, which were undertaken with only a general knowledge of Nahuatl culture of the kind available to any curious aficionado of antiquities. While many excellent bibliographies of Nahuatl materials are available (see Note), none have indicated clearly for the uninitiated the primary manuscript sources of the literature or what editions of facsimile, paleography, and translation have been prepared from each. And …