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An Anatomy Of Marginality: Figures Of The Eternal Return And The Apocalypse In Chilean Post-Dictatorial Fiction, Idelber Avelar Jun 1999

An Anatomy Of Marginality: Figures Of The Eternal Return And The Apocalypse In Chilean Post-Dictatorial Fiction, Idelber Avelar

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

The article analyzes two novels by Chilean writer Diamela Eltit from the standpoint of the post-dictatorial imperative to mourn the dead and reactivate collective memory. After framing Eltit's fiction in the context of the avant-garde resurgence of plastic and performance arts in the second half of Pinochet's regime, I move on to discuss Lumpérica (1983) and Los vigilantes (1994) as two different manifestations of the temporality of mourning. The article addresses how Lumpérica's portrayal of an oneiric, orgiastic communion in marginality (shared by the protagonist and a mass of beggars at a Santiago square) composed an allegory in the strict …

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The Genesis Of La Desesperanza By José Donoso , Mary Lusky Friedman Jun 1999

The Genesis Of La Desesperanza By José Donoso , Mary Lusky Friedman

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

This study analyzes the seven hundred pages of working notes made by the Chilean writer José Donoso as he created La desesperanza, his 1986 novel about the return of a Chilean exile to his homeland. These notes, made in two sustained working sessions, one in the year beginning in December 1980 and the other in the first eight months of 1985, reveal a particular modus operandi: intent on inventing characters who were believable and complex, Donoso subordinated every other aspect of the work—plot, technical considerations like point of view and register, and even the ideas the novel would …

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Women Who Bleed To Death: Gabriel García Marquez's "Sense Of An Ending", Adelaida López-Mejia May 1999

Women Who Bleed To Death: Gabriel García Marquez's "Sense Of An Ending", Adelaida López-Mejia

Adelaida López Mejía

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Carnality In ‘El Matadero', Lee Joan Skinner May 1999

Carnality In ‘El Matadero', Lee Joan Skinner

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

Esteban Echeverria's short story "El matadero" is generally acknowledged as a literary masterpiece in miniature. It is widely anthologized and has been called the inaugural work of Argentine short fiction, if not the first Latin American short story. Seymour Menton positions it as the first story in his influential anthology El cuento hispanoamericano and calls it "una verdadera obra de arte" (34); David William Foster refers to it as "the founding text of Argentine fiction" (Sexual Textualities 135). Although the story has been popularly and critically acclaimed, it also presents certain problems for its readers. Written by an avowed Romantic, …

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Búsqueda Ontológica Y Correrías Detectivescas En "La Milagrosa" De Carmen Boullosa, Dolores Rangel Jan 1999

Búsqueda Ontológica Y Correrías Detectivescas En "La Milagrosa" De Carmen Boullosa, Dolores Rangel

Dolores Rangel

Este trabajo tiene como propósito estudiar dos planos de intersección que se dan en la novela La Milagrosa (1993) de Carmen Boullosa. El primero es el de la novela como espacio de replanteamiento de índole postmodernista en el cual se presentan cuestionamientos acerca del ser, del existir, del soñar y de la verdad, entre algunos. El segundo plano a considerar es el de la novela detectivesca, de índole popular, urbana, materialista, con elementos de violencia y sexo. Como un puente de intersección entre estos dos planos está el espacio de la mujer con planteamientos relativos a la naturaleza femenina, en …

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Los Múltiples Laberintos De Jorge Luis Borges, Dolores Rangel Jan 1999

Los Múltiples Laberintos De Jorge Luis Borges, Dolores Rangel

Dolores Rangel

Uno de los motivos esenciales en la obra del argentino Jorge Luis Borges es el del laberinto. El presente trabajo tiene el propósito de determinar las dimensiones, las características y los posibles significados que adquiere el laberinto en una selección de ocho cuentos y dos poemas que pertenecen a Ficciones, El Aleph, El libro de arena y Elogio de la sombra. En una primera parte, se revisa lo que es el laberinto en el marco de la cultura occidental. En segundo lugar, se analizan las imágenes físicas del laberinto. Posteriormente, se estudia el laberinto metafísico y la presencia de conceptos …

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In The Shadows: The Search For Identity In The Writings Of Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherrie Moraga, Sandra Cisneros, And Julia Alvarez, Marcy Wood Benincasa Jan 1999

In The Shadows: The Search For Identity In The Writings Of Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherrie Moraga, Sandra Cisneros, And Julia Alvarez, Marcy Wood Benincasa

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

For years, the voice of the Chicana has been silenced by oppression. Anglos, Mexicans, and Chicanos have intentionally created such an oppression upon Chicanas that they were never allowed to tell stories of their own ideas, fears, and dreams. They were merely meant to be a voiceless servant to the male gender.

This master’s thesis will examine the racial and gender oppression that Chicanas Cisneros, and Julia Alvarez — focusing primarily on their attempts to establish a gender have faced over the centuries, beginning with the days of Malintzin and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and continuing until the …

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Postcolonial Parodies Of The Creation Story In Olive Schreiner And Wilson Harris, Jamie Jacqueline Quatro Jan 1999