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Remembering The Thirteen Roses: Blurring Fact And Fiction, Kajsa Larson Mar 2012

Remembering The Thirteen Roses: Blurring Fact And Fiction, Kajsa Larson

Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos

No abstract provided.


Sexualidad, Opresión Y El Fin De La Esperanza En El Sexto Y Hombres Sin Mujer: Retratos De Dolor Y Crisis Colectiva, Jorge Zavaleta Mar 2012

Sexualidad, Opresión Y El Fin De La Esperanza En El Sexto Y Hombres Sin Mujer: Retratos De Dolor Y Crisis Colectiva, Jorge Zavaleta

Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos

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Borges Ante El Fin: Un Sentido De La Eternidad, I. Gabriel Villarroel Mar 2012

Borges Ante El Fin: Un Sentido De La Eternidad, I. Gabriel Villarroel

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Luchando Contra El Fin Del Mundo: Resistencia, Decolonialidad E Interculturalidad En La Loca De Gandoca, Andrew M. Ray Mar 2012

Luchando Contra El Fin Del Mundo: Resistencia, Decolonialidad E Interculturalidad En La Loca De Gandoca, Andrew M. Ray

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Dualidades Y Demonios Coloniales En Cosecha De Huesos Por Edwidge Danticat, Janelle Coleman Mar 2012

Dualidades Y Demonios Coloniales En Cosecha De Huesos Por Edwidge Danticat, Janelle Coleman

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Conquests Of The Imagination: The Manipulation Of Myth In Iberian Conquest Literatures, Daniel Arbino, Michael Arnold Mar 2012

Conquests Of The Imagination: The Manipulation Of Myth In Iberian Conquest Literatures, Daniel Arbino, Michael Arnold

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La Habana Y Medellín: Dos Mundos Poshumanistas Y Posapocalípticos A Través De La Neblina Del Ayer Y Rosario Tijeras, Osvaldo Di Paolo Mar 2012

La Habana Y Medellín: Dos Mundos Poshumanistas Y Posapocalípticos A Través De La Neblina Del Ayer Y Rosario Tijeras, Osvaldo Di Paolo

Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos

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Violence And Apocalypse In Ricardo Chávez Castañeda's El Día Del Hurón, Kristina Puotkalyte-Gurgel Mar 2012

Violence And Apocalypse In Ricardo Chávez Castañeda's El Día Del Hurón, Kristina Puotkalyte-Gurgel

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Movilidades Posapocalípticas: Un Nuevo Acercamiento A La Película De La Migración Irregular, Arturo Vargas Mar 2012

Movilidades Posapocalípticas: Un Nuevo Acercamiento A La Película De La Migración Irregular, Arturo Vargas

Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos

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Literary Africa: Spanish Reflections Of Morocco, Western Sahara, And Equatorial Guinea In The Contemporary Novel, 1990-2010, Mahan L. Ellison Jan 2012

Literary Africa: Spanish Reflections Of Morocco, Western Sahara, And Equatorial Guinea In The Contemporary Novel, 1990-2010, Mahan L. Ellison

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

This dissertation analyzes the strategies that Spanish and Hispano-African authors employ when writing about Africa in the contemporary novel (1990-2010). Focusing on the former Spanish colonial territories of Morocco, Western Sahara, and Equatorial Guinea, I analyze the post-colonial literary discourse about these regions. This study examines the new ways of conceptualizing Africa that depart from an Orientalist framework as advanced by the novelists Lorenzo Silva, Concha López Sarasúa, Ramón Mayrata, María Dueñas, Fernando Gamboa, Montserrat Abumalham, Javier Reverte, Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa, and Donato Ndongo. Their works are representative of a recent trend in Spanish letters that signals a literary focus on …


Deconstructing An Icon: Fidel Castro And Revolutionary Masculinity, Krissie Butler Jan 2012

Deconstructing An Icon: Fidel Castro And Revolutionary Masculinity, Krissie Butler

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

The goal of this project is to investigate the way in which various representations of Fidel Castro, between the years 1957-1965, have left an indelible mark on Cuba, transforming its landscape, I argue, through gendered means and conscious strategies. Thus it is less concerned with Fidel as an historical person than with examining with a gendered lens the ways in which he has been represented in foundational photographs, interviews, songs, and texts (both narrative and poetry as well as blogs). Drawing from theories of masculinity, which conceive masculinity as both a social construction and material body, my dissertation explores the …


Faustian Figures: Modernity And Male (Homo)Sexualities In Spanish Commercial Literature, 1900-1936, Jeffrey Zamostny Jan 2012

Faustian Figures: Modernity And Male (Homo)Sexualities In Spanish Commercial Literature, 1900-1936, Jeffrey Zamostny

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

I contend in this study that commercial novels and theater from early twentiethcentury Spain often present male (homo)sexual characters as a point of constellation for anxieties regarding modernization in Madrid and Barcelona. In works by Jacinto Benavente, Josep Maria de Sagarra, El Caballero Audaz (José María Carretero), Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent, Carmen de Burgos, Álvaro Retana, Eduardo Zamacois, and Alfonso Hernández-Catá, concerns about technological and socioeconomic change converge upon hustlers and blackmailers, queer seducers, and chaste inverts. I examine these figures alongside an allegorical interpretation of Goethe’s Faust in Marshall Berman’s book All That is Solid Melts into Air: …


Rhetorics Of Empire: The Falangist Discourse Of War (1939-1943), M. Elena Aldea Agudo Jan 2012

Rhetorics Of Empire: The Falangist Discourse Of War (1939-1943), M. Elena Aldea Agudo

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) a mix of right-wing ideologies existed among the Francoist forces. In sharp contrast with the Republican forces, the Francoist insurgents were successful in banding together despite their ideological differences. However, in the postwar era, this relative unity gave way to a struggle among the different ideological positions, each striving to impose its agenda for the new State. The party Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista (FET y de las JONS) assumed power, but was not entirely successful in advancing its totalitarian project, which it had inherited from the prewar …


Los Fantasmas Queer De La Dictadura Franquista: ¡Toda Una Re-Velación!, Danae Gallo González Jan 2012

Los Fantasmas Queer De La Dictadura Franquista: ¡Toda Una Re-Velación!, Danae Gallo González

Theses and Dissertations--Modern and Classical Languages, Literature and Cultures

This paper is part of the academic effort to recover historical memory in post-Civil War Spain and metaphorically applies the so-called Giobert Tincture to Carmen Martín Gaite’s El cuarto de atrás (1978), Dulce Chacón’s La voz dormida (2002) and Pedro Almodóvar’s La mala educación (2004) in order show how these works reveal the ghosts of the repression exerted against the epitome of the abject/obscene by Franco’s dictatorship: the queer collective. This collective continues to suffer from marginalization as well as from the effects of repression. I argue that El cuarto de atrás reveals C.’s repressed hybrid/queer identity and sexual orientation, …


Specters Of The Unspeakable: The Rhetoric Of Torture In Guatemalan Literature, 1975-1985, William Jarrod Brown Jan 2012

Specters Of The Unspeakable: The Rhetoric Of Torture In Guatemalan Literature, 1975-1985, William Jarrod Brown

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

This dissertation examines the ways in which torture was imagined and narrated in Guatemalan literature during the Internal Armed Conflict. For nearly four decades, Guatemala suffered one of the longest and most violent wars in Latin America. During that time, it is estimated that more than 100,000 people were tortured at the hands of the Guatemalan military. Torture, as suggested by Ariel Dorman, is most fundamentally “a crime committed against the imagination” (8), disrupting and often dissolving the boundaries between fact and fiction, the real and the unreal. The Introduction and Chapter One of this study explore the destabilization of …