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El Tema De La Simulación En El Teatro De Cinco Países Hispanoamericanos Del Siglo Xx, Koji Nishida
El Tema De La Simulación En El Teatro De Cinco Países Hispanoamericanos Del Siglo Xx, Koji Nishida
Doctoral Dissertations
I have investigated the theme of imposters in three Hispanic American plays and two Caribbean plays from the early twentieth century; I selected each play from a different country so that I can present a broader perspective of Hispanic American and Caribbean themes. In these five plays, the main characters fabricate their own identities for various reasons. My focus is on analyzing those imposters and on presenting how the dramatists present this type of imposters in their works. Identity is one of the most prominent themes in Hispanic American and Caribbean literature because the history of these regions involves a …
Ambigüedades Éticas Y Estéticas: La Narrativa Peruana Contemporánea Y La Violencia Política, Gabriel T Saxton-Ruiz
Ambigüedades Éticas Y Estéticas: La Narrativa Peruana Contemporánea Y La Violencia Política, Gabriel T Saxton-Ruiz
Doctoral Dissertations
The dissertation “Ambigüedades éticas y estéticas: La narrativa peruana contemporánea y la violencia política” explores the complex relationship of literature and the recent history of Peru by analyzing ideological positions expressed in three novels, Alonso Cueto’s La hora azul (2005), Santiago Roncagliolo’s Abril rojo (2006), and Daniel Alarcón’s Radio Ciudad Perdida (2007), and in a collection of short stories, Jorge Eduardo Benavides’ La noche de Morgana (2005). This dissertation discusses how these authors employ different literary discourses (detective fiction, literature of the fantastic and the dystopian novel) to recreate artistically the period of internal conflict, as well as the ethical …