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Chaos As Ecological And Autochthonous Expression: An Ecocritical Study Of La Vorágine, Danion L. Doman 2011 Truman State University

Chaos As Ecological And Autochthonous Expression: An Ecocritical Study Of La Vorágine, Danion L. Doman

The Coastal Review

This article utilizes principles of ecological criticism to provide new readings of both the role and presentation of nature in José Eustasio Rivera’s novel La vorágine. Whereas critics have heretofore focused on Rivera’s memorable subjective descriptions of the Amazon jungle, the present study foregrounds the rich diversity of the real organisms represented in these depictions. In addition, this essay explores the connections between the text’s core trope, chaos, and the current ecological and social scientific understanding of the ecology and the human history of the Amazon Basin.


Charamicos: Bildungsroman Femenino O Aprendizaje Político A Través De La Memoria Histórica, Lucia M. Montas 2011 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Charamicos: Bildungsroman Femenino O Aprendizaje Político A Través De La Memoria Histórica, Lucia M. Montas

The Coastal Review

In Latin America, the combination of history and fiction, especially during the last decades has allowed marginalized groups, specifically women, to contribute to the rewriting and reevaluation of their national history. Women writers in contemporary Dominican literature have been able to actively participate in this process after a long period of silence. Dominican author Angela Hernandez exemplifies this idea within contemporary Dominican narrative. In her novel Charamicos (2003), Hernandez reinterprets the Post Trujillo era from a feminist point of view. Thus, the purpose of this article is to analyze this novel as a depository of historical memory and construction of …


De ‘La Civilización Y La Barbarie’ A ‘Lo Visible Y Lo Invisible’: Etapas En El Desarrollo De Un Centro Argentino, L. Nannette Mosley 2011 University of Georgia

De ‘La Civilización Y La Barbarie’ A ‘Lo Visible Y Lo Invisible’: Etapas En El Desarrollo De Un Centro Argentino, L. Nannette Mosley

The Coastal Review

Argentinean essayists Domingo Faustino Sarmiento and Eduardo Mallea both applied antithetical terms in their explorations of Argentinean identity. Sarmiento juxtaposed “la civilización” and “la barbarie,” while Mallea applied “lo visible” and “’lo invisible.” In response to a somewhat superficial comparison of the terms found within current criticism, and in light of their importance within the writings of both essayists, an in-depth exploration of the terms is undertaken here, addressing the differing objectives and contexts of the writers and revealing a significant evolution in Argentinean thought. From Sarmiento to Mallea, progress is being …


Persistent Revolutions In Colombia And Peru: A Comparative Analysis, Brandon Huson 2011 Indiana State University

Persistent Revolutions In Colombia And Peru: A Comparative Analysis, Brandon Huson

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This thesis performs a comparative analysis of rural-based revolutionary movements in Latin America. The movements that are compared are the FARC, originating in Colombia, and the Shining Path, which emerged from the highlands of Peru. The comparison is meant to serve as a test for what variables are predictive of revolutionary success. Since these movements differ in their success in establishing permanent political, social and military movements in their countries over time, their dichotomous outcome can be used to point toward variables that warrant further consideration. Comparison of revolutionary movement makes sense in this case due to the similarities between …


"God Must Have Been A Feminist To Make Me": Writings From The Girls Of El Hogar La Buena Esperanza, Anna Lapera 2011 University of New Mexico

"God Must Have Been A Feminist To Make Me": Writings From The Girls Of El Hogar La Buena Esperanza, Anna Lapera

Latin American Studies ETDs

My thesis, 'God Must Have Been a Feminist to Make Me': Writings From the Girls of El Hogar la Buena Esperanza is a feminist ethnography of a poetry workshop I conducted over three months in el Hogar la Buena Esperanza, a home for under-privileged indigenous girls located within a cloistered Carmelite Convent in the northeastern Peruvian Amazon. Based on seventeen girls and over fourteen different creative writing activities, I explore how their writings reveal particular life histories in Latin America. From reimagining and re-writing stories and memories of their long departed hometowns, re-writing small-town histories; from exploring the cultural borders …


Strange Angels, Bridgette Werner 2011 Syracuse University

Strange Angels, Bridgette Werner

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Strange Angels is a documentary photography project exploring the formation of family in the context of Stansberry Children’s Home in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. It is a creative project presented as a book of photos and text that together discuss life in the children’s home and how children with fractured families construct family systems in an institutional context. The photography was produced during two trips that I took to Santa Cruz in 2009 and 2010. On both trips I lived on the Stansberry grounds and interacted with the children and their caretakers, becoming acquainted with them and the operations of the …


Editorial, Gabriel Cartaya 2011 University of South Florida

Editorial, Gabriel Cartaya

Revista Surco Sur

No abstract provided.


Detrás Del Humo, Gonzalo Páez 2011 University of South Florida

Detrás Del Humo, Gonzalo Páez

Revista Surco Sur

No abstract provided.


Diáspora, María Eugenia Caseiro 2011 University of South Florida

Diáspora, María Eugenia Caseiro

Revista Surco Sur

No abstract provided.


La Cautiva, Ana María Fuster Lavín 2011 University of South Florida

La Cautiva, Ana María Fuster Lavín

Revista Surco Sur

No abstract provided.


Palabras No-Pronunciables: El Idioma Como “Tercer Lugar”, Kenya C. Dworking y Méndez 2011 University of South Florida

Palabras No-Pronunciables: El Idioma Como “Tercer Lugar”, Kenya C. Dworking Y Méndez

Revista Surco Sur

No abstract provided.


El Poeta Es Un Malabarista De Navajas, Marco Fonts 2011 University of South Florida

El Poeta Es Un Malabarista De Navajas, Marco Fonts

Revista Surco Sur

No abstract provided.


No Hay Regreso, Gloria Hernández, María Adela Hernández, Salvador Mendiola 2011 University of South Florida

No Hay Regreso, Gloria Hernández, María Adela Hernández, Salvador Mendiola

Revista Surco Sur

No abstract provided.


Ya No Puedo Ser Poeta, Nayví Hernández 2011 University of South Florida

Ya No Puedo Ser Poeta, Nayví Hernández

Revista Surco Sur

No abstract provided.


Gerardo Piña-Rosales Y Su Novela Desde Esta Cámara Oscura, Leonora Acuña de Marmolejo 2011 University of South Florida

Gerardo Piña-Rosales Y Su Novela Desde Esta Cámara Oscura, Leonora Acuña De Marmolejo

Revista Surco Sur

No abstract provided.


La Pasión Por América En La Poesía De Rubén Vela, Ime Biassoni 2011 University of South Florida

La Pasión Por América En La Poesía De Rubén Vela, Ime Biassoni

Revista Surco Sur

No abstract provided.


Memorias Del Desarrollo: El Nombre Propio De La Historia, Dean Luis Reyes 2011 University of South Florida

Memorias Del Desarrollo: El Nombre Propio De La Historia, Dean Luis Reyes

Revista Surco Sur

No abstract provided.


Memoria Poética Luego De Una Pesadilla Interandina, Gloria Mendoza Borda 2011 University of South Florida

Memoria Poética Luego De Una Pesadilla Interandina, Gloria Mendoza Borda

Revista Surco Sur

No abstract provided.


Carlos Velazco Entrevista A Miguel Coyula, Carlos Velazco 2011 University of South Florida

Carlos Velazco Entrevista A Miguel Coyula, Carlos Velazco

Revista Surco Sur

No abstract provided.


La Frontera Como Sistema Simbólico En La Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, Perla Ábrego 2011 University of South Florida

La Frontera Como Sistema Simbólico En La Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, Perla Ábrego

Revista Surco Sur

No abstract provided.


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