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Con La Pluma Entre Dos Mundos - Post Edition - Prologue, Volume 2, Number 1, Damaris Serrano, Fátima Araúz, Megan Mckarns, Michael Daniel Curtis Stanley, Morgan Foister

Con la pluma entre dos mundos

In Volume II, there are 4 issues or journals, three of Latin American literature and one of Advanced Composition (years 2020-2021). This volume has been named “Post” because of its postmodern approach within Hispanic Cultural Studies.

These issues are also of great importance because they respond to the literary, professional, and linguistic work in Spanish produced during the peak of the pandemic, when teaching had to become a synchronous experience through virtual space.

The Survey of Spanish American Literature is part of the core curriculum for the B.A. in Spanish, offered by the Spanish program, at Wright State University. However, …

Berta Vive": Solidaridades Transnacionales Y Luchas Interseccionales En Honduras, Irune Del Río Gabiola

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Desde la destitución de Manuel Zelaya en 2009 por un golpe de estado y los subsiguientes gobiernos, Honduras ha experimentado altos niveles de violencia e impunidad gubernamental intensificados por la persecución y aniquilación de periodistas, profesores, abogados, feministas y activistas medioambientales como Berta Cáceres. Sin embargo, a partir de este momento, la resistencia se ha fortalecido mediante la transnacionalización e interseccionalidad de luchas solidarias en busca de la justicia social y de alternativas vitales a las políticas de muerte instauradas por los gobiernos conservadores. En este sentido, me propongo analizar la importancia de la solidaridad como herramienta de descolonización y …

Nueva Edición Crítica De El Lugar Sin Límites De José Donoso En Colección Biblioteca Chilena: Notas En Torno A Un Proyecto De Edición, Maria Laura Bocaz-Leiva

Modern Languages & Literatures Articles

He tenido el honor y el placer de editar, para Colección Biblioteca Chilena de Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado, esta novela de José Donoso (1924-1996) que, a más de cincuenta años de su primera edición en México (1966), constituye tanto una de las principales novelas del escritor chileno como un hito dentro la literatura latinoamericana. Agradezco al comité editorial de (an)ecdótica, especialmente a Ana Laura Zavala Díaz, que me invitara a participar del diálogo centrado en la labor ecdótica de textos con el que la revista contribuye, llenando desde su primer número un vacío indiscutible en nuestro campo al proveer …

Reclaiming The Narrative Of A Generation: The Representation Of Argentina’S Last Dictatorship Through Cinema, Hana Kristensen

Hispanic Studies Honors Papers

Over 453 films have been made focusing on the topic of the last dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983), otherwise known worldwide as the Dirty War. This time period is characterized by the vile human rights abuses committed by the military junta against those who opposed the government, leading to the disappearances of 30.000 people, many of whom left children behind. These children were often forced to grow up, giving up their childhood, due to their parents' militancy. In the national story of the dictatorship, these children's stories and experiences have often been forgotten. This thesis will investigate the portrayal of the …

Lost In Violence : Forging Memories From Legacies Of Neglect In Spanish And Peruvian Contemporary Novels, Jonathan James Oliveri

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

This dissertation constitutes an examination and approximation of neglected violent pasts through an analysis of a selection of contemporary Spanish and Peruvian novels. The Spanish novels in question are as follows: Las leyes de la frontera (2012) written by Javier Cercas; Talco y bronce (2017) authored by Montero Glez; Yonqui (2014) and Cuando gritan los muertos (2018) written by Paco Gómez Escribano; and lastly Lumpen (2015) co-authored by Gómez Escribano and Luis Gutiérrez Maluenda. Additionally, the Peruvian novels which play a fundamental role in the present study are: Lituma en los Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa (1993); El cazador ausente …

La Evolución De La Masculinidad En Las Películas De Alfonso Cuarón, Daniel Martinez

CMC Senior Theses

El cine de Alfonso Cuarón representa una oportunidad nueva y emocionante para entender mejor la identidad mexicana y todas sus implicaciones. En esta tesis, analizaré las representaciones diferentes de la masculinidad a lo largo de la carrera de Alfonso Cuarón en México ya que estas películas tratan con el tema de manera directa. Desde sus principios en Sólo con tu pareja hasta Roma ( su proyecto más reciente), el estilo de Cuarón ha llegado a definir la nueva era del cine mexicano y sus películas representan a la masculinidad con un enfoque en el impacto que ha tenido en la …

El Guerrero Obsidiana, Marvin P. Sarkar Bynoe

CMC Senior Theses

This work of creative writing explores the role of the maroons, or escaped Africans, in Caribbean plantation society. The novel pays homage the tradition of creole storytelling and asserts the importance of this practice in creating more complete historiographic narratives. Incorporating the themes of magic, rebellion, darkness/light, heroism, and brutality characteristic of Afro-latinx literature. The work attempts to continue the decolonizing work of disrupting the capitalist dichotomy between freedom and enslavement which threatens to erase the multiplicity of black existence in the colonial Caribbean.

El Bildungsroman Femenino Mexicano: Nuevas Perspectivas De La Novela De Formación Femenina Fronteriza, Yorki Junior Encalada Egúsquiza

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

The late 20^th and early 21^st centuries have not only favored a steady growth in Chicana literary production but have also revealed an alternative identity of the Mexican American border woman, the meXicana. Rosa Linda Fregoso, in MeXicana Encounters (2003), coins and defines this term as “the interface between Mexicana and Chicana,” and employs it to examine the experiences and representations of Mexicanas and Chicanas without eliminating the differences between them. This study borrows this term but uses it specifically to describe North American women of Mexican origin whose identities and border-crossing experiences make it difficult to solely …

Terminal Youth: The Failure Narrative Of The Dysfunctional Family As The Non-Viability Of Capitalist Economic Liberalism In Contemporary Latin American Film, Sharrah Lane

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

This project examines the desire for national and international belonging and citizenship in the figure of the child intersectionally marked by race, class, and gender in contemporary Latin American film, a desire that is ultimately met only with precarity and violence. Chapter One analyzes the figure of the orphaned street child in terms of the desire for connection with a mother figure as a stand-in for the lack of affective community in Pixote: a lei do mais fraco (Brazil, 1981), La vendedora de rosas (Colombia, 1998), and Huelepega: ley de la calle (Venezuela, 1999) in which the protagonists either die, …

Performing Militancy In Laura Alcoba’S The Rabbit House (2008), Stephanie R. Orozco

The Coastal Review

Laura Alcoba’s The Rabbit House (2008), belongs to the cannon of post- dictatorship child survivors—who themselves lived under the precarious life of militancy during Argentina’s Dictatorship (1976-1983). This paper exams the image of a young seven-year-old child’s who undergoes serious confrontational mischief's due to her inability to fully acquire militant norms and live by adult rules because of her child-like nature during her stay in la clandestindad. Moreover, rather than assuming the role of an innocent child figure of the 1970s Left-wing revolutionary war, Alcoba’s child protagonist assumes a politically active character that has the ability to perform childhood as …

A Story To Tell… How To Integrate The Three Modes Of Communication Through A Story Time Program In French, Frederique Grim

The Coastal Review

Bilingual story time programs found in local community libraries not only benefit children, they can also serve a need for L2 college students: the development of their communicative skills in an authentic environment. In addition to linguistic benefits, experiential learning has proven to prepare students for real-world skills, such as networking, mock professional experience and a sense of community engagement. This paper recounts how a world language story time program supports L2 learners’ three modes of communication, as articulated by ACTFL, and necessary for language development. Based on students’ perceptions, this study highlights their increase in motivation and confidence in …

El Espacio Como Instrumento De Poder En Las Obras El Apando Y Los Días Y Los Años, Maria Griselda Stapleton

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

Esta tesis examina como en la novela El apando de José Revueltas y el testimonio Los días y los años de Luis González de Alba, el espacio es representado, organizado, y manipulado para funcionar como una herramienta del estado mexicano para ejercer su poder. Este poder era ejecutado a través de la ocupación de los espacios materiales y simbólicos con el propósito de deshacer el movimiento estudiantil del 68 durante los años de la Guerra Sucia en México. La ocupación del estado se llevó a cabo tanto en el interior como en el exterior del penal de Lecumberri, donde fueron …

Queer Memory In Translation: The Work Of Pedro Lemebel, Jordan Gerue

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Abstract

Translating texts produced by marginalized communities offers readers the chance to learn about the political and social realities of the marginalized in their own words. However, in the process of creating a work that can be consumed by the target audience, it is possible to omit cultural differences in a way that hinders rather than helps readers understand the original culture. By translating representative samples of the unique “crónicas” of Chilean author and artist Pedro Lemebel with attention to queer translation praxis, readers can explore and better understand the queer urban subculture of Santiago de Chile from the 1970s …

Hélida, Margarita Lucia Mejia Rodriguez

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Hélida es el viaje de una nieta hacia un pasado familiar a través de la figura de su abuela paterna, una mulata crecida en el pacífico colombiano. El yo poético siente el impulso de conocer la tierra donde nació su abuela y va al encuentro de un paisaje de selvas húmedas junto al mar. Entre poemas, prosas cortas, fragmentos de la voz de la abuela, sueños y fotografías, la nieta reconstruye la historia familiar de sus abuelos, revelando el mestizaje, las vicisitudes y las pérdidas. Descubre las desventuras que la abuela experimentó durante su vida, pero también la resistencia con …

[Introduction To] El Affair Moreno, Claudia Darrigrandi, Viviane Mahieux, Mariela Méndez

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El affair Moreno es un volumen colectivo que se propone interpretar lo heterogéneo del trabajo de María Moreno. Compuesto por nueve ensayos y seis perfiles aproximativos de Lorena Amaro, Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, Matthew Edwards, Germán Garrido, Karin Grammático, Viviane Mahieux, Francine Masiello, María José Sabo, Julieta Viu, Laura Demaría, Daniel Link, Alan Pauls, Verónica Yattah, Walter Romero y Tania Diz, este libro funciona como un dispositivo para articular los pensamientos teóricos que emergen de su presencia y su escritura.

María Moreno era la única mujer en una mesa del bar La …

[Introduction To] El Arte De Pensar Sin Riesgos, Mariela Méndez, Claudia Darrigrandi, Macarena Mallea

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El gran desafío de organizar un volumen sobre Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) reside en decir algo que ya no se haya dicho o en trazar una geografía afectiva que nos permita (re)visitar esa escritura que sigue desvelándonos a cien años de su nacimiento. Les contribuyentes de este libro se acercan a la autora desde una perspectiva más íntima, abordan aristas menos públicas y menos conocidas, y tímidamente van delineando retratos de una Clarice más cercana y menos hermética. Expandir la mirada significa entonces no solo incorporar nuevas perspectivas …

Democracias Incompletas. Actores, Demandas E Intersecciones., Fernando A. Blanco

Faculty Books

Edited by Blanco Fernando and Opazo, Cristiáin. Edited volumen, conference proceedings Actores Demandas e Intersecciones. Santiago de Chile, August 2015.

Papers devoted to discuss current cultural, social and political issues in the region (Southern Cone)

José Martí: The World's Most Popular Poetry, And A Vision For The Americas, Anne O. Fountain

Faculty Publications

This chapter begins with a capsule biographical sketch that situates José Martí as an agent of decolonization. It discusses Martí's place in literature, especially Spanish American letters, his transcultural importance, his work in translation, his role in the history of Cuban–US relations, and his vision for US relations with Latin America. It demonstrates the extraordinary international reach of his most popular writing by giving close attention to how two works, a book of poetry, Simple Verses (Versos Sencillos) and an essay, “Our America” (“Nuestra América”) have come to represent him to an increasingly broad audience.

The Making And Silencing Of “Axé-Ocracy” In Brazil: Black Women Writers’ Spiritual, Political And Literary Movement In São Paulo, Sarah S. Ohmer

Publications and Research

In this article, I will focus on two influential writers from the south of Brazil, Cristiane Sobral who currently lives in Brasília, from Rio de Janeiro, and Conceição Evaristo who currently lives in Rio de Janeiro state, from Minas Gerais. I got to know them in São Paulo in 2015 at a public event: the “Afroétnica Flink! Sampa Festival of Black Thought, Literature and Culture.” I will include references to some of their younger contemporaries such as Raquel Almeida, Jenyffer Nascimento, and Elizandra Souza, all of whom reside in São Paulo, in order to illustrate the Black Brazilian women writers’ …

O Sucesso Do Inacabado: Clarice Lispector E Sua “Children’S Corner” Na Revista Senhor, Mariela Méndez

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

In 1959, when the sophisticated magazine Senhor was launched in Rio de Janeiro, the renowned writer Clarice Lispector was invited to join this new publishing venture targeted at educated upper-class men. As a separated woman in need of an income to support herself and her two children, Lispector accepted the offer, regularly contributing with chronicles/stories, and starting at the end of 1961 a column that she named “Children's Corner” in the section “Sr. & Cía.” These contributions are fragmentary, exploratory, somewhat hinting at failure. This article reads Lispector’s texts for Senhor as interventions that enact a rupture in a narrative …