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Hidden Identity In The Contemporary Latin American Historical Novel: The Conquest Seen Through The Eyes Of Double Agent Characters, James W. Gustafson Jr.
Hidden Identity In The Contemporary Latin American Historical Novel: The Conquest Seen Through The Eyes Of Double Agent Characters, James W. Gustafson Jr.
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Many contemporary Latin American authors explore identity and re-write the past through narrative fiction, often looking to the violent beginnings of the Conquest and Colonization as a logical point of departure. This dissertation examines identity formation through fictional characters living with two identities in the following historical novels: El naranjo by Carlos Fuentes, Gonzalo Guerrero by Eugenio Aguirre, Duerme by Carmen Boullosa, Invasores del paraíso by Herminio Martínez, Memorias del Nuevo Mundo by Homero Aridjis, and Los perros del paraíso by Abel Posse.
Chapter One situates this study among the substantial critical corpus dedicated to Latin American novels of the …
En Busca De Una Tipología Maternal: (Re)Considerando La Mujer-Madre En La España De Los Siglos Xix Y Xx, Guiomar C. Fages
En Busca De Una Tipología Maternal: (Re)Considerando La Mujer-Madre En La España De Los Siglos Xix Y Xx, Guiomar C. Fages
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This dissertation examines different models of motherhood as represented in major modern novels, taking the late Nineteenth century as a point of departure and concluding with the period known as the “Transición” that followed the dictatorial regime of Francisco Franco (1939-75). This study emphasizes the novels published during and after the Francoist regime.
The current study examines how the role of the mother evolved as various historical, political, and societal changes occurred in Spain. Although, as a general rule, novels often reflect the dominant ideologies of the patriarchal society in which they are written, each of these novels subverts the …
La Presencia Del Dolor En La Obra Poética De Garcilaso De La Vega, Diego Hurtado De Mendoza, Gutierre De Cetina, Lope De Vega Y La Madre Josefa Del Castillo, Dilia Hernández Delgado
La Presencia Del Dolor En La Obra Poética De Garcilaso De La Vega, Diego Hurtado De Mendoza, Gutierre De Cetina, Lope De Vega Y La Madre Josefa Del Castillo, Dilia Hernández Delgado
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The present study explores works by Gracilaso de la Vega, Gutierre de Cetina, Diego Hurtado the Mendoza, Lope de Vega and Josefa del Castillo, a group of Spanish language writers whose lives span the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries. The thematic focus is upon sorrow or pain, both as subjective experience in the respective biographies and as a force spurring these authors toward the production of their verse. To this end, several poetic compositions have been examined, applying methodological techniques derived from Dámaso Alonso, José María Díez Borque, Tomás Navarro and Elizabeth Wilhelmsen. The exploration has brought to light that it …