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Sacrificio, Violencia Y Nación En Lituma En Los Andes De Mario Vargas Llosa, Cesar Valverde
Sacrificio, Violencia Y Nación En Lituma En Los Andes De Mario Vargas Llosa, Cesar Valverde
Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Modelos Masculinos Y Violencia En Sanctuary Y Crónica De Una Muerte Anunciada, Cesar Valverde
Modelos Masculinos Y Violencia En Sanctuary Y Crónica De Una Muerte Anunciada, Cesar Valverde
Scholarship
This essay analyzes how two novels, William Faulkner’s Sanctuary and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold, present masculine models that juxtapose power and violence during times of social crisis. Both novels present violent masculinities that overcome peaceful masculinities, in conflicts that result in murders and rapes; but rather than acuse the individuals responsible for the violent acts, the texts point out the social mechanisms that inexorably move the authors of the crimes. In both works we also see violence against women and resulting public deaths of men wrongly accused, which happen due to an inability to adapt to …
With His Guitar In His Hand: Representations Of U.S. - Mexico Border Masculinity In Robert Rodriguez's “El Mariachi”, Marlene Galvan
With His Guitar In His Hand: Representations Of U.S. - Mexico Border Masculinity In Robert Rodriguez's “El Mariachi”, Marlene Galvan
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
This thesis closely examines Robert Rodriguez’s film El Mariachi and its portrayal of border masculinity - the masculine identity which exists on the physical space between the U.S. and Mexico, but also the masculinity created by the melding of cultures. The film ignores this complexity and instead dichotomizes maleness along the traditionally Western lines of hard versus soft masculinity. Further, the film glorifies violence, the exploitation of female bodies, shows women as only useful agents of man, punishes transgressive women, and depicts men as only possessing or aspiring to possess individualistic, economic, phallocentric, and patriarchal power which reinforces a variation …
Failed Manhood, Failed History: Masculinity And Agency In Benito Cereno And El Reino De Este Mundo, Cesar Valverde
Failed Manhood, Failed History: Masculinity And Agency In Benito Cereno And El Reino De Este Mundo, Cesar Valverde
Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Pasado Soterrado Y Ánima Reprimida En La Muñeca Reina Y Chac Mool, Cesar Valverde
Pasado Soterrado Y Ánima Reprimida En La Muñeca Reina Y Chac Mool, Cesar Valverde
Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Failed Manhood, Failed History: Masculinity And Agency In Benito Cereno And El Reino De Este Mundo, Cesar Valverde
Failed Manhood, Failed History: Masculinity And Agency In Benito Cereno And El Reino De Este Mundo, Cesar Valverde
Cesar Valverde
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Del Relato A La Pantalla: La Alteridad En Cabeza De Vaca, Cesar Valverde
Del Relato A La Pantalla: La Alteridad En Cabeza De Vaca, Cesar Valverde
Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Masculinidad Natural Y Masculinidad Autoconsciente En Don Segundo Sombra Y El Reino De Este Mundo, Cesar Valverde
Masculinidad Natural Y Masculinidad Autoconsciente En Don Segundo Sombra Y El Reino De Este Mundo, Cesar Valverde
Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado, Cesar Valverde
Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado, Cesar Valverde
Scholarship
No abstract provided.