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Sacrificio, Violencia Y Nación En Lituma En Los Andes De Mario Vargas Llosa, Cesar Valverde Jan 2012

Sacrificio, Violencia Y Nación En Lituma En Los Andes De Mario Vargas Llosa, Cesar Valverde

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Modelos Masculinos Y Violencia En Sanctuary Y Crónica De Una Muerte Anunciada, Cesar Valverde Jan 2011

Modelos Masculinos Y Violencia En Sanctuary Y Crónica De Una Muerte Anunciada, Cesar Valverde

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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 May 2010

With His Guitar In His Hand: Representations Of U.S. - Mexico Border Masculinity In Robert Rodriguez's “El Mariachi”, Marlene Galvan

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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 Jan 2004

Failed Manhood, Failed History: Masculinity And Agency In Benito Cereno And El Reino De Este Mundo, Cesar Valverde

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No abstract provided.


Pasado Soterrado Y Ánima Reprimida En La Muñeca Reina Y Chac Mool, Cesar Valverde Jan 2004

Pasado Soterrado Y Ánima Reprimida En La Muñeca Reina Y Chac Mool, Cesar Valverde

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Failed Manhood, Failed History: Masculinity And Agency In Benito Cereno And El Reino De Este Mundo, Cesar Valverde Dec 2003

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 Jan 1999

Del Relato A La Pantalla: La Alteridad En Cabeza De Vaca, Cesar Valverde

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No abstract provided.


Masculinidad Natural Y Masculinidad Autoconsciente En Don Segundo Sombra Y El Reino De Este Mundo, Cesar Valverde Jan 1999

Masculinidad Natural Y Masculinidad Autoconsciente En Don Segundo Sombra Y El Reino De Este Mundo, Cesar Valverde

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No abstract provided.


Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado, Cesar Valverde Jan 1998

Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado, Cesar Valverde

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No abstract provided.