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Casta Painting And The Characterization Of Colonial Mexican Identities, Natalia Caldas
Casta Painting And The Characterization Of Colonial Mexican Identities, Natalia Caldas
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This thesis will examine the emergence of the casta painting genre in eighteenth century New Spain and elements of identity formation in the characterization of colonial subjects. Through the use of a database and close reading of paintings, a corpus of 370 paintings were studied and analyzed. A total of 1471 casta characters were extracted from said paintings and the relationship between actions performed, objects, and to each other was analyzed. In using this methodology results point to the significant historical division between the social communities and colonial society. By focusing on the study of particular characters fractures in imposed …
Nativos Migrantes: Poesía En La Encrucijada, Juan Sanchez
Nativos Migrantes: Poesía En La Encrucijada, Juan Sanchez
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Aquí ofrezco un encuentro entre saberes a partir de siete autores contemporáneos cuyas obras han sido fraguadas en las cinco direcciones de América: Humberto Ak’abal, Jaime Luis Huenún, Odi Gonzales, David Aniñir, Hugo Jamioy, Vito Apüshana y Rayen Kvyeh. Este corpus responde a dos razones: la conexión entre las migraciones (físicas o literarias) de los poetas y la forma en que sus libros modelan poéticas con un alto grado de experimentación; y la posibilidad de construir con estas obras un diálogo transfronterizo.
En contraposición a la idea de la literatura como objeto de estudio, propongo que la poesía …