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El Profesor De Danza, Jorge Saenz May 2019

El Profesor De Danza, Jorge Saenz

Theses and Dissertations

Después del crimen cometido donde una familia entera ha sido masacrada, el autor decide entrevistar al criminal Ian Joseph quien ha sido recluido en un instituto psiquiátrico. La novela describe el recuento del paciente y el descenso a su propia locura, al tiempo que el autor va agregando aclaraciones a pie de nota. El lector se entera que una de las razones por las que Ian Joseph perdió la razón fue debido principalmente a la cantidad de libros que leyó. El viaje hacia la criminalidad de Ian Joseph también es un camino literario. En este transcurso y tras un desenlace …


Tracing Trans Bodies In Neobaroque Literature, Huber David Jaramillo Gil Mar 2019

Tracing Trans Bodies In Neobaroque Literature, Huber David Jaramillo Gil

Publications and Research

This document briefly explores the ways in which trans people have been written through Baroque aesthetics in the social and cultural imaginary of Latin America, despite the various unjust forces that have attempted to make them invisible and exclude them from the national narrative. The differences between Severo Sarduy’s Neobaroque, Néstor Perlongher’s Neobarroso, and Pedro Lemebel’s Neobarrocho are analyzed, while exploring their individual limitations and potentialities for voicing the joys and pains of being trans in an exclusionary society.


The Cosmopolitan Legacy Of Michael Handelsman, Juan Carlos Grijalva Jan 2019

The Cosmopolitan Legacy Of Michael Handelsman, Juan Carlos Grijalva

Modern and Classical Languages and Cultures Department Faculty Works

This text seeks to explore the cosmopolitan character of critiques on Ecuadorian authors in the essayistic works of Michael Handelsman. One of the fundamental contributions of the American critic is revaluating Ecuadorian Literature from a critical, liberating and universal approach.