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The Short Novel in Contemporary Latin American Literature
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Enchufad@s : representations of the internet and new technologies in queer Latin American literature
… during the first decade of the 2000s. The literature in question -- novels No quiero quedarme sola y vacía (2000) by Ángel Lozada and Keres cojer? = Guan tu fak (2005) by Alejandro López as well as Cristina Peri Rossi's poetry collection, Playstation (2008) -- relies on queer aesthetics and …
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Shaman as Saviour? The Trope of the Amazonian Shaman in Recent Latin American Literature and Film
… the trope of the Amazonian shaman in recent Latin American literature and film. References to shamanism have become increasingly popular in recent years. Shamans have gained importance in environmentalism and struggles for Indigenous rights, as well as academic writing interested in radical …
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(Hi)stories in Displacement: The Poetics and Politics of Errancia in Post-1960s Latin American Literature
… as a literary phenomenon within post-1960s Latin American literature. The author analyses errancia in its poetic and political dimensions and takes the work of Reinaldo Arenas, Adelaida Fernández Ochoa, Roberto Bolaño and César Aira as cardinal points in a contemporary mapping out of …
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Silence as Voice: Silence, the Body and the Decoloniality of Quiet in Raduan Nassar and Sara Gallardo’s novels of the country.
… literary form and an embodied mode of agency in Latin American literature. Focusing on Raduan Nassar’s Ancient Tillage and Sara Gallardo’s Enero, the study explores how silence functions not as absence or erasure, but as a generative and affirmative force that reconfigures subjectivity, narrative …
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La novela histórica de ayer a hoy La tierra del fuego como prototipo ilustre
… within the literary genre and contemporary Latin American literature. Key concepts: Latin American Literature, Historical Novel, New Historical Novel.
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FBOs in Central America: A Critique of Power, Religion and Social Development in Maurice Echeverría’s Diccionario esotérico
Latin American literature has a rich tradition of translating recreated realities and social commentaries into fictional works. In Central America, especially in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, these commentaries often speak to the plight of the people and the unjust actions of many …
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Branding the Native: The Indigenous Condition in Contemporary Peruvian Literature
Latin American literature can be characterized by its narrative styles and literary techniques to expose political instability, subversive movements and human rights violations. In South America, specifically in Peru, contemporary narrative and film depicts the guerra interna between the subversive …
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Literatura policial: gender, genre, and appropriation in Argentine and Brazilian hard-boiled crime fiction.
… crime fiction was long ignored by critics of Latin American literature; even now that its importance is increasingly recognized, most studies have dwelt on its relationship with government and capitalism, neglecting its metafictional qualities and its critique of gender relations. By focusing …
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Contemporary Spanish American drama of denunciation and social protest: the case of Argentina and Chile
<p>This study deals with the Latin American theater of social protest and denunciation, one of the most recurrent and representative variants of contemporary Latin American drama. The introductory analysis attempts to show the significance of this style of dramatic composition in the general …
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La búsqueda de la redención individual como utopía en la narrativa de Gabriel García Márquez.
En la literatura latinoamericana existe un gran énfasis en lo social con respecto a la búsqueda utópica. Mientras la sociedad puede representar un vehículo o un obstáculo en la búsqueda utópica, a veces ésta resulta ser más individual que colectiva. En las novelas de Gabriel García Márquez …
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“Quisiera ver los que suelen componer estos libros de pastores donde todo es primavera”: campo literario y literatura del campo en España y la América colonial (1516-1808)
… frameworks within the fields of history, literature, philosophy, and economy. Moreover, my investigation sheds light on the structural conditions that determined cultural production and the modus vivendi of millions across the territories of the Spanish empire. In the first chapter, I lay …
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Espacios Literarios: Textos Y Contextos En La Escritura De Beatriz Sarlo Y Ricardo Piglia
<p>El propósito del presente trabajo es acercar la obra de Beatriz Sarlo y Ricardo Piglia en un análisis de contrastes y variaciones a partir de los núcleos que forman la política y la ficción dentro de las tradiciones literarias argentinas y la experiencia de la literatura como espacio de …
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La trilogia de jorge volpi como ventana sitiada en la posmodernidad
<p>This dissertation examines from the perspective of postmodern theory, the ideological and formal aspects of Jorge Volpi's trilogy of the twentieth century: En busca de Klingsor (In Search of Klingsor), El fin de la locura (The End of Madness), and No será la tierra (Season of Ash). Employing the …
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Exilio y regreso en las novelas de Jose Donoso (Spanish text, Chile)
El objetivo de esta tesis es el estudio de dos novelas de Jose Donoso: El jardin de al lado y La desesperanza en el contexto del proceso politico y personal del exilio y regreso. Este trabajo consta de tres capitulos. En la introduccion se hable del exilio y regreso de Donoso a su patria y, …
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DOS ETAPAS EN LA POESIA DE MARIO BENEDETTI. (SPANISH TEXT) (URUGUAY)
… has led to the use of a colloquial style in Latin America, to depict a more accurate vision of the reality of the common man. A large group of important Latin American poets began to create poetry which uses the colloquial language with the intention of bringing together poetry, life and …
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<em>¡¿Y Que?!</em>: Punks, Goths, and Musical Outsiders in Latinx Literature and Popular Culture
<p>¡¿Y Que?! investigates Latinx characters in literature and popular culture who participate in rock music subcultures as a resistive tool for navigating the intercultural experiences of Latinxs living in the U.S. and beyond. Subcultures like punk, goth, and Morrissey fandom are zones of contact …
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La soledad en Clen anos de soledad de Gabriel Garcia Marquez
… The analysis of the novel and the associated literature aims to explain the author’s viewpoint on solitude and illustrate how this emotion affects the author’s homeland (Colombia) and its people as reflected in his work and through characters. The historical context of the novel and …
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Searching for the writing subject in La vida de la Monja Alférez: autobiografía atribuida a Doña Catalina de Erauso
The writing subject in the La Vida de la Monja Alférez: Autobiografía atribuida a Doña Catalina de Erauso is a difficult subject to determine because of the apocryphal nature of the text, the impact of multiple authors on the subsequent copies of the work, and the gender changes of the protagonist. …
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Networks of paranoia: narratives of crime and detection in 21st century Latin America
This dissertation studies Latin American narratives of crime in the twenty-first century, arguing that these texts waver between the hyper-rationality of the crime fiction genre, and an affective state of paranoia. This project argues for a new understanding of crime fiction in the region, one that …
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