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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Literature, Caribbean"”.
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Construcciones Literarias Del Artista E Intelectual Del Siglo XIX en Hispanoamerica
These narratives reflect cultural colonization/decolonization, hybridization and the challenges that characterize the formation, transculturation and miscegenation of the Spanish American subaltern artists and intellectuals in their quest for the reconstruction of a modern and authentic Spanish …
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"Liens, Echos, Entrelacs Ou La Creolite Discursive Dans ""Solibo Magnifique"" Et ""Texaco"" De Patrick Chamoiseau Et Dans ""L'archet Du Colonel"" De Raphael Confiant"
… encounter in the geographical space of the Caribbean basin. In a second part, I examine the movements or trajectories of these voices as well as their relations as symbols of creolization. In the third part, I take a closer look at the various transformations that these many interactions …
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Black Biracial Crossings: Mixed-Race Identity in Modern American Literature and Culture
… and ""white"" are defined by investigating how literature, history, and culture inform changing identity politics. My dissertation argues that America's obsession with mixed race, traced through representations, imaginings and theorization of mulattos or black/white mixed race people, intimates …
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"""This, This Is England, but We Only Passed By."" Reclamations and Subversions of English National Identity in Works by Woolf, Waugh, Rhys and Naipaul"
"Orlando and Decline and Fall lament the ""decline"" of an aristocratically-dominated, rural England forever changed by the incursions of modernity, the bourgeoisie, and colonial subjects. V.S. Naipaul's postcolonial work The Enigma of Arrival, problematizes the very notion of a past, perfect …
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Expatriation and Exile as Themes in the Fiction of Jean Rhys
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Jose Lezama Lima Y La Critica Anagogica. (Spanish Text)
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The baroque in the late works of Alejo Carpentier
"There is, as Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria has noted an ""unstable core"" or a ""radical and pervasive discord at the center of Carpentier's production"" (The Pilgrim at Home 17). In this study, we focus on the notion of instability to approach the baroque. This style in Carpentier's work represents …
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"Guillermo Cabrera Infante Y ""tres Tristes Tigres."" (spanish Text)"
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Forays into the attic: The postcolonial fiction of Jean Rhys and J. M. Coetzee
… to ""knowability"" in her landscaping of the Caribbean."
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"To Dream a New World: ""race"", Reality and Surreality in Cesaire, Carpentier and Harris"
… and Harris and their influences in the Caribbean establishes a framework for the examination of the specific influences of the surrealist movement on Negritude and magical realism and of the ways that other Caribbean writers have responded to and echoed the contentions of these …
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The Collision of Cultures in The Novels of Miguel Angel Asturias, Jacques-Stephen Alexis, and Chinua Achebe
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Hacia una poetica feminista Latino Americana: Ana Maria Rodas, Maria Mercedes Carranza y Gioconda Belli
"This dissertation explores the ways in which three contemporary Latin American women--Ana Maria Rodas from Guatemala, Maria Mercedes Carranza from Colombia, and Gioconda Belli from Nicaragua--deal with the traditional concept ""Woman"" in their poetry. Analysis of their textual responses to that …
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Trickster-hero and rite of passage: effects of traditionally west African folklore forms on postcolonial Afro-Caribbean literature
… tropes and characters in postcolonial Afro-Caribbean literature. It argues that Afro-Caribbean writers deliberately utilize these tropes in order to separate themselves from a vestigial European cultural presence. The three main tropes and characters studied in this thesis are rites of …
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Towards a trans-Caribbean poetics: A new aesthetic of power and resistance
This dissertation analyzes how Caribbean-American writers living elsewhere challenge common ideas about power, violence and oppression through the reinterpretation of Caribbean dictatorial regimes in their fiction, and how their stories fare in comparison to other narrative traditions such as the …
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Imagined Islands: A Caribbean Tidalectics
<p><italic>Imagined Islands: A Caribbean Tidalectics</italic> confronts islands -at once as a problem, a concept, and a historical and mythical fact and product- by generating a tidalectical encounter between some of the ways in which islands have been imagined and used from without, primarily in …