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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"Literature, Latin American"”.
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Hernan Cortes y Tlatelolco: Auto-construccion de una imagen individual y reconstruccion de una imagen colectiva.
Hernan Cortes y Tlatelolco: Auto-construccion de una imagen individual y reconstruccion de una imagen colectiva.
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Rewriting the "Great Man" Theory: Historiographic Critique in Spanish American Literature
… fiction in 20th and 21st century Spanish American literature. It has diverse manifestations, but the defining characteristic of this kind of historical fiction is a rejection of any rigid distinction between historical and fictional discourse. This is a descriptive rather than a normative …
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Articulations of Empire and the Nation: Christopher Columbus in Nineteenth-Century Spain, Italy, the United States and Spanish America
… he represents empire. In many cases, Spanish-American nationalists try to divorce Columbus from his historical association with the Spanish empire and establish him as spiritual leader of the modern nation. The conclusion considers Columbian discourse in the twentieth century and its relation …
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"Hybrid Historiography in Colonial Mexico: Genre, Event and Time in the ""Cuauhtitlan Annals"" and the ""Historia De La Nacion Chichimeca"
"In this study, I compare how two histories of the pre-Hispanic Nahuas from the late 16th and early 17th centuries reflect their dual cultural and historiographical legacies. My basic thesis is that, far from indicating a merely passive ""assimilation"" of European culture, these works …
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Brazilian Modernism: A Discourse of Unity and Suppression
… reliance on conventional definitions of literature and culture, his first experiments with primitivism, his contradictory view of modernity, his definition of nationhood, as well as the support he received from the coffee aristocracy."
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Edgardo Rodriguez Julia: Peregrinaciones, Heroes Y Tumbas en La Formacion De La Nacion Puertorriquena
Adapting this metaphor to the Puerto Rican case leaves the reader with three messianic figures that illustrates the evolution and the transmutation of times and values: the 18th-century infant, el Nino Aviles; the Puerto Rican governor Luis Munoz Marin; and the Afro Caribbean musician, Ismael …
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Parodies to the National Canon in Hispanic Contemporary Literature (1978--2000): Examples From Argentina, Spain, and Colombia
"This thesis analyzes parodies to national canonical texts in four contemporary Hispanic literary works written during the last decades of the 20th Century. Following mainly---but not only---Linda Hutcheon's theory of parody, I analyze how these parodies are constructed and how they read and …
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La Nacion Encuadernada: La Antologia Y La Construccion De Los Imaginarios Nacionales en Argentina, Uruguay Y Chile en El Siglo XIX (1824--1910)
… (1871), Parnaso arjentino (1873), and Poetisas americanas (1875), and the Antologia de poetas argentinos by Juan de la Cruz Puig (1910).
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In the Vanguard: The Colombian Novel Between the Wars
… inconsequential in an overall consideration of Latin American vanguard literature. Taking exception to this view, this study focuses on Colombian novelists who have contributed not only to the development of the modern Colombian novel but also to the formation of the avant-garde. Chapter One …
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The RelaciåÑn of Don Joan De Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamaygua: Colonial Discourse and Indigenous Memory in the Viceroyalty of Per
Chapter One is a summary of what is known about Pachacuti Yamqui's manuscript and offers a survey of scholarly opinion about the test. Chapter Two presents the state of our knowledge on the author biography. Chapter Three deals with Pachacuti Yamqui's treatment of pre-Hispanic ritual. Chapter Four …
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Skin Deep: Latin American and Caribbean Students' Graduate Life at Predominantly White Institutions in the Midwest
The aim of this study is to add to the body of literature on transnational students generally, as well as to the literature on people from Latin America and the Caribbean specifically, with the potential to expand the range of opportunities and outcomes.
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"A translation of Graciliano Ramos' ""caetes"""
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Initiation in the Puerto Rican Novel
… into adulthood, has appeared in most genres of literature through the ages. In this study I examine the presence of the elements of initiation in the Puerto Rican novel. It is my intent to prove that a relationship can be established between the appearance and usage of initiation and the …
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The Dramatic Manifestations of The Incas: Origins and Evolution. (Spanish Text) (Peru)
This research was divided into two parts. In the first one, the object was to organize the accounts that chroniclers such as Huaman Poma, Cieza de Leon, Titu Cusi and others have reported about the dramatic manifestations that once flourished in the Inca Empire. The result was the division of these …
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"The Fantastic And Magical Realism In The Contemporary Mexican Short Story As A Reflection Of ""lo Mexicano"""
… Magical Realism, to works of prose fiction in Latin America. An effort is also made to contrast and compare the two concepts and to show how these two narrative modes have been used by Mexican writers to explore national reality. The contribution of myth to these forms of expression is brought …
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Ethnic Vision and Narrative Style: A Psychostylistic Analysis of Selected Works of Ramon Diaz Sanchez (Venezuela)
… of the three works within the context of Spanish-American and Afro-Hispanic-American literature. This is particularly true in the case of Cumboto.
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El Papel Del Lector en La Novela Mexicana Contemporanea: Jose Emilio Pacheco Y Salvador Elizondo. [Spanish Text]
… modes of writing and reading in Spanish-American Literature.
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"La Busqueda De La Identidad en ""los Rios Profundos,"" ""todas Las Sangres"" Y ""el Zorro De Arriba Y El Zorro De Abajo"" De Jose Maria Arguedas. [Spanish Text]"
Esta tesis intenta demonstrar que la busqueda de la identidad por los protagonistas de las obras de Arguedas es uno de los aspectos centrales que unifican la obra del autor y permiten comprenderla. Los personajes descubren su identidad al realizar actos importantes y toman decisiones cruciales. …
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"From Short Story To Novel: ""la Venganza"" And ""el Dia Senalado"" By Manuelmejia Vallejo"
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