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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Mexican Literature"”.
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Women and class: Power dynamics in contemporary Mexican literature and culture
… and Housework: The Place of Domestic Work in Mexican Culture,” looks at the relationships between women of opposing social strata in texts by well-known Mexican writers. The chapter proposes a textual analysis to explore the complexity of the power relationship between employer and employee in …
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Haunted narratives: shadows of the southeastern Caste Wars in Mexican literature, 1841-1958
Limited Restriction Lifted for Item 102587 on 2019-08-11T09:15:10Z.
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Representation of Madwomen in Mexican Literature: A Comparison Between Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate and Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo
… between two significant female characters from Mexican literature in terms of their mental states. A great emphasis is put on male and female writers' typical way of representing a female character.
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Humores Nacionales: Sátira, Costumbrismo Y Disparate En La Literatura Comica De Mexico (1960-2010)
This work looks into humor in Mexican Literature from 1960 through 2010. The first chapter analyzes how humorists have responded to symbols and narratives of Mexican nationalism. The second chapter focuses on how humor has dealt with customs--religious practices, gender relations and family …
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El Misticismo de Amado Nervo en Su Poesía
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Text and Image in Contemporary Mexican Narrative: The Effect of Interdisciplinarity in Six Novels
… I demonstrate that the inclusion of images in Mexican literary texts published during the last twenty years--whether these images are physically present or verbally described--function as a tool of formal and conceptual power. I propose that this tool substantially adds to the text's meaning …
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Escribir sobre la ruina. Operaciones políticas de la poesía mexicana contemporánea 1985-2015
… in the view of those in power, would propel the Mexican economy into the twenty-first century. The promise of economic success and of modernization came with severe consequences: in these thirty years, neoliberalism has aggravated social inequalities and endangered the democratic will that is the …
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'Muchos Méxicos': widening the lens in Rulfo's cinematic texts
… one of the masterpieces of 20th Century world literature, but one of the most influential of the century’s books’. García Márquez has compared the influence of Rulfo on 20th Century world literature to that of Sophocles: ‘No son más de 300 páginas, pero son casi tantas y creo tan perdurables …
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Discursos alimentarios en la literatura y las telenovelas Mexicanas contemporáneas
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Hispanic Cultural Studies, 2009
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Border Biomes: Coexistence and Interference on American Migration Trails
… Migration Trails, examines how 21st -century Mexican, Mexican American, and Chicanx literature and art depict dynamic, unstable geographies that defy common notions of fixed, inanimate borders and become sites of encounters where ontological limits are questioned. Proposing the concept of …
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La patria perdida o imaginada: translating teodoro torres in "el mexico de afuera"
… La patria perdida (1935), written by acclaimed Mexican journalist Teodoro Torres while in exile in the United States. This novel is a kind of Mexican-American Horacio Algiers tale, detailing the success story of Luis Alfaro, who is eventually able to create a utopian Mexican-American hacienda, …
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Based on True Stories: Representing the Self and the Other in Latin American Documentary Narratives
… studies the relationship between journalism and literature in contexts in which freedom of speech is at risk. It takes as primary sources a variety of nonfiction, crónicas, literary journalism and testimonial novels published by Latin American authors in Spanish, from the 1950s to the 2000s. I …
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Through the Eyes of Shamans: Childhood and the Construction of Identity in Rosario Castellanos' "Balun-Canan" and Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me, Ultima"
<p>This study offers a comparative analysis of Rosario Castellanos' <em>Balún-Canán</em> and Rudolfo Anaya's <em>Bless Me, Ultima,</em> novels that provide examples on how children construct their identity in hybrid communities in southeastern Mexico and the U.S. southwest. The protagonists grow …