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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Mexican revolution"”.
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Born of Coatlicue: Literary Inscriptions of Women in Violence from the Mexican Revolution to the Drug War
… representations of women and violence from Mexican, Chicana, and Spanish authors. It focuses on two historical periods of extreme violence affecting the U.S.-Mexico border region: The Mexican Revolution and the turn-of-the-century crisis of the Nation-State that emerged subsequently. The …
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Female subjectivity and agency in popular Mexican corridos (Ballads): an examiniation of images and representations of soldaderas (female soldiers) in the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920
… in the images and representations of women in Mexican popular culture. This study proposes to explore the " intersectionality" (Collins 1998) of gender, race, and class in female subjectivity and agency, during the Mexican culture of the Revolution of 1910- 1920, as depicted in the images and …
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Columbus, New Mexico, and Palomas, Chihuahua: Transnational Landscapes of Violence, 1888-1930
… campaigns that sought to destabilize the Mexican state during the Porfiriato and the Mexican Revolution. Raids on the Palomas customs house were, at least in part, responses to the drive of the Mexican government under Porfirio Díaz to create modern progress and order in Mexico. For many …
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INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN THE RESISTANCE: A DECOLONIAL, COMPARATIVE-HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF MEXICAN REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS
… context. I add to this literature by studying revolutionary movements in Mexico-with a particular focus on the role of Indigenous women in the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in comparison with the Mexican Revolution eighty years prior. To do so, I employ comparative-historical …
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The Representation of Mexican Identity through Music in the Films of Emilio ‘Indio’ Fernández (1940-1950)
… a prominent film director of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema (1936-1956). Central to his work was the representation of the Mexican national identity, which was expressed through the narrative and visual elements of his films. Music was also central in Emilio Fernández’s work, but the …
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Francisco I. Madero, revolutionary
The violence of the Mexican Revolution in the years between 1914 and 1920 was shocking and disconcerting to those who had become accustomed to the peace and security of the Diaz administration. Numerous investigations into the causes and the nature of the Revolution, with its broad social and …
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Writer María Luisa Garza: Precursor of Hispanic Feminism
… marked a period of change for women; many Mexican were affected by the Mexican Revolution, Temperance and modernity. María Luisa Garza, an exiled elite woman, wrote and traveled between Texas and Mexico during this time. This dissertation takes a closer look at her literary production as …
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Colores Mexicanos: The Mexican Art Song and Setting Mexican Texts to Music
… and his other, 20th-century contemporaries, the Mexican art song tradition has established its own, unique place and role within Western art music. In this thesis, after briefing exploring the history of the Mexican tradition, I will compose and analyze my own art song cycle, using exclusively …
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Representacion realista o vision personal? Analisis de la objetividad de 'Los de abajo' de Mariano Azuela
… claimed, Mariano Azuela's descriptions of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 in Los de abajo are objective. Although the writer did reflect his pessimistic ideologies in his writings, he didn't distort reality or denigrate the revolution and its participants. The weakness and impractical nature of …
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Ruination
… Alma are caught up in late-stage spasm of the Mexican Revolution, an uprising that threatens their lives and their future.</p>
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Mexican art exhibitions in New York as cultural diplomacy, 1928-1932
In the aftermath of the 1910 Mexican Revolution, the postrevolutionary state launched an innovative campaign that exported the country’s emerging art and culture, which glorified its indigenous roots. The strategy of expanding its nation-building project abroad helped remake its image and radically …
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Multiple Layers and Flavors: The “Death of the Author” in Like Water for Chocolate
… for Chocolate</em> is one of the best known Mexican literary works in the United States. Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, Esquivel's novel has inspired great diversity of critical analysis among critics and scholars. Based on the author's comment regarding her intention to …
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Man at the crossroads, looking with hope and high vision to a new and better future
… an end to globalism. His group, the Zapatista revolutionary army who's name comes from the Mexican revolution of 1912, that Rivera once supported, are active in Mexico's poorest state Chiapas. They demand that the indigenous peoples of Chiapas be respected and their culture and tradition be …
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The Zapatistas and their world : the pueblos of Morelos in postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-1940
… on the state of Morelos and its role in the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) have tended to focus on the origins of the conflict or the fighting itself rather than the outcomes of the insurgency led by Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919). This dissertation, instead, analyzes the aftermath of the …
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Las novelas de la Violencia y la Revolución en la formación del Frente Nacional en Colombia y el Estado revolucionario mexicano
… that were both cause and consequence of the Mexican Revolution and the period in Colombia known as “la Violencia”, two state projects were consolidated and dominated the field of power throughout the 20th century. The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in Mexico and the bipartisan …
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The Myth of La Malinche: From the Chronicles to Modern Mexican Theater
In the changing discourse on Mexican history, La Malinche has evolved from a historical figure of the Conquest to a national myth and a symbol of all those who have allied themselves with foreigners against their own country and its native values and traditions. On the other hand, La Malinche is …
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Writing insurrection: U.S. literature and the politics of Latin American intervention, 1898 to 2010
… human rights. In chapters devoted to the 1910 Mexican Revolution, the 1959 Cuban Revolution, and the Central American “dirty wars” of the 1970s and ‘80s, my dissertation studies popular print culture alongside canonical Anglo and Latina/o authors to illuminate the vital place of Latin America …
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El empalme de fronteras y los procesos de identificación como métodos para la articulación de subjetividades fronterizas
… studies the representation of the US-Mexican borderland as represented in five novels written on either side of the border in different moments of the 20th Century. The three major components of the bordered space that emerge in these novels are: first, its geography -- both, the 2000 …
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Essays in economic development and political economy
… chapter, entitled "Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War" examines how drug traffickers' economic objectives influence the direct and spillover effects of Mexican policy towards the drug trade. Drug trade-related violence has escalated dramatically in Mexico during the past five years, …
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