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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Puerto Rican literature"”.
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Divorcing Tradition: Marriage, Family and Female Homosociality in Puerto Rican Literature
… Rosario Ferre, and Ana Lydia Vega, three Puerto Rican women writers of the twentieth century. In unique ways, Capetillo, Ferre and Vega destabilize the various legal and literary versions of the heteropatriarchal family imposed locally and by the colonial government. Their narratives …
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The Specter Of Gendered Violence: Tracing The Intertwined Legacies Of Colonialism And Sexism In Puerto Rican Literature
In Puerto Rico, the issue of gendered violence has been bubbling under the surface for decades from a centuries-old paternalist culture. Examining culture through literature, my dissertation illuminates the entangled connection between colonialism and gendered violence as my analysis traces in …
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Cultures of migration: Race, space, and the politics of alliance in U.S. latina/o print and visual culture, 1910-1939
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Las máscaras del poder y resistencia de la mujer en la narrativa de Rosario Ferré.
… in the narrative of Rosario Ferré, presently Puerto Rico's most relevant writer. The established hypothesis in this current analysis is that the Puerto Rican writer's most representative fiction deconstructs and confronts the fundamental powers and the central discourses that have dominated …
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El bildungsroman en el Caribe hispano
… examines the bildungsroman genre in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. A close examination of the development of this genre demonstrates that it has ideological implications that link the young protagonists’ development with that of the nation. The authors on whom I focus—Ángela …