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The topic of identity is a highly debated topic among Jewish scholars as well as a recurrent theme in works of literature written by Jewish authors throughout the world. In the twentieth century several historical events have shaped and...
This work proposes that the biodiversity crisis that has been documented in recent years in the Amazon is directly related to the ideas about the use of nature that the first European explorers, conquerors, and settlers proposed about...
The ecology of language aims at the preservation of biodiversity in nature, language and culture which would result into an ecological form of globalization. This task has been undertaken by Manuel Rivas (b. 1957), a contemporary...
Latino/a writing has become one of the fastest growing literary expressions in the United States. The success of this literature relies not only on the quality of the texts written by authors of Hispanic background, but also on the...
"I Have to Know Who I Am": An Africana Womanist Analysis of Afro-Brazilian Identity in the Literature of Miriam Alves, Esmeralda Ribeiro and Conceição Evaristo
ABSTRACT This dissertation explores black female identity in the literature of contemporary Afro-Brazilian writers Miriam Alves, Esmeralda Ribeiro, and Conceição Evaristo. The research approaches Alves poem "Estranho Indagar" (1983), ...
En esta disertación propongo que los movimientos de protesta social que han estado presentes desde la independencia argentina parten de la desigualdad social y son parte esencial de las reivindicaciones para lograr el bienestar general....
The dissertation is a study of the socio-cultural impact of the automobile in Spanish Literature: repression, economic progress, sexual liberation, fragmented identity, and abandonment. These socio-cultural issues are in the found in the...
La literatura venezolana de la segunda mitad del siglo XX es el centro de estudio de esta investigación. Específicamente se trata el tema de los inmigrantes italianos, portugueses, españoles y colombianos en Venezuela y su presencia como...
The Latin American genre of documentary narrative known as Testimonio becomes an essential and primary narrative tool of both Cubans on the island and of Cuban-American exiles. This genre has not met its “institutional death” (as...
Esta investigación examina la representación temática de la esclavitud en Puerto Rico antes de la abolición en 1873. El estudio argumenta, que contrario a la crítica, existen textos que documentan el pensamiento decimonónico sobre la...
During the last quarter century, the traditional division of works in Spanish into Peninsular versus Latin American has become obsolete. In a global literary market, increasing attention should be paid to themes or tendencies within...
This project studies the subjective strategies that Rosa Montero and Lucìa Etxebarria present in post-Franco Spain. I approached this study with an understanding that Spain's society since the death of Franco is still changing, and its...
This dissertation intends to study the ways whereby contemporary Iberian poetry moves (in the double sense of emotionally touching and politically mobilizing), and therefore can potentially produce, different models of sociality within...
The political, social, racial, and epistemological effects of the long-term ideologies encompassing empire, colonialism, and post-coloniality still generate conflicted discourses today. However, to understand the root of this impact, it...
Este estudio identifica un conjunto de narrativas españolas, publicadas entre 1994 y 2008, que contienen personajes anoréxicos, con el fin de analizarlos y ubicarlos dentro del panorama literario español. Sin olvidar el contexto más...
The end in 1975 of the Francoist regime in Spain opened the door to new forms of self-expression, many of them suppressed during the 40 years of dictatorship. This change is especially significant around the traditionally peripheral...
This is a study of narratives of three women authors of Spanish Caribbean origin writing in English in the United States- Julia Alvarez, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and Achy Obejas. The investigation theorizes the function of memory in...
This dissertation examines the use of urban space in Cuban cultural production after 1990; the year Fidel Castro announced the beginning of the crisis known as "Special Period in Times of Peace". It was a period that brought the most...
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