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Estrada, Alicia Ivonne. "Textual transversals : activisms and decolonization in Guatemalan Mayan and Ladina women's texts of the Civil War and postwar periods /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Brown, William Jarrod. "SPECTERS OF THE UNSPEAKABLE: THE RHETORIC OF TORTURE IN GUATEMALAN LITERATURE, 1975-1985." UKnowledge, 2012. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/hisp_etds/8.
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This dissertation examines the ways in which torture was imagined and narrated in Guatemalan literature during the Internal Armed Conflict. For nearly four decades, Guatemala suffered one of the longest and most violent wars in Latin America. During that time, it is estimated that more than 100,000 people were tortured at the hands of the Guatemalan military. Torture, as suggested by Ariel Dorman, is most fundamentally “a crime committed against the imagination” (8), disrupting and often dissolving the boundaries between fact and fiction, the real and the unreal. The Introduction and Chapter One of this study explore the destabilization of this boundary by examining the historical and theoretical context for torture in Guatemala. The ubiquity and normality of torture was so terrible that, for many, it became “unspeakable”—an atrocity that defied language. Chapters Two through Four study three different literary modes of countering the state’s rhetoric of torture, probing the possibility of narrating torture despite its seemingly unsayable nature. Examining works by Rigoberta Menchú (chapter two), Marco Antonio Flores and Arturo Arias (chapter three), and Rodrigo Rey Rosa (chapter four), and aided by current theories and studies of torture, this dissertation investigates the ways in which these Guatemalan authors have sought not only to re-present torture, but also to explore and sometimes question the possibility of bearing witness to that torture in literature.
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Ament, Gail R. "The postcolonial Mayan scribe : contemporary indigenous writers of Guatemala /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8307.
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Fajardo, Margaret A. "Comparing war stories : literature by Vietnamese Americans, U.S.-Guatemalans, and Filipino Americans /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3277200.
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Jerez, Olga Estela. "La hija del adelantado, de José Milla : reflejo del pasado y proyección del futuro nacional guatemalteco." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21222.
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The cultural and historical context in which La hija del adelantado was first published in 1866, is very important in this study because it helps us understand why Milla chose to write about the early colonial past, and why he valued the traditions and customs of those years. It is also shown how the author---mixing history and fiction---denounces the system of exploitation practiced by the colonizers of America, and uncovers the historical roots of some of the contemporary problems that affected the Guatemala of those days.The main purpose of this work is to highlight the importance that Jose Milla places on his country's history, and to demonstrate that through the rewriting of the colonial past, the author contributes to the building process of the national identity. Also emphasized is the way in which Milla---giving priority to national history and to America's natural forces and beauty---places La hija del adelantado, as Guatemala's foundational text.
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Rozotto, David F. "Región y Nación en Guatemala: La Obra de Virgilio Rodríguez Macal." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23662.
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The writer Virgilio Rodríguez Macal, through his essays, narratives, and journalistic chronicles, actively participated in the great debates about the fate of the Guatemalan nation during and after the socialist governments of the Revolution (1944-1954). This thesis delves into a neglected oeuvre the study of which sheds light on an original perspective about a national period with continental repercussions. I study his regionalist novels Carazamba (1953), Jinayá (1956) and Guayacán (1962) within the framework of Guatemala and Latin America’s intellectual, literary and socio-political history. This approach, in combination with a close textual analysis, allows me to show that Rodríguez Macal, with a firm footing in the Latin American lettered tradition of political commitment to the construction of the nation, propounds narrative worlds that amount to national integration programs centered around the northern region of the country. I demonstrate that Rodríguez Macal adopts a regionalist aesthetic to postulate a Guatemalan autochthonous essence based on the discourse of narrators who act as discerners of that same essence based on a scientific knowledge derived from disciplines such as anthropology, historiography and sociology. Lastly, I reveal that this literary project is the expression of an independent intellectual trajectory preoccupied with proposing alternative projects for the modernization and territorialization of the nation.
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Coto-Rivel, Sergio. "Le roman centre-américain contemporain : fictions de l'intime et nouvelles subjectivités." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014BOR30031/document.
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L’Amérique centrale s’est trouvée au centre de l’attention médiatique pendant les années 80 à cause de l’embrasement produit par les conflits armés et du fait de l’intérêt pour les témoignages liés aux revendications politiques. Le temps est venu de s’interroger aujourd’hui sur les voies empruntées par la littérature centre-américaine une vingtaine d’années après la signature des traités de paix. Cette question se trouve à l’origine de la présente étude : nous essayons de comprendre de quelle manière le roman contemporain s’intéresse à la construction des nouvelles subjectivités, quelles sont les nouvelles modalités de représentation propres à la fiction. La littérature centre-américaine contemporaine se présente de manière générale comme un domaine d’une grande diversité ; nous pouvons y lire une remise en question des contradictions, des luttes sociales et des discours dominants des sociétés de l’Isthme. Ces questionnements sont, à notre avis, reliés au texte littéraire du fait de la position privilégiée accordée à la subjectivité. Celle-ci a différentes manières de définir l’individu contemporain afin de renvoyer au lecteur toute une série d’énoncés tantôt intimistes, tantôt politiques et transgresseurs, qui montrent une crise dans la représentation des identités aussi bien personnelles que nationales. Jusqu’à quel point pouvons-nous considérer que la littérature centre-américaine contemporaine présente un renouvellement concernant les positions des sujets représentés dans les romans ? De quelle manière ces changements interagissent-ils dans une région conflictuelle, une région qui peine encore à définir sa propre identité ? Nous nous efforçons dans la thèse d’approfondir l’analyse des positions subjectives et des procédés littéraires ainsi que la démarche philosophique permettant la construction de nouveaux sujets-personnages dans un corpus constitué de romans publiés entre 1998 et 2009 par les écrivains suivants : Horacio Castellanos Moya, José Ricardo Chaves, Maurice Echeverría, Jacinta Escudos, Mauricio Orellana Suárez, Milagros Palma, Roberto Quesada et Uriel Quesada. Nous nous intéressons de manière particulière aux procédés narratifs mettant en rapport l’intimité et la subjectivité, avec la représentation des espaces corporels dessinés dans les romans, ainsi que les espaces géographiques et les lieux de la violence. Ces éléments vont dévoiler de nouveaux engagements et de nouveaux discours à un moment qui paraît dominé par la subjectivitéCentral America attracted greatly the media attention during the 1980s because of the armed conflicts and the increasing interest in testimonies linked to the political vindications. Now is the time to question the paths taken by Central American literature twenty years after the peace agreements were signed in the region. This question is found at the beginning of the present study on which we try to comprehend in what way the contemporary novel is interested in the construction of new subjectivities and in new means of representation specific to fiction. Contemporary Central American literature presents itself generally as a space of great diversity. We can read in it an important questioning of the contradictions, of the social struggles, and of the dominant discourses of isthmian societies. These questionings are, in our opinion, articulated on the literary text thanks to the privileged position given to subjectivity. It uses different ways to define the contemporary subject with the purpose of confronting the reader to a series of statements, intimist as well as political and transgressive, which express a crisis on the representation of national and personal identities. How far can we consider that contemporary Central American literature shows an important displacement related to the positions of the subjects represented in the novels? In what way said displacements interact in a conflictive region, a region which still has difficulties to define its own identity? On this thesis we make an effort to delve in the analysis of the subjective positions and in the literary and philosophical strategies which allow the construction of new subject-characters, in a corpus constituted of novels published between 1998 and 2009 by the following writers: Horacio Castellanos Moya, José Ricardo Chaves, Maurice Echeverría, Jacinta Escudos, Mauricio Orellana Suárez, Milagros Palma, Roberto Quesada, and Uriel Quesada. We are particularly interested in the narrative processes which relate intimacy and subjectivity with the representation of corporal spaces in the novels, as well as the geographical spaces and violence spaces. These elements will demonstrate new commitments and new discourses in a time that seems dominated by subjectivity
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García, Claudia. "Literatura testimonial indígena en Guatemala (1987-2001) Víctor Montejo y Humberto Ak'abal /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0009420.
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Ramírez, Luengo José Luis. "Aproximación al español de Guatemala en el siglo XVIII: Algunas características fonético-fonológicas." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/103318.
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Vergara, Amina Maria Figueroa. "A United Fruit Company e a Guatemala de Miguel Angel Asturias." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-30042010-132256/.
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Em fins do século XIX um jovem empresário estadunidense fundou uma empresa exportadora de bananas na República da Costa Rica: a United Fruit Company. Mesmo que o comércio de bananas e outras frutas tropicais tenha representado apenas uma parte dos produtos exportados pelos países da América Central a exportação de café, por exemplo, sempre foi mais significativa , as companhias bananeiras foram eternizadas por diversos romancistas em alguns dos países centro-americanos em que atuaram. Este trabalho pretende mostrar a trilogia bananeira: Viento fuerte (1949), El Papa verde (1954) e Los ojos de los enterrados (1960) do escritor guatemalteco Miguel Angel Asturias, como uma possibilidade de representação da história da United Fruit Company na Guatemala. Utilizando romances como fonte histórica e realizando a articulação entre o discurso literário e o discurso histórico, a intenção é mostrar a interpretação de Asturias sobre a ação desta multinacional em seu país. Problematizando o encontro entre ambos os discursos e fazendo dialogar a informação histórica sobre o ocorrido e o tratamento literário que Asturias dá a esses mesmos fatos em sua trilogia bananeira.In the end of the XIX Century a young American enterpreneur founded in the Republic of Costa Rica a company to export banana: the United Fruit Company. Even though the banana commerce and other tropical fruits had represented only a part of the exported products by the Central America countries the coffee export for instance has always been more significant the companies that traded bananas were eternalized by a great variety of novelists in some Central American countries were they acted. This work aims to show, as a possibility to represent the History of the United Fruit Company in Guatemala, the books that composes the Banana Trilogy: Viento fuerte (1949), El Papa Verde (1954) and Los ojos de los enterrados (1960) from the Guatemaltec writer Miguel Angel Asturias. Using novels as a historic source and accomplishing the joint between the literary and historic speech, the intention is to show the interpretation of Asturias concernig the action of this muitinational company in his country, to open debate between both speeches and to articulate the historic information and the treatment that Asturias gives to this information in his Banana Trilogy books.
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Lai, Oi-leung Helen, and 賴凱亮. "Testimonial narrative: the personal, collective and the political experience in I, Rigoberta Menchu, anIndian woman in Guatemala." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31950607.
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Haas, Nadine [Verfasser], and Markus Klaus [Akademischer Betreuer] Schäffauer. "Das Ende der Fiktion : Literatur und urbane Gewalt in Guatemala / Nadine Haas. Betreuer: Markus Klaus Schäffauer." Hamburg : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1027573126/34.
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Gloster, Michelle Diana. "La Comercialización del Turismo Étnico en Guatemala y Marruecos." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/74.
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This thesis examines the commercialization of ethnic tourism in Guatemala and Morocco in a postcolonial world. Addressing notions of authenticity, Western expectations of the ethnic tourism experience, and colonial portrayals of the Mayas and the Berbers, the thesis argues that the Guatemalan and Moroccan governments reduce their indigenous populations to ‘authentic’ living museums in their touristic promotions targeting Western tourists. Catering to Western tourists’ expectations, the Guatemalan and Moroccan governments perpetuate the stereotypes of their indigenous populations that were established during colonialism. Despite Guatemalan and Moroccan cultural repression of the Maya and the Berber populations, respectively, the governments exploit their indigenous populations for touristic purposes.
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Lai, Oi-leung Helen. "Testimonial narrative : the personal, collective and the political experience in I, Rigoberta Menchu, an Indian woman in Guatemala /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13787603.
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Borjas, Alvarado Reina María. "Conflicto político y lenguaje literario en tres casos representativos: Guatemala, El Salvador y Honduras. Influencia y consecuencias de las políticas estadounidenses en Centroamérica." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5188.
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Debido a la posición geográfica de Latinoamérica en comparación con Europa, Estados Unidos quiso concentrarse en el desarrollo económico de la región y creó nuevas políticas que ayudarían al crecimiento económico en Latinoamérica. Sin embargo, estas políticas tenían un segundo interés, el cual era prevenir la proliferación del socialismo en Centroamérica, ya que después de la Revolución Cubana, Estados Unidos sintió que era necesario evitar que los países vecinos llegaran a ser una amenaza para sus intereses en la región. No obstante, la intervención del gobierno estadounidense en Guatemala, El Salvador y Honduras se diluyó y los gobiernos nacionales se convirtieron en los nuevos protagonistas de la violación de los derechos civiles y humanos. A consecuencia de esto, surgieron grupos y líderes que decidieron luchar por una nación más justa. Es por esto que he elegido trabajar con textos de testimonio que nos ilustran algunas de las consecuencias de seguir políticas que favorecen a los más privilegiados, tales como también la austeridad, la violencia y la violación de los derechos humanos. Asimismo, pretendo analizar algunos cuentos cortos para ilustrar el sentir de algunos intelectuales en respecto a las condiciones sociopolíticas de sus respectivas naciones.
Due to the geographical position of Latin America in comparison to Europe, the United States focused on the economic development of the region and created new policies to help the economic growth in Latin America. However, these policies had a second interest, which was to prevent the spread of socialism in Central America, since after the Cuban revolution, the United States felt it necessary to prevent neighboring countries from becoming a threat to the region. Nevertheless, the U.S. government intervention in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras was diluted and national governments became the new protagonists of the violation of civil and human rights. As a consequence, there were groups and leaders who decided to fight for a more just nation. This is why I have chosen to work with testimonials that illustrate some of the consequences of following policies that favor the privileged, such as austerity, violence and violation of human rights. I have also analyzed some short stories (fiction) to illustrate the feelings of intellectuals in regard to the socio-political conditions of their respective nations.
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Harbour, Tiffany Kwader. "Creating a New Guatemala: The 1952 Agrarian Reform Law." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1217963651.
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Redwood, Nyanda J. "Genocide in Guatemala: Geopolitical Systems of Death and Power." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1396448630.
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Ramos, Solano Erick Gustavo [Verfasser], and Markus Klaus [Akademischer Betreuer] Schäffauer. "Vida, narración y muerte. El testimonio de violencia política en Perú, Guatemala y El Salvador / Erick Gustavo Ramos Solano ; Betreuer: Markus Klaus Schäffauer." Hamburg : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1192912926/34.
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Faqueri, Rodrigo de Freitas. "A estética da violência na literatura centro-americana contemporânea: um estudo sobre as narrativas do guatemalteco Rodrigo Rey Rosa." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2018. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/3727.
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Esta tesis busca sacar a luz la estética de la violencia presente en la literatura centroamericana contemporánea a partir del análisis de las obras del escritor guatemalteco Rodrigo Rey Rosa. Vencedor de premios nacionales e internacionales, Rey Rosa se destaca por construir sus narrativas a partir de elementos ficcionales cargados de un carácter histórico que ponen en duda los límites entre el universo ficcional y la realidad proporcionando, en las obras seleccionadas, una estructura narrativa engendrada en un juego con las palabras y sus significados. Así, ofrece al lector un camino construido por veredas obscuras teniendo como elemento indisociable la violencia, no sólo como temática, pero principalmente como componente estructurador de las narrativas. En el primer capítulo, se busca una contextualización histórico-teórica de la literatura centroamericana para que se comprenda algunos de los procesos de inherentes a la escrita local. En el segundo capítulo, se analiza la novela El material humano (2009), que presenta la narrativa de un personaje que logra autorización para estudiar los archivos de la Policía Nacional Guatemalteca encontrados por suerte (o azar) en un antiguo hospital militar desactivado. En el tercer capítulo, se analiza y se evidencia la misma estética a partir del libro Los Sordos (2012) en el cual se percibe la presencia de la violencia y de las tradiciones regionalistas como marca en la narrativa, contando el desaparecimiento de Clara, hija de un importante banquero y la búsqueda de Cayetano, su guardaespaldas recién contratado, por su jefa desaparecida. En el cuarto capítulo, dos de las novelas cortas compiladas en el libro Imitación de Guatemala (2014) se observan bajo la misma mirada. Por fin, se presentan las consideraciones finales a respeto de todo el análisis realizado y de los aspectos más significativos de la investigación en la cual se comprueba la estética de la violencia en la obra del autor.
Esta tese busca trazer à tona a estética da violência na literatura centro-americana contemporânea a partir da análise das obras do escritor guatemalteco Rodrigo Rey Rosa. Vencedor de prêmios nacionais e internacionais, Rey Rosa destaca-se por construir suas narrativas a partir de elementos ficcionais carregados de um caráter histórico que colocam em dúvida os limites entre o universo ficcional e a realidade proporcionando, nas obras selecionadas, uma estrutura narrativa engendrada em um jogo de palavras e de seus significados. Dessa forma, fornece ao leitor um caminho construído por veredas obscuras tendo como elemento indissociável a violência, não só como temática, mas principalmente como componente estruturante das narrativas. No primeiro capítulo, busca-se levantar uma contextualização histórico-teórica da literatura centro-americana a fim de se compreender alguns processos inerentes à escrita local. No segundo capítulo, analisa-se o romance El material humano (2009), que traz a narrativa de uma personagem que consegue autorização para estudar os arquivos da Polícia Nacional Guatemalteca encontrados por acaso em um antigo hospital militar desativado. No terceiro capítulo, analisa-se e se evidencia a mesma estética a partir do livro Los Sordos (2012), em que se tem a presença da violência e das tradições regionalistas como marca na narrativa, contando o desaparecimento de Clara, filha de um importante banqueiro e a busca de Cayetano, seu guarda-costas recém-contratado, por sua chefe desaparecida. No quarto capítulo, dois dos breves romances compilados no livro Imitación de Guatemala (2014) são observados sob a mesma ótica. Por último, apresentam-se as considerações finais a respeito de toda a análise realizada e dos pontos mais significativos da tese na qual se comprova a estética da violência na obra do autor.
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Quirante, Amores Gabriela. "La novela histórica escrita por mujeres en Centroamérica durante la primera mitad del siglo XX." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Alicante, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10045/69927.
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Clase, Hagman Mimmi. "La construcción del "Otro". Un análisis del discurso de la protagonista en la obra Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la conciencia." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-60404.
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The aim of this essay is to discover how the protagonist constructs her identity, through her discourse, in the work I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala. While the work is considered a testimony, the oral narrative has been modified by the author. Hence in this essay, the work is considered narrative literature, characterised by the narrator as the protagonist. The postcolonial theory of Edward Said is applied, as well as the description of the social structures and the dominant discourse in Latin America, and the concepts of Critical Discourse Studies by Teun Adrianus van Dijk. It has been argued that the discourse by the protagonist, reproduces the existence of the separation between “Us” and the “Others”. The protagonist constructs a discourse where she must break the rules of her own community and adapt to the cultural hegemony of the society, to be able to expand her knowledge and develop herself. In addition, the protagonist creates a discourse in which she must have a pluricultural identity, to be accepted, outside of her community. In conclusion, the protagonist must follow the norms that maintain the social structures of the society, that originate from the colonial era, to be able to attain power.
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Palacios, Rita Mercedes. "Indigenousness and the Reconstruction of the Other in Guatemalan Indigenous Literature." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/19072.
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“Indigenousness and the Reconstruction of the Other in Guatemalan Indigenous Literature” examines the production of a contemporary Indigenous literature in Guatemala. With the aid of a multidisciplinary approach informed by cultural, feminist, gender, socio-anthropological, and postcolonial studies, I analyze the emergence and ongoing struggle of Maya writers in Guatemala to show how the production of an alternate ideology contests official notions of nationhood and promotes a more inclusive space. I argue that Maya writers redefine Indigenous identity by reinstating Indigenous agency and self-determination, and deconstructing and rearticulating ethnicity, class and gender, among other markers of identity. I begin by examining the indio as the basis of colonial and national narratives that logically organize the Guatemalan nation. I then observe the emergence of a contemporary Indigenous literature in Guatemala in the 1970s, a literature that, I argue, isolates and contests the position that was assigned to the indio and proposes a literature written by and for the Indigenous peoples of Guatemala. I posit that the inauguration of a Maya cultural space occurs with Luis de Lión’s novel El tiempo principia en Xibalbá (1985) and Gaspar Pedro González’ La otra cara (1992). I then observe the destabilization of traditional Maya female roles and symbols in the recent work of female Indigenous poets, Calixta Gabriel Xiquín and Maya Cu. Lastly, in the work of Víctor Montejo and Humberto Ak’abal I identify a negotiation of heterogeneity and essentialism for the development of a cultural project that looks to the formation of a pluricultural, plurinational Guatemalan state.
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Kahn, Hana Muzika. "Modern Guatemalan Mayan literature in cultural context bilanguaging in the literary works of bilingual Mayan authors." 2008. http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.17508.
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Mills, Regina Marie. "Guatemalan diasporic fiction as refugee literature : an analysis of Héctor Tobar’s The tattooed soldier and Tanya Maria Barrientos’s Family resemblance." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/26373.
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Despite a large influx of Guatemalans to cities such as Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., their narrative has largely been subsumed in the traditional Latino/a immigrant narrative. The importance of the historical specificity and traumatic nature of Guatemalan immigration, as a consequence of the Central American revolutions, has only now begun to be studied by scholars such as Arturo Arias and Claudia Milian, though the field of Latino/a studies is still largely focused on immigrants from Mexico, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. Thus, through an examination of two novels by Guatemalan-American authors, Héctor Tobar’s The Tattooed Soldier (1998/2000) and Tanya Maria Barrientos’ Family Resemblance (2003), I compare how each novel differently positions Guatemalan diasporic identity around traumas surrounding the Guatemalan civil war and diaspora. Ultimately, I argue that Tobar establishes Guatemalan diasporic fiction as a kind of refugee literature, while Barrientos attempts to fit the Guatemalan diasporic narrative into a traditional Latino/a immigrant narrative using the genre of chica lit, thus flattening out the unique historical experience of the Guatemalan civil war while also highlighting the constraints of the chica lit genre for Central American-American women writers.text
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Santos, Helga Márcia Arnauth dos. "A importância da figura do ditador em El Señor Presidente: o romance como denúncia social." Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/20287.
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Tendo como objeto de estudo o romance El Señor Presidente do escritor guatemalteco Miguel Ángel Asturias, o presente trabalho procura ilustrar de que forma esta obra denuncia todo um sistema e uma estrutura ditatoriais, tendo em conta não só elementos históricos, mas também estilísticos. Acima de tudo, procura-se compreender qual a verdadeira finalidade da obra e de que maneira esta pretende ser testemunha de uma época.
Outro dos objetivos desta dissertação é retomar um tema que, apesar de já ter sido amplamente estudado, é intemporal, merecendo, portanto, uma nova abordagem. A finalidade consiste em sugerir uma visão que permita ampliar e atualizar conceitos, assim como sistematizar estudos já realizados.
Para alcançar os objetivos referidos, analisam-se os traços distintivos e o comportamento da figura representada pelo Presidente, assim como as semelhanças que possam existir entre este e o ditador Manuel Estrada Cabrera, presidente da Guatemala entre os anos 1898 e 1920. Importante é também verificar de que forma a personagem da obra materializa o seu poder e como a sua tirania se mantém intacta, sem que nada nem ninguém se interponha no seu caminho.
Sendo este um romance de ditador, analisam-se as características gerais deste género literário e, particularmente, as que encontramos presentes na obra. De especial interesse para o desenvolvimento deste trabalho é também o estudo da linguagem. Veremos como através dela se recria um mundo irracional e asfixiante e se intui a denúncia feita ao longo da narrativa.
Com a finalidade de entender a origem do universo criado por Miguel Ángel Asturias em El Señor Presidente, torna-se necessário ter em conta a sua criação literária prévia. Deste modo, estuda-se a influência do ensaio El problema social del indio, escrito pelo próprio e publicado em 1923. Segundo o escritor, este constituiu um dos pontos de partida para a posterior escrita do romance que nos ocupa nesta dissertação. Também é relevante a leitura de Popol-Vuh, compilação das crenças e mitos dos antigos indígenas e obra inspiradora para a criação de El Señor Presidente. Em simultâneo, são considerados outros estudos não menos importantes para a compreensão da sua obra e deste tema em particular.This dissertation is based on the novel El Señor Presidente by Guatemalan writer Miguel Ángel Asturias and aims at illustrating how this work exposes an entire system and dictatorial structure, taking not only historical, but also stylistic elements into account. Above all, it tries to understand what the true purpose of the work is and the way it suggests itself as a witness of a particular age. Another of the aims is to take up a topic which, despite having already been widely studied, is timeless and therefore deserving of a new approach. The aim is to suggest a vision that allows to extend and update concepts and to systematize studies already carried out. To achieve these purposes, this study will assess the distinctive features and the behavior of the figure represented by the President, as well as any similarities that may exist between him and the dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera, the president of Guatemala between 1898 and 1920. It will be equally important to exemplify the ways in which the character materializes his power and keeps his tyranny intact, without anyone or anything standing in his way. Since this is a dictator novel, the present thesis will also analyze the main features of the respective literary genre and, particularly, the ones to be found in the novel in question. The study of language is another aspect of particular interest to the development of this study. We will see how language is used in order to create an irrational and suffocating world and to imply a sense of critique throughout the narrative. In order to understand the origin of the universe created by Miguel Ángel Asturias in El Señor Presidente, it becomes necessary to take his previous literary creation into account. Thus, this study further assesses the influence of the essay El problema social del indio, written by himself and published in 1923. According to the author, this was one of the starting points for the subsequent writing of the novel. Another relevant point of focus is the reading of Popol-Vuh, a compilation of ancient indigenous beliefs and myths and seminal work for the creation of El Señor Presidente. At the same time, other equally important studies are considered, in order to understand the author´s oeuvre and this topic in particular.
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"La palabra y la mala palabra: Derrumbamiento de utopias en la narrativa del periodo de la violencia en Guatemala." Tulane University, 2003.
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This dissertation examines a corpus of novels written by three Guatemalan authors: Arturo Arias (1950), Marco Antonio Flores (1937), and Mario Roberto Morales (1947). These authors are very important figures in the Nueva Novela Guatemalteca because of their deliberate break with the Guatemalan literary tradition established by Miguel Angel Asturias and Mario Monteforte Toledo. Arias, Flores and Morales establish a new aesthetic through the creation of novels defined particularly by open-endedness and experimentation with language, especially profane, irreverent and scatological language. Through their particular style of narrative they represent the unspeakable atrocities suffered by Guatemalans during several dictatorial regimes. This study's objective is to make a socio-political and literary analysis of how these writers appropriate Ladino lower and middle class argot and scatological language as a means to declare and denounce important socio-political issues of their day Chapter one explains the socio-political, historical and cultural events that have marked the lives of Guatemalans during the last fifty years of conflict. Establishing this history is essential to the context from which the authors' ideologies are devised and narratives are constructed Chapter two examines the use of irreverent language, outrageous banter and twisted semantics as an expression of identity from, satirizing of, and rebellion against the hegemonic power structure Chapter three analyzes the use of irreverent and scatological language as a representation of the violence suffered upon victims by the state, and the subsequent reproduction of this same violence into the society, especially against women Chapter four explores the disappointment and despair in the failures of leftist movements, criticism of the behavior and lack of commitment of guerrilla members, and their loss of hope for a utopian dream through revolutionacase@tulane.edu
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Hagerich, Kim. "Skin." 2011. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/614.
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Skin is a novel set in Guatemala which uses narrative shifts in tense and perspective to investigate interpersonal boundaries, social norms, and isolation. It involves a wall, a mole, psychodermatology, limerence, excretion, and the lake.
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García, Núñez de Cáceres Jorge Federico. "La afectividad como contra-discurso de la poesía comprometida de Daisy Zamora, Otto René Castillo y Roque Dalton." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-08-1858.
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In this work, I explain that the focus of criticism on the Central American poetry of the second half of the twentieth century has emphasized its political content. I argue, however, that such a limited view obscures the broader import of this poetry and its place in Latin American literature. By reading the work of Nicaraguan Daisy Zamora, Guatemalan Otto René Castillo, and Salvadoran Roque Dalton with an emphasis on affectivity rather than revolution, I suggest a different relationship between the poet and society, one that is not limited to the marginal figure of the mujer soldado, the poeta guerrillero or the poeta marxista in conflict with all societal norms. Rather, I argue that my study portrays the complex subjectivity of the speaker/poet not unlike that of non-revolutionary poets, as well as his or her multi-dimensional affective connections to family and society. At the same time, an analysis of affect in this poetry allows us to reconsider the nature of the revolutionary figure itself, no longer a myth or a romantic hero, but an individual inserted in society in a more complex way.
In Chapter 1, “Daisy Zamora: De la mujer-soldado a la mujer-mujer”, I contend that an analysis of affectivity of her poetic work reveals how personal memory constructs an individualized subjectivity different from that of a woman-soldier.
In the second chapter, “Otto René Castillo: De la lucha revolucionaria a la soledad del poema,” I argue that a negative connotation of romantic love is projected in his poems bringing about traces of existential solitude in the lyric subjectivity. Furthermore, Castillo’s poetry elicits a binary opposition between “the people” and the guerrillero in which the former is portrayed as lacking of agency.
The third chapter, “Roque Dalton: y/o subjetividad en crisis,” reveals the ways in which the Salvadoran poet textualizes a poetic of disenchantment by way of projecting disdain and contempt to the “motherland.”
In conclusion, my approach pinpoints how Zamora, Castillo and Dalton share the same preoccupations, affects and ways to conceive reality, which are also similar to the practices of those poets whose works are better-known given their national origin or because their poetic production has been widely studied by academia. This document has been written in Spanish.text
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Nortjé, Johannes Andries. "Holographic memoirs of a dream : the invention of tram hopping." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/7042.
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The medium is the message in the first place: the medium as presence, as the author. His
contribution to the academic world is his academic Holographic Memoirs. His story, the
author's memoirs, is a fictive-narrative discourse with an organic ubuntu open-endedness.
The Hologram is both an autobiography, but also all the information at all places
simultaneously – nonlocal in quantum physical terms - within an intense hallucinating
dream: no illusion, but rather a HyperReality with all its Virtual Identities. The invention of
tram hopping is the plot of the story. The plot is like an hourglass where the first part of the
story is the emptying of the sand, the deconstruction of modernism, but while the top
chamber runs empty and the bottom chamber fills up, so the deconstruction is
simultaneously a dependent arising/(social) construction/ubuntuing to revival – the
synagogal Shekinah presence of YAHWEH. The top chamber is the unreasonable
Newtonian physics and the bottom chamber reasonable quantum physics. The
metaphysics (before the physics) of the top chamber is poststructuralism and
deconstruction, while the bottom chamber is the virtual Hebraic worldview that delutively
merges ubuntu and Buddhism. The long narrow neck in the middle is the moonily narrative
that lives us with psychology (Psycho-logic) lost in sociology (Social-physics).
Hermeneutics is set forth in the same contrasting hourglass of the top chamber, the
inherited tradition, emptying to what it should accomplish – (virtual) presence.Philosophy & Systematic Theology
D. Th. (Systematic Theology)
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Nortje, Johannes Andries. "Holographic memoirs of a dream : the invention of tram hopping." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/7042.
Full textAbstract:
The medium is the message in the first place: the medium as presence, as the author. His
contribution to the academic world is his academic Holographic Memoirs. His story, the
author's memoirs, is a fictive-narrative discourse with an organic ubuntu open-endedness.
The Hologram is both an autobiography, but also all the information at all places
simultaneously – nonlocal in quantum physical terms - within an intense hallucinating
dream: no illusion, but rather a HyperReality with all its Virtual Identities. The invention of
tram hopping is the plot of the story. The plot is like an hourglass where the first part of the
story is the emptying of the sand, the deconstruction of modernism, but while the top
chamber runs empty and the bottom chamber fills up, so the deconstruction is
simultaneously a dependent arising/(social) construction/ubuntuing to revival – the
synagogal Shekinah presence of YAHWEH. The top chamber is the unreasonable
Newtonian physics and the bottom chamber reasonable quantum physics. The
metaphysics (before the physics) of the top chamber is poststructuralism and
deconstruction, while the bottom chamber is the virtual Hebraic worldview that delutively
merges ubuntu and Buddhism. The long narrow neck in the middle is the moonily narrative
that lives us with psychology (Psycho-logic) lost in sociology (Social-physics).
Hermeneutics is set forth in the same contrasting hourglass of the top chamber, the
inherited tradition, emptying to what it should accomplish – (virtual) presence.Philosophy and Systematic Theology
D. Th. (Systematic Theology)