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Journal articles on the topic "Psychological aspects of Latin American literature"
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de Araujo, Cristiano Miranda, Angela Graciela Deliga Schroder, Bianca Marques de Mattos de Araujo, Bianca L. Cavalcante-Leão, José Stechman-Neto, Bianca Simone Zeigelboim, Rosane Sampaio Santos, and Odilon Guariza-Filho. "Impact of orthodontic-surgical treatment on quality of life: a meta-analysis." European Journal of Orthodontics 42, no. 3 (November 30, 2019): 281–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ejo/cjz093.
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Summary Background Orthognathic surgery involves a change in the patient’s functional and aesthetic aspects. Objective The objective was to answer the following focused question: what is the impact on quality of life (QoL; aesthetic, function, social, and psychological aspects) in patients undergoing orthodontic-surgical treatment? Search methods Appropriate word combinations and truncations were selected and tailored specifically for each electronic database: PubMed/Medline, Scopus, Web of Science, PsycInfo, and Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature and gray literature. Selection criteria Studies that met the following criteria was included: patients with dentofacial deformity (P); surgical correction through orthodontic-surgical treatment (E/I); before orthodontic-surgical treatment or patients with no dentofacial deformity (C); QoL (O); cross-sectional, cohort, case-control and randomized or non-randomized clinical trial (S). Data collection and analysis In phase 1, two reviewers independently reviewed the titles and abstracts of all references. All articles that did not meet the inclusion criteria were excluded. In phase 2, the same reviewers completely read the selected articles independently. Results A total of 2879 articles were retrieved during the final database search. Fifty-two articles were selected for full reading, of which 16 were excluded, resulting in 36 included articles. The meta-analysis was performed using 13 of the selected studies. When comparing the period before any treatment with the post-operative period of 4–8 weeks, there was an association only for facial aesthetics (mean difference = 3.00; 95 per cent confidence interval = 1.10–4.89; inconsistency index = 63 per cent). The comparison between the period before any treatment with the 6 month post-operative period showed an improved QoL in all of the domains evaluated and, when comparing data after the orthodontic-surgical preparation (before surgery) and after 5–12 months of surgery, there was also statistical significance with an increased QoL for all of the domains evaluated. Conclusions In conclusion, based on the results of this systematic review and meta-analysis, the evidence suggests an improvement in the QoL of patients undergoing orthodontic-surgical treatment regarding aesthetic, functional, social, and psychological aspects. Registration CRD42017069495
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Doede, Aubrey L., Emma M. Mitchell, Dan Wilson, Reanna Panagides, and Mônica Oliveira Batista Oriá. "Knowledge, Beliefs, and Attitudes About Breast Cancer Screening in Latin America and the Caribbean: An In-Depth Narrative Review." Journal of Global Oncology, no. 4 (December 2018): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jgo.18.00053.
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Purpose Breast cancer (BCA) is the most common cancer and leading cause of cancer mortality among women in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and the number of deaths from BCA is expected to continue to increase. Although barriers to care include the physical accessibility of screening resources, personal and cultural barriers must be explored to understand necessary next steps to increase access to preventive care. The purpose of this in-depth narrative literature review was to explore empiric literature that surrounds the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs toward BCA screening practices among women in LAC. To our knowledge, this is the first literature review to include articles from all countries and national languages (Portuguese, English, and Spanish) that pertain to this topic. Methods OVID Medline, CINAHL, and Web of Science/SciELO were used to identify articles. Thirty-five articles were included according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. Results Themes identified in the literature included knowledge about screening procedures and cause of cancer; knowledge sources; catalysts and deterrents for screening, such as family support, family history; social support or taboo, fear, self-neglect, cost, and transportation; and the perception of the screening experience. Conclusion In addition to physical availability of resources and health care personnel, there is a necessity for culturally competent community educational interventions across all aspects of BCA screening and prevention. In light of the barriers to preventive health care, providers such as nurses and community health workers are uniquely qualified to provide culturally appropriate and individualized health education to address cultural and psychological barriers to BCA screening.
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Santos, Joao Carlos Alves dos. "Atuação dos enfermeiros na dor aguda torácica: Revisão integrativa." Revista Brasileira de Educação e Saúde 6, no. 4 (December 31, 2016): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.18378/rebes.v6i4.4421.
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<p>A dor torácica é uma queixa comum nos serviços de saúde e os enfermeiros devem estar preparados para o primeiro atendimento bem como o cuidado de maior duração nas unidades especializadas ou não para o atendimento integral<strong>. </strong>Objetivou-se analisar a produção da literatura nacional sobre a realidade da ação do enfermeiro na dor torácica aguda sugestiva de síndrome coronariana aguda nos serviços de saúde. O trabalho<strong> </strong>trata-se de uma revisão integrativa realizada na base de dados da Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (LILACS) no portal eletrônico da Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS). Utilizaram-se os descritores em português. Selecionaram-se publicações no corte temporal, de 2011 à 2016. Foram sistematizados por intermédio de um instrumento, seguido de leitura com análise textual, temática e interpretativa dos dados. Encontraram-se ao todo 359 produções científicas. Todavia, apenas 10 estudos foram selecionados e revisados conforme os critérios de inclusão. A maioria das produções fizeram apontamentos assinalando proposições ou lacunas sobre as contribuições de sua pesquisa para literatura. Identificou-se que dentro da atuação do enfermeiro frente à síndrome coronariana aguda destacam-se o cuidado sistematizado individualizado; conhecimento sobre exames e medicações e aspectos de relação do paciente com o agravo cardíaco na perspectiva individual, socioeconômica e psicológica. Existem poucas<strong> </strong>produções nos últimos anos em detrimento da enorme relevância do tema e por se um tema constantemente atualizado. Vários domínios da enfermagem, em especial das atividades do enfermeiro, ainda não foram discutidas na literatura sobre a realidade do profissional com o tema abordado. Entretanto, a presente revisão integrativa pôde contribuir para a ampliação e disseminação de conhecimentos referentes à questão pesquisada, servindo de fonte de informação.</p><p align="center"><strong><em>The work of nurses in acute chest pain: An integrative review</em></strong><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Abstract</strong>: Chest pain is a common complaint in the health services and nurses must be prepared for the first service as well as the care of longer duration in specialized units or not for the comprehensive care. Objective: analyzing what has been produced in the national literature on reality of nurses’ action in acute chest pain suggestive of acute coronary syndrome in health services. The work this is an integrative review, performed in the Latin American database and Caribbean Health Sciences (LILACS) on the electronic portal of the Virtual Health Library (VHL). We used the descriptors in Portuguese. We selected publications in the temporal cutting, from 2011 to 2016. They were summarized by means of an instrument, followed by reading in textual, thematic and interpretation analysis of the data. We found a total of 359 scientific productions. However, only 10 studies were selected and reviewed according to the inclusion criteria. Most productions made notes indicating propositions or gaps on contributions of their search for literature. It was found that in the work of the nurse facing the acute coronary syndrome the individualized care is highlighted; knowledge of tests and medications and aspects of patient’s relationship with heart condition in the individual, socioeconomic and psychological perspective. There are few productions in recent years at the expense of huge relevance of the theme and since it is a constantly updated theme. Several areas of nursing and especially the nurse’s activities have not yet been discussed in the literature on the reality of the professional with the relevant topic. However, this integrative review could contribute to the expansion and dissemination of knowledge related to the research question, serving as a source of information.</p>
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Fraguell, Clara, Joaquín T. Limonero, and Francisco Gil. "Psychological aspects of meaning-centered group psychotherapy: Spanish experience." Palliative and Supportive Care 16, no. 3 (May 8, 2017): 317–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1478951517000293.
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ABSTRACTObjective:Our aim was to identify the themes that arise when applying adapted meaning-centered group psychotherapy (MCGP) in Spanish-speaking advanced cancer patients.Method:A mixed qualitative–quantitative analysis was performed on the transcripts of interviews with 22 advanced cancer patients who had been assigned to three MCGP subgroups.Results:We found six new emergent themes in addition to the originally constructed themes of MCGP. Threat and uncertainty were the two most frequent emergent issues for our Spanish patients.Significance of results:The implementation of MCGP in Spanish patients validated the themes proposed by Breitbart and colleagues' foundational work on MCGP and also suggested new issues relevant to patient well-being (classified as “emergent themes”). Taking our findings into account, we propose that these new themes be considered in the Spanish adaptation of MCGP as well as in future adaptations of this form of psychotherapy in treating Latin American patients.
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Upegui-Hernández, Débora. "I. What is missing in the transnational migration literature? A Latin American feminist psychological perspective." Feminism & Psychology 22, no. 2 (November 30, 2011): 228–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353511415831.
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Wirth-Nesher, Hana. "Cross Scripts: Inscribing Hebrew into Jewish American Literature." Journal of Jewish Languages 8, no. 1-2 (September 9, 2020): 90–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134638-bja10001.
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Abstract Most Jewish immigrants to America during the early 20th century arrived speaking Yiddish or Ladino and using Hebrew and Aramaic for liturgical purposes. When subsequent generations abandoned the first two languages, Hebrew and Aramaic were retained, used primarily for liturgy and rites of passage. Jewish American writers have often inserted Hebrew into their English texts by either reproducing the original alphabet or transliterating into Latin letters. This essay focuses on diverse strategies for representing liturgical Hebrew with an emphasis on the poetic, thematic, and sociolinguistic aspects of these expressions of both home and the foreign. Hebrew transliteration is discussed for its literary (rather than phonetic) rendering, for its multilingual creative contact with the other languages and cultures of each narrative. Among the authors whose works are discussed are Philip Roth, Michael Chabon, Nathan Englander, Joshua Cohen, Achy Obejas, and Gary Shteyngart.
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Bucheli, Marcelo. "Major Trends in the Historiography of the Latin American Oil Industry." Business History Review 84, no. 2 (2010): 339–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007680500002646.
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The historiography of Latin America's oil industry has evolved since the period between the 1960s and the 1980s, when most scholars were focusing on the rise of nationalism in reaction to the multinationals' control of the oil sector. Beginning in the 1990s, the emergence of new methodologies enabled historians to study other aspects of the industry, such as its environmental and cultural impact, local elites' role in its development, the industry's impact on the long-term development of Latin American countries, and the organizational evolution of state-owned oil companies. However, the literature continues to be dominated by studies of Mexico, while the subject of oil consumption is largely ignored.
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Khalil, Haider ibrahim. "The psychological factors and tragedy aspects in the selected plays of American dramatist Eugene O’Neill." Science Proceedings Series 1, no. 2 (April 24, 2019): 147–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.31580/sps.v1i2.819.
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The abstract of this paper is present the tragedy and psychological aspects of Eugene O’Neill‘s selected plays. The main objective is to review the dramatic life of the father of American drama and find out some tragic and psychological aspect in the plays such as Desire under the Elm, The strange interlude, the long day’s journey into night and other. The analysis is the narrative analysis as well as the data collection are to scan some psychological and tragedy concepts in original content plays. The main issues of the study is to make a link to the tragedy and psychological aspects in these selected plays. Furthermore to narrate about the dramatist and his literary life in literature especially in drama.
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Sarto de Lucena, Manoela, Raquel Carvalho Hoersting, and João Gabriel Modesto. "The sociocultural and psychological adaptation of Syrian refugees in Brazil." Psico 51, no. 3 (December 31, 2020): e34372. http://dx.doi.org/10.15448/1980-8623.2020.3.34372.
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Considering the challenges of the cultural adaptation process for refugees and the importance of analyzing these in a Latin American context, the present study aimed to investigate the influence of cultural orientations and cultural distance on psychological and sociocultural adaptation of Syrian refugees living in Brazil. Eighty-four adult Syrian refugees, living in Brazil for at least 6 months completed an online survey regarding acculturation variables. Results showed that greater perception of cultural distance was related to lower sociocultural adaptation; higher rates of home culture orientation were related to low psychological and sociocultural adaptation. Having a Brazilian culture orientation was related with better psychological and sociocultural adaptation. The present research has theoretical and practical implications, allowing for a better understanding of some aspects of the adaptation of Syrian refugees in Brazil.
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Gómez-de-Tejada, Jesús. "Parodia, intertextualidad y sátira en la narrativa policial de Lorenzo Lunar Cardedo." Studia Romanica Posnaniensia 47, no. 1 (March 15, 2020): 5–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/strop.2020.471.001.
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Detective fiction as parodic reformulation of genre’s defining patterns has a long history in the Latin American tradition: Borges, Bioy Casares, Soriano, Levrero, Ibargüengoitia, etc. Besides, the evolution of Latin American detective genre has always been characterized by a progressive focalization in the social aspects over the detective story line which has served as a mask to depict in a critical way the flaws of the region’s societies and governments. In nowadays Cuba it could be highlighted the crime narrative of parodic slant by Lorenzo Lunar Cardedo. Among the major features of Lunar Cardedo’s style there are the marginal atmospheres, the stylization of popular speech, the intertextuality, the humor, the parody, and the social criticism. This article focuses on the parodic, intertextual and satiric aspects of his work, particularly discernible in the novel Proyecto en negro (2013), in which the author emphasizes – in opposition to the official discourse – the perpetuation of corrupt, chauvinist, racist, and homophobic behaviors in contemporary Cuba, while relaxing the genre formula limits in order to follow a much more irreverent path within the new Latin American detective fiction.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Psychological aspects of Latin American literature"
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Lutes, Todd Oakley. "Shipwreck and deliverance: Modernity and political culture in Latin American literature." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187249.
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This study examines the political theory of modernity as it appears in the work of contemporary Latin American writers and thinkers (pensadores). It is designed to help bridge the gap that separates the North American and European dialogue on modernity from the parallel dialogue on modernity currently flourishing in Latin America. The dialogues are brought together in two ways. First, the theory of modernity, which is still often thought to apply only or primarily to the developed world, is subjected to the challenge of the Latin American political and cultural context. Many features of the theory are found to apply equally well to both cultures, and these features provide the basis for the second "bridging" of the two dialogues, in which some of the most interesting Latin American responses to the problems of modernity are brought to the attention of North American and European political scholars. After reviewing the problem of modernity in some depth, the work of Jose Ortega y Gasset is presented both as a link to German philosophical thought and as a pattern for subsequent discussion of modernity in the Spanish-speaking world. Ortega's uniquely Latin way of understanding modernity is then compared to other philosophical approaches, and placed within the context of political literature in Latin America. Literature is shown to be a uniquely suitable forum for conveying Ortega's approach to modernity because it expresses in itself the central role of arts and culture in his political thought. The balance of the study focuses on the works of three contemporary Latin American authors: Octavio Paz of Mexico, Gabriel Garcia Marquez of Colombia, and Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru. Each author's major works are placed within the context of the model Latin American response to modernity inspired by Ortega and analyzed for significant contributions to the discussion of modernity. Their most important insights center around the need to assimilate the value of tradition in a new approach to modernity by means of some form of democratic dialogue combined with critical appreciation for the cultural uniqueness of nations.
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Melia, Francine. "The self at play? : a case study of reification and dereification in the play environment of American college theatre." Virtual Press, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1397643.
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This case study aims to better understand the process through which a college theatre actor creates and presents a dereified reified "self' (the character(s) they are portraying) in a play environment, and to consider to what extent this process is conscious. In essence, the actor attempts to take nothing for granted, taking apart and examining assumptions and their cultural context. This study posits that the actor is consciously aware of and is able to recognize and manipulate culture to construct a "self' (the character) within a "play universe." This study is unique as it focuses on the actors themselves as the agents of reification as well as dereification as their processes intersect with the director, the script, and eventually the audience. This study also considers the influence of play theory on developing and breaking the "rules" of the created cultural world of the stage play by utilizing the anthropological research methods supplemented with an analysis of the personal journals of cast members. The subject population is a cast of college-age students (18-28 years old), both males (9) and females (8), from Ball State University's Theatre and Dance Department who participated in the fall 2007 production of The Human Faustus Project, directed by Jennifer Blackmer.Department of Anthropology
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Mackinnon, Jeremy E. "Speaking the unspeakable : war trauma in six contemporary novels." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phm15821.pdf.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 246-258) Presents readings of six novels which depict something of the nature of war trauma. Collectively, the novels suggest that the attempt to narrativise war trauma is inherently problematic. Traces the disjunctions between narrative and war trauma which ensure that war trauma remains an elusive and private phenomonen; the gulf between private experience and public discourse haunts each of the novels.
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Perisic, Alexandra. "Contesting Globalization: Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Atlantic World Economy." Thesis, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8JD4TXP.
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This dissertation examines how contemporary narrative fiction in French and Spanish represents experiences of migration and the circulation of capital and goods in the globalized Atlantic. I argue that the attempt to imagine an increasingly globalized world has been accompanied by a waning interest in character development and an increased interest in what could be characterized as the spatial dimension of literature. Many recent `global fictions' present readers with impenetrable characters whose interiority is inaccessible. The lack of depth is, however, replaced by geographical breadth. As characters move through space, bringing into relation several different geographical locations, authors draw attention to transnational sites of marginalization and imagine alternative power configurations.
Several important studies have examined the engagement of Francophone writers with globalization in the late 20th and early 21st century. While these readings are sophisticated and persuasive, they remain confined within the Francophone context, rarely establishing comparisons with the Anglophone and the Hispanophone contexts. We thus end up with somewhat contradictory concepts such as Francophone or Hispanophone transnationalism,`world literature' and globalization. This seems even more paradoxical given that several Francophone writers, including Maryse Condé and Edouard Glissant, have set their novels in non-Francophone countries. My dissertation undertakes translinguistic literary criticism in order to address this gap in critical discourse.
I limit my focus to what I term the Atlantic world economy, that is, the countries touched by the Atlantic triangle and marked by a history of population displacement and cultural mixing inaugurated through colonial slavery. The authors I have selected position their work in the Atlantic framework. Some more explicitly, like Fatou Diome whose novel is entitled The belly of the Atlantic. Others, like Maryse Condé and Roberto Bolaño, by moving protagonists between some of the major centers of the Atlantic economy. They all, however, pose the question of a globalized Atlantic, distancing themselves from the Atlantic as a triangular space, and reframing it as a space encompassing many poles. The notion of the globalized Atlantic further underscores the tension between a regional framework and a globalized world within which these authors are operating.
At the turn of the 21st century movements resisting the effects of global capitalism have come into existence in several countries, including Egypt, Chile, the United States, Brazil and Turkey. These modes of activism require us to recalibrate some of our geopolitical categories as a way of thinking about transnational citizenship. The authors in my corpus deploy literary
strategies that complement the activism of global socioeconomic and political movements. This dissertation focuses on their imagining of narrative fiction as a space that is both globalized and resistant to the dominant political and economic dimensions of globalization.
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Tucker, Lara. "Spectacles of Inclusion: Cultures of Leisure and Entertainment in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina." Thesis, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8TM7887.
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This dissertation examines the practices of leisure and consumption in early twentieth-century Buenos Aires through both intellectual and mass cultural productions. Using works by authors such as Horacio Quiroga and Roberto Arlt together with articles, images, and texts from the Argentine mass media, I examine how national, social and civic identities were intimately tied to, and were constituted through, technologically mediated leisure practices. Sports and film spectatorship, the reception of radio and the reading popular texts were all activities that opened spaces for the rehearsal of forms of citizenship and encouraged the formation of communities and publics both in line with and contrary to the hegemonic and disciplinary mechanisms of the state.
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Galvez-Pena, Carlos Martin. "Writing History to Reform the Empire: Religious Chroniclers in Seventeenth-Century Peru." Thesis, 2011. https://doi.org/10.7916/D80C57CJ.
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This dissertation analyzes the political and epistemological significance of the religious historical discourse produced in the viceroyalty of Peru between 1600 and 1682. The goal of this discourse was to respond to the secularizing pressure of the Spanish Crown on the religious Orders. Accused of being a burden to the Royal Treasury and slowing the development of colonial economy, colonial religious scholars belonging to the four main religious Orders (Augustinians, Franciscans, Jesuits and Dominicans) and based in the city of Los Reyes (Lima), created a historiographical discourse aimed at defending the missionary and political achievements of their corporations. Seventeenth-century religious historiography fused the medieval religious chronicle, the Counter-reformation sermon, the ars historica and the early modern period political literature (the memorial or arbitrio) to create the chronicle-memorial, a unique creole version of history and colonial Catholic statecraft. While pushing for the institutional claims of the colonial corporate Church, religious chroniclers, through the revision of colonial history, advanced the politic and economic agenda of Peruvian benemérito elites as well. Thus, this work goes from the text to the social and political context that produced it. It also tracks the efforts of the first class of Peruvian historians and political thinkers from Lima to Madrid and Rome in order to build their careers, connect with an imperial Republic of Letters and push for reforms in the body politic of the Spanish Empire.
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Baffi, Maria Carolina. "The Avant-Garde in the Tabloids: Cultural Reconfiguration in the Argentine Popular Press of the 1920s." Thesis, 2017. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8CJ8K75.
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This dissertation analyzes a set of innovative literary practices happening in the popular press in Argentina in the 1920s. It takes its departure from two theoretical premises: that what precipitated the historical avant-garde was the spread of mass culture and that art redraws its limits by incorporating the foreign into it. With these premises in mind, the dissertation shows that the aguafuertes of novelist Roberto Arlt and the women’s columns by poet Alfonsina Storni, because they were written especially for the popular press and because their authors positioned themselves as artists of and in the media, the two—Arlt and Storni—were able to process political, social, and economic changes in a forceful and unprecedented way. Technologically accelerated modernization became their vehicle, and it allowed them to contribute to the democratization of the Argentine cultural field in that decade. Further, analysis of this under-read corpus allows me to assert that it was their journalistic texts in which Arlt and Storni experimented with novel poetics, which “modernized” their own more literary practices.
Published in discardable formats that were hardly prestigious in the center of the mass media of the day, these texts have passed largely unperceived by critics, although in their moment they formed part of a broad cultural agitation that they themselves in part created. Their marginal placement doesn’t obscure the same procedures used in them as was used by the classic avant-garde. In their newspaper writings, Arlt and Storni erased the borders between genres, re-used found materials and did not shun low materials, provoked the public and at the same time included the public, transgressed reigning norms for the behavior of women. No understanding of the 20s in the Río de la Plata can dispense with these texts, and others like them. They were an integral part of the cultural network; more than this, they worked through the extreme transformations of the epoch—as this dissertation shows—with a radicality beyond that of the local avant-gardes.
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Johnson, Benjamin Scott. "This is Also the City: Urban Literature and Modernity in Colombia, 1920-1950." Thesis, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7916/D83R0SP1.
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The Conservative party ruled Colombia from 1886 to 1930. During this period, a coterie of grammarians, poets, and theologians consolidated political power by appealing to literature as a form of rhetorical expertise. The Liberal party took power in 1930 and would hold it until 1946. Recent scholarship has argued that during this period Liberal intellectuals defended the political authority of literary expertise even as they endorsed a modernizing program. Although these charges of hypocrisy are well founded, they tell a limited version of the history of the so-called Liberal Republic, failing to take into full account the work of intellectuals at the edges of the Liberal party’s patronage network. This dissertation considers a series of writer-journalists—including Luis Vidales, Luis Tejada, José Antonio Osorio Lizarazo, José Joaquín Jiménez, and Arnoldo Palacios—who were active in Bogotá between 1920 and 1950. It examines their essays, chronicles, novels, and poems in newspapers and magazines, and less often in books, to argue that they elaborated a new function for literature in Colombia, appealing to the genres of urban journalism and the emerging discipline of urban sociology in order to transform literature into a form of social investigation.
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Diniz, da Silva Daniella Amaral. "A Retaguarda da Vanguarda - Modernidades contestadas em três tempos: Bilac, Aranha e Lobato." Thesis, 2015. https://doi.org/10.7916/D85Q4VVW.
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This dissertation studies conservative modernism through the work of three Brazilian authors: Olavo Bilac, Graça Aranha and Monteiro Lobato. The three of them lived and were active between the 1890s and 1930s and were influential and controversial public figures during that period. Commonly criticized by the avant-garde modernists, their names remain associated with conservative and traditional views of modernity. I analyze how these three authors dialogued with the literary and journalistic circles and what kind of impact their works had when confronted with the avant-garde generation. I argue that some of their main ideas – misconceived in their attempt to answer the dilemmas of Brazilian society at the time – represented, nevertheless, an opportunity to think about the dialogue between high culture and popular culture, key elements of national identity used in the political discourse, and the role of the writer. These three central issues were tackled in the development and accommodation of modernity in the social and political discourse at that time.
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Epstein, Andrea. "Divided only by the 17th parallel : a study of similarities between American and Vietnamese soldiers in selected works." Diss., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3250.
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This dissertation undertakes a comparative study of certain works of literature concerning Vietnamese and American troops during the United States’ involvement in Southeast Asia in the 1960s and 1970s. My assumption was that during war it is possible to conclude that enemy forces behave in the same manner in order to reach the identical goal, that of victory over the ‘other’ side. I sought to ascertain how under the selfsame conditions they could be considered as enemies.
Divided only by the 17th Parallel: A Study of Similarities Between American and Vietnamese Soldiers in Selected Works
By close reading of six texts, three from Vietnamese and three from American perspectives, I have attempted to extract their similar views from each in order to create a context in which the likeness of each side is demonstrated. This was achieved by exploring four themes: those of landscape, time, conflict and ghosts. It was discovered that the protagonists’ behaviour was the same and that rather than being the others’ adversary their true enemies were found within their own ranks.
The results indicate that a wider perspective should be adopted on war than one which regards it as a simplistic binary consisting of two opposing sides. Contrary to any supposition that enemies must remain separated, there is more than enough evidence for one to conclude that they actually occupied mutual psychological territory.
Key Terms: Landscape, time, ghosts, psychological damage, Reader Response, CSR, PTSD, New Historicism, dehumanisation, conditions of war, 1954 Geneva Agreement, ideology, war literature.English Literature
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Books on the topic "Psychological aspects of Latin American literature"
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Harvard University. Center for International Affairs., ed. Underdevelopment is a state of mind: The Latin American case. [Cambridge, Mass.]: Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1988.
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Underdevelopment is a state of mind: The Latin American case. Lanham, MD: Center for International Affairs, Harvard University and University Press of America, 1985.
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Tubert-Oklander, Juan. Operative groups: The Latin-American approach to group analysis. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004.
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Underdevelopment is a state of mind: The Latin American case. Lanham, Md: Madison Books, 2000.
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1945-, Bickman Martin, ed. American romantic psychology: Emerson, Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville. Dallas, Tex: Spring Publications, 1988.
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Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover culture in American life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Padrón, Yolanda N. Educating Hispanic students: Obstacles and avenues to improved academic achievement. Santa Cruz, CA: Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence, 2002.
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Albuquerque, Severino João Medeiros. Violent acts: A study of contemporary Latin American theatre. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991.
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Carpenter, Victoria. (Re)collecting the past: History and collective memory in Latin American narrative. New York: Peter Lang, 2009.
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Carpenter, Victoria. (Re)collecting the past: History and collective memory in Latin American narrative. New York: Peter Lang, 2009.
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Soledad Chavero Torres, Magdalena, Rosa María Cruz-Castruita, Norma Angélica Borbón Castro, Nancy Cristina Banda Sauceda, and Oswaldo Ceballos Gurrola. "Biopsychosocial Characteristics of Elderly Adults of Latin America: Strategies of Physical Activity for the Functional Health." In Sport Psychology in Sports, Exercise and Physical Activity [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.99476.
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This chapter’s approach to an emergent reality of the demographic transition related to a new paradigm of the active aging, demands strategies lead to improve a healthy life expectancy, autonomy maintenance and the promotion of changes in healthy behaviors. Information is provided to the professionals of health to evaluate the physical and functional condition of the elderly people, considering the biological, psychological, and social aspects. When moved to practice, results are presented in a study who analyzes the biopsychosocial characteristics of the elderly adults of Monterrey, Mexico. Furthermore, implemented a literature review to promote, maintain and improve the physical, psychological, and social health. In Addition, recommendations are presented to describe physical activity in the elderly adults considering the type of exercise about to perform, its intensity, volume, frequency, materials and how to structure the sessions to make easier its practice and achieve a physical exercise adherence. After all the previous, its recommended as necessary to foment in a higher recognition the importance of the regular physical activity among those who formulate the public politics for the promotion of strategies according to the characteristics and interests of this populational group.
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Fisher, Lisa. "Why Psychology and Criminal Justice Can Only Take Us So Far." In Handbook of Research on School Violence in American K-12 Education, 121–38. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-6246-7.ch005.
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Concerns about continued increases in violent behavior in American schools and schools' ability to mitigate and reduce risks abound. Psychology and criminal justice have contributed much to what we know and understand about violence in schools; however, the author argues that these dominant disciplinary perspectives also obscure some important aspects of these phenomena, namely focus on underlying cultural logics that may be impacting violence in schools. In this chapter, the author sets out to achieve two objectives. First, she provides an overview of areas of focus in current literature in psychology and criminal justice that represent the dominant framework within which school violence in the U.S. is viewed. Additionally, she examines those disciplinary perspectives in terms of specific strengths and limitations. Second, she presents and describes a series of social psychological theories and pulls those theories into a coherent framework to demonstrate the value of the social psychological lens in studies of school violence and stimulate further discussion and research on this important topic.
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Coletta, Michela. "Against the poetics of decadence: Latin America and the aesthetics of regeneration." In Decadent Modernity, 116–43. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781786941312.003.0005.
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In the late nineteenth century, sociological studies often functioned as a channel between the psychological and criminological sciences and the traditional field of literature. I argue that Nordau’s work, which drew as much upon Italian criminology as it did upon Jean-Marie Guyau’s sociological theory of aesthetics, constituted a major path by which ideas of degeneration taken from the medical and criminological sciences came to be a fundamental tool of interpretation of modern Latin American culture. One of the main lines of argument in this chapter is that social theories on the degeneration of modern art were useful to vast sectors of the late-nineteenth-century intellectual elites to identify with the values of modern civilisation. By linking the development of literary modernismo to the wider engagement with questions about the features of modern civilisation, this discussion offers a new reading of modernismo as a movement that in its boom phase helped foster ideas of modernity as an essentially urban − and therefore transnational − phenomenon through notions of refinement, disease and degeneration. The second part of the chapter shows how Rodó’s seminal essay Ariel marked a turning point from decadent civilisation to the idea of Latin American culture by building on a moral conception of aesthetics.
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Khalik, Mahmoud, and Sara Lopez-Gomez. "Understanding Social Business and Wellbeing at the BoP." In Evolving Entrepreneurial Strategies for Self-Sustainability in Vulnerable American Communities, 305–23. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2860-9.ch016.
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The interest in poverty reduction has received scholarly attention from various academics studying developmental economics, the informal economy and the base of the pyramid (BoP). This chapter intends to engage with the BoP topic by reviewing research areas that are intertwined: the informal economy, the BoP and perhaps most importantly social business and wellbeing. The chapter introduces Algramo, a BoP venture from Chile that aims to reduce food poverty in Latin America. The focus of this chapter is on Algramo's activities in Colombia as a single case study to better understand the impact of three wellbeing aspects on the stakeholders involved. Although Algramo, a work in progress, is primarily focused on food poverty reduction; this chapter reveals that there are potentially much wider implications that are consistent with BoP literature. Wellbeing is important and merits further study when investigating BoP ventures. The chapter concludes with future research directions for BoP scholars and for those who are interested in the wider impacts of engaging with the BoP segment.
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Aristizábal Tamayo, Juan Manuel, Edwin Tarapuez, and Juan Carlos Vasquez. "Application of a Fuzzy System to the Analysis of Entrepreneurial Intention in Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia." In Advances in Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage, 237–58. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2019-2.ch013.
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Asymmetries in the relative growth of Latin American countries and the disparities in both institutional performance and cultural aspects validate the search for new explanations in analyzing the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth. In this sense, although the study of entrepreneurial intention (EI) has received greater attention in the setting of academic research and design of public policy, the literature voids remain related with the treatment of the phenomenon as a multidimensional problem in situations in which the information available is scarce and not structured. Due to the aforementioned, this document proposes a mathematical model based on fussy logic techniques from the study of the factors that impact upon the EI of undergraduate students in administration in three Latin American countries: Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia.
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Nava, Alejandro. "Introduction." In In Search of Soul. University of California Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520293533.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter briefly considers the two major streams that have shaped Western ideas of soul: religious and biblical versions of soul; and cultural, musical, and literary interpretations. These categories allow us to consider soul from different angles, first as a biblical and theological concept and subsequently as a question of style in music, folklore, poetry, and literature. When speaking of this second inflection, the chapter (and the book as a whole) focuses on African American and Spanish/Latin American traditions, as they converge with the author's own area of expertise and, more personally, touch aspects of his own culturally conditioned soul.
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Fisher, Lisa. "Why Psychology and Criminal Justice Can Only Take Us So Far." In Research Anthology on Rehabilitation Practices and Therapy, 1840–57. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3432-8.ch093.
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Concerns about continued increases in violent behavior in American schools and schools' ability to mitigate and reduce risks abound. Psychology and criminal justice have contributed much to what we know and understand about violence in schools; however, the author argues that these dominant disciplinary perspectives also obscure some important aspects of these phenomena, namely focus on underlying cultural logics that may be impacting violence in schools. In this chapter, the author sets out to achieve two objectives. First, she provides an overview of areas of focus in current literature in psychology and criminal justice that represent the dominant framework within which school violence in the U.S. is viewed. Additionally, she examines those disciplinary perspectives in terms of specific strengths and limitations. Second, she presents and describes a series of social psychological theories and pulls those theories into a coherent framework to demonstrate the value of the social psychological lens in studies of school violence and stimulate further discussion and research on this important topic.
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Rothe, Eugenio M., and Andres J. Pumariega. "The Immigrant Narrative." In Immigration, Cultural Identity, and Mental Health, 179–96. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190661700.003.0009.
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The chapter on the immigrant narrative explains the role of human narratives in identity development and explains the origins, meanings, and importance of the quintessential American narrative, which is known as the narrative of the redemptive self. It explains how understanding the dynamics of this particular narrative facilitates the understanding of the American cultural experience and how many aspects of this narrative parallel the immigrant experience. It discusses the concepts of historical truth and narrative truth. It explains how the use of narratives can serve as a useful therapeutic tool to help the immigrant work through the traumas and losses associated with migration and to negotiate the different stages of transformation of the immigrant’s identity. This chapter also explains the neurobiology of memory formation and the distortions of memory and narrative that may result from psychological trauma. It discusses how psychotherapy involves the creation of new, more adaptive narratives that can provide healing and personal growth and its relevance in the immigrant experience. It also discusses immigrant narratives in contemporary literature and how these can be used as a therapeutic tool with the younger generations of immigrants. The chapter is illustrated with various clinical cases.