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Hayes, Sam Alexander. "Martial the book poet : contextu(r)alising the Flavian poetry book." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/26157.
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This thesis explores how the reader is invited to read the books of Martial’s Epigrams, arguing that the epigrammatist has arranged the poems in his libelli in a specific order that rewards a sequential reading of the text from start to finish. Instead of viewing Martial as an anthologist who collated a series of occasional poems for their later publication, the thesis demonstrates that the poet showed awareness of his epigrams’ position within a larger ‘contexture’, and that he primes the reader throughout the Epigrams to envisage the books as thematically unified wholes. By viewing the Epigrams as a text to be read from beginning to end, rather than a text to be excerpted and anthologised, one can read each epigram in the wider context of its book, and better appreciate that book’s structural unity. Chapter one introduces the issues at stake in how one reads a book of epigrams, and provides the thesis’ methodological approach. Special attention is paid to the phenomenology of reading as a hermeneutic act, drawing together approaches to the Epigrams from classical scholarship as well as from reception and comic book theories to detail the method of ‘cumulative reading’ employed in the thesis. The second chapter then examines how Martial characterises the lector studiosus in his text, and how this depicted reader acts as a model for the actual reader to follow in their own sequential reading of the Epigrams. Chapter three focuses on Epigrams 7, demonstrating that the opening poems of the book establish the emperor Domitian as a thematic centrepiece around whom the rest of the book’s themes cluster. The fourth chapter also examines book 7, demonstrating how two different uses of watery motifs develop their individual thematic unity across the book, while also linking themselves back to the book’s opening imperial cycle to craft an overarching structural unity for the libellus. Chapter five then gives an overview of the larger structure of the Epigrams, arguing that the paratextual prose prefaces in books 1, 2, 8, 9, and 12 reinforce the individuality of the books they precede as well as establishing their own place within the wider corpus. Overall, this thesis puts the epigrammatic libellus back into the context of late first century AD book culture, emphasising that Martial paid attention not only to his epigrams’ position within their own books, but also their place within the wider corpus.
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Rodriguez, Naranjo Gloria Estella. "Personal a/r/tographic narratives of cultural displacement : in Latino American immigrants living in Canada." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43217.
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Immigration is the act of moving to and settling into a new country. It means starting again while leaving many people and things behind. This phenomenon has been embraced, embodied, lived, celebrated and suffered by many people for various reasons throughout history. Factors such as war and political oppression, poor living conditions, economic opportunity and stability are explanations for why people decide to leave their native countries. Therefore, immigration embodies loss of one’s culture but at the same time embodies celebration for enhanced opportunities, when arriving and adjusting to the codes of a new system. Understanding cultural displacement as the sensation of being in a third space, of having to re-invent yourself again, adjusting day-by-day to a new culture, this study examines how Latin American immigrants to Canada confront cultural displacement.
Applying a/r/tography and photo-elicitation as research methodologies the study sets up conditions for participants to engage and construct meaning together about being away from home. This research analyzes the extent to which Latin American immigrants to Canada negotiate being in-between these two spaces (their country of origin and Canada). It does this primarily through the creation of a series of photographs and conversations.
Some of the findings reveal that indeed Latin American immigrants acknowledge that the process of settlement in a foreign land is complicated and it takes time to adjust and understand the culture. At the same time Latin American immigrants admit the importance of comprehending, cultivating and embracing Canadian culture, in order to merge easily in its communities. Similarly, the findings unfold the way participants created their own version of what it means to be Canadians rather than learning simply from others about its significance. As immigrants, the group I studied kept some features of Latin cultures alive in Canada, in this way, the study presents a new understanding of what is possible while dwelling in the in-between.
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Noriega, Ramiro. "Entre Histoire et mémoire. Un aspect du roman espagnol et hispano-américain à l'aube du XXIème siècle (R. Piglia, R Bolano, J. Cercas)." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00977958.
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Dans Les détectives sauvages, Respiration artificielle et Les Soldats de Salamine, Bolaño, Piglia et Cercas mettent en avant trois questions que nous traitons dans cette étude: 1. Le roman est un objet historique, en tant que document et en tant que dispositif du discours. 2. L'écriture de fiction, l'écriture romanesque, la fabrication des romans ne peut se faire sans recourir à la mémoire. 3. La relation conflictuelle entre réel et fiction constitue le terrain de développement du récit contemporain. Le premier chapitre part d'une réflexion sur le rapport entre littérature et Histoire en Amérique Latine et en Espagne ; suit une réflexion sur le concept d'Histoire et le rôle de l'historien dans la littérature, une étude sur les rapports entre le narrateur et l'objet de sa narration, et finalement une analyse sur la littérature en tant que transgression. Dans le deuxième chapitre nous traitons la notion de mémoire en relation avec l'imaginaire ; les notions de durée et d'image chez Platon, Aristote, Freud, Bergson et Ricœur sont à la base de cette analyse. Suit une analyse sur les tensions entre écriture, souvenir et imagination. Nous nous occupons du document et de la fiction en étudiant le rôle des personnages écrivains, de la mémoire en tant qu'imagination, et sur le rapport entre le corps et la mémoire dans l'écriture chez les trois auteurs. Le troisième chapitre pose la question d'une nouvelle poétique de la fiction par une étude sur la notion d'ostranenie de Brecht, ainsi que sur les limites de l'écriture de fiction à travers les notions d'origine, de l'infini, de l'insuffisant, et du dissemblable -- celle-ci par une lecture comparée avec les travaux de Didi-Huberman. Pour finir, une réflexion sur les notions de local, d'universel, du récit manqué, et de l'inutilité de la littérature. Toutes ces notions sont traitées par des analyses ponctuelles des trois romans étudiés.
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Cordovez, Mónica. "Transfer of technology to Latin America." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60476.
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The acquisition of foreign technology is an imperative requisite for the economic and social progress of developing countries. However, the strong bargaining position of technology suppliers vis a vis technology acquirers unduly influences the terms and conditions under which technology is conveyed to developing countries and perpetuates their dependence on foreign sources of technology.State intervention, through the enactment of technology transfer legislation, is a viable alternative for strengthening the acquirer's bargaining position, and thus obtaining technology under fair and equitable terms. Technology transfer policies must focus on the generation of indigenous technological capabilities, rather than on the mere importation of consumptive technology. In order to achieve their ultimate goals--social and economic progress and technological self-reliance, developing countries' governments must integrate these policies within concrete and long-term economic development programs.
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Fernández, Sandy M. (Sandy Michele). "Notes from a Latina in Canada : criticism and stories." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=68087.
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While writing in English by Hispanas has been in publication for decades, it is only in the last few years that the writing and its attendant criticism have attracted mainstream attention in the United States. The purpose of this work is to provide an introduction to different facets of Hispana writing. The first section of the work, an essay titled, "Emerging Criticism and Themes in Hispana Literature," provides an up-dated overview of issues within Hispana literary criticism and major themes within the writing itself. The latter part of that essay uses as its framework Tey Diana Rebolledo's 1985 essay, "The Maturing of Chicana Poetry: the Quiet Revolution of the 1980's." The second section of the work consists of four original short stories which reflect some of the general characteristics of Hispana writing. Together, the two parts are intended to provide Canadian scholars with a succinct introduction to this growing field, and thus aid and encourage them to further explore it on their own.
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Segura, Mauricio. "Le discours francais sur l'Amerique latine revolutionnaire (1950-1985) /." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38274.
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This thesis entitled "Le discours francais sur l'Amerique latine revolutionnaire (1950--1985)" proposes to analyze about thirty texts published in France during the mentioned period in order to extract the primary axis around which the hexagonal representations and discourses which examine Latin America articulate themselves. The corpus gathers chiefly novels and political essays, but it also includes anthropological essays, journalistic commentaries and testimonies. This is a study that relies on the theory of social discourse and on imagology.This investigation, which perceives itself as an overview of the images elaborated by the French social discourse on Latin America, examines closely the historical moments when there are determinant discursive mutations. Therefore, from 1950 to 1961, a first manner of apprehending the Latin American other is identified. This period was described as a moment of transition during which the French discourse goes from a discursive frame which emphasizes on the theme of nature to a discursive frame which privileges the power relations between social agents. From 1962 to 1974, Latin America becomes for the French writers a geographical region upon which one pours off revolutionary aspirations. The axioms of third worldism, primary discursive formation enhanced by this period, run through the whole of the texts at various degrees. Also, this thesis aims to reveal the figures and spaces which emerge from this whole of contradictory representations. From 1975 to 1985, one witnesses the decomposition of the discursive formations and representations established during the two previous decades. Indeed, several discursive formations during these ten years question not only third worldism and its revolutionary impulses, but also the function of the intellectual.
On a more general basis, this study examines the history of ideas in France from 1950 to 1985. One of its implicit goals is to describe the rules which diversify, give coherence, integrate, exclude, and legitimate a "new" idea in the French social discourse.
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Pendergrass, Jan Noble. "La Correspondance latine d'Antoine Arlier, 1527 à 1545 édition critique du Ms. 200 (761-R. 132) de la Bibliothèque Méjanes d'Aix-en-Provence /." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb376088115.
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Pendergrass, Jan Noble. "La correspondance latine d'Antoine Arlier, 1527 à 1545 : édition critique du Ms. 200 (761-R.132) de la bibliothèque Méjanes d'Aix-en-Provence." Tours, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987TOUR2006.
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Antoine Arlier, fils d'un notaire de Calvisson, naquit vers le début du XVIe siècle. Il fit ses études de droit et de littérature en France, puis en italie, ou il se lia d'amitié avec Etienne Dolet. Premier consul de Nîmes en 1535, il fut nommé lieutenant du sénéchal de Provence au siège d'Arles en novembre de la même année et devint, en 1538, conseiller au parlement français de Turin. Sa correspondance le revèle à la fois comme un des plus fidèles serviteurs de la politique de françois 1er et un des principaux promoteurs de la Renaissance à Nîmes. Arlier participa activement à la réforme de la justice en Provence à partir de 1536, contribua à la défense d'Arles pendant la guerre avec l'empereur Charles Quint (1536), aida dans les préparations de l'entrevue d'Aigues-mortes (1538) et joua un rôle important dans l'établissement d'une université des arts à Nîmes. De 1539 jusqu'à sa mort obscure vers la deuxième moitié de 1545, il a rendu des services à sa patrie dans l'administration du territoire occupé du Piemont. Cette édition de sa correspondance latine contient 81 de ses lettres adressées à des gens d'église, juristes, magistrats, poêtes, humanistes et educateurs français et étrangers, de 1527 à 1545Antoine arlier, son of a notary public of calvisson, was born around the beginning of the 16th century. He studied law and literature first in france, then in italy, where he became friends with etienne dolet. Having been first consul of nimes in 1535, he was designated lieutenant-seneschal of arles in novembre of the same year, and in 1538 obtained a senatorial appointment at the french parliament of turino. His correspondence reveals him both as a trustworthy supporter of francis i and as one of the principal promotors of the french renaissance in nimes. Arlier actively participated in the judicial reform of provence as early as 1536, contributed to the defence of arles during the war with the emperor charles v (1536), helped prepare the interview of aigues-mortes (1538) and played and important role in the establishment of the university of nimes. From 1539 until his obscure death in the latter part of 1545, he served his country as a high-ranking administrator in the occupied territory of piedmont. This edition of his latin correspondence contains 81 of the author's letters adressed to both foreign and domestic clergy members, jurists, magistrates, poets, humanists and educators, from 1527 to 1545
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Nájera, Carvajal Rafael. "Scientia in Twelfth Century philosophy in the Latin West." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=107655.
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This thesis a study of the notion of scientia in thinkers of the Latin West in the twelfth century. Scientia is a Latin word that has served to refer to important conceptions of science. Important in medieval philosophy is its use as the translation of the Greek word episteme, which captures Aristotle's conception of science and that becomes very important in the thirteenth century. I explore the precursor to that notion of scientia in works before and immediately after the first translations of the scientific works of Aristotle. The notion in question, more or less developed in the different authors and linked to an educational environment marked by the liberal arts and dialectics in particular, is shown to be generally based in views expressed mainly by Augustine and Boethius. Scientia is construed mostly as theoretical, spiritual knowledge that is a necessary step in the quest for the ultimate intellectual state of wisdom (sapientia). Hugh of St. Victor is the thinker with the most sophisticated account of scientia in this period; his views are shown to be tightly integrated into an overall conception of knowledge as purification of being. Thinkers already in contact with Aristotle's scientific works have accounts that even though informed by new texts, still are found to be working roughly with the same base conception.Cette thèse est une étude de la notion de scientia chez certains penseurs occidentaux du douzième siècle. Le mot scientia a été utilisé pour désigner diverses conceptions de la science. Dans la philosophie médiévale, il traduit le mot grec episteme, qui forme le centre de la conception aristotélicienne de la science, et dont l'importance sera particulièrement marquée au treizième siècle. Dans cette thèse, j'étudie la façon de concevoir la scientia qui précède ces dévelopements, en examinant des écrits rédigés avant et immédiatement après les premières traductions des œuvres scientifiques d'Aristote. J'établis que cette notion antérieure de scientia, plus ou moins élaborée selon les penseurs et étroitement liée à un contexte éducatif marqué par l'enseignement des arts libéraux et de la dialectique, est basée sur des concepts exprimés principalement par Augustin et Boèce. La scientia est comprise comme un savoir théorique et spirituel constituant une étape nécessaire dans la quête de l'état intellectuel ultime qu'est la sagesse (sapientia). Hugues de Saint-Victor articule la notion de scientia la plus accomplie, ses propos étant intégrés à une conception plus vaste de la connaissance comme purification de l'être. D'autres penseurs, qui ont déjà eu l'occasion de lire les oeuvres scientifiques d'Aristote, expriment en revanche des conceptions informées par des nouveaux textes, mais qui, en general, restent proches de la tradition.
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Zuniga, Rodriguez Ricardo Francisco. "A comparative analysis of internet protocol telephony in Latin America /." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32819.
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Recent technological advances (such as digitization) and economic shifts (such as privatization and liberalization) have radically changed the telecommunications landscape.Internet Telephony is one of the most important developments that has resulted from digitization. It raises several legal-regulatory issues at both domestic and international levels.
This thesis analyzes the existing legal-regulatory framework for Internet Telephony in Latin America, and examines its implications and potential developments in the region.
In order to provide a more solid foundation for this analysis, the first chapter provides an overview of the traditional regulatory framework, and describes the technological and economic underpinnings of Internet Telephony.
The second chapter studies the regulatory frameworks for Internet Telephony that have been adopted by Canada, the United States and the European Union. These frameworks could serve as models and provide further guidance to analyze the approaches taken to regulate Internet Telephony in Latin America.
Finally, the third chapter examines the three existing legal-regulatory approaches to Internet Telephony that have been adopted in Latin America and its potential implications.
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Occhipinti, Joseph. "Identity, place and community : a latin American locale in Montreal." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26749.
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This is a study of a Latin American community centre in Montreal based on two years of participant observation. The Centre is one of many locales where immigrants spend their time and come to understand a new city, its history, people, and institutional systems. As such, it is a place where social identity is actively negotiated and frequently reinvented, highlighting the constructed and dynamic qualities of ethnicity in contemporary Western society. The study dialectically considers small- and large-scale influences on the Centre and its members. While structural limits often foster social marginalization which must be recognized and addressed, cultural production and the negotiation of identity occur primarily through the subtle and minute lifeworld experiences that are found in the everyday lives at the Centre.
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Pietrobruno, Sheenagh. "Salsa and its transnational moves : the commodification of latin dance in Montreal." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38417.
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In Montreal, salsa dancing is both an expression of Latin identity and a cultural commodity. Many Montrealers of Latin descent adopt salsa dance as part of their cultural heritage only after arriving in Canada, connecting, through salsa, to a transnational Latin identity that crosses the Americas. This situation illustrates how cultural affiliations are not necessarily fixed, but can be acquired in response to changing circumstances. Since salsa is not indigenous to the city, residents of Montreal can only access it through cultural institutions and community media outlets. This commodification influences the manner in which salsa expresses Latin identity in the city. At the same time that salsa dancing proclaims Latin identity for certain individuals in the city, the practice thrives in a multicultural context: the Montreal salsa scene comprises diverse individuals who promote, teach, and dance salsa. This dissertation addresses points of division and cooperation among diverse cultures, ethnicities, races, and both sexes, as they are played out in aspects of salsa dancing in the city. The unfolding of these relationships is influenced by both the commodification of salsa dancing and its link to Latin culture. This analysis seeks to provide a theoretical account of the tension between salsa's expression of identity and its status as a commodified cultural practice. This perspective integrates various approaches to the study of dance and culture stemming from anthropology, sociology and cultural studies. Analyzing the Montreal salsa scene, I draw from in-depth interviews with individuals involved in the promotion of Latin dance and music, as well as participant observations in salsa dance classes, clubs and events. The methodology of this research combines ethnography with various areas of concern: the history of salsa, Latin immigration patterns in Montreal, theories of multiculturalism, transnationalism and diaspora, the Latin influence in ballroom dance, Europe
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Quintanilla, Bedregal Pablo A. "Reorganizing popular politics: Participation and the new interest regime in Latin America. Collier, R. y Handlin, S. (eds) University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press." Politai, 2011. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/91902.
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Baltodano, Egner Charlotte. "The process of transforming human rights practices in Latin America : NGOs and their quest to develop international human rights norms." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=78200.
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International lawyers are increasingly interested in studying NGOs ("NGOs") and their influence on state behavior, but few have studied the impact that domestic NGOs can have on transforming and generating international norms. This paper explores the links between Latin American NGOs and their aim of changing international norms into more effective instruments against systematic violations of human rights by states. I will aim to articulate the stages of the processes that NGOs go through to change state behavior.I decided to write about NGOs and changes to human rights norms because I have dedicated most of my life to trying to eliminate human rights violations in Latin America. To the detractors that insist that such attempts are futile, I would respond that every effort one can contribute to the human rights movement is one step towards the goal of transforming beliefs and principles into real changes to state practices.
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Van, Isschot Luis. "The social origins of human rights: popular responses to political violence in a Colombian oil refinery town (1919-1993)." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=95033.
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This dissertation examines why, how and with what impact people living in conflict areas organize collectively to assert human rights. The focus is the emergence in the 1980s of a human rights movement in the oil enclave of Barrancabermeja. The Barrancabermeja-based Regional Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CREDHOS) was created in 1987 in the context of dirty war fought on multiple fronts between state security forces and their paramilitary allies, on the one hand, and Marxist insurgent groups, on the other. In exploring the history of a human rights movement in one of Colombia's most chronically war-affected regions, this dissertation expands our understanding of how frontline activists interpret human rights principles from the bottom-up. Human rights movements cannot be viewed as axiomatic or simple humanitarian responses to political violence. The term human rights refers to contingent norms and practices that are derived from lived experiences of authoritarianism, war, poverty and social exclusion. In this dissertation I argue that social activists in the war-torn Colombian oil town of Barrancabermeja undertook human rights activism both as a strategy of self-preservation and as a transformative praxis. In Barrancabermeja, the struggle for human rights did not displace or supplant longstanding local struggles for social justice and political change. Rather, human rights was considered to be a form of social protest consistent with previously existing traditions of popular radicalism for which Barrancabermeja has become celebrated.Cette thèse de doctorat examine l'action collective en faveur des droits humains organisée par des personnes vivant en zone de conflit, analysant les raisons qui ont motivé cette démarche, la façon par laquelle elle fut mise en uvre et ses impacts concrets. L'analyse cible particulièrement l'apparition d'un mouvement des droits humains dans l'enclave pétrolière de Barrancabermeja. Le Comité régional pour la défense des droits humains (CREDHOS) fut établi en 1987 alors que sévissait sur plusieurs fronts une guerre sale opposant l'État colombien et ses alliés paramilitaires aux insurgés marxistes. En ciblant la création d'un mouvement des droits humains dans une des régions de la Colombie les plus affligées par la guerre, cette thèse révèle comment les principes des droits humains peuvent être interprétés de façon singulière par les activistes en zone de combat. L'émergence de mouvements des droits humains ne peut être réduite à un réflexe humanitaire pour contrer la violence politique. Le concept même de droits humains fait référence à des pratiques et normes contingentes qui ont été modelées par l'expérience des régimes autoritaires, de la guerre, de la pauvreté et de l'exclusion sociale. Les gens qui militaient en faveur des droits humains dans l'enclave pétrolière de Barrancabermeja ont mis en uvre leur activisme en poursuivant deux buts : d'une part, celui-ci constituait une stratégie d'autodéfense contre la violence politique; d'autre part, il représentait une pratique sociale réformatrice. Les luttes en faveur d'une plus grande justice sociale qui animaient déjà Barrancabermeja depuis des décennies n'ont pas été supplantées par ce nouvel activisme pour les droits humains. Au contraire, le militantisme entourant la promotion des droits humains était compatible avec cette tradition de radicalisme populaire qui avait fait la renommée de Barrancabermeja.
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Palomares, Salas Claudio. "La cuestión judía como ficción fundacional en «La hija del judío» de Justo Sierra O'Reilly." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66808.
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This thesis proposes a reading of Justo Sierra O´Reilly´s La hija del judío as a regional foundational fiction that makes use of the Jewish Question to represent the colonial past of Yucatan. Here it is analyzed how the Jewish Question has been used in the national narratives of both Europe and Latin America, and the place that La hija del judío occupies among the Latin-American foundational fictions. At the same time, it is shown how Sierr a O´Reilly uses the Jewish Question to rewrite Yucatan´s history from a liberal perspective that seeks the construction of an independent Republic of Yucatan. The objective of this work is to contribute to the reappreciation of La hija del judío as one of the masterpieces of Mexican literature while promoting the study of the Jewish Question in the literature of Yucatan.Cette thèse propose une lecture de La hija del judio de Justo Sierra O'Reilly comme une ficción fundacional qui utilise la question juive pour représenter le passé colonial du Yucatan. La thèse explore à la fois la façon dont la question juive a été utilisée dans les narratives nationales de l'Europe et de l'Amérique latine et la place que tient La hija del judio dans les ficciones fundacionales de l'Amérique latine. En partant d'une perspective libérale dont le but est la construction d'une république indépendante du Yucatan, cette thèse étudie de quelle manière Sierra O' Reilly utilise la question juive pour réécrire l'histoire du Yucatan. L'objectif de ce travail est de contribuer à la revalorisation du roman de Sierra O'Reilly comme un des chefs d'oeuvres de la littérature mexicaine et en même temps, de promouvoir l'étude de la question juive dans les lettres yucathèques.
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Rigo, De Alonso Viviana. "Mujeres y escritura de vida: la autobiografia femenina en la Argentina del siglo XX: Marìa Rosa Oliver, Victoria Ocampo y Alicia Jurado." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=103587.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, in Argentina, there was a marked increase in the number of women who dedicated themselves to writing professionally. This has resulted in women gradually acquiring a voice of their own and a distinct place in the national literary discourse. By the mid-1960s there was a noticeable tendency among several of these female authors to write and publish their autobiographies, thus contributing to the creation and recreation of alternative public self images, which were usually in marked contrast to the parameters tacitly established for female writing by the Argentine literary, cultural, and social elite. The purpose of this doctoral thesis is, therefore, to investigate the strategies of self-representation that these female Argentine authors, Victoria Ocampo, María Rosa Oliver, and Alicia Jurado, used in their texts to create their particular self image and expose their private life. Through their life narratives such authors began to break into the national corpus of autobiography and occupy a space hitherto rarely taken up by female writers. First, an overview of the consistent under-evaluation of both autobiography and female writing in literary studies in general, and in Argentina in particular, will be conducted. Then attention will centre on the autobiographical writings of Argentine female authors borne between the final decade of the nineteenth and the early years of the twentieth centuries. Finally, particular attention will be paid to the historic-cultural, literary, and feminist context of the times to which these autobiographies refer as well as the actual moment in which the texts were written and published.On peut constater dès le début du XXe siècle en Argentine, une remarquable augmentation dans le nombre de femmes dédiées à l'écriture professionnelle qui leur permît de gagner graduellement une voix et un espace propres, dans la littérature nationale. Vers la moitié des années 60, on peut voir parmi beaucoup de ces femmes écrivaines une forte tendance à élaborer et publier leurs autobiographies, en contribuant de cette façon à créer et recréer une image féminine alternative et propre, normalement en dissonance avec les paramètres établis tacitement par le milieu social, culturel et littéraire argentin. Le but de cette dissertation doctorale est donc d'examiner les stratégies d'autoreprésentation que les écrivaines féminines argentines Victoria Ocampo, María Rosa Oliver et Alicia Jurado utilisent dans leurs textes à fin d'exposer leurs vies privées devant le lecteur et d'occuper avec leurs narratives de vie, l'espace rarement peuplé dans la littérature nationale de l'autobiographie écrite par des femmes argentines. À cette fin, ma recherche abordera l'analyse de la situation de dévaluation dans laquelle l'autobiographie et l'écriture féminines se sont trouvées pendant longtemps parmi la littérature et les études littéraires, en général, et parmi la littérature argentine, en particulier. Mon étude se focalisera sur la production autobiographique des écrivaines féminines argentines nées entre la dernière décennie du XIXe siècle et le début du XXe et dirigera une attention particulière au contexte du discours historique, culturel, littéraire et féministe de l'époque où ces narratives de vie s'insèrent, ainsi qu'au moment particulier dans lequel les textes sont produits et publiés.
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Benedetti, Rosser Sandra. "Bodies in motion: María Luisa Bemberg's filmic approach to women and their journeys." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=110369.
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ABSTRACTArgentina's film industry and feminist movement both emerged at the turn of the twentieth century and evolved side by side. However, from the 1900s to the 1970s, the number of women in front of the camera in Argentina far exceeded the mere three directing behind it: two female directors during the silent era (1901-1928), none throughout the Golden Age of Argentine cinema (1930-1950) and one in the 1960s. Not until the 1970s do feminism and film finally intersect in the figure of Argentine film director María Luisa Bemberg. A unique female perspective grounded in her feminist ideals distinguishes Bemberg from her predecessors. In her short, impressive career, Bemberg subverts stereotypical images of women in Argentine cinema to leave a legacy of female protagonists that embody a new model of 'woman' in film. This dissertation studies Bemberg's framing of women and their spatial movement in her historical biographies: Camila (1984), Miss Mary (1986) and Yo, la peor de todas (1990). Bemberg correlates her female protagonists' transgressive movements with their desire for independence. The director's female perspective exposes the political, social and cultural problems that continue to repress women and which each of her nonconforming protagonists, in her own way, is meant to reveal. This study makes an important contribution to existing scholarship on Argentine cinema in particular and to film studies in general since few studies exist that specifically explore women's movement framed through the cinematographic gaze of a female director.First, I delineate the histories of Argentine film and of the feminist movement before exploring women's roles in the film industry. Through a selection of Argentine 'Golden Age' films, I examine the female stereotypes and conventions of spatial movement to assess whether Bemberg breaks away aesthetically. Finally, I apply aspects of Giuliana Bruno's feminist film theory to analyze Bemberg's spatial framing of women in her biographical films.SOMMAIREL'industrie cinématographique et le mouvement féministe en Argentine ont tous deux émergés au début du XXe siècle et ont évolué côte à côte. Toutefois, entre les années 1900 et les années 1970, il y avait beaucoup plus d'actrices que de réalisatrices dans le cinéma argentin: deux réalisatrices à l'époque du film muet (1901-1928), aucune pendant l'âge d'or du cinéma argentin (1930-1950) et une dans les années 1960. Ce n'est que dans les années 1970 que féminisme et cinéma se croisent finalement dans l'œuvre de la réalisatrice María Luisa Bemberg. Bemberg se distingue de ses prédécesseurs par sa perspective féminine unique soutenue par ses idéaux féministes. Au cours de sa courte et impressionnante carrière, Bemberg a renversé les images stéréotypées de la femme dans le cinéma argentin pour faire place à une lignée de protagonistes féminines qui incarnent un nouveau modèle de femmes dans le cinéma. Cette thèse étudie la représentation des femmes et leur mouvement spatial dans les biographies historiques de Bemberg: Camila (1984), Miss Mary (1986) et Yo, la peor de todas (1990). Dans ces films, Bemberg montre la relation ente les mouvements transgressifs de ses protagonistes féminins et leur désir d'indépendance. La perspective féminine et féministe de la réalisatrice révèle les enjeux et institutions politiques, sociaux et culturels qui ont opprimé les femmes et que ses protagonistes tentent de combattre afin de s'affirmer en tant qu'êtres pensants libres. La cartographie de la trajectoire spatiale des personnages féminins dans les films de Bemberg qui est élaborée dans cette thèse représente une contribution importante à la recherche sur le cinéma argentin ainsi qu'aux études cinématographiques féministes.La présente étude commence avec un survol de l´historie du cinéma et du mouvement féministe argentin. Elle explore para la suite le rôle des femmes et les stéréotypes féminins dans le cinéma argentin. Cette analyse me permettra de mieux dégager les caractéristiques de l'esthétique féministe de Bemberg. La théorie cinématographique féministe de Giuliana Bruno servira de cadre conceptuel à une analyse détaillée du cadrage spatial utilisé par Bemberg dans ses films biographiques.
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Ortega, Jimenez Grisell. "A Canadian woman takes an interest in troubled Mexico: Agnes C. Laut's journalistic and philanthropic work in revolutionary Mexico, 1913-1921." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32253.
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Agnes Laut (Ontario, 1871 – New York, 1936) was a Canadian journalist, novelist, financial advisor, and a farmer who became closely involved with United States-Mexico relations during the Mexican Revolution (1910-1921). This research analyses Agnes Laut's editorial work, travels, and publications about Mexico and its social strife. Furthermore, it explores her role as coordinator among US civic and religious associations aiming to relieve Mexico's social troubles through humanitarian aide. This thesis is a first approach to the study of the impact of foreign civic society and philanthropic organizations in revolutionary Mexico.Agnes Laut (Ontario, 1871 – New York, 1936) était une journaliste canadienne, romancière, conseillère financière et une fermière qui était étroitement engagé dans les relations entre les États-Unis et le Mexique pendant la Révolution mexicaine (1910-1921). Cette investigation analyse les travaux éditoriaux, les voyages et les articles publiés d'Agnes Laut sur la problématique de Mexique. En plus, cette recherche étudie son rôle comme liaison entre les organisations civiques et religieuses des États-Unis et son but de améliorer la situation troublé de la population au Mexique à travers de la philanthropie. Cette thèse est un premier effort pour étudier l'effet des organisations civiques étrangères dans le Mexique révolutionnaire au début du XXème siècle.
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Necochea, Lopez Raul. "A history of the medical control of fertility in Peru, 1895 - 1976." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=86866.
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Demographic transition theorists posit that, beginning in the 1960s, biomedical contraceptive technologies and foreign countries, the United States in particular, have been primarily responsible for changes in medical fertility control ideas and practices in Peru. This dissertation argues that biomedical technologies and transnational political actors have played a role, but not always in the ways that demographic transition theorists indicate. The mass distribution of contraceptives such as the pill and the intra-uterine device, for example, depended on the existence of US-funded birth control organizations. However, these birth control organizations did not justify their existence in Peru only in terms of the promotion of development, but also by making appeals to the integrity of the family, values that many local physicians cherished. In addition, biomedical knowledge concerning the control of fertility began to be applied long before the 1960s, and not all of it originated in the United States nor was it all oriented towards the limitation of birth rates. Moreover, demographic transition theory's assumption that financial calculations were the primary reason for the prevention or spacing of births overlooks other factors, such as marital strife, that also affected the desire for offspring. Through archival material and oral histories in Peru and the United States, this dissertation raises questions about the ideologies and practices of medical experts, and their interactions with state agencies, foreign governments, the Catholic Church, and people who had abortions.La théorie de la transition demographique suggere une transformation telle que, depuis les années 1960, les technologies biomédicales et les pays étrangers, espécialement les États-Unis, fut principalement responsables pour les changements des idées et pratiques en matière du contrôle medical de la fertilité au Pérou. Cette thèse argumente que les technologies biomédicales aussi que les acteurs politiques transnationaux en effet jouèrent un rôle, mais pas toujours dans la façon prévue par les théoristes de la transition demographique. La distribution massive des méthodes contraceptifs, tel que la pillule et le dispositif intra-uterin, par example, dépendit de l'existence des organismes de contrôle de la natalité financiés par les États-Unis. Cependent, cettes organismes ne justifièrent leur présence au Pérou seulement par la promotion du developement. Ils attachaient aussi de l'importance à l'integrité de la famille, un valeur que beaucoup des médecins entretinrent. D'ailleurs, des connaissances biomédicales sur le contrôle de la fertilité commencèrent à être appliquées avant les années 1960, et une partie importante d'entre elles ne provinrent pas des États-Unis. De plus, la supposition que la théorie de la transition demographique fasse sur la prevention ou l'espacement des naissances comme simples resultats des calculs economiques néglige autres facteurs, tel que les querelles des couples, lesquelles affectaient aussi le désir d'avoir des enfants. A travers des materiaux d'archives et des intervues au Pérou et aux États-Unis, cette thèse nous emmene a considerer les ideologies et les pratiques des experts médicaux, aussi que les interactions entre eux et des agences gouvernamentales, des gouvernements étrangers, l'église Catholique, et des gens qui avortaient.
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Garcia, Gomez Katia. "Los cuerpos de la memoria: género y violencia política en la literatura peruana contemporánea." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=121298.
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The aim of this doctoral thesis is to explore the way in which political violence during the time of the Shining Path guerrilla movement has been represented in contemporary Peruvian fiction and to examine the role of the female figure in the articulation of the collective memory. As the thesis will show, the use of female characters as a means of expressing the trauma of Peru as a nation is relatively recent and is limited in particular to the first decade of the twenty-first century. In this sense, the reassessment of the role of women in the conflict is inseparable from the important contribution made by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, whose final report, published in 2003, contributed decisively to reassessing the participation of women in the organizational structure of the Shining Path and in bringing to light the testimonies of Peruvian women who were victims of violence at the hands of both the Shining Path and the Peruvian Army. In addressing this topic, my research focuses on the analysis of three novels: La hora azul (2005), by Alonso Cueto; Confesiones de Tamara Fiol (2009), by Miguel Gutiérrez; and Radio Ciudad Perdida (2007), by Daniel Alarcón. These novels are among the most widely read and critically acclaimed works in Peruvian literature in dealing with the period, and they also share the fact of having been written by male authors. Although there are also works on this period written by women, what I argue in this thesis is that the reassessment of the female figure and its relationship with violence in Peruvian fiction has been dominated, in practice, by a male perspective which, although it attempts to recover the silenced voice of women, nevertheless continues to interpret it with reference to what are considered to be essentially female stereotypes.L'objectif de cette thèse de doctorat est d'explorer la forme par laquelle la violence politique de l'époque du mouvement de guérilla Sentier lumineux est représentée dans la narrative péruvienne contemporaine, ainsi que le rôle de la figure féminine dans l'articulation de la mémoire collective. Comme se montre dans ces pages, l'utilisation de personnages féminins comme moyen d'exprimer le trauma du Pérou en tant que nation est relativement récente et se limite surtout à la première décennie du XXIe siècle. Dans ce sens, la réévaluation du rôle de la femme dans le conflit n'est pas séparable de la contribution importante faite par la Commission de la Vérité et de la Réconciliation, dont le rapport final publié en 2003 a contribué de manière décisive à réévaluer la participation des femmes dans la structure organisationnelle du Sentier lumineux et à mettre en lumière les témoignages de femmes péruviennes qui ont été victimes de la violence autant par le Sentier lumineux que par l'Armée péruvienne. En abordant ce thème, cette recherche se centre sur l'analyse de trois romans: La hora azul (2005), de Alonso Cueto; Confesiones de Tamara Fiol (2009), de Miguel Gutiérrez; et Radio Ciudad Perdida (2007), de Daniel Alarcón. Ces romans sont parmi ceux de majeure diffusion et résonance critique du pays, et ils présentent en plus le trait commun d'avoir été écrits par des auteurs masculins. Bien que des œuvres existent sur cette époque écrites par des femmes, ce que je soutiens dans cette thèse est que la réévaluation de la figure féminine et de sa relation avec la violence dans la narrative péruvienne a été une tâche dominée en pratique par un regard masculin qui, bien qu'il essaie de récupérer la voix étouffée de la femme, néanmoins continue de l'interpréter conforme aux stéréotypes considérés essentiellement féminins.
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Holme, Justin. "'Creating wealth out of the world's waste spots': The United Fruit company and the story of frontiers, environment, and American legacy, 1899-1930." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=121417.
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Between 1899 and 1930 the United Fruit Company emerged as the world's largest exporter of bananas. Initially dependent on the purchase of bananas through contracts with small-scale Native growers, the Company sought greater control over the quality and supply of its product. Transitioning itself into the production process and focusing on the establishment of its own sources of fruit, the Company began the construction of large-scale, export-driven, and industrialized plantations by 1910. In this process it embarked upon a new relationship with the tropical environments of the Caribbean Basin, which in turn presented environmental obstacles resistant to ecological change. Dedicated to creating wealth out of what it deemed as 'waste spots,' the United Fruit Company approached the task of plantation construction utilizing a cultural and conceptual framework that was a product of both historical influences, and eventually, by its own encounters with the environment. Drawing on under-utilized Company publications, this study explores the ways in which United Fruit developed a distinctly American cultural understanding of frontier environments. Perceiving Caribbean landscapes as 'uncivilized' and supposedly in need of improvement, the Company transposed American historical understandings of the environment in order to justify the creation of a productive and essentially Americanized version of Nature.Entre 1899 et 1930 Le United Fruit Company a émergé comme le plus grand exportateur mondials de bananes. Initialement dépendante de l'achat de bananes par des contrats avec les cultivateurs indigènes à petite échelle, le Company a voulu plus de contrôle sur la qualité et le réserve de son produit. S'immergeant dans le processus de fabrication et en se concentrant sur la création de ses propres sources de fruits, le Company a commencé la construction de plantations industrielles à grande échelle dans lequel le point de focalisation était l'exportation par 1910. Pendant ce processus il s'est engagé dans une nouvelle relation avec les milieux tropicaux du bassin des Caraïbes, qui a ensuite présenté d'obstacles environnementaux résistants aux changements écologiques. Dévoué à créer la richesse sur ce qui était jugé comme «les tâches de déchets», Le United Fruit Company a adressé la tâche de construction de plantation par utilisant un cadre culturel et conceptuel qui était un produit des influences historiques et à la longue, par ses rencontres avec l'environnement. En s'appuyant sur les publications sous-utilisées du Company, cette étude explore les façons dont United Fruit a développé une compréhension culturelle typiquement américain des environnements frontalières. Percevant des paysages Caraïbes comme «non civilisés» et soi-disant besoin d'amélioration, le Company a modifiés l'interprétation historiques américaine de l'environnement pour justifier la création d'une version de la nature productive et essentiellement américanisée.
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Jolliffe, Christine. "Neoplatonic influences in Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo Virtutum : with Latin text and English translation of the play." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22438.
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Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo Virtutum (c.1141), the earliest liturgical morality play, presents in small compass some of the Neoplatonic doctrines which formed the common property of theologians in the twelfth century, the most pervasive of which was that which posited a disparity between the sense-perceptible and intelligible realms, true reality being supposed to belong to the latter. For Hildegard, like her contemporaries, such a world-view is inseparable from symbolist modes of thought, and in this thesis explanations for the form and effect of Hildegard's use of rhetorical devices such as symbol and metaphor in the Ordo will be sought within the framework of a discussion of "medieval linguistic epistemology" (Neoplatonic). The Latin text and English translation of the play are also provided.
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Minott, Garth. "Liberation concerns in the Latin American church : Jose Severino Croatto's interpretation and application of Exodus 1-15." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=31121.
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The use of the exodus theme in the interpretation of scripture has been espoused by a number of liberation theologians, notably Jose Severino Croatto. The responses to the use of this theme vary. This thesis examines Croatto's use of the hermeneutic circle, as a method of biblical interpretation, in its application to the narratives of Exodus 1--15. The process of interpretation and application are examined against the background of the liberation movement and liberation theology. As an advocate of the liberation movement, Croatto uses the hermeneutic circle to relate the meaning of the exodus narratives to the socio-political situation of oppression in Latin America. This use of the hermeneutic circle, therefore, allows the meaning of the exodus narratives, in interaction with a contemporary socio-political context, to facilitate the creation of a message of liberation for the present.
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Baerg, Nicole R. "Shocks from the system : remodelling exchange rate regime choice in Latin America and the Caribbean 1960-1995." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=98537.
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I propose and test a new model determining the choice of the exchange rate regime in Latin America and the Caribbean. The key insight is that systemic level instability plays an important role in choosing the exchange rate regime. Using new data from Reinhart and Rogoff (2004), a second insight is that countries do not always follow the type of exchange rate regime they claim. Testing the determinants of regime choice against both the traditional, official de jure and new, market de facto data, I find that policymakers are strategically using the observed gap between the measures. The evidence reveals that systemic level variables, namely instability in the US interest rate and the bilateral USD:DEM/Euro exchange rate, significantly impact the choice of the exchange rate regime.
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Turcotte, Julie. "Traduction de «Las malas juntas» de J.L. Urbina, suivi de la littérature latino-canadienne en traduction: zones de contact, zones de tension." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=117061.
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The first part of this thesis consists of a translation from Spanish to French of approximately half of the short stories in the book Las malas juntas, by Chilean-Canadian writer José Leandro Urbina. This important book, by a writer renowned in Chile but little known in Canada, was first published in Ottawa in 1978; up to this day, it had not been translated into French. The second part of this thesis takes a postcolonial approach to study the role and importance of translation in the production and dissemination of a Spanish-language literature in both Quebec and Canada, and to describe how this literature calls into question some traditional concepts of translation theory. We then examine the problematic insertion of latino-québécois writers in the literary field of Quebec, by looking at how these books in translation challenge the delimitation of contemporary Quebecois literature.La première partie de ce mémoire consiste en une traduction de l'espagnol au français d'environ la moitié des textes du recueil de nouvelles Las malas juntas, de l'écrivain chileno-canadien José Leandro Urbina. Cette œuvre importante d'un auteur renommé au Chili mais peu connu au Canada, parue pour la première fois en 1978 à Ottawa, n'avait jamais été traduite en français.La seconde partie du mémoire adopte une approche postcoloniale pour examiner dans un premier temps le rôle et la place de la traduction dans la production et la diffusion d'une littérature en espagnol au Québec et au Canada, et la façon dont cette littérature bouscule certains présupposés des théories traditionnelles de la traduction. Dans un deuxième temps, l'insertion problématique des œuvres latino-québécoise dans le corpus littéraire du Québec est examinée sous l'angle des défis que posent ces œuvres en traduction pour la définition des frontières de la littérature québécoise contemporaine.
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Deslierres, Deborah. "La critique littéraire au Québec en 1950 : analyse de La Presse, Le Quartier latin, Le Devoir et Lectures." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=98918.
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In this thesis, we wish to observe French Canadian literary criticism in 1950, during what is referred to as a "dark age" of the intellectual and artistic history. Hence, we decided to analyze three newspapers literary pages, La Presse, Le Quartier latin and Le Devoir, and a specialized journal, Lectures, published in Montreal. Nowadays, this literary criticism is looked upon as paradoxical and outdated because its aesthetics concerns are bent by morals. Thus, we tried to enlighten its axiological criteria, supported by liberal or catholic ideologies, already enabling very modern aesthetics comments, and by doing so, bring into favor a spread out collection of criticism texts.
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Del, Toro Guillermo Emiliano. "Foreign direct investment in Mexico and the 1994 crisis : a legal perspective." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=27447.
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Since the 1994 economic crisis, Mexico's inclusion in the globalization era has been questioned. To discover if Mexico is moving in the right direction, this study has as its objective the examination of the different regulations that, in Mexico, are related to Foreign Direct Investment. These regulations include the 1993 Foreign Investment Law ("Ley de Inversion Extranjera"); the Competition Act ("Ley Federal de Competencia Economica"); and the North American Free Trade Agreement. The aim of this study is to find out if these regulations are capable of attracting Foreign Direct Investment, which is the most convenient foreign capital flow needed, in order to assist Mexico in its search for economic growth. The importance of the rule of law as an effective instrument to attract FDI is also an element considered in this study.Finally, this thesis, after the above examination, concludes that Mexico has the potential to overcome its latest economic crisis by using its existing regulations. However, some improvements would benefit its place within the global competition to attract FDI. Most of these improvements are needed at the multilateral level, where Mexico should address the importance that FDI has as a counterbalance to the risks associated with short-term investments. As shown, short-term investments were one of the conditions that provoked the 1994 crisis.
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Aguilar, Sofia Beatriz. "Supranational systems of dispute resolution and their integration into domestic legal systems : a view of the Latin American Experience." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=30281.
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The influence of globalization over legal systems has resulted in, among other effects, the emergence of transnational law and new international players, such as multinational corporations (MNEs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and numerous international entities. The dynamics of the new players within the new transnational legal order have generated a need for a new supranational system of dispute resolution.The analysis focuses on the Latin American experience in adapting to judicial reform programs (sponsored by international organizations such as the World Bank and the International Development Bank) which promote the integration of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) methods into domestic legal systems, in order to integrate such systems into a supranational system of dispute resolution for the entire continent.
This study aims to explore various alternatives for preventing a continental supranational system of dispute resolution from undermining domestic democracies, while integrating developing countries into the process of commercial globalization.
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O'Toole, Jodi L. "Andrea Pozzo : the joining of truth and illusion." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=30135.
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Andrea Pozzo was an architect, writer and painter spanning the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The focus of this study is on his paintings of perspectival illusions and his treatise on perspective entitled, Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum published in two volumes in 1693 and 1700. This thesis seeks to understand the work of Pozzo in light of contemporary philosophical debate over the deception of the senses and their ability to distinguish truth from illusion. Pozzo's intentions are examined through a study of the positions of Rene Descartes, Galileo Galilei and other related artists and architects on the technical and ethical issues surrounding the deceptive nature of perspective illusions.
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Heimerl, Christian Heimerl Christian Guilelmus. "The Middle English Version of William of Saliceto's Anatomia : a critical edition, based on Cambridge, Trinity College MS R. 14.41 with a parallel text of the medieval latin Anatomia, ed. from Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek MS 1177 /." Heidelberg : Winter, 2008. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3139618&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.
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Otis, Lise. "The Numan tradition and its uses in the literature Rome's 'Golden Age' /." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=37909.
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This dissertation presents a critical analysis of literary texts that recount fully or briefly the life and legend of King Numa Pompilius. Focusing on the 'Golden Age', it comprises the Numan accounts of Cicero, Livy, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Ovid. These authors lived at a time when Rome was trying to reconcile for herself and for her subjects the price of her military world domination with the belief in her foreordained supremacy. This reconciliation was to be achieved by a reacquaintance with the Roman ancestral values whose observance had merited Rome her dominion and whose neglect had driven the state to civil war. The question of Roman national identity is at the heart of the Numan accounts of the chosen prose-writers. In his portrayal of Numa, who combines the civilizing virtues of classical Athens with native Roman virtue, Cicero offers a rebuttal for Greek critics who questioned Rome's supremacy because of her lack of civilizing virtues. Livy investigates the leading causes of Rome's world domination and identifies the national values and institutions that many generations of leaders forged. Numa is one such leader, having established laws, religious rite and a peaceful way of life. Dionysius represents Numa as the Greek ideal of kingship in order to establish for the Greek world the excellence of the Roman national identity founded on Greek virtue. The Numan accounts of Livy and Dionysius, composed in Augustus' principate, do not draw direct parallels between Numa and Augustus, although the narration sometimes suggests a special relevance to Augustan rule. Finally, Ovid, the only poet, recounting traditional Numan tales, offers analogies and allegories of certain Augustan ideas and measures that may be seen to flatter the ruler.
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Tuchscherer, Jean-Michel 1942. "Sponsus - SponsaChristus - Ecclesia : the illustrations of the Song of Songs in the Bible moralisée de Saint-Louis, Toledo, Spain, Cathedral Treasury, Ms. 1 and Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. lat. 11560." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40269.
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Among the considerable manuscript production of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the Bible moralisee stands out by the number of miniatures and by the conception of the manuscript itself. The composition and many iconographical themes recall stained glass windows of contemporary cathedrals, such as Chartres, Sens, Bourges, or Canterbury in England.The manuscript of the Bible moralisee to which this study is partly dedicated, is located in the Treasury of the Toledo cathedral chapter in Spain. This study deals also with the duplicate copy which was realized soon afterwards. The interpretation and illustrations of the verses vary in number according to the books of the Bible. Though being one of the smallest biblical books, the Song of Solomon is given outstanding consideration, more than any other book in the Bible. The central theme--the espousal of the Bride and the Bridegroom, Christ and Ecclesia being its allegory--enjoyed a considerable success in medieval theology. It corresponded to the courtly love atmosphere of its time. Abundant commentary literature and the development of mariology made this book even more popular. About a quarter of the commentary illustrations are dedicated to the theme Christus-Ecclesia. Ecclesia, always crowned, holds the chalice which confirms her sacramental significance. In no other known iconographical medieval programme has Ecclesia such a position.
The question raised by the problematic around this Bible is the eventual intention being at the origin of this order which, without any doubt, emanates from French royalty. Has it been produced to enhance the prestige of royalty? Is it a pedagogical work intended for the education of the royal children? Was it meant to be a royal political gift? The Ecclesia theme in the Bible is the exaltation of, or an hommage to the Church, spiritual or temporal, by the French royalty of the thirteenth century.
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Deschamps, Maryse. "Octovien de Saint-Gelais : le livre des Epistres de Ovide." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61686.
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Tippner, Jeffrey E. "The Third World evangelical missiology of Orlando E. Costas." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3278.
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This thesis examines the missiological writings of Orlando E. Costas (1943-1987), particularly The Church and Its Mission: A Shattering Critique from the Third World (1974); Theology of the Crossroads in Contemporary Latin America (1976); Christ Outside the Gate (1982); and Liberating News: A Theology of Contextual Evangelization (1989). From the early 1970s until his death in 1987 he wrote over 130 articles and 12 books in both Spanish and English that addressed key missiological concerns. A careful reading of a selection of Costas's texts oriented around a hymn, a gospel song, a psalm, and a poem provides the shape of this thesis. This thesis argues that Costas formulated a Third World evangelical missiology. Chapter one investigates what Costas's autobiographical material expressed about his positions on conversion, Protestant evangelicalism, missiology, and those living on the ‘periphery' of life. Chapter two recognises his commitment to the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean in particular and the Third World in general. Chapter three explores Costas's analysis of the Latin American Protestant Church in a revolutionary situation in the continent and chapter four examines his survey and critical appraisal of Latin American liberation theology. Chapter five recognizes the pastoral shape of Costas's missiology. Chapter six explores his critical interaction with two more conservative evangelical missiological positions, the Church Growth Movement and Peter Beyerhaus and the Frankfurt Declaration, and chapter seven surveys the discussion within the international evangelical community regarding the relationship between evangelism and social responsibility. Chapter eight examines Costas's Liberating News as an expression of Third World evangelical missiology. Chapter nine considers the theological issue of penal substitutionary atonement and his missiology. The thesis concludes with an appraisal of the issues and contributions of Costas's Third World evangelical missiology to current missiological discussion.
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Shen, Yuh-Ying, and 沈煜瑩. "r-orthogonal latin squares of order n." Thesis, 1995. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/94983196600878076175.
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A latin square L of order n is a nxn matrix whose entries are elements of a set S of n symbols and which has the property that each symbol occurs exactly once in each row and exactly once in each column of L. Two latin squares of order n are called orthogonal if, when they are superimposed, exactly nxn different ordered pairs occur among the nxn ordered pairs of cells .Two latin squares of order n are called r-orthogonal if, when they are superimposed, exactly r different ordered pairs occur among the nxn ordered pairs of cells . In this paper, we will use some methods to find all the possible values of r. And we get the following results : When n is an integer and n ≧3,n≠6 we can construct two r-orthogonal latin squares of order n for each r in {n,2n,...,n(n-2),nxn}. When n is even and n≧4,n≠6 or n=6k+3, k≧2 , we can construct two r-orthogonal latin squares of order n for each r in {n,2n,...,n(n-1),nxn}. If n=5k,n=7k or n=8k, k≧3,k≠6, we can construct two r- orthogonal latin squares of order n for each r in {n,..., nxn}\{n+1,nxn-5,nxn-3,nxn-1}. And we get some results for other small values of n.
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"Modernismo y estetica de lo cercano en los articulos periodisticos de Nemesio R. Canales. (Spanish text)." Tulane University, 1989.
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This dissertation studies the newspaper articles written by Nemesio R. Canales (1878-1923), who published his work between 1908 and 1923. His literary oeuvre comprises different genres: novels, essays and poetry. Although Puerto Rican literary history establishes Canales within the Modernist movement, this study intends to demonstrate that even though his work shows ideological aspects which relate him to the Modernist's world-view and, moreover, to those that configured the Puerto Rican Modernist period, his discourse anticipates the avant-garde movement The first chapter focuses on the Puerto Rican Modernist movement which ran parallel to the most important event in Puerto Rican reality: the U.S. invasion of 1898. The Puerto Rican writers of the turn of the century brought to literature their preoccupation with the historical and political development of Puerto Rico. The 1898 invasion meant the loss of political hegemony and the imposition of a foreign language: English. Furthermore, it made this generation realize the necessity of configuring a national identity which gave the movement its nationalistic tinge. As a result, the movement was removed from the preciosity and escapism which characterized the Modernist movements of Spanish America The second chapter summarizes the most relevant criticism on Canales' work. We also analyze more carefully and/or reject some of these critics' opinions The last three chapters study in detail the characteristics of Canales' Modernist ideology as well as the options that Modernism itself offered. But these traits show an avant-garde sensibility. We study the discursive strategies that transform the popular and the daily into literary phenomena by the use of such techniques as simile, metaphor and anecdotes of popular tradition, as well as colloquial lexicon. These strategies reflect a profound questioning of the traditional social interpretations that are particular to certain social classes Through his articles, Canales projects himself as a writer that transformed the popular to the realm of literary ideas. Moreover, Canales is the forerunner of the Puerto Rican contemporary writers who have given literary status to the street talk, the language of the folkacase@tulane.edu
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Vaz, Ruben António Moreira. "Job Training Determinants, R&D and Effects on Firms’ Productivity : evidence from firm-level data in Latin America." Master's thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/15434.
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For many decades, Latin America followed an import-substitution industrialization (ISI)
process. Constant technological developments, complex production processes and
stronger international competition put in evidence some workforce fragilities, their lack
of skills and capabilities. Enhancing investments in both job training and R&D may be a
proper reaction for either the more immediate needs or the medium/long run structural
demands, in Latin America. Exploring a firm-level dataset from Chile and Argentina,
we estimate the firms’ training decision (standard probit model) and the productivity
effects through OLS, treatment-effects model and instrumental variable, using industry
and region fixed effects and clustered standard errors. Using OLS, training estimates on
firms’ performance are 24% in Chile and 18% in Argentina. Joint investment in training
and R&D leads job training to have an effect of 53% in Chile and 22% in Argentina,
and R&D a magnitude of 9% in Chile and 5% in Argentina, which seems to evidence a
complementarity relationship between these two policies. Although with different
magnitudes, conclusions remain consistent using OLS, treatment-effects and IV. Firms’
heterogeneity is also accounted for, estimating a quantile model.