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Burke, Debra Pauline. "Pandora's box : sexual fiction by Spanish and Latin-American women from the late 1970's to 2000 /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Dorling, Alan. "Experimental forms in contemporary fiction." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1985. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13310/.
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Concerned with developments in contemporary innovative fiction Experimental Forms in Contemporary Fiction locates 'post- Modernist' writing largely within a North American context. William Burroughs, Ronald Sukenick, Donald Barthelme, Ishmael Reed, Robert Coover and Steve Katz are identified as the exemplary post-Modernist figures; their favoured techniques --a combination of cancellation and erasure, fragmentation and discontinuity, game and play--express an indeterminancy of meaning which places post-Modernist writing at some distance from the writing of contemporary figures like Vladimir Nabokov, John Hawkes and John Barth, who, as identifiably 'neo- Modernists', are essentially concerned with extending Modernism's restorative and paralleling features into the contemporary literary discourse. At the same time, post- Modernist fiction bears only a passing resemblence to the work of innovative contemporary British writers like B. S. Johnson, Gabriel Josipovici and J. G. Ballard, who are inclined to impose a series of disruptive forms upon mimetic substance. Uniquely post-Modernist fiction celebrates an eternity of displacement by insisting that unity, coherence and system are totalitarian concepts inimicable to the necessary free- lay of the imagination. Therefore, even as Burroughs et al express long-standing American literary concerns, post- Modernist fiction is demonstrably part of the deconstructive shift away from holistic and humanistic ideas and procedures. Post-Modernist writing, therefore, initiates a crisis within literary criticism, one which needs to be examined against the background of contemporary philosophical, cultural, and social developments.
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Martella, Gianna María. "Spanish American detective and crime fiction : the question of the other /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Pino-Ojeda, Ximena W. "Subalterno y nación en la escritura femenina latinoamericana : Elena Poniatowska, Rosario Ferré y Diamela Eltit /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8278.
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Kramer, David Scott. "The rhetorical war : class, race and redemption in Spanish-Amarican War fiction : Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Richard Harding Davis and Sutton Griggs /." View online ; access limited to URI, 2006. http://0-digitalcommons.uri.edu.helin.uri.edu/dissertations/AAI3239910.
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Shea, Maureen Elizabeth. "Latin American women writers and the growing potential of political consciousness." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184310.
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This dissertation provides a feminist reading of the works of Latin American women writers since the decade of the sixties to the present who focus on the particular historical moment of their times from a political perspective. A systematic study of the narrative figure in novels by Dora Alonso, Elena Poniatowska, Claribel Alegria and Darwin Flakoll, and Isabel Allende, reveals an awareness of the undercurrents of oppression existent in their societies based on racial and class stereotypes with a growing understanding of oppression based on sex. From the perspective of the female narrator in Tierra Inerme by the Cuban writer Dora Alonso, the Cuban social structure before 1959 is condemned for its inequality on the basis of class, race, and sex. However, the perspective of the narrator reveals that she has not entirely escaped the prejudices that permeate her society concerning women. Hasta no verte Jesus mio, by the Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska concentrates on the testimony of Jesusa Palancares who condemns the structural inequality existent in Mexican society. Although Palancares' perspective reveals an awareness of the unequal treatment of women, because of her underprivileged status she concentrates on oppression based on class. In Cenizas de Izalco by Darwin Flakoll from the United States and the Salvadoran Claribel Alegria, the 1931 massacre of the peasants in El Salvador is condemned. However, through the contrasting perspectives of the male and female narrators, oppression on the basis of sex is most emphasized. La casa de los espiritus by the Chilean Isabel Allende depicts brutal class, racial and sexual oppression in Chile from the 1920's to 1973. It is in this novel that sexual oppression is portrayed most vividly, again through the contrasting perspectives of the male and female narrators. Although a growing awareness of sexual oppression emerges in the novels studied becoming most emphatic in this decade through an awakening feminist consciousness, the perspective of the narrators emphasize to varying degrees the importance of solidarity among women to combat injustice of every form to achieve a more equitable existence for all oppressed people.
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Rincones, Díaz Rosix Emilia. "From Tristan to Don Juan : Romance and courtly love in the fiction of three Spanish American authors." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3408/.
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This thesis is centred on Gabriel García Márquez’s novel El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Álvaro Mutis’ novella La última escala del Tramp Steamer, and Juan Rulfo’s novel Pedro Páramo. Its aim is to analyse how the works of these Spanish American authors are inscribed within the traditions of Tristan, Don Juan and other related stories. Analysis is rooted in three aspects: 1) the study of the language and style conventions in the initial works of romance and courtly love that are developed in the studied works on fiction. 2) It was crucial to see how the authors in question developed paradigms of gender relations through the traditions they borrowed, and 3) how the medieval and renaissance traditions relate to Spanish American literary discourse through matters of similar religious and social contexts, specific traits of Spanish colonization and the presence of medievalisms in modernity. García Márquez’s reinvention of the Don Juan through the alliance narrator-Florentino, Mutis’ depiction of the steamer as a symbol of love and poetry, Rulfo’s portrayal of the lover’s spiritual failure and Susana San Juan’s statements and redemption through her body, show the complexity with which medieval romances have been rewritten in twentieth century Latin America.
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Hurst, Darin Scott. "El amor, la belleza, y el arte en la novela decadente hispanoamericana la dialéctica de la decadencia /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1051278715.
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Carney, Jason R. "The Shadow Modernism of Weird Tales: Experimental Pulp Fiction in the Age of Modernist Reflection." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1396650887.
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Guzman-Medrano, Gael. "Post-Revolutionary Post-Modernism: Central American Detective Fiction by the Turn of the 21st Century." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/917.
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Contemporary Central American fiction has become a vital project of revision of the tragic events and the social conditions in the recent history of the countries from which they emerge. The literary projects of Sergio Ramirez (Nicaragua), Dante Liano (Guatemala), Horacio Castellanos Moya (El Salvador), and Ramon Fonseca Mora (Panama), are representative of the latest trends in Central American narrative. These trends conform to a new literary paradigm that consists of an amalgam of styles and discourses, which combine the testimonial, the historical, and the political with the mystery and suspense of noir thrillers. Contemporary Central American noir narrative depicts the persistent war against social injustice, violence, criminal activities, as well as the new technological advances and economic challenges of the post-war neo-liberal order that still prevails throughout the region.
Drawing on postmodernism theory proposed by Ihab Hassan, Linda Hutcheon and Brian MacHale, I argued that the new Central American literary paradigm exemplified by Sergio Ramirez’s El cielo llora por mí, Dante Liano’s El hombre de Montserrat, Horacio Castellanos Moya’s El arma en el hombre and La diabla en el espejo, and Ramon Fonseca Mora’s El desenterrador, are highly structured novels that display the characteristic marks of postmodern cultural expression through their ambivalence, which results from the coexistence of multiple styles and conflicting ideologies and narrative trends. The novels analyzed in this dissertation make use of a noir sensitivity in which corruption, decay and disillusionment are at their core to portray the events that shaped the modern history of the countries from which they emerge. The revolutionary armed struggle, the state of terror imposed by military regimes and the fight against drug trafficking and organized crime, are among the major themes of these contemporary works of fiction, which I have categorized as perfect examples of the post-revolutionary post-modernism Central American detective fiction at the turn of the 21st century.
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DiFrancesco, Alessandro. "The Living and the Dead." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1591353224820624.
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Stirling, D. Grant. "The narrativity of narcissism cultural contexts of contemporary American metafiction /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0011/NQ27324.pdf.
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Gonzalo, de Jesús Patricia. "El mundo es mentira." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1611.
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Can words create worlds? My fiction thesis, El mundo es mentira (The World Is a Lie), explores different voices and points of view to examine the ways in which they not only tell stories, but also generate spaces, atmospheres and, ultimately, worlds of their own. Moreover, the book aims to be a meeting ground where these voices dialogue with the voices of the literary tradition, reinterpreting and rewriting it.
This collection was conceived as an experimental laboratory as well: it is comprised by short and micro-stories which question and challenge conventional forms of storytelling by incorporating poetic, memoiristic and essayistic devices.
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Traub, Courtney Anne. "Romanticising crisis : digital revolution and ecological risk in late postmodern American fiction." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:adb4eb33-9053-402c-8322-bd55c915077f.
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This thesis probes how recent experimental American "crisis fictions" from authors including Mark Z. Danielewski, Kathryn Davis, and Evan Dara reformulate transatlantic Romantic literary debates about technological and environmental change. Arguing that such texts extend previously theorised ties between Romanticism and postmodernism, it identifies enduring ties between late-postmodern accounts of crisis and those of Romantic predecessors. Responding to the upheavals of digital revolution and ecological risks, these texts, published between 1995 and 2012, inventively engage several linchpin constructs in transatlantic Romantic writing: chiefly, the imagined supersession of subjective and temporal boundaries; a sense that the natural and non-human world is of crucial importance; and a reliance on idioms of sublimity to suggest the unrepresentability of the aforementioned crises. Although numerous critics have traced similarities between Romantic and postmodern modes, this thesis considers those resonances as deeper questions of cultural and literary history. It proposes to more carefully historicise the Romantic intellectual heritage in late postmodernism, identifying intermediating moments that inform contemporary accounts of crisis. It unearths how late postmodern technocultural and environmentalist imaginaries were always already Romantic. Deeply informed by countercultural, mid-century American movements and ideas that themselves drew significantly from transatlantic Romanticism, contemporary figurations of upheaval, syncretically figured in mid-century publications such as the Whole Earth Catalog, are indebted to both Romantic and neo-Romantic heritages. This thesis additionally argues that the digital revolution and unprecedented environmental crisis act as pressures on postmodern literary practices from the mid-1990s onward. Digital speeding and a looming sense of ecological risk register as even earlier crises than the terrorist attacks of "9-11", requiring a recalibration of what the postmodern might mean and do. Crucially, in their preoccupation with embodied realities and environments, including natural ones, the contemporary narratives examined here diverge from the assumption that the natural world bears little importance in postmodern fields of representation. Finally, many recent literary experiments figure themselves as materially participating in the technological and medial systems they respond to; formal experimentation is, accordingly, another centre of interest. This research examines how select texts deploy formal strategies to "materially instantiate" Romantic ideas, to borrow Katherine Hayles's term. Although numerous critics have suggested that Romantic discourse permeates digital cultural imaginaries, existing scholarship devotes little attention to how formal experimentation intersects with narrative strategies.
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Rímolo, de Rienzi Mirta. "SIMULACRO, HIPERREALIDAD Y POS-HUMANISMO: LA CIENCIA FICCIÓN EN ARGENTINA Y ESPAÑA EN TORNO AL 2000." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/hisp_etds/12.
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This project focuses on science fiction literature of Spain and Argentina produced in the last twenty years (1990-2010). It hypothesizes that in this period a change of perspective substantially modified science fiction productions in both countries and converges into a new model of narrative. As a consequence of this reformulated vision, a new narrative perspective immerses readers in an era of simulation, hyperreality, and post-humanism. When advanced technology is able to modify the basic human anatomy, and persons are trapped between virtual and real universes, simulacra facilitate control of people in an effective and impersonal manner. Simultaneously, fictional scenarios show new post-human beings sharing future worlds with humans. In this regard, the new literary production leads the reader to a redefinition of what it means to be human. With a theoretical framework centered on simulacrum, hyperreality and post-humanism, this study places the use of new technologies and the critique of postmodern society at the epicenter of the discussion as proposed by selected novels.
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Beard, Alexander Charles. "Narconovela : four case studies of the representation of drug trafficking in Mexican fiction." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7eb6c837-cb79-4625-86dc-38267d36047a.
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In addition to coverage in the national and international media of the ongoing violence in Mexico related to the drug trade, there has been growing interest in fictional representations of the Mexican drug trade, its origins and social context. There is now a considerable body of written narratives that have been christened narconovelas. A small number of academic works has charted the emergence of the narconovela and sought to examine how drug traffickers have been represented and evaluated in fiction. However, very little attention has been paid to the aesthetic qualities of ‘narco-literature’. This study examines four of the most highly-regarded works in detail: Balas de plata (2008), by Élmer Mendoza; Los minutos negros (2006), by Martín Solares; Contrabando (2008), by Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda; and Trabajos del reino (2004), by Yuri Herrera. So embedded is the phenomenon of drug trafficking in northern Mexican culture, so suffused with cliché is its representation in other media, that to write about the topic with originality and ethical nuance is difficult. This thesis accounts for the distinct choices made by the four authors in question to address this difficulty of representation in the structure, style and tone of their novels. The self-awareness exhibited by these works of fiction regarding the challenges of representing their subject matter render them the most sophisticated examples yet created of the so-called narconovela.
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Pettersson, Bo. "The world according to Kurt Vonnegut moral paradox and narrative form /." Åbo [Finland] : Åbo Akademi University Press, 1994. http://books.google.com/books?id=lXlbAAAAMAAJ.
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DeVirgilis, Megan. "BLOOD DISORDERS: A TRANSATLANTIC STUDY OF THE VAMPIRE AS AN EXPRESSION OF IDEOLOGICAL, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC TENSIONS IN LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY HISPANIC SHORT FICTION." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/532513.
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This dissertation explores vampire logic in Hispanic short fiction of the last decade of the 19th century and first three decades of the 20th century, and is thus a comparative study; not simply between Spanish and Latin American literary production, but also between Hispanic and European literary traditions. As such, this study not only draws attention to how Hispanic authors employed traditional Gothic conventions—and by extension, how Hispanic nations produced “modern” literature—but also to how these authors adapted previous models and therefore deviated from and questioned the European Gothic tradition, and accordingly, established trends and traditions of their own. This study does not pretend to be exhaustive. Even though I mention poetry, plays, and novels from the first appearance of the literary vampire in the mid-18th century through the fin de siglo and the first few decades of the 20th century, I focus on short fiction produced within and shortly thereafter the fin de siglo, as this time period saw a resurgence of the vampire figure on a global scale and the first legitimate appearance in Hispanic letters, being as it coincided with a rise in periodicals and short story production and represented developments and anxieties related to the physical and behavioral sciences, technological advances and urban development, waves of immigration and disease, and war. While Chapter 1 establishes a working theory of the vampire from a historical and materialist perspective, each of the following chapters explores a different trend in Hispanic vampire literature: Chapter 2 looks at how vampire narratives represent political and economic anxieties particular to Spain and Latin America; Chapter 3 studies newly married couples and how vampire logic leads to the death of the wife—and thus the death of the “angel of the house” ideal—therefore challenging ideas surrounding marriage, the family, and the home; lastly, Chapter 4 explores courting couples and how disruptions in the makeup of the public/private divide influenced images of female monstrosity—complex, parodic ones in the Hispanic case. One of the main conclusions this study reaches is that Hispanic authors were indeed producing Gothic images, but that these images deviated from the European Gothic vampire literary tradition and prevailing literary tendencies of the time through aesthetic and narrative experimentation and as a result of particular anxieties related to their histories, developments, and current realities. While Latin America and Spain produced few explicit, Dracula-like vampires, the vampire figures, metaphors, and allegories discussed in the chapters speak to Spain and Latin America’s political, economic, and ideological uncertainties, and as a result, their “place” within the modern global landscape. This dissertation ultimately suggests that Hispanic Gothic representations are unique because they were being produced within peripheral spaces, places considered “non-modern” because of their distinct histories of exploitation and development and their distinct cultural, religious, and racial compositions, therefore shifting perceptions of Otherness and turning the Gothic on its head. The vampire in the Hispanic context, I suggest, is a fusion of different literary currents, such as Romanticism, aesthetic movements, such as Decadence, and modes, such as the Gothic and the Fantastic, and is therefore different in many ways from its predecessors. These texts abound with complex representations that challenge the status quo, question dominant narratives, parody literary formulas, and break with tradition.
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Halleck, Kenia Milagros. "Modernización y género sexual en los melodramas domésticos de autoras centroamericanas, 1940-1960 /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9981957.
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Shaik, Zuleika Bibi. "Anthropology and literature: Humanistic themes in the ethnographic fiction of Hilda Kuper and Edith Turner." University of Western Cape, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8167.
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Magister Artium - MAThis mini-thesis makes an argument for the significance of a female-dominated hidden tradition of experimental ethnographic writing in British social anthropology. It argues that the women anthropologists who experimented with creative forms of ethnography were doubly marginalised: first as women in an androcentric male canon in British social anthropology and American cultural anthropology, and second as creative writers whose work has been consistently undervalued in sombre scholarly circles. The study proposes that Hilda Beemer Kuper (1911-1995) and Edith Turner (1921-2016) should be regarded as significant in a still unexcavated literary tradition or subgenre with Anglo-American anthropology. It showcases the narrative craft of Kuper through a detailed textual analysis of her two most accomplished experimental ethnographies A Witch in My Heart (written in 1954, performed in 1955, and published in siSwati in 1962 and English in London in 1970) and A Bite of Hunger (written in 1958 and published in America in 1965). I highlight Kuper‟s multiple literary techniques in evoking of the fraught position of young Swazi co-wives, modern women and women accused of witchcraft in a patriarchal culture with particular attention to her gifts in creating dramatic plots, complex characters and dialogue rich in vernacular metaphor and proverbs. It then celebrates the even more experimental creative writing of Edith Turner. While Turner has sometimes been acknowledged for her hidden contributions to the co-production of her deeply loved and more famous husband Victor, she has not been given her due as an experimental ethnographer, also placing the experiences of African women centre-stage. In what she overtly advertised as “female literary style”, Turner‟s belatedly published 1987 novel The Spirit and the Drum. A Memoir of Africa is analysed with meticulous attention to the literary techniques by which she seeks to explore an anthropology of experience and empathy. These accomplished but under-acknowledged women creative writers sought to explore what they both explicitly conceived of as gestures of humanist cross-cultural engagement.
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Figueroa, José Antonio. "Realismo mágico, vallenato y vIolencia politica en el Caribe Colombiano." Connect to Electronic Thesis (ProQuest) Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2007. http://worldcat.org/oclc/453505700/viewonline.
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Geary, James P. "Social Realism in Central America: the Modern Short Story Translated." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1215444512.
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Kevari, Mary Kathleen. "The role of universal grammar in second language acquisition: An experimental study of Spanish ESL students' interpretation of lexical pronouns." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1710.
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Dobozy, Tamas. "Towards a definition of dirty realism." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ56533.pdf.
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Bruzual, Alejandro. "Narrativas contaminadas tres novelas Latinoamericanas el tungsteno, parque industrial y cubagua /." [Pittsburgh, PA] : University of Pittsburgh, 2006. http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-12052006-172521/unrestricted/ABruzual%5FDissertation2.pdf.
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Duplat, Alfredo. "Hacia una genealogía de la transculturación narrativa de Ángel Rama." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2484.
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Esta disertación conecta la teoría de la transculturación narrativa de Ángel Rama con la tradición intelectual latinoamericana que aportó sus características más distintivas. Las teorías de Rama fueron influidas por dos tradiciones latinoamericanas. Una es de carácter político y tiene su origen en la Reforma de Córdoba de 1918. La otra, de carácter epistemológico y se remonta a la década de 1930, cuando comienza el culturalismo en Latinoamérica. Mi investigación se ocupa de un grupo de intelectuales uruguayos que trabajaron en torno al semanario Marcha [1939-1974]: Carlos Quijano [1900-1984], Julio Castro [1908 -desaparecido en 1977] y Arturo Ardao [1912-2003]. También me ocupo de dos intelectuales brasileños, Antonio Cândido [1918] y Darcy Ribeiro [1922-1997], quienes continuaron con la tradición culturalista que inauguraron en Latinoamérica autores como Gilberto Freyre [1900-1987] y Fernando Ortiz [1881-1969]. Recuperar las redes intelectuales que acompañaron el proceso de articulación de la transculturación narrativa nos permite comprender mejor las tesis de Rama por dos razones. Primero, porque enmarca esta teoría dentro de algunos de los debates políticos y culturales más importantes de la Guerra Fría. Y segundo, porque se aproxima a la manera como Rama comprendió la historia latinoamericana y su coyuntura política y socio-cultural durante las décadas de 1960 y 1970.
El objetivo de la teoría de la transculturación narrativa es describir el proceso por el cual las manifestaciones literarias latinoamericanas pasan de la dependencia a la autonomía cultural. Como el proceso descrito se despliega dentro de la estructura social, para comprenderlo es necesario analizar la interacción entre las obras literarias y la sociedad que las rodea, de esta forma las ciencias sociales --antropología, sociología, economía-- son instrumentos de análisis indispensables para comprender una obra o tradición literaria. Este marco general de análisis es descrito por Rama como el culturalismo.
En el caso de Rama, una lectura desde los estudios literarios puede dar por sentado que el culturalismo fue tan sólo un método de análisis alternativo al estructuralismo francés. Aunque esta perspectiva sea en parte correcta, no es del todo precisa. El culturalismo al que se refiere Rama es el mismo que practicaron los cientistas sociales en Latinoamérica desde la década de 1930. Recuperar la historicidad de la transculturación narrativa no solo nos permite comprender la genealogía de esta teoría sino recuperar y hacer visibles algunas tradiciones intelectuales contra-hegemónicas que desarticuló la Guerra Fría en Latinoamérica.
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Vázquez-Medina, Olivia. "Cuerpo presente : imaginería corporal, representación histórica y textura narrativa en Yo el Supremo (1974), Noticias del Imperio (1987) y el General en su Laberinto (1989)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670014.
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Sitnisky-Cole, Carolina. "La literatura y el cine Andinos de la segunda mitad del siglo XX de una modernidad sólida a una líquida /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1973896441&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Regoczy, Lucia Graciela, and n/a. "Espiritu de subversion : la construccion del discurso de la mujer en la narrativa posmoderna hispanoamericana." University of Otago. Department of Languages and Cultures, 2007. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070927.141659.
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This thesis offers a typology of Postmodern women�s discourse from a sociological perspective. By focusing on the reading of Gioconda Belli�s Sofia de los presagios, Isabel Allende�s Paula, and Anacristina Rossi�s La loca de Gandoca, it examines how each writer achieves, thanks to the process of dialogism and the carnivalesque, a critique of social and aesthetic values, associated with Eurocentric discourse.
Thanks to these two processes, the values associated with the marginalized position of women in Latin America, are brought to the surface, offering a better understanding of the relation that exists between women�s literary production and the cultural environment.
Chapter one offers an overview of the concepts associated with Posmodernism, and its relevance in the Latin American context. This chapter also outlines the key concepts associated with dialogism and the carnivalesque.
Chapter two examines the use of the carnivalesque in two plays by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Los empenos de una casa and Amor es mas laberinto as antecedents of subversive writing in Spanish American women�s writing. It discusses how Sor Juana through appropriation and inversion, transforms her texts into a critique of marginalized social groups. This chapter proposes that Sor Juana sets the model for the subversive nature of Spanish American women�s writing.
Chapter three offers a reading of Cristina Peri Rossi�s El libro de mis primos as an example of radical feminist discourse produced in the 60�s, focusing on the use of parody and irony as means of transgressing patriarchal discourse.
Chapter four examines Gioconda Belli�s Sofia de los presagios, and the incorporation of ancestral and modern myths, to accentuate women�s marginality and the conflicting and contradictory nature of Nicaraguan society.
Chapter five focuses on a reading of Isabel Allende�s Paula in which the techniques of magical realism and the carnivalesque are brought together to criticize social and cultural practices that marginalize women.
Chapter six examines Anacristina Rossi�s La loca de Gandoca. It focuses on the way Rossi makes use of popular music, romantic literature, poetry, and bureaucratic discourse, to denounce the exploitation and destruction of Costa Rica�s natural resources through ecotourism.
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Labourey, Marion. "Les écritures de l’histoire dans le récit magico-réaliste des Amériques." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL138.
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Le récit magico-réaliste entretient avec l’écriture de l’histoire un rapport très étroit. Entre les années 1940 et les années 1980, dans toute l’aire géographique américaine, s’est développé et a évolué une fiction magico-réaliste qui se donne comme objectif la transcription de données anthropologiques, concernant les populations dominées américaines, qu’elles soient composées d’autochtones, d’esclaves ou de descendants d’esclaves, dans un univers romanesque où réalisme et magie se côtoient sans tensions. Ainsi, en abordant les périodes passées du continent américain, les auteurs de récits magico-réalistes ont construit un type de fiction qu’ils ont façonné dans le but de permettre une expression littéraire de l’opération historiographique, qui ne peut pas se substituer à la science historique, mais qui peut donner, d’une façon qui tire parti des potentialités de la fiction, une voix à ceux qu’un discours dominant et des structures de pouvoir ont longtemps laissés dans l’ombre. Nous étudierons donc comment les récits magico-réalistes écrivent l’histoire, et notamment restituent des visions du monde longtemps ignorées, dans une perspective proche de l’histoire des représentations. Une telle entreprise littéraire et historique constitue par-là même un phénomène structurant pour le champ littéraire américain, mais aussi caribéen. Notre corpus d’étude trilingue réunit des auteurs de tout le continent américain : Miguel Ángel Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Toni Morrison, Wilson Harris, Toni Cade Bambara, Jean-Louis Baghio’o, Jacques Stephen Alexis et Maryse CondéThe magical realistic narrative is deeply linked with the writing of history. Between the 1940’s and the 1980’s, throughout the entire America, has been developed and has evolved the magic realism which let the authors of such narratives to transcribe anthropological datas, coming from dominated populations of America (Natives, slaves or former slaves) in novels in which realism and magic can mix without tension. Then, by describing the past periods of the American continent, the authors of magic realism narratives have built a kind of fiction able to imitate, but not replace, the historical investigation : they can, with the help of the specific resources of fiction, give a voice to those who where kept in the dark for so long. We will study how the authors of magic realism narratives write history, et transcribe the representations of people who were not considered before. Such a literary phenomenon is fundamental in the building of an American literary filed. Our trilingual corpus gathers these nine authors : Miguel Ángel Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Toni Morrison, Wilson Harris, Toni Cade Bambara, Jean-Louis Baghio’o, Jacques Stephen Alexis et Maryse Condé
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Díaz, Fernández Estrella. "La colección "La sonrisa vertical" y la representación literaria de las minorías sexuales." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Lleida, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/405758.
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La col•lecció de narrativa eròtica «La sonrisa vertical» (Barcelona: Tusquets Editores) nasqué en plena transició democràtica, el 1977, a càrrec de Luis García Berlanga i Beatriz de Moura, amb un doble propòsit: rescatar un gènere literari fins aquell moment censurat per les lleis franquistes i apostar per la narrativa de joves autors, tant en llengua catalana com espanyola. L’interès d’una col•lecció d’aquestes característiques no és exclusivament literari, ja que, donada l’ època turbulenta en la qual es va gestar i l’aposta ideològica editorial, va albergar volums amb una notable voluntat de ruptura política i moral. En aquest sentit, no van escassejar les representacions de personatges amb sexualitats heterodoxes, entre les quals, donada la legislació vigent (Llei de Perillositat i Rehabilitació Social), bé s’hi podrien incloure les de lesbianes, gais i persones trans. Aquesta tesi doctoral pretén oferir una anàlisi de les molt diverses creacions d’autors espanyols i hispanoamericans que, en especial, van afavorir la representació de personatges lèsbics entre 1977 i 2014 amb l’objectiu de valorar la seva identitat literària i la seva rellevància històrica i social.La colección de narrativa erótica «La sonrisa vertical» (Barcelona: Tusquets Editores) nació en plena transición democrática, en 1977, de la mano de Luis García Berlanga y Beatriz de Moura, con un doble propósito: rescatar un género literario hasta aquel momento censurado por las leyes franquistas y apostar por la narrativa de jóvenes autores, tanto en lengua catalana como española. El interés de una colección de estas características no es exclusivamente literario, ya que, dada la época turbulenta en que se gestó y la apuesta ideológica de la editorial, albergó volúmenes con una notable voluntad de ruptura política y moral. En este sentido, no escasearon las representaciones de personajes con sexualidades heterodoxas, entre las cuales, dada la legislación vigente (Ley de Peligrosidad y Rehabilitación Social), bien podrían incluirse las de lesbianas, gais y personas trans. Esta tesis doctoral pretende ofrecer un análisis de las muy diversas creaciones de autores españoles e hispanoamericanos que, en especial, favorecieron la representación de personajes lésbicos entre 1977 y 2014 con el objetivo de valorar su entidad literaria y su relevancia histórica y social.
The collection of erotic narrative «La sonrisa vertical» (Barcelona: Tusquets Editores) was born in full democratic transition, in 1977, it was created by Luis García Berlanga and Beatriz de Moura, with a double purpose: a genre up to that moment censored by the laws rescuing Francoists and betting on the narrative of young authors, both in Catalan and Spanish. The interest of a collection of these characteristics is not exclusively literary, since, the turbulent period in which it was gestated and the ideological bet of the publishing company, lodged volumes with a remarkable will of political and moral breach. In this sense, the representations of characters with heterodox sexualities were not scarce, among which, given the current legislation (Law of Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation), well those of lesbians, gays and people could be included trans. This Ph. D. dissertation intends to offer an analysis of the very different creations of Spanish and Latin American authors who, especially, favoured the representation of lesbian characters between 1977 and 2014 with the aim of valuing their literary entity and their historical and social relevance.
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"The representation of Paris in Spanish-American fiction." Tulane University, 1989.
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This dissertation involves an examination of the image of Paris as it is developed in Spanish American fiction, beginning at the turn of the century with the modernistas and extending through highly complex contemporary treatments. No attempt is made to provide an exhaustive catalogue of Spanish American novels that take place in Paris, instead, there is brief reference to a number of works with discussion in detail reserved for the novels and short stories found particularly interesting or representative. These are Diaz Rodriguez's Idolos rotos (1901), Blest Gana's Los trasplantados (1904), Edwards Bello's Criollos en Paris (1933), Salazar Bondy's Pobre gente de Paris (1958), Elena Garro's Reencuentro de personajes (written in 1962; published in 1982), Julio Cortazar's Rayuela (1963), Julio Ramon Ribeyro's La juventud en la otra ribera and Alejo Carpentier's El recurso del metodo (1974) Over a period of nearly a century, Spanish American writers have treated Paris as a problem. Earlier writers play on the complex of pastoral associations through which Paris is regarded not as a city, but as the city (center of corruption, center of enlightenment) and Latin America, even its metropoli, as the countryside (a rural retreat that brings to mind ideas of spiritual regeneration and the values of childhood, or a sinkhole of numbing ignorance and ennui) Later novelists are keenly aware of the literary tradition that lies behind them and of the difficulty involved in representing Paris, a place that has become a commonplace. Both Cortazar and Carpentier tend to view the city as a text. Yet, although their vision is radically different from their predecessors, they, too, are trying to come to terms with the Other, and with the frightening intuition, glimpsed in almost all of these novels, that the real Paris--whether it is viewed as social body, a core of hidden knowledge or a foreign text--will always lie beyond the Latin American's ken. This manuscript is devoted to a discussion of the ways in which Spanish American writers have responded to the problems created by Paris, both as cultural and literary phenomenon, and of the strategies they have developed in fiction to communicate those responsesacase@tulane.edu
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Alvarez, José Antonio Salgado César Augusto. "La desmonumentalización en la novela histórica hispanoamericana de fines del siglo veinte." 2004. http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/1469/alvarezj64866.pdf.
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Sitler, Robert Kenneth. "Through Ladino eyes images of the Maya in the Spanish American novel /." 1994. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/34009031.html.
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Alvarez, José Antonio. "La desmonumentalización en la novela histórica hispanoamericana de fines del siglo veinte." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/1469.
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Kowal, Janice Marie. "Viajes internos : desarrollos y cambios personales y rasgos estáticos a través de los viajes en Los pasos perdidos y La vorágine /." 2009. http://149.152.10.1/record=b3073683~S16.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2009.Thesis advisor: Antonio García-Lozada. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Spanish." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-107). Also available via the World Wide Web.
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Trelles, Paz Diego 1977. "La novela policial alternativa en hispanoamérica : detectives perdidos, asesinos ausentes y enigmas sin respuesta." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/18788.
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Despite the great popularity and increased prestige of classic detective fiction, as well as the American hard-boiled novel, since their introduction in the nineteenth century many readers and authors have perceived them as genres incompatible with Latin American realities. The inherent conventions of the whodunit, the presence of a detective whose legitimacy is never in doubt, and its conservative ideology, which presupposed the punishment of criminality and the reestablishment of the status quo, were incongruous in societies in which people had no faith in justice. The genre, then, was regarded as unrealistic for third world countries. In this way, in order to be plausible, the detective novel in Latin America needed a different approach. In broad terms, these pages propose the emergence of a new genre that can be observed in the works of contemporary authors such as Vicente Leñero's Los albañiles (1963), Ricardo Piglia's Nombre falso (1975), Jorge Ibargüengoitia's Las muertas (1977) and, most notably, in Roberto Bolaño's Los detectives salvajes (1998), which I consider the most prominent and complex example of this type. The present study examines how this innovative Spanish American detective fiction incorporates and restates some of the structures and conventions of the hard-boiled novel and shares some features of contemporary Spanish American fiction, while developing its own characteristics in contrast with both detective fiction schools. Due to the necessity of the native writers to adopt, formally and thematically, alternative approaches when creating credible detective stories, I have named this emergent genre: Spanish American alternative detective fiction.text
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Winslow, Aaron. "The Labor of the Avant-Garde: Experimental Form and the Politics of Work in Post-War American Poetry and Fiction." Thesis, 2015. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8NZ86FX.
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While literary critics have explored the politics of labor in pre-war modernist
literature, the post-45 avant-garde has continued to be framed as a depoliticized repetition of previous avant-garde styles. Examining American avant-garde literature in its relation to the political and economic shifts from the 1960s through the late 1980s, my
dissertation corrects this narrative to show that labor and labor politics were central
categories in post-war experimental poetry and fiction. I argue that writers as disparate as Charles Olson, William S. Burroughs, Samuel R. Delany, and Susan Howe reworked
disjunctive modernist forms to cognitively map emergent economic tendencies in the US.
Parataxis, collage, surrealist imagery, aleatory compositional methods, non-linear
plotting, and metafictional narrative conceits all constitute the stylistic techniques of an
avant-garde engaged in an extended dialogue about work and the politics of work. The
canon of experimental literature functioned as a counter-discourse that contested and
reshaped discourses of labor by considering it alongside categories of race, gender, and
sexuality.
By using labor as an entry point into the avant-garde, my dissertation reconsiders
the post-war literary canon, revealing an avant-garde that includes writers working across modes and genres. The adaptation of experimental techniques in genre writing turned the avant-garde into a popular literary mode. My dissertation particularly focuses on science fiction (SF), where the adaptation of experimental style played a crucial role in the development of the genre. Beginning with the 1960s British and American New Wave movement, SF writers turned to the experimental novel--often by way of modernist
poetics--as a way to challenge the reified form of mainstream science fiction novels. I
argue that this critique of the novel also functioned as a covert critique of the labor
practices of the literary market place that guided the production of genre fiction. In this
way, I contest traditional accounts that see post-war and contemporary experimental
literature as increasingly marginal and self-reflective by tracking the avant-garde's
concern with depicting quotidian work, and representing themselves as workers, to
critique institutions of intellectual and artistic production.
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Vellón-Benítez, Susan Fernández Roberto G. "Palabras de mujer convergencias en el discurso femenino en la narrativa caribeña de origen hispano escrita en los Estados Unidos /." 2003. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11062003-230931/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2003.Advisor: Dr. Roberto Fernández, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Feb. 25, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.
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Zavala, Oswaldo. "Literature to infinity: a Borgesian genealogy of contemporary Mexican narrative." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3012.
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