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- Dislocacion y sutura : construcciones de infancia en los relatos de Julio Ramón Ribeyro
- Creator
- Echarri, Andrés Xavier
- Date
- 2004
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Title
- Hacia una mejora pedagógica en la presentación del modo subjuntivo español a los estudiantes de la escuela secundaria de Haiti : Spanish text]
- Creator
- Rosemond, Fritz
- Date
- 1987
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Title
- Discursos agrarios en la novela Mexicana de la primera mitad del siglo XX
- Creator
- Silva-Guzmán, Angélica
- Date
- 2006
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Title
- Más allá de la Onda : alteridad, conflicto y lo nacional en tres escritores Mexicanos (José Agustín, René Avilés Fabila, Gerardo de la Torre)
- Creator
- Flores-Barrera, Adrián
- Date
- 2002
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Title
- Memoria y trauma en los testimonios de la represión Franquista
- Creator
- Alvarez-Fernández, José Ignacio
- Date
- 2003
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Title
- Las trampas de la identidad o la deconstrucción de Narciso : hacia una subjetividad y discurso "queer" en Cobra y Maitreya de Severo Sarduy
- Creator
- Díaz-Muñoz, Marco V.
- Date
- 2003
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Title
- Lyrical politics in the Spanish "state of exception" (1955-2009 : an analysis of the work of Valente, Vázquez Montalbán, Panero, and Rivas
- Creator
- Wrobel, Andrew Joseph
- Date
- 2015
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Description
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This thesis discusses the social, political, and historical panorama of the Spanish “state of exception” as depicted by the poets José Ángel Valente, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Leopoldo María Panero, and Manuel Rivas. The poetic works that have been examined in this thesis were all published between 1955 and 2009. The works present the horrors of the Spanish Civil War and the harsh conditions during the nearly forty-year dictatorship of Francisco Franco, in addition to the failed transition to...
Show moreThis thesis discusses the social, political, and historical panorama of the Spanish “state of exception” as depicted by the poets José Ángel Valente, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Leopoldo María Panero, and Manuel Rivas. The poetic works that have been examined in this thesis were all published between 1955 and 2009. The works present the horrors of the Spanish Civil War and the harsh conditions during the nearly forty-year dictatorship of Francisco Franco, in addition to the failed transition to democracy that began after his death. Through an incorporation of theories on nostalgia, trauma, “docile bodies”, and “empty signifiers”, this dissertation will analyze the exceptional literary space created by the minority genre that is Spanish poetry. Due to the censura, overt political discourse could not be carried out, and thus it was poetry, whose verses could abscond covert criticisms of the Franco regime, that created the opportunity for political dissidence at a time when it would be punishable by death. The poetic texts studied here expose the existence of Spain’s “state of exception” and insist on its continuity despite the fact that Spain is now a Constitutional Monarchy.
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- Figuraciones transatlánticas : visiones globales de la narrativa hispánica contemporánea
- Creator
- Ruifernandez-Conde, Virginia
- Date
- 2013
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Description
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This dissertation maps out the novelistic production of a handful of writers that I have coined "the Hispanic Atlantic." This term refers to a cultural, financial, and geographical space in which the Atlantic Ocean functions as a site that connects Spain, Spanish America, and the United States. The novelistic production I study questions the traditional notion of national literature. At the same time, my research provides a new look at what, after Jünger Habermas, has been labeled as ...
Show moreThis dissertation maps out the novelistic production of a handful of writers that I have coined "the Hispanic Atlantic." This term refers to a cultural, financial, and geographical space in which the Atlantic Ocean functions as a site that connects Spain, Spanish America, and the United States. The novelistic production I study questions the traditional notion of national literature. At the same time, my research provides a new look at what, after Jünger Habermas, has been labeled as "postnational." More specifically, my dissertation studies the intersection of Spanish and Latin American writers as they relocate on both sides of the Atlantic, and by doing so, reach new levels of global success that were unprecedented in Hispanic national literature. My dissertation focuses on the narrative work of authors Agustín Fernández Mallo, Javier Marías, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, and Carlos Ruiz Zafón from Spain, as well as Roberto Bolaño and Boris Izaguirre from Latin America. In my analysis of their works, I carefully examine the way in which notions of national cultures and their aftermath are represented with a particular emphasis on the reception of those works on both sides of the Atlantic.Chapter one concentrates on Spanish writers that today are influential in the global market of the novel. I start by examining the literary production of Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Carlos Ruiz Zafón. More specifically, I analyze the unprecedented global best-seller status that these writers are experiencing beyond the Spanish publishing industry. Chapter two studies two specific authors that have been successful in Spain, Latin America, and the United States, but still have not experienced a global commercial success similar to the authors studied in chapter one. These authors are Javier Cercas and Javier Marías. The historical and sociological referent of the literature they are producing is ingrained in Spanish national culture rather than in globalization. In this chapter, I explore the sociological reality of literary awards and the impact they have on the way the Spanish publishing industry promotes authors beyond Spanish borders. Finally, I also examine the high modernist status inherent in the works these authors produce.Chapter three focuses on the writing of two successful Latin American authors: Roberto Bolaño and Boris Izaguirre. As a result of the influx of global immigration to Spain, several cities (Barcelona, Madrid, Seville) are becoming the residence of many Latin American writers who have stayed in Spain and are experiencing enormous achievement. One of the most important examples is the case of the Chilean Roberto Bolaño whose novelistic project has become a success of global proportions. In my analysis of these two novelists, I pay close attention to the way in which these novels concerned themselves with the cultural counterpoint of nationhood and cosmopolitanism. Chapter four analyzes the latest Spanish narrative which pays attention to the global market. The work produced by these novelists is quite influenced by the U.S. cultural industry. My study focuses on the novelistic discourse of Spanish writers Ray Loriga, Lucía Etxebarría, and Agustín Fernández Mallo, as well as Afterpop ́s cultural critic Eloy Fernández Porta. In my study of these authors, I focus on how these writers incorporate different manifestations of pop and mass culture in order to actively participate in the global markets of the publishing industry.
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- In and out of the peripheral network city : urban spaces written by violence in postwar Guatemala
- Creator
- Bentley, Andrew (Graduate of Michigan State University)
- Date
- 2019
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Description
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"'In and Out of the Peripheral Network City: Urban Spaces Written by Violence in Postwar Guatemala' analyzes transformations of urban space and culture in contemporary Guatemala. More specifically, the study focuses on material and discursive responses to urban violence as they appear in literature and related cultural products in and about postwar Guatemala City (1997-present). The study contends that, while Guatemala City undeniably operates under the same logic as substantially larger...
Show more"'In and Out of the Peripheral Network City: Urban Spaces Written by Violence in Postwar Guatemala' analyzes transformations of urban space and culture in contemporary Guatemala. More specifically, the study focuses on material and discursive responses to urban violence as they appear in literature and related cultural products in and about postwar Guatemala City (1997-present). The study contends that, while Guatemala City undeniably operates under the same logic as substantially larger Latin American megacities, with populations of 8 million and up, it must be read under its own terms, considering its recent history and cultural production that responds to such history, as well as the city layout, which shapes cultural mediations of people. Thus, I propose the trope of the peripheral network city---a mid-sized, partitioned urban sprawl, shaped by citizen and state involvement, with qualities of the megacity and the megaslum---to analyze Guatemala City's heterogeneous spaces and the role of violence in constructing them. I conceptualize the peripheral network city through the lens of four main theoretical approaches: the archive, the repertoire, necropolitics, and violence. Discussions of these main theoretical concepts draw upon critical debates by thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Ann Laura Stoler, Antoinette Burton, Diana Taylor, Mike Davis, Achille Mbembe, and Slavoj Zizek, among others. To read the peripheral network city, the specific texts under consideration are the site of the Archivo Historico de la Policia Nacional [Historical Archive of the National Police, AHPN] and its novelistic representation in Rodrigo Rey Rosa's 2009 novel El material humano [Human Matter], photographs of disappeared persons on the walls of buildings in Guatemala City's Historic Center, the novel Ruido de fondo [Background Noise] (2006) by Javier Payeras, and the collection of short stories perZONA (2014) by Juan Pensamiento Velasco. By offering new paradigms through which to read the Global South city in the 21st century, this study contends that cultural production, and the city itself, register traces of the recent past and ensure the survival of urban violence not as a transient mode but rather as a structuring principle of culture in postwar Guatemala. More broadly, the dissertation posits that such a reading of violent urban spaces allows us to understand Latin America and the Global South from a Guatemalan perspective, which until now has been largely ignored by cultural criticism."--Pages ii-iii.
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- Verbal morphology in L2 Spanish : morphological deficits and processing strategies
- Creator
- Johnston, Suzanne (Suzanne A.)
- Date
- 2017
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Description
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One of the fundamental questions in second language (L2) research asks whether L2 learners can access inflectional morphology in real time to process sentences in a native-like manner. More recently, research has indicated that the L2 parser is less efficient than the native parser, and only near native learners may be capable of processing sentences like native speakers (Hopp, 2010; Keating, 2009). Furthermore, L2 learners may continue to rely on nonnative-like processing strategies to make...
Show moreOne of the fundamental questions in second language (L2) research asks whether L2 learners can access inflectional morphology in real time to process sentences in a native-like manner. More recently, research has indicated that the L2 parser is less efficient than the native parser, and only near native learners may be capable of processing sentences like native speakers (Hopp, 2010; Keating, 2009). Furthermore, L2 learners may continue to rely on nonnative-like processing strategies to make up for processing deficits in L2 comprehension, even after inflectional morphology has been acquired (Ellis & Sagarra, 2010; LoCoco, 1987; VanPatten, 1984, 1990, 1996). The current dissertation examines such behavior by examining the development and processing of subject/verb agreement in L2 Spanish. L1 English/L2 Spanish speakers completed two self-paced reading tasks that testeds whether they perceived errors in morphological inflection, and whether they could reliably use morpho-syntactic cues during real time processing. A third self-paced reading task examined whether L2 learners' processing was facilitated by the presence of overt subjects. Results suggest that while L2 learners showed sensitivity to some errors, the parser did not regularly process inflection during on-line comprehension. Furthermore, L2 learner processing was facilitated by the presence of an overt subject. These results are compatible with the prediction that L2 parsers are less efficient than L1 parsers, and that L2 learners may continue to rely on L1 or universal processing measures after morphological inflection has been acquired.
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