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Title: La Narrativa de Isaac Montero : una reivinicacion
Creator: Sánchez de la Calle, Eufemia
Date: 1990
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: La (con)textualizacion de la poesia postmoderna Mexicana : Pedro Salvador Ale, David Huerta y Coral Bracho
Creator: Haladyna, Ronald R.
Date: 1994
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: 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: "'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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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: Figuraciones transatlánticas : visiones globales de la narrativa hispánica contemporánea
Creator: Ruifernandez-Conde, Virginia
Date: 2013
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: 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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Title: Estudio analitico de El Gran Duque De Gandia : contribucion al estudio de las comedias "De Santo" de Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Creator: Calvo Costa, Juan Antonio
Date: 1967
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Estrellas, medios y relatos de fútbol en México (1941-2001)
Creator: Gonzalez Landeros, Alejandro
Date: 2016
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: ABSTRACTESTRELLAS, MEDIOS Y RELATOS DE FÚTBOL EN MÉXICO (1941-2001) ByAlejandro González Landeros This doctoral dissertation explores how Mexican soccer narratives have changed throughout the 20th century under the impact of different platforms of mass media and new technologies (i.e. written press, radio, cinema and television). I have three goals in undertaking this project. First, I map and trace the history of changes of what I call “the parole of Mexican soccer” or the way Mexico talks...
Show moreABSTRACTESTRELLAS, MEDIOS Y RELATOS DE FÚTBOL EN MÉXICO (1941-2001) ByAlejandro González Landeros This doctoral dissertation explores how Mexican soccer narratives have changed throughout the 20th century under the impact of different platforms of mass media and new technologies (i.e. written press, radio, cinema and television). I have three goals in undertaking this project. First, I map and trace the history of changes of what I call “the parole of Mexican soccer” or the way Mexico talks about soccer. Second, I explore how Mexican media invested in creating a soccer star mega-system. Third, I analyze how Mexican soccer imagination changes under the impact of a media cross-fertilizations process. Up to this point, there are no studies that research how different technologies influence of language of Mexican soccer. This is a void that I propose to fill by revising the history of the relationship between soccer and mass media in Mexico throughout the 20th century. My dissertation consists of 5 chapters. The first chapter analyzes Esto, which became the sports weekly magazine most widely sold in Mexico during the 40s. In this chapter, I examine how Esto narrated soccer by addressing the following questions: 1) how did the press begin to organize and imagine Mexican soccer narratives, 2) how did Esto’s chronicles and/or interviews build a star-system that later established itself as a common practice for other mass media, and 3) what rhetoric started to be associated with soccer, or how was a soccer narrative founded in the newspapers of the 1940s. The second chapter analyzes the “Golden Age” of Mexican cinema, especially the movie Los hijos de don Venancio (1944). I review how did cinema speak about soccer in Mexico along with the star system that movies built or how they fed the celebrity discourse already institutionalized by the written press. In chapter three, I focus in Chanoc (1959-1981?), which was one of the most successful comic books in the 1960s through the 1980s. By entering the universe of soccer comic books, Mexican soccer began to be narrated through parody and picaresque. Also, the topics start to diversify. Acknowledging all these changes, I explore how Chanoc mocked the “nación mexicana futbolera” through the lens and satirized language of Televisa sport commentator Ángel Fernández, a major talking point of Chanoc’s football series. Chapter four analyzes how Tomás Mojarro talked in his UNAM radio program Paliques y cabeceos (1982-1986) about the social and economic implications that the 1986 World Cup had on its staging throughout Mexico. Tomás Mojarro provides insights into Televisas’s investments in the mega-event, and how the Mexican state aided the media corporation. The last chapter analyzes the telenovela El juego de la vida (2001) and the new “sentimental” and “feminine” language that the soap opera added to the existing (male) narratives of soccer in Mexico. I am interested in finding how this telenovela was able to imagine the impossible women of mid/high classes becoming protagonists of such an uncharted territory of Mexican masculine landscape.
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Title: Environmental stewardship and the production of subjectivities : indigenous, scientific, and economic rationalities in Ancash, Peru
Creator: Kalman, Rowenn Beth
Date: 2017
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: In the region of Ancash, Peru, rural farmers, NGO staff, state workers, and mine engineers all argue that environmental conciencia (consciousness) is crucial for protecting natural resources from pollution and overuse. However, they draw on different rationales of indigeneity, science, and economics to define what constitutes effective conservation and who has authority over nature. NGOs train rural farmers to be 2environmental promoters3 who monitor pollution and embrace ancestral ...
Show moreIn the region of Ancash, Peru, rural farmers, NGO staff, state workers, and mine engineers all argue that environmental conciencia (consciousness) is crucial for protecting natural resources from pollution and overuse. However, they draw on different rationales of indigeneity, science, and economics to define what constitutes effective conservation and who has authority over nature. NGOs train rural farmers to be 2environmental promoters3 who monitor pollution and embrace ancestral (indigenous Andean) views of nature as they coordinate among mine companies, state authorities, and their fellow villagers. This dissertation argues that promoter training reflects an attempt to create environmental subjects—those who view the stewardship of nature as necessary for resource preservation (Agrawal 2005)—but that differently situated subjects decide to protect nature for different reasons. Through community-based stewardship, promoters and other actors draw from the multiple discourses of conciencia (indigenous, scientific, and economic) to dispute both state-sanctioned and private sector authority, articulating competing ideas of environmental management. This argument departs from previous analyses of decentralization and environmental governance that suggest community stewardship initiatives lead marginal resource users into deeper compliance with a singular, state-sanctioned logic. Further, existing scholarship on environmental subjectivity does not consider how other dimensions of subjectivity are engaged and reconstructed through processes cultivating environmental subjects. In Ancash, actors continuously re-situate themselves in different ways with respect to gender, ethnicity, scientific expertise, and economic incentives according to their own priorities. Some resource users (including rural indigenous women) have been less able to participate in debates over stewardship, but are symbolically central to indigenous constructions of it. In analyzing the context of competing discourses and multifaceted subjectivities involved in environmental stewardship, this dissertation advances a new scholarly approach to subjectivity and environmental governance that illuminates inequalities and explains how and why rural stewards participate in diverse, strategic, and sometimes ambivalent ways.
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Title: El uso de temas histórico-tradicionales en Tirso de Molina : las tres comedias del Viejo Testamento
Creator: Sorensen, Jorge E.
Date: 1978
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: El tema de la soledad en la narrative de Adolfo Bioy Casares
Creator: Conzevoy-Cortés, Leonor Felisa
Date: 1977
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: El teatro intelectual de Samuel Eichelbaum
Creator: Karavellas, Panos D., 1929-
Date: 1972
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: El lenguaje bíblico como discurso subversivo en la poesía Española de postguerra
Creator: Jato, Mónica
Date: 1999
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Dislocacion y sutura : construcciones de infancia en los relatos de Julio Ramón Ribeyro
Creator: Echarri, Andrés Xavier
Date: 2004
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Discursos alimentarios en la literatura y las telenovelas Mexicanas contemporáneas
Creator: Rodríguez-Morán, Gustavo
Date: 2009
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: Del 58 al siglo XXI : memoria histórica, espacios y proyecciones de la poesía Panameña
Creator: Serrano Guerra, Damaris
Date: 2005
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Deforestation degrades rain forest stream habitat and biodiversity over time in the Rama-Kriol indigenous territory, southeast Nicaragua
Creator: Betts, Joel Thomas
Date: 2019
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: In southeast Nicaragua, recent waves of illegal deforestation for cattle pasture are damaging the Indio-Maiz Biological Reserve (IMBR) and Rama-Kriol territory (RKT), with negative consequences to aquatic ecosystems and the people who rely on services they provide. Deforestation and subsequent land use are causing shifts in stream community structure that are mediated by changes in stream habitat. This study integrated temporally explicit land use information with stream habitat,...
Show moreIn southeast Nicaragua, recent waves of illegal deforestation for cattle pasture are damaging the Indio-Maiz Biological Reserve (IMBR) and Rama-Kriol territory (RKT), with negative consequences to aquatic ecosystems and the people who rely on services they provide. Deforestation and subsequent land use are causing shifts in stream community structure that are mediated by changes in stream habitat. This study integrated temporally explicit land use information with stream habitat, macroinvertebrate, freshwater shrimp, and fish community data to assess impacts of deforestation on 15 headwater streams in southeast Nicaragua's poorly studied protected rainforests. The new calculation, deforestation history index (DFI), a product of deforestation amount and time since deforestation for the catchment draining to each stream reach, was the best linear predictor of most taxa responses-better than other habitat metrics and raw forest cover at multiple scales. Stream reaches that were deforested for a longer time and to a larger extent-thus having higher values for the DFI-had less large wood, organic debris, macroalgae, and macrophytes; more stream bank erosion and sedimentation; degraded riparia; lower diversity and abundance of macroinvertebrates, shrimp, and fish; higher invertebrate evenness; and distinct changes in invertebrate community composition. All deforested reaches also had smaller sized game fish. New registers of fish species and insect genera were recorded for Nicaragua. As this is the first aquatic study in these watersheds of the IMBR and RKT, this region should be a high priority for further research and conservation investment before it is lost.
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Title: De la resistencia a la revitalizacion cultural en la narrativa maya contemporanea
Creator: Moreno Mosqueda, Zenaida
Date: 2014
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Esta disertación analiza cuatro obras de la narrativa maya contemporánea de Guatemala y Chiapas, México, publicadas entre las décadas de 1980 y 2000. Los textos elegidos para este estudio incluye las novelas El tiempo principia en Xibalbá (1985) de Luis de Lión, La otra cara: La vida de un maya (1992) y El retorno de los mayas (1998) de Gaspar Pedro González y la colección de cuentos Todo cambió (2006) de Josías López Gómez. Esta investigación estudia las transformaciones discursivas que se...
Show moreEsta disertación analiza cuatro obras de la narrativa maya contemporánea de Guatemala y Chiapas, México, publicadas entre las décadas de 1980 y 2000. Los textos elegidos para este estudio incluye las novelas El tiempo principia en Xibalbá (1985) de Luis de Lión, La otra cara: La vida de un maya (1992) y El retorno de los mayas (1998) de Gaspar Pedro González y la colección de cuentos Todo cambió (2006) de Josías López Gómez. Esta investigación estudia las transformaciones discursivas que se observan en las obras literarias de estos autores indígenas. Mi objetivo principal es demostrar que dichas transformaciones expresan la transición de un discurso maya contestatario a un discurso maya de revitalización cultural. Al examinar esta transición, esta disertación propone que la narrativa maya contemporánea trata los siguientes temas políticos, literarios e históricos: (1) problematiza categorías binarias de identidad racial y étnica como mestizo/ladino e indio/indígena así como su asociación al poder que se refleja en la relación entre hegemonía y subalternidad, (2) desestabiliza las representaciones estereotípicas y homogeneizantes de los pueblos indígenas para ilustrar su diversidad cultural y (3) enfatiza la capacidad y la determinación de los mayas para preservar su cultura y su identidad. Con este objetivo en mente, la disertación define el contexto histórico, sociocultural, político y artístico que precede la reaparición de la literatura maya contemporánea. Enseguida discute y analiza su discurso contestatario y el discurso de revitalización cultural así como la forma en que se manifiestan en las obras de los autores antes mencionados. La disertación concluye con una serie de ideas y temas aún pendientes en el estudio de la identidad indígena en la literatura maya contemporánea y latinoamericana.
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