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Title
La gente bien : literary and cultural representations of the Mexican aristocracy from the mid-twentieth century to the present
Creator
Solano-Rabago, Diomedes
Date
2016
Collection
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description
This dissertation studies novelistic, mass-media representations, as well as reproductive models of a particular, yet elusive sector of the Mexican elite frequently labeled as “gente bien” (“well-to-do”) a cultural construct in which perceptions of race and heritage confer distinction to a network of families of European descent. In my study, I claim that the literary and film production after the 1950’s decidedly questions the traditional Mexican national discourse that populist...
Show moreThis dissertation studies novelistic, mass-media representations, as well as reproductive models of a particular, yet elusive sector of the Mexican elite frequently labeled as “gente bien” (“well-to-do”) a cultural construct in which perceptions of race and heritage confer distinction to a network of families of European descent. In my study, I claim that the literary and film production after the 1950’s decidedly questions the traditional Mexican national discourse that populist administrations (from the Institutional Revolutionary Party, “el PRI”), imposed for most of the Twentieth Century. In developing my arguments for a new reading of some major works in Mexican fiction and film, this dissertation explains why it is essential to understand some of the literary responses to the Mexican post-revolutionary discourse by resorting to notions of cultural capital and class distinction in Mexican narratives, anchoring these concepts to the postcolonial perspective of social elites, the performativity of their rituals, and their strategies of social and biological reproduction. Since the late-1950’s a significant number of Mexican novelists and filmmakers have sought to capture the consequences of the Revolution on individuals and communities in works that depict Mexican society, especially the reality of a recognizable aristocracy. My dissertation examines the ways in which these authors seek to represent and comment on the decline of the landowning aristocracy vis-à-vis the upward social mobility of the industrial bourgeoisie, the newly-formed ruling elite, the aspiring middle classes; and most recently, media celebrities.The introduction hosts a theoretical framework that traces the genealogy of the Mexican aristocracy and maps out its presence in society. Chapter one concentrates on the early narrative of Carlos Fuentes and discusses the literary representations of the Mexican aristocrats and the process of imitation and social intermingling in the 1950s. Here, I compare several models of social reproduction that aristocrats use to preserve their status by making their social distinction a commodity.Chapter two studies the cinematographic portrayal of the Mexican elites in the second half of the Golden Age of Mexican Film (1950-1958). This chapter offers a close analysis of audiovisual status symbols that distinguish aristocratic characters. Since it was during this time that films sought to legitimize a post-revolutionary national image, here I question the historical and sociological referents presented as Mexican national culture and the artistic roles of Mexican film directors stars.Chapter three focuses on narrative works by Elena Poniatowska, Guadalupe Loaeza, and José Emilio Pacheco, all of whom published novels that depict social mobility and criticize the official discourse of the 1950’s in Mexico City. These novels, published in the last two decades of the Twentieth Century, present the manner by which aristocratic distinction is instilled and reproduced during childhood.Chapter four analyzes contemporary representations of the Mexican elite in television and social media. The first part concentrates on a collection of newspaper articles and vignettes that present comedic portrayals of wealthy women. This dissertation concludes with a critique to current trends in Mexican media, which has appropriated the aristocratic discourse and has extended it to characterize actors, elected officials, and other public personalities.
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"Narrativas de transicion en el cine y la literatura de Chile : neorrealismo, virtualidad y cuerpos ciberneticos de la postdictadura"
Creator
Vidal-Jones, David A.
Date
2016
Collection
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description
This dissertation project explores cultural narratives in Chile during the transition to democracy from 1990 to 2010. I examine the impact of literature and cinema in the construction of (post) national discourses and its implications in the context of the globalized Chilean society. In the works of Alberto Fuguet, Carlos Franz, Alicia Scherson, Ernesto Díaz-Espinoza and Gonzalo Contreras, I advance the idea of a third space in transition which allows a post-colonial place of enunciation that...
Show moreThis dissertation project explores cultural narratives in Chile during the transition to democracy from 1990 to 2010. I examine the impact of literature and cinema in the construction of (post) national discourses and its implications in the context of the globalized Chilean society. In the works of Alberto Fuguet, Carlos Franz, Alicia Scherson, Ernesto Díaz-Espinoza and Gonzalo Contreras, I advance the idea of a third space in transition which allows a post-colonial place of enunciation that falls between democratic realism and authoritarian narratives of dictatorship.Following Bernardo Subercaseaux’s conceptualization of historical national time as a theatrical world of spectacle, this dissertation explores emergent narratives of liminal communities, interrupting dichotomist discourses about the past.This study situates the following literary and cinematographic corpus between the centripetal discourse of national imagined communities and the centrifugal dynamics of globalized imagination. Walter Mignolo’s concept of ‘borderthinking’ helps to problematize the post authoritarian local-global axis, inciting the following question: Can we determine the existence of a new kind of post-national neorealism in Chile’s post-authoritarian period? If so, do these narratives present a disruption from the post-dictatorial rhetoric? Alberto Fuguet’s novel Mala onda (1991) and film Se arrienda (2005) offer fractured subjects as they enter fluid spaces between modernity and resistance. As the main characters fail, desacralizing the bildungsroman, they allow a critical representation of the subject within democratic realism, defined by Nelly Richards. Conversely, Ernesto Díaz-Espinoza and his film trilogy Kiltro, Mirageman and Mandrill (2006-2009) render a parody of the national hero between the fluid spaces of global and local realities. Through the novel Películas de mi vida (1993), Alberto Fuguet dislocates the period of political transition towards democracy with new temporality and velocity relocating the narrative from extraterritorial spaces. This study problematizes also the concept of ‘virtual realism’ in Alicia Scherson’s film Play (2005) and Carlos Franz’s novel Santiago cero (1988). These works navigate the world of hyperreality created through epistolary interchanges and virtual gaming to contest the place of enunciation of the national subject, specifically its construction and deconstruction process of Santiago’s neoliberal landscape. Finally, the figure of the cyborg appears to challenge democratic progressivism through historicity and memory in the works of Gonzalo Contreras’s novel La ciudad anterior (1991) and Alberto Fuguet’s film Velódromo (2009).It is important to establish a connection between these works and new ‘glocal’ imaginaries that have been overlooked since the decade of the 1990s. These cultural productions, in their visual and textual dynamic language, challenge national identities by intersecting the global with a local through folklorization, parody, and hyperbolic realisms. They deconstruct the naturalized national hero and reconstitute virtual and precarious cyborg identities disrupting dominant discourses such as the dictatorship and the democratic transition rhetoric.
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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
Retórica de la imitación : identidad sexual y raza en la producción cultural dominicana y puertorriqueña contemporánea
Creator
Montalvo, Jonathan
Date
2017
Collection
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description
Esta tesis examina cómo las producciones culturales de la República Dominicana y Puerto Rico, particularmente la literatura y el cine, establecen una conexión entre género, sexualidad, raza y los discursos políticos e intelectuales represivos en ambos países. Exploraré desde una perspectiva queer cómo estas producciones (de)centralizan los discursos hegemónicos y paternalistas que perpetúan identidades raciales, sexuales y de género fijas en la región. En este proceso de cuestionamiento, se...
Show moreEsta tesis examina cómo las producciones culturales de la República Dominicana y Puerto Rico, particularmente la literatura y el cine, establecen una conexión entre género, sexualidad, raza y los discursos políticos e intelectuales represivos en ambos países. Exploraré desde una perspectiva queer cómo estas producciones (de)centralizan los discursos hegemónicos y paternalistas que perpetúan identidades raciales, sexuales y de género fijas en la región. En este proceso de cuestionamiento, se pueden identificar dos tendencias que guían este estudio. Por un lado, las producciones puertorriqueñas queer reproducen y a la vez cuestionan los discursos de los intelectuales de la Generación del 30. Por otro lado, los escritores dominicanos denuncian las luchas de la comunidad diverso-sexual y sus estrategias para sobrevivir en una sociedad caótica a consecuencia de los disturbios políticos durante los regímenes de Rafael L. Trujillo y Joaquín Balaguer. Los autores dominicanos y puertorriqueños analizados en este estudio utilizan una nueva retórica caribeña, la cual llamo la retórica de la imitación. Los personajes de las obras analizadas imitan algunos elementos de modelos sexo-genéricos y raciales hegemónicos. De este modo, los escritores contemporáneos utilizan esta nueva retórica para idear estrategias (a través de la imitación de esos modelos) con las cuales puedan cuestionar los discursos dominantes históricamente perpetuados por la clase política e intelectual de ambos países caribeños.
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Imperialist seductions : a genealogy of the femme fatale in Spanish literature from romanticism to modernism (1845-1908)
Creator
Cuzovic-Severn, Marina
Date
2014
Collection
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description
This dissertation presents the genealogy of the femme fatale in Spanish literature from its origin in romanticism to its peak in modernism. My study contributes to the field of geopolitics, gender studies and feminism, as it comments on different presentations and uses of the femme fatale in male and female authors' works in the nineteenth and beginning of twentieth centuries. While most studies dedicated to the femme fatale in Spanish literature focus on specific authors and periods, no...
Show moreThis dissertation presents the genealogy of the femme fatale in Spanish literature from its origin in romanticism to its peak in modernism. My study contributes to the field of geopolitics, gender studies and feminism, as it comments on different presentations and uses of the femme fatale in male and female authors' works in the nineteenth and beginning of twentieth centuries. While most studies dedicated to the femme fatale in Spanish literature focus on specific authors and periods, no research exists on the relationship between this figure, imperialism and feminism over such an extensive period of time. The main goal of Imperialist Seductions is to demonstrate how the figure of the femme fatale is a significant factor in understanding (post)imperial Spain, as well as a valuable tool for better comprehension of the historical development of gender, domesticity, patriarchy and power structures in Spain. I demonstrate how, in women authors' works, the femme fatale is a performative strategy for expression of feminist ideas and a symbol of the Spanish imperial-national crisis in male writers' works. One of the most innovative aspects of this study is that it questions the entire concept of domesticity in the nineteenth century and combines feminism with geopolitics and imperialism through the figure of the femme fatale.
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Beyond the biblical and millenarian : place, space, & meaning in the poetic landscapes of Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaragua, 1950 to the present
Creator
Fuchs, Kevin Artur
Date
2014
Collection
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description
Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal's exteriorista brand of verse is devoid of abstract metaphors. The objective tone of his poetry obscures underlying subjective inclinations. This dissertation analyzes Cardenal's exteriorista poetic landscapes to decode the subjectivity of place embedded within them. The study begins with Alexandra Kogl's equation "place = space + meaning," which invites interpretation of place both from the perspective of cultural studies, with a focus on the...
Show moreNicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal's exteriorista brand of verse is devoid of abstract metaphors. The objective tone of his poetry obscures underlying subjective inclinations. This dissertation analyzes Cardenal's exteriorista poetic landscapes to decode the subjectivity of place embedded within them. The study begins with Alexandra Kogl's equation "place = space + meaning," which invites interpretation of place both from the perspective of cultural studies, with a focus on the culturally contested terrain of meaning, as well as from an ecocritical vantage point as it pertains to physical space and how human relationships and interactions with the natural environment can influence identities of place. Kogl's equation is modified to show that Cardenal's landscapes are not static, monolithic, or biblical backdrops, but rather are in dialogue with historical and autobiographical moments as well as with competing narratives that contest meanings of place. Meaning and space are not mutually exclusive addends. Meaning in Cardenal's poetry is influenced by material spaces as well as by activities themselves that alter space. That is to say, Cardenal also responds to the space addend, to the narrative that imperialist incursions and exploits have physically "written" over the land and the bodies of its inhabitants. Cardenal's poetry is considered chronologically across four periods based upon "ruptures" found in his memoirs and in historiographical accounts. Chapter 1 (1950-1970) focuses on the poems "Con Walker en Nicaragua" and "Hora 0." The analysis highlights a trend in his verse which leads from "transcultural identity conflict" regarding U.S.-Nicaraguan relations towards a more sharply defined polarization of identities, linking changes in landscape representation to the heating up of the Cold War in the 1950s. Chapter 2 (1970-1977) locates linkages between Cardenal's "Canto nacional," "Oráculo sobre Managua," and "Viaje a Nueva York," historical events, and competing narratives prevalent at the time. It is shown how the poet depicts nation as a natural habitat of organisms which form synergetic webs of life, support, and self-defense. The focus on the first-person lyrical voice is amplified as the need for self-realization and self-preservation become increasingly intertwined with national renewal in a time of upheaval. Chapter 3 (1977-1990) considers the collections Vuelos de victoria and Cántico cósmico, written in the midst of revolution, Sandinista rule, and the Contra War. Landscape representations shift from the euphoria of national renewal towards the "starscapes" of exile. The poet retools landscapes on the scale of the cosmos and enters into competitive dialogue both with narratives emanating from U.S. empire as well as with the autobiographical and historical events that challenge the poet to reframe his nationalist vision. Chapter 4 (1990-2014) explores how the poet wrestles with the neoliberal conceptual apparatus and the fragmentation that it has exacerbated. He advances a unifying perspective of the universe, advocates for a renewed sense of history and for the protection of the "commons." Cardenal's poetry assumes a more transnational character, a transition that coincides with the rampant globalization of free-market capitalism. This study makes clear that the changing texture of Cardenal's landscapes are not merely the product of a liberation theologian or of an adherent to Marxist ideologies, but the result of a man responding to the historical and autobiographical context of his own life and times. Nicaraguan transformation throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries is strongly registered across Cardenal's poetry. By adopting an ecocritical stance, this dissertation makes evident the intersection of the literary, historical, and the ecological and highlights their multiple configurations within the dynamic and primary referent of Cardenal's poetic landscapes.
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"LA GRAN CEGUEDAD DE ESTA MISERABLE GENTE : " VIOLENCIA CULTURAL Y NEGOCIACIONES DISCURSIVAS EN EL MANUSCRITO DE HUAROCHIRI (c. 1608)
Creator
Berrios-Campos, Claudia
Date
2021
Collection
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description
Esta tesis examina el manuscrito quechua del siglo XVII conocido como Manuscrito de Huarochirí como un ejemplo de una violenta zona de contacto en la cual las creencias y conocimientos culturales, ideológicos y religiosos europeos confrontaron los modos indígenas de pensar, conocer y preservar de la memoria y las historias locales y globales. En este contexto, observo los intentos europeos de controlar las creencias y las respuestas indígenas (asimilación, negociación, resistencia) a las...
Show moreEsta tesis examina el manuscrito quechua del siglo XVII conocido como Manuscrito de Huarochirí como un ejemplo de una violenta zona de contacto en la cual las creencias y conocimientos culturales, ideológicos y religiosos europeos confrontaron los modos indígenas de pensar, conocer y preservar de la memoria y las historias locales y globales. En este contexto, observo los intentos europeos de controlar las creencias y las respuestas indígenas (asimilación, negociación, resistencia) a las imposiciones españolas cristianas e imperiales. De esta manera, los colonizadores españoles y extirpadores de idolatrías lideraron una guerra con el propósito de alcanzar un poder simbólico mientras agentes indígenas tales como curacas, interpretes, escribas y secretarios intentaban mantener vivo el saber indígena. A través de una investigación interdisciplinaria entre la historia social, la lingüística, el pensamiento político, los estudios religiosos y un enfoque decolonial, esta tesis traza la colonización europea a través del desarrollo de la extirpación de idolatrías en el Arzobispado de Lima durante los primeros cincuenta años del siglo XVII como un proceso que buscó controlar los sistemas de creencias andinos y sus discursos. Esta colonización trasatlántica de imágenes, símbolos y prácticas intentó deshacerse de la gnoseología indígena y los principios sociales nativos, tales como la reciprocidad, el tinkuy (encuentro, confluencia) o el pachakutiy (la inversión del mundo). De esta manera, manifestaciones de esta guerra de símbolos alcanzaron el poder imperial más allá del Atlántico, pero no fueron percibidas como amenazas inmediatas. Sin embargo, la cuestión de la recepción de estas ideas, así como la idea de una gnoseología andina, todavía queda por ser estudiada. Específicamente, estudio ejemplos textuales de una violencia cultural, ideológica y simbólica hacia los modos indígenas de conocimiento y saber. El pensamiento y el conocimiento indígena se encuentra arraigado en estas historias y tradiciones, las cuales han sido leídas en el pasado como un discurso mítico. Mi investigación confronta la naturaleza problemática de esta lectura a través de un enfoque decolonial que considera las dinámicas discursivas y culturales entre las comunidades indígenas y los colonizadores europeos como un producto de la colonialidad del saber impuesta por el proceso de colonización del continente americano. Presto atención a estas dinámicas culturales como procesos de negociación discursivos con el objetivo de adquirir un poder simbólico que permitirá a los sujetos indígenas colonizados subsistir y resistir en un contexto (post)colonial. Mi tesis abre la puerta a la mirada imperial enfrentada a la diversidad en las formas indígenas de entender el mundo.
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“PALABRA EMPEÑADA” : LA CONFIGURACIÓN INTELECTUAL DE GABRIELA MISTRAL A TRAVÉS DE SUS CARTAS, 1914-1957
Creator
Romero, Lau
Date
2022
Collection
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description
Gabriela Mistral (1889 – 1957) fue la primera mujer latinoamericana en obtener el Premio Nobel de Literatura, en 1945. Su reconocimiento como una fue tardío en su país natal, Chile, donde recibió el Premio Nacional de Literatura en 1951. Esta tesis investiga la correspondencia privada de Gabriela Mistral durante el período 1914 a 1957 para buscar otra explicación al fenómeno mistraliano fuera de su innegable talento. En otras palabras, esta investigación se centra en aquellas estrategias que...
Show moreGabriela Mistral (1889 – 1957) fue la primera mujer latinoamericana en obtener el Premio Nobel de Literatura, en 1945. Su reconocimiento como una fue tardío en su país natal, Chile, donde recibió el Premio Nacional de Literatura en 1951. Esta tesis investiga la correspondencia privada de Gabriela Mistral durante el período 1914 a 1957 para buscar otra explicación al fenómeno mistraliano fuera de su innegable talento. En otras palabras, esta investigación se centra en aquellas estrategias que la escritora despliega dentro del campo cultural tanto chileno como internacional (Pierre Bourdieu 1990; Toril Moi 1999; Gonzalo Catalán 1985) para asegurar su sitio dentro del mismo, expandir sus redes intelectuales y afectivas, y proteger su continuidad a través de la obtención de capital simbólico. La organización de la tesis, compuesta en cuatro capítulos, gira en torno a “nudos” en los cuales la trayectoria profesional de Mistral –y su capital acumulado– se pone en riesgo y/o se refuerzan a través del establecimiento de alianzas, amistades y favores. De allí también que la hipótesis principal se organice en torno a la “palabra empeñada”, como moneda de intercambio que posibilita no sólo diversas performances por parte de la autora, sino también por parte de sus interlocutores.
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REPRESENTACIONES DE LA CORRUPCIÓN Y LA VIOLENCIA DE ESTADO EN MÉXICO A TRAVÉS DE LA LITERATURA, LA MÚSICA Y EL CINE
Creator
Badillo Carlos, José Adrián
Date
2022
Collection
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description
Esta disertación examina las representaciones de la violencia y la corrupción del Estado en México mediante el análisis de obras literarias, musicales y cinematográficas desde principios de la década de 1960 hasta la actualidad. El enfoque de este proyecto es analizar cómo la literatura y las producciones culturales han respondido ante el papel que ha desempeñado el Estado mexicano en eventos históricos caracterizados por la violencia y la corrupción. Este proyecto inicia con la Masacre de...
Show moreEsta disertación examina las representaciones de la violencia y la corrupción del Estado en México mediante el análisis de obras literarias, musicales y cinematográficas desde principios de la década de 1960 hasta la actualidad. El enfoque de este proyecto es analizar cómo la literatura y las producciones culturales han respondido ante el papel que ha desempeñado el Estado mexicano en eventos históricos caracterizados por la violencia y la corrupción. Este proyecto inicia con la Masacre de Tlatelolco ocurrida en 1968 en la Ciudad de México. Por medio de la obra Regina, dos de octubre no se olvida (1988) de Antonio Velazco Piña se explora el intento del autor por recuperar una memoria histórica y se analiza también las representaciones de la violencia de Estado en contra del movimiento estudiantil en 1968 y los efectos sociales, políticos y culturales que esto genera en la década de los setentas. A través de obras literarias como El amante de Janis Joplin (2001) de Elmer Mendoza y Trabajos del reino (2004) de Yuri Herrera, este trabajo analiza las representaciones ficticias de la violencia de Estado y el desarrollo del narcotráfico en la década de los setentas, haciendo un énfasis en cómo se legitima y se representa la violencia subjetiva, sistémica y cultural. Desde el ámbito musical, este proyecto también analiza las representaciones de la violencia a través de géneros musicales como el rock y los narcocorridos. A pesar del intento de censura por parte del Estado, ambos géneros musicales han funcionado como una vía de expresión popular para proponer una contra narrativa del discurso oficial al igual que para protestar los sistemas de corrupción y violencia. Estas representaciones se profundizan aún más en el cine mexicano a partir del cambio de gobierno ocurrido en el 2000. Por medio de La ley de Herodes (1999) y El infierno (2010) de Luis Estrada, este proyecto presenta un análisis de las representaciones de la violencia y la corrupción desde una perspectiva satírica. El objetivo de este acercamiento es analizar los efectos de comicidad y reflexión que genera la sátira al abordar representaciones de violencia, corrupción y narcotráfico.
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Title
Cultural representations of Galician identity : contemporary narratives of Santiago de Compostela and the Camino de Santiago
Creator
Rasch, Nicole Amberlee
Date
2014
Collection
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description
Today, Galicia is one of Spain's most popular travel destinations. It is known internationally for the Camiño de Compostela - a world recognized city and pilgrimage site. Galician history, however, reveals extensive periods of political repression, social neglect and little capacity for economic sustainability. In the post-Franco period this has been changing, such that the socio-political challenges of the past have been giving way to a greater acceptance of and interest in Galicia's...
Show moreToday, Galicia is one of Spain's most popular travel destinations. It is known internationally for the Camiño de Compostela - a world recognized city and pilgrimage site. Galician history, however, reveals extensive periods of political repression, social neglect and little capacity for economic sustainability. In the post-Franco period this has been changing, such that the socio-political challenges of the past have been giving way to a greater acceptance of and interest in Galicia's language, culture and heritage. This is evidenced by the still-developing and politically sanctioned processes of "normalization," reclamation and cultural reaffirmation. Since 1975 when the post-Franco period began, Galicia's increasing representation and visibility on a global stage brings into question the impact of this notoriety and the consumer-based packaging of Galician culture to domestic and international audiences. Now, at the very historical juncture when Galicia is afforded a greater freedom of expression and cultural acceptance, the impact of increasing cultural commodification and tourist marketing may result in a loss of, or at best a distortion of the region's rich cultural heritage. The packaging of Galician heritage and culture for mass consumption may play a role in the region's potential cultural demise. This dissertation seeks to better understand the potential opportunity of "normalizing" and reclaiming Galician identity and culture in the context of globalization. To this purpose, I consider a selection of narrative representations of Galicia produced in recent decades. These texts and narratives allow consideration of representations of Galicia's culture and identity and asks whether they may be supportive or harmful to the sustainability of Galician cultural heritage. The dissertation will explore how the selected narratives represent, construct, and/or appropriate Galician cultural heritage and language and whether the narratives of Galicia constructed by authors from within differ from those written by authors from without. The dissertation then investigates how the narratives differ and how might they be supportive or not of the region's history and culture. Further, the roles these narratives play in disseminating a particular view of Galician cultural and heritage is explained as well as how the narratives of the state or of those with political influence in Galicia represent the region's history and culture. By exploring both popular and hegemonic or "official" narrative representations of Galician identity, I hope to present a richer understanding than has been offered before of the current trends in representing and articulating Galician identity and culture. By considering a selection of the most resonant narratives inspired by Galicia since 1985, I shed light on the potential impact of these influential representations for this internationally recognized, highly unique and most important region of Spain.
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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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Title
Festival, image and poetic vision in Felipe III's Spains
Creator
Davis, Mark Evan
Date
2015
Collection
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description
Abstract In this dissertation, I examine the artistic development and political aspects of works that have received little scholarly attention: epic poems commemorating some of the most important festival events of Felipe III of Spain's reign (1598-1621). I argue these works are worthy of greater critical consideration than they have so far received, both for their artistic quality and for their substantive reflection of the culture and politics of their era. My interpretative strategy begins...
Show moreAbstract In this dissertation, I examine the artistic development and political aspects of works that have received little scholarly attention: epic poems commemorating some of the most important festival events of Felipe III of Spain's reign (1598-1621). I argue these works are worthy of greater critical consideration than they have so far received, both for their artistic quality and for their substantive reflection of the culture and politics of their era. My interpretative strategy begins with a look at the performative tradition of Spanish political festivals and their iconography from the medieval period. Then, taking an interdisciplinary approach encompassing literature, history and visual culture, I trace the development of the specific imagery of three magnificent occasions and compare it to poetic representations of those events. I pay special attention to the way various poets, including Lope de Vega and Francisco López de Zárate, reflect and incorporate chivalric, classical, sacred and other forms of discourse into their own poetic vision. The visions expressed in these poems, contrary to general opinion, are less calculated to serve as royal propaganda than to further other purposes. Artistic ambition is especially evident in Zárate's use of innovative baroque language to transform the raw imagery of striking courtly spectacles into something otherworldly. The poets' political aims range from authorial self-promotion to expressing the interests of various politically influential figures other than the king. What may be most interesting about these pieces in this respect, however, is that the poets also sound notes which are not always in perfect harmony with the tunes being called in the capital, thereby reflecting fissures in the political order of the day.
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Celebridades, poder y afectividad en Espana (1939-2015 : mujeres Espanolas como representacion de la nacion = Celebrities, power and affect in Spain (1939-2015) : Spanish women as embodiment of the nation
Creator
Fuente Cuesta, Judit
Date
2018
Collection
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description
This dissertation explores the evolution of the most noteworthy female celebrities and influential women in Spanish popular culture, from the Francoist dictatorship (1939-1975) to neoliberal democracy (1976-2015). Each chapter focuses on a different celebrity that embodies a specific historical timeframe: Lola Flores the Francoist Dictatorship (1939-1975), Carmen Maura the transition to democracy (1975-1996), Lucía Etxebarria the goverment of the conservative Partido Popular (1996-2004), and...
Show moreThis dissertation explores the evolution of the most noteworthy female celebrities and influential women in Spanish popular culture, from the Francoist dictatorship (1939-1975) to neoliberal democracy (1976-2015). Each chapter focuses on a different celebrity that embodies a specific historical timeframe: Lola Flores the Francoist Dictatorship (1939-1975), Carmen Maura the transition to democracy (1975-1996), Lucía Etxebarria the goverment of the conservative Partido Popular (1996-2004), and Belén Esteban the economic crisis of 2008 and the end of the bipartisanship (2000-2015). These women are analized across four different media: cinema, music, literature, and television; so we can understand the role they played in the social, cultural and political transformations of Spain. The study focuses on women because female figure, from the private sphere and its emotions, has inherently embodied the state of the country since the 19th century. Therefore, it shows how these women have a unique correlation with the politics of their historical time and how they reach the public through affect. -- Abstract.
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Title
Marginality in hegemony : women on the margin of marriage in twentieth-century Spanish theater
Creator
Eskesen, Karen Lynn
Date
2014
Collection
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description
ABSTRACTMARGINALITY IN HEGEMONYWOMEN ON THE MARGIN OF MARRIAGE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY SPANISH THEATERByKaren EskesenThis dissertation analyzes four plays from twentieth-century Spain: Federico García Lorca's Bodas de sangre, Antonio Buero Vallejo's La tejedora de sueños, Antonio Gala's Anillos para una dama, and Paloma Pedrero's Locas de Amar. La malquerida by Jacinto Benavente is introduced as a counterpoint....
Show moreABSTRACTMARGINALITY IN HEGEMONYWOMEN ON THE MARGIN OF MARRIAGE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY SPANISH THEATERByKaren EskesenThis dissertation analyzes four plays from twentieth-century Spain: Federico García Lorca's Bodas de sangre, Antonio Buero Vallejo's La tejedora de sueños, Antonio Gala's Anillos para una dama, and Paloma Pedrero's Locas de Amar. La malquerida by Jacinto Benavente is introduced as a counterpoint. Each of the primary plays features a female protagonist who is on the margin of marriage. This includes engaged women, widows (both literal and figurative), and divorced women. Because they exist outside of the confines of typical marriage situations, these women are able to possess greater power and freedom than their traditionally married counterparts. Each play is examined in the light of four major theories: gender theory, subaltern theory, theater theory, and marginality in hegemony. Marginality in hegemony is introduced in this study and is based on the interplay of the first three theories. As presented in the theater, women who are simultaneously hegemonic due to their social class and marginalized (subaltern) due to their sex exist in marginality in hegemony. This state, when applied to women on the margin of marriage provided twentieth-century playwrights with a vehicle for subversion, both of their government and their society. Bodas de sangre displays the innovation of the avant-garde both in style and subversive nature. By presenting a young woman who tries to overcome an overwhelming passion in order to marry according to her social class and the wishes of her father, Lorca questions the role that women are expected to play in their society. In La tejedora de sueños, Buero Vallejo presents an alternative version of the myth of Homer's Odyssey. His Penélope has chosen a suitor, Anfino, a servant in her household. Instead of being overjoyed and relieved by her husband's return, she sees his disguise as a form of cowardice and sends him from home. By questioning the heroic status of Ulises, Buero Vallejo also leads the spectator to examine the validity of modern heroes. Gala's Anillos para una dama presents the story of Jimena, the wife of el Cid, after the death of her husband. She has fallen in love with Minaya, but is prevented by the king from seeking a marriage based on love. The image of her husband and its importance to Spain demand that she preserve the image that he is irreplaceable. During her husband's life and after his death, Jimena's desires are ignored for the good of the country. Gala's heroine is a model for Spain as it nears the end of the dictatorship. It longs for freedom, but cannot throw off its past.Pedrero presents a clearly democratic and feminist work with Locas de amar. When Eulalia, a traditional wife is faced with her husband abandoning her for another woman, she must reexamine her life and her goals. Through the help of a therapist, she discovers her ability to experience pleasure, and her validity as an individual. Her choice to remain alone and pursue and education instead of marrying her therapist or accepting her errant husband showcases the possibilities available to women under the democracy.Each of these plays features at least one woman on the margin of marriage who is wealthy but subordinate to men. Although each woman's attempts to achieve her desires, regardless of what is demanded by her society, end in failure, they push the boundaries of the theater and of their sex, making is possible for the next generation to reach farther in the quest for equality.
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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
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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Title
Lo irrepresentable en escena : "Los olvidados" en la dramaturgia contemporanea en el Cono Sur y espana
Creator
Sandoval, Osvaldo
Date
2019
Collection
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description
Esta tesis examina la relacion y el intercambio de dilemas culturales y politicos asi como acciones literarias y performativas al final de las dictaduras en Espana (1975), Argentina (1983) Uruguay (1985) y Chile (1990). Con un enfoque en las fracturas culturales, los desplazamientos y las migraciones, analizo las negociaciones y los dialogos indefinidos entre los conflictos pasados y los recientes que despertaron el miedo y el trauma en las sociedades posteriores a la dictadura. Las obras...
Show moreEsta tesis examina la relacion y el intercambio de dilemas culturales y politicos asi como acciones literarias y performativas al final de las dictaduras en Espana (1975), Argentina (1983) Uruguay (1985) y Chile (1990). Con un enfoque en las fracturas culturales, los desplazamientos y las migraciones, analizo las negociaciones y los dialogos indefinidos entre los conflictos pasados y los recientes que despertaron el miedo y el trauma en las sociedades posteriores a la dictadura. Las obras examinadas en esta disertacion, cuya produccion data entre 1990 y 2010, responden a la complejidad de representar lo irrepresentable a traves de la personificacion y produccion de personajes literarios que identifico como los olvidados. Los textos dramaticos que analizo, basados en la resolucion y el desprendimiento del pasado reciente, incorporan conflictos alegoricos en el presente para crear un dialogo que deconstruye el relato oficial del gobierno durante las transiciones a la democracia. Esta dramaturgia posterior a dictaduras de la segunda mitad del siglo XX en Espana y paises del Cono Sur latinoamericano evoca los "recuerdos borrados" del pasado sociopolitico y los recontextualiza para reabrir y reescribir los "recuerdos canonizados." Ademas, estas obras reconsideran los discursos tabues e intervienen en las politicas de represion para descentralizar una narrativa dominante. No obstante, las fracturas ocasionadas por las dictaduras siguen afectando al colectivo social a traves de procesos que ratifican una violencia estructural y simbolica. Mi enfoque incorpora estudios de teatro y performance para evaluar la confluencia, negociacion e interaccion entre el autor, el director, el actor y la audiencia para colaborar en la construccion de espacios marginales alternativos.
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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
National disidentifications : diasporic identity formation in contemporary Puerto Rican and Dominican narratives of migration
Creator
Borges-Delgado, Octavio
Date
2016
Collection
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description
In the 20th Century, the mass exoduses that displaced thousands of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans to the United States marked the beginning of ethnic diasporas that have redefined preconceived notions of national identity. This dissertation focuses on contemporary narrative representations of Dominican and Puerto Rican migrations to the United States beginning in the first half of the 20th Century. The project addresses the processes of negotiation that take place in multi-ethnic and multi...
Show moreIn the 20th Century, the mass exoduses that displaced thousands of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans to the United States marked the beginning of ethnic diasporas that have redefined preconceived notions of national identity. This dissertation focuses on contemporary narrative representations of Dominican and Puerto Rican migrations to the United States beginning in the first half of the 20th Century. The project addresses the processes of negotiation that take place in multi-ethnic and multi-cultural sites that result in the development of diasporic identities. At the same time, the project proposes that the intersections between the geographical and identity boundaries of these groups allow for cultural and individual interactions that affect the ways in which they negotiate their national ties beyond a state of liminality. The interactions resulting from these spaces of contention facilitate varied relationships and affiliations between diaspora and homeland. At the root of this project is my belief that the texts selected present diverse positions that rearticulate national identification in order to develop diasporic identities. The study contributes to critical work on diasporic identity formation as it comments on the processes of acculturation of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans in the United States. While many studies dedicated to this topic have read identities in the diaspora as being located in liminal dilemmas, this dissertation presents how diasporic subjects develop national identifications that are not perpetually in conflict. In the Introduction I discuss the critical approaches that see diasporic subjects as individuals that are located in an “in-between” space, and propose the study of Dominican and Puerto Rican narratives of migration as case studies in which we can assess the intricacies contained in the development of diasporic identity formation.In chapter 1, “Carving Identities in Writing: The Migrant Jíbara, Gastronomy, Class and Encounter with the United States in Esmeralda Santiago’s When I Was Puerto Rican (1993),” I explore the author’s narrative representation of her younger self as a Puerto Rican migrant, and the identity changes and national identification shifts brought upon dislocation. In chapter 2, “Etching Identities in Alien Turfs: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Piri Thomas’ Down These Mean Streets (1967),” I examine the role multi-ethnic and multi-racial urban environments play in the development of diasporic subjectivities and their impact on the subject’s racial, ethnic, and national identity consciousness. In chapter 3, “(Re)Assembling Home in the Diaspora: Gendered Returns, Religion, and Patriarchy in Loida Maritza Pérez’s Geographies of Home (1999),” I analyze the domestic junctures in which the formulation of “home” reproduces national discourses and their reexaminations from members of different migrant generations. In the last chapter, “Fictionalizing History: Comic Books, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and the (Re) Articulation of the Past in Junot Díaz’s The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007),” I focus on the process of writing about the nation-as-ancestral land as a form in which discourses about nationness can be rewritten.
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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
Borderlands and identity---migration and representation
Creator
Warner, Eric John
Date
2013
Collection
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description
"This dissertation addresses the effects of globalization on literary and cinematic productions from the United States and Mexico in regard to the shared experiences of migration insofar as demonstrated by intensified levels of technology, movement, marginalization, and transformation of once national identities into transnational identities defined by culture and common experiences. At the same time, it also proposes a glimpse into the role of transnational companies and neo-liberal policies...
Show more"This dissertation addresses the effects of globalization on literary and cinematic productions from the United States and Mexico in regard to the shared experiences of migration insofar as demonstrated by intensified levels of technology, movement, marginalization, and transformation of once national identities into transnational identities defined by culture and common experiences. At the same time, it also proposes a glimpse into the role of transnational companies and neo-liberal policies in diminishing the national identities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries into stateless-transnational subjects. In addition to contemplating theories of globalization, the selections for the corpus of this study physically or thematically originate from Northern Mexico, and the Mexican-American ideological border regions of the United States."--From abstract.
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