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Title: The McKinley administration and Cuban independence (March, 1897-April, 1898)
Creator: Dwelle, Dan Charles
Date: 1954
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Impacts on selected feedgrain and livestock enterprises of Spain's accession to the European Economic Community
Creator: Paniker, Albert Pelach
Date: 1981
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: 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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Title: Understanding plague : the medical and imaginative texts of medieval Spain
Creator: Garza, Randal Paul
Date: 2001
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

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: 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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Title: 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: Reconstrucciones nacionales en la narrativa de los exilios de la postguerra Espanõl : National reconstructions in the narrative of post-Spanish Civil War exiles
Creator: Alvarez-Sancho, Isabel
Date: 2009
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Political texts and contexts of the Golden Age : a cultural study of Spanish and Spanish-American theater and opera
Creator: Gasta, Chad M. (Chad Michael)
Date: 2000
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Writing as reconstitutive act : healing and self-expression in early Spanish women's writing
Creator: Goodin, Donna M.
Date: 2008
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

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: Adjustment of the Spanish feedgrain and livestock sectors following accession to the European Community
Creator: Peterson, Enoch Wesley Frost, 1945-
Date: 1981
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: ¡Solidaridad! Solidariteit! Solidarite! : avec les prisonniers politiques d'Espagne en greve de la faim depuis le 30 Novembre 1989 pour leur regroupement
Date: 1989
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows a black and white image of two clenched fists with handcuffs on the wrists below them. The image is made to appear as thought it is torn in half vertically--one hand on either side of the tear. Intended to show solidarity with political prisoners in Spain. Ink is black on white paper.

Title: No a la celebració del genocidi : no al "Vo Centenario"
Date: 1992
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Top left of poster shows world map with areas colonized by Spain colored red. A larger image to the right shows street protesters marching against the fifth centenary celebration of the arrival of Spanish financed explorers in the New World in 1492 which resulted in the genocide of indigenous populations in the areas involved. A large red star appears at the top of that image. Ink is black and red.

Title: Fossarroc '88 : amb Skatalà, Brighton 64 i els Diables del Barri Gòtic
Date: 1988
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows abstract disembodied face of a wincing person with mouth wide-open and spanned by four vertical bars and one crossbar to which a lock with keyhole is affixed. Two hands tightly grasp vertical cell bars in the foreground. Bottom right of poster has stylized flag of Catalonia.

Title: La reposta del poble Català : OTAN no
Date: 1986
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Left side of poster shows a crowd in silhouette with arms raised. Above the crowd is a black star. At the bottom of the image is the Estelada, the unofficial flag of Catalan indepence supporters. There is a black star in the bottom left corner of poster. At the bottom right is the image of a tank with a soldier standing beside it at an urban street corner. At the bottom is the stylized flag of Catalonia. This resistance to NATO stems from its assertion that Spain has the right to decide the...
Show moreLeft side of poster shows a crowd in silhouette with arms raised. Above the crowd is a black star. At the bottom of the image is the Estelada, the unofficial flag of Catalan indepence supporters. There is a black star in the bottom left corner of poster. At the bottom right is the image of a tank with a soldier standing beside it at an urban street corner. At the bottom is the stylized flag of Catalonia. This resistance to NATO stems from its assertion that Spain has the right to decide the fate of Catalonia in its bid for independence.
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Title: Ni extradicions, ni expulsions : amnistia total : lluitem contra la collaboracio estats policias
Date: 1982
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows a black and white graphic of a man beside a chain link fence. He is spraying painting "Ni extradicions, ni expulsions ... Amnistia total" as an expression of solidarity with political prisoners and a demand for complete amnesty that includes neither extraditions nor expulsions from Spain. At right of title is the Basque flag. At left of title is the flag of the Associació de Familiars i Amics dels Presos Politics. It comprises four vertical stripes with a lone star above the...
Show morePoster shows a black and white graphic of a man beside a chain link fence. He is spraying painting "Ni extradicions, ni expulsions ... Amnistia total" as an expression of solidarity with political prisoners and a demand for complete amnesty that includes neither extraditions nor expulsions from Spain. At right of title is the Basque flag. At left of title is the flag of the Associació de Familiars i Amics dels Presos Politics. It comprises four vertical stripes with a lone star above the shorter two interior stripes. At bottom left is the circular emblem of the the same organization with its name is printed around the outer edge. Its monogram is printed in the center with "mnistía FAPP" printed below it. Incorporated in the monogram are four horizontal stripes with the center two being shorter. The lone star dots the first "i" in the word "amnistiá."
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Title: Juan Manuel Perez Hernandez : 13 años en prision
Date: 1992/1993
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows a black and white photo of Juan Manuel Perez Hernandez wearing glasses, a v-neck pullover sweater with a plaid shirt underneath it. He is looking directly at the camera with a slight smile. Text to the right of his photo describes the deterioration of his mind and body due to prison conditions and his 18-month hunger strike. He has dementia that is exacerbated by his isolation. This poster calls for his release.

Title: Amnistia
Date: 1980/1989
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows an arm to the elbow with the fist punching skyward out of the ground of a colonnaded prison courtyard. Heavy black chains arch above the L-shaped prison building. Title printed in red with stars dotting the "i" letters. Ink is black and red.

Title: 1er. de Maig : contra l'atur i la concertació social, contra el mercat comú. La terra per a qui la treballa!
Date: 1980/1989
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows a fist holding the Senyera estelada, the unofficial flag of Catalan independence supporters. Poster calls for a demonstration against unemployment and the Common Market (European Economic Community). Declares that the land should belong to those who work it. White letters on black band across bottom of poster read "Moviment de Defensa de la Terra" followed by stylized Senyera estelada flag. Ink is black and red.

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