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Gromov, Mikhail D. "East African Literature: Essays on Written and Oral Traditions. Ed. by J.K.S. Makokha, Egara Kabaji and Dominica Dipio. Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2011, 513 pp. ISBN 978-3-8325-2816-4." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-107482.
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Betances, de Pujadas Estrella. "The influence of Rafael Trujillo in Dominican literature /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1991. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/1116864x.
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Thesis (Ed.D.) -- Teachers College, Columbia University, 1991.Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Mordecai Rubin. Dissertation Committee: Lambros Comitas. Includes bibliographical references (p. 144-151).
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Reyes-Santos, Irmary. "Racial geopolitics interrogating Caribbean cultural discourse in the era pf globalization /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3274592.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2007.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed October 4, 2007). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-245).
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Rodriguez, Collado Aralis Mercedes. "Images of invasions and resistance in the literature of the Dominican Republic." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5945/.
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From 1492, when the first European invaders set foot on the island known today as Hispaniola, until 1965, the year of the April Revolution, the multi-faceted repercussions of invasion have been a prevalent theme within the Dominican Republic’s literature. This thesis examines how the country has amalgamated a roller-coaster past to reflect this in its writing. It starts by evaluating the Spanish invaders’ extermination of the Tainos, its generational influence and the continued impact of Trujillo’s legacy, highlighting the issue of gender within the Resistance movement. It presents a rigorous analysis of writers’ opinions, as transmitters of peoples’ views – from the pirate attack by Francis Drake, to the use of theatre by Independence fighters as a weapon of propaganda against the Haitian invasion; the resilience of peasant-culture represented in the guerrilla movement against the first U.S. invasion of the 20th century; to the exposition of novels to depict a dictator as an ‘invader from within’ and the use of poetry to face the bullets of the U.S. invasion of 1965. By analysing the literary images, expressions, statements and social commitment of the writers throughout their work, this study shows how the various invasions which occurred in the Dominican Republic have been rooted in Dominican discourse. It emphasises that these very struggles against invasion are at the core of its vibrant literature, providing its silent themes and serving to illuminate both the nation as a whole and the individuals within it.
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Asperti, Clara Miguel. "Bilac e a reurbanização do Rio de Janeiro : estudo da "crônica" dominical da Gazeta de Notícias (1897-1908) /." Assis : [s.n.], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94124.
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Resumo: A crônica ganhou importância no Brasil a partir da expansão e da modernização da imprensa em meados do século XIX. Este gênero popularizou-se principalmente na então Capital Federal do país, o Rio de Janeiro, concomitantemente à criação de importantes jornais diários, que passaram a permitir a publicação de textos heterogêneos como a crônica. Observando a consolidação deste gênero nos periódicos finisseculares e sua aceitação principalmente entre os leitores da sociedade carioca no limiar do século XX, a presente dissertação tem por objetivo analisar a coluna semanal Crônica publicada pelo poeta e jornalista Olavo Bilac na Gazeta de Notícias, de março de 1897 a novembro de 1908. Através da leitura de toda a colaboração bilaquiana na citada coluna, selecionaram-se sessenta textos representativos em que o jornalista abordou aspectos vários do Rio de Janeiro à época da Regeneração promovida pelo então prefeito Pereira Passos. Os estudos também apontam para uma abordagem, pela apreciação crítica desta produção, da relevância literária da modalidade crônica na literatura nacional da época. Por meio da análise da escrita bilaquiana, procurou-se trazer à luz mecanismos retóricos, lingüísticos e literários manuseados pelo jornalista na tentativa de convencer seus leitores sobre os benefícios sociais e culturais oriundos das reformas urbanísticas e sanitárias capitaneadas pela municipalidade carioca. Com esse estudo, descortinou-se também um panorama da sociedade brasileira do fim do século. Bilac foi uma das figuras mais marcantes e representativas da chamada Belle Époque nacional e, deste modo, abordar sua trajetória como jornalista... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: The chronicle earned its importance in Brazil since the press modernization and expansion in the middle of the 19th century. This genre became popular mainly in the so called Federal Capital Rio de Janeiro, in a concomitant way to the creation of some important daily newspapers that started to allow the edition of heterogeneous texts such as the chronicle. Watching that genre consolidation in the end-of-the-century issues and its acceptance, mainly among the carioca society readers at the 20th century beginning, this essay aims to analyze Crônica a weekly column, edited by the poet and journalist Olavo Bilac in Gazeta de Notícias, from March 1897 to November 1908. Through the reading of all his collaboration in the cited column, we selected 60 representative texts in which this journalist has dealt with several aspects of Rio de Janeiro in the Regeneração period promoted by Pereira Passos, mayor at that time. The studies also point out to an approach, by that production critical appreciation, of the literary relevance of the chronicle style in that national literature period. Through the bilaquiana writing analysis, we tried to bring out some rhetorical, linguistic and literary mechanisms used by the journalist in the attempt to convince his readers about the social and cultural benefits that come from sanitary and urbanistic reformations captained by carioca municipality. With this study, the end-of-the-century Brazilian society view was also revealed. Bilac was one of the most notable and representative figures of the so called national Belle Époque and, that way, approaching his course as a journalist, mainly on the Gazeta de Notícias pages, is a lot productive to evaluate, through his chronicles, his commitment to Rio de Janeiro modernization... (Complete abstract, click electronic access below)
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Jacobi, Kara Elizabeth. ""They Will Invent What They Need to Survive": Narrating Trauma in Contemporary Ethnic American Women's Fiction." Scholarly Repository, 2009. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/229.
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"'They Will Invent What They Need to Survive': Narrating Trauma in Contemporary Ethnic American Women's Fiction" analyzes novels by Octavia Butler, Phyllis Alesia Perry, Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, Alice Walker, and Julia Alvarez through the lens of contemporary theories of trauma, tracing the ways in which survivors struggle to construct narratives that contain and make sense of their experiences. Many of the major theorists of trauma studies emphasize the impossibility of re-capturing traumatic events through creating narratives even while recognizing that the survivor's need to tell her story persists. In my project, however, I explore the ways in which the Kindred, Stigmata, Paradise, The Joy Luck Club, Sula, The Temple of My Familiar, and In the Time of the Butterflies extend theories that insist too readily on the survivor's inability to accurately or completely re-member by depicting characters who, despite difficulty, present narrative accounts of their painful memories. In my own readings of the texts, I emphasize that the complexities highlighted by these texts ultimately foster our deeper understanding of the traumatized subject and her attempts to empower herself through testimony.
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Asperti, Clara Miguel [UNESP]. "Bilac e a reurbanização do Rio de Janeiro: estudo da crônica dominical da Gazeta de Notícias (1897-1908)." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94124.
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The chronicle earned its importance in Brazil since the press modernization and expansion in the middle of the 19th century. This genre became popular mainly in the so called Federal Capital Rio de Janeiro, in a concomitant way to the creation of some important daily newspapers that started to allow the edition of heterogeneous texts such as the chronicle. Watching that genre consolidation in the end-of-the-century issues and its acceptance, mainly among the carioca society readers at the 20th century beginning, this essay aims to analyze Crônica a weekly column, edited by the poet and journalist Olavo Bilac in Gazeta de Notícias, from March 1897 to November 1908. Through the reading of all his collaboration in the cited column, we selected 60 representative texts in which this journalist has dealt with several aspects of Rio de Janeiro in the Regeneração period promoted by Pereira Passos, mayor at that time. The studies also point out to an approach, by that production critical appreciation, of the literary relevance of the chronicle style in that national literature period. Through the bilaquiana writing analysis, we tried to bring out some rhetorical, linguistic and literary mechanisms used by the journalist in the attempt to convince his readers about the social and cultural benefits that come from sanitary and urbanistic reformations captained by carioca municipality. With this study, the end-of-the-century Brazilian society view was also revealed. Bilac was one of the most notable and representative figures of the so called national Belle Époque and, that way, approaching his course as a journalist, mainly on the Gazeta de Notícias pages, is a lot productive to evaluate, through his chronicles, his commitment to Rio de Janeiro modernization... (Complete abstract, click electronic access below)
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White, Carolyn R. "Dominicanidad: raza, religión, y poder en una isla dividida." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1276733973.
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Perez, Marcelo Rene Gomes. "O cavaleiro errante: a construção da subjetividade em A fantástica vida breve de Oscar Wao, de Junot Díaz." Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 2017. http://www.locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/19568.
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O presente estudo investiga como o romance A Fantástica Vida Breve de Oscar Wao, de Junot Díaz (2009), se desenvolve a partir da configuração da subjetividade de indivíduos pertencentes à diáspora dominicana nos EUA. Tendo em vista o caráter sócio-histórico desta obra, realçamos a constituição deste sujeito desde a infância, tomando por ênfase a formação da identidade masculina, tida como padrão, dentro do contexto dominicano e como o mesmo lida com este parâmetro de exclusão e/ou pertencimento. Neste sentido, recorreu-se à Teoria Espacial de David Harvey (1980), e Neely & Samura (2011) e à Teoria de Identidade na Pós-modernidade de Stuart Hall (1990, 2009, 2014), além do caso específico da masculinidade dentro dos estudos de gênero de Elisabeth Badinter (1993) e Socrates Nolasco (1993, 1995). À luz de tais teorias pode-se ver que, neste romance de Díaz, subjetividades, por muito tempo consideradas fixas, fragmentam-se, gerando um novo sujeito no qual aspectos como a ideologia racial e cultura nacional se entrecruzam. Assim, um olhar é lançado sobre a obra de Díaz no que tange à sua crítica da relação conflituosa da nação caribenha com a norte-americana, bem como ao impacto da miscigenação étnica em meio às grandes transformações urbanas e aos meandros da representação e da veiculação da imagem no âmbito político e ideológico.
The present dissertation investigates how the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz (2009) develops itself from the configuration of the subjectivity of individuals belonging to the Dominican diaspora in the USA. By taking into account the socio-historical characteristics of this work, we emphasize the constitution of this subject since his childhood, in which occurs an emphasis on the formation of the masculine identity, taken as a standard, within the Dominican context and how it deals with this parameter of exclusion and/or belonging. In this regard, we used the spatial theory of David Harvey (1980), Neely & Samura (2011) and the postmodern identity theories of Stuart Hall (1990, 2009, 2014), in addition to the specific case of masculinity within the gender studies of Elisabeth Badinter (1993) and Socrates Nolasco (1993, 1995) were analyzed as well. In light of such theories one can see that in this novel of Diaz subjectivities, long considered fixed, are fragmented, generating a new subject in which aspects such as racial ideology and national culture intersect. Hence, a gaze is cast on the work of Diaz in what concerns his critique of the conflictive relationship of the Caribbean nation with the American; the impact of ethnic miscegenation in the midst of major urban transformations; and the meanders of the representation and the transmission of images in the political and ideological scope.
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Pujol, Dahme Ana Mª. "El dominio de la escritura en el género de investigación: de la redacción guiada a la publicación reconocida." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/393887.
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La alfabetización está inexorablemente vinculada a la práctica de cualquier disciplina académica. La habilidad para usar de forma adecuada el registro lingüístico y las convenciones retóricas del género de investigación es importante para lograr el éxito académico y el desarrollo profesional en la carrera de los investigadores. Por eso, cuando los estudiantes se integran en una comunidad de práctica investigadora tienen que llegar a dominar no solo las características léxico-gramaticales propias del lenguaje académico, sino también las convenciones discursivas particulares de cada comunidad disciplinar.
Esta investigación tiene dos objetivos generales. En primer lugar, la creación de un corpus de trabajos académicos de investigación escritos en catalán, de bachillerato y máster universitario, en las disciplinas de biología e historia. Este corpus llamado TARBUC (Treballs Acadèmics de Recerca de Batxillerat i Universitat en Català) está digitalizado y disponible para la comunidad investigadora. En segundo lugar, caracterizar a partir de este corpus el desarrollo de la escritura académica en momentos diferentes de la historia educativa de los estudiantes. Para ello se presentan dos estudios.
En el estudio 1, se compara transversalmente un corpus de trabajos de investigación de bachillerato y de final de máster universitario en las disciplinas de biología e historia, ambos escritos en catalán. En el estudio 2, se compara longitudinalmente trabajos de investigación de final del máster universitario, en catalán, y de artículos publicados en inglés en la disciplina de biología. En concreto, se caracteriza el registro y el meta-discurso. Se analiza el registro por medio de las siguientes características léxico-gramaticales: (i) la diversidad léxica, (ii) la densidad léxica, (iii) la complejidad sintáctica. Respecto al meta-discurso, se examina la función meta-discursiva interaccional a través de los marcadores lingüísticos, que señalan, por una parte, la voz textual del escritor para involucrarse con su texto, la postura (stance), y, por otra, los que utiliza el escritor para involucrar al lector, la afiliación (engagement).
Las implicaciones de estos resultados se discuten en términos lingüísticos, cognitivos y socioculturales y sugieren que la capacidad de desplegar el registro lingüístico y las convenciones retóricas, de forma adecuada a una comunidad discursiva específica, es en sí mismo un proceso prolongado.Literacy is inextricably connected with the practise of any academic discipline. The skill to properly use the linguistic register and rhetorical conventions of the research genre is important to achieve academic success and professional development in researcher careers. This is why, when students join a research community they have to become proficient not only in the lexical-grammatical characteristics of academic language, but also in the specific discursive conventions of each disciplinary community. The present dissertation has two general aims. Firstly, the creation of a corpus of academic research projects written in Catalan, from Baccalaureate and University Master Degrees, in the fields of biology and history. This corpus is called TARBUC (Treballs Acadèmics de Recerca de Batxillerat i Universitat en Català)1 and has been digitised so as to be available to the research community. Secondly, by using this corpus, I have attempted to characterise the development of academic writing at different stages throughout students’ school lifetime. For this reason I am presenting two studies. In the first of these, I transversally compare a corpus of research projects written in Catalan from Baccalaureate and end of University Master in the fields of biology and history. In study 2, I longitudinally compare end of University Master research projects, again in Catalan, with biology articles published in English. Specifically, I characterise the register and meta-discourse. When analysing the register I use the following lexical-grammatical features: (i) lexical diversity, (ii) lexical density and (iii) syntactic complexity. Regarding meta-discourse, I examine the meta-discursive interactional function through linguistic markers, which indicate, on the one hand, the authorial voice as self-representation in writing, that is, stance, and, on the other, those markers used by the writer to involve the reader, that is, engagement. The results of these implications are discussed in linguistic, cognitive and socio-cultural terms and suggest that ability to adequately display linguistic register and rhetorical conventions in accordance with a specific disciplinary community is in itself a lengthy process. 1 Baccalaureate and University Academic Research Reports written in Catalan.
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Streit, Dominik [Verfasser], and Beate [Akademischer Betreuer] Kellner. "Räume in der aventiurehaften Dietrichepik / Dominik Streit ; Betreuer: Beate Kellner." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1226092543/34.
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Mejía, Suárez Carlos Mario. "Sangre letrada, autoridad y dominio en versiones Latinoamericanas de Fausto." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/554.
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My dissertation analyzes the way in which Latin American novelists use the Faustian tradition to symbolize the inclusion of marginal groups into mainstream cultures. The establishment of a national culture that holds citizens together depends on its ability to subsume different cultural sources and to assign to each one of them a space within the nation. This stratification of culture is the result of the negotiation of authority within hegemonic groups. In my dissertation I trace the negotiation of authority in the aesthetic choices that authors make when it comes to compose a new rendition of the myth of Faust.
The study of works produced between 1956 and 1967 allows me to focus on the height of the internationalization of Latin American literature. The works that constitute the main corpus of my study are: João Guimarães Rosa's Grande Sertão: Veredas (1956) from Brazil, Miguel Ángel Asturias's Mulata de tal (1963) from Guatemala, and José Donoso's El lugar sin límites (1957) from Chile. As a way to trace the issues at stake in these works back to the nineteenth century, I also include a chapter on the Argentine poem entitled Fausto (1867), composed by Estanislao del Campo. This enables me to present early stages of the Faustian tradition in Latin America, and how it relates to the conflict between city and rural regions.
My dissertation not only interprets Latin American texts within their context, but also explores the way in which lettered urban groups integrate an international tradition in the evaluation of these contexts. My dissertation presents the way in which authors from this part of the world intervene in well-established Western literary traditions and not only read their reality from this stand point, but their realities modify the reach of traditions such as that of the man who sells his soul to devil.
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Merrill, Andrew Mark. "The Poetics of a Dominican Holocaust and the Aesthetics of Witnessing." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2995.
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This study examines Julia Alvarez's best-known works, García Girls and In the Time of the Butterflies, to explore the intertextuality within Dominican-American fiction through the vocabulary and methodology of trauma studies and witnessing. Alvarez's work indicates that traditional academic discourse about witnessing often translates trauma survivors into tourists by legally dispossessing them from the witnesses they could provide as they seek to assign blame and pass judgment on the source of their traumatic experience. This process of exclusion threatens to hinder the ability of Dominican-Americans to work through their shared, traumatic experience with the Trujillo regime. Furthermore, this study contends that as Alvarez privileges fiction and the imagination, instead of historiography, as the appropriate sites for witnessing, she invites other members of the collective to share their witnesses in an effort to populate the structure of the trujillato in order for the collective to better come to terms with their shared trauma.
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Granda, Germán de. "Galicismos léxicos en el español dominicano de la segunda mitad del Siglo XVIII." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/103227.
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Rowe, Martha L. 1953. "A poet revealed: Elizabeth Barrett Browning as portrayed in Libby Larsen's "Sonnets from the Portuguese" and Dominick Argento's "Casa Guidi"." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290604.
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Composers Libby Larsen and Dominick Argento have each written song cycles based on the texts of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Larsen's Sonnets from the Portuguese, for soprano and chamber orchestra, is a setting of six of the forty-four poems from Browning's amatory sequence of the same name. Argento's Casa Guidi, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, is a setting of excerpts from letters written by Browning, primarily to her sister Henrietta, during her years in Florence. This study examines the two composers' images of Browning, and how those images are portrayed through choice of text and musical setting. The image of Browning depicted in Larsen's cycle is that of a woman who moves from a fear of love to an acceptance and embracing of it. The love that she comes to know is a love that recognizes the necessity of moving on in spite of unresolved issues. This image was gleaned from Browning's sonnets by Larsen and soprano Arleen Auger, who worked closely together to create a cycle that would speak of mature love, in contrast to the youthful love in Schumann's Frauenliebe und -leben. Three of the six sonnets in the cycle are analyzed for Larsen's use of compositional devices that reinforce the themes of the recognition and acceptance of love and of trust in non-resolution. The texts chosen by Argento were based on his desire to depict the feminine and vulnerable aspects of Browning during her years in Florence. Although the letter excerpts are not arranged in chronological order, they accurately reveal a woman who delighted in her home and family. The last three of the five songs are examined to show how Argento's careful text setting and use of orchestral color and motives enhance Browning's words and the overall mood of the letters.
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West, Priscilla S. "Text into art : the Chronica Dominicana and Tomaso de Modena's Chapter House frescoes at San Nicolò in Treviso /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3045098.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002." ... Scotti's engraving of S. Nicolò Chapter House frescoes" ([1] folded leaf) inserted in pocket. Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 485-501). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Leugering, Dominik [Verfasser], Dirk [Akademischer Betreuer] Niefanger, and Dirk [Gutachter] Niefanger. "Joseph Roth als Brieferzähler. Autobiographische Rolleninszenierungen / Dominik Leugering ; Gutachter: Dirk Niefanger ; Betreuer: Dirk Niefanger." Erlangen : Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 2020. http://d-nb.info/1215908075/34.
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Figueiredo, Adriana Aparecida de [UNESP]. "La fiesta del chivo de Mario Vargas Llosa: uma visão literária da história." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/99167.
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This study aims to analyze, from a comparatist perspective, both the relations between the fictional and historical discourses and the narrative resources present in Mario Vargas Llosa's historical novel, La fiesta del chivo (2000). The novel reinvents the discourses which refer to the history of the so-called 'Era of Trujillo' in the Dominican Republic by means of, among other poetic procedures, the structural categories of carnavalization, parody, dialogism and intertextuality. By resorting to these categories, the novel rewrites and challenges the assertions of history and promotes new insights on past events. In order to examine the historical events present in the fictional narrative, this study makes reference to the history of the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961, which is the period referred to in the work of fiction. This study also briefly discusses Mario Vargas Llosa's creative process and uses it as a way to gain access to the specificities of focalized novel. The literary analysis emphasizes how the novel carries out a parodistic review of the myth of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the strogman of the abovementioned period, and highlights his demystification, which makes the human dimension of the main character evident. Due to this procedure, the novel carnavalizes history, making it possible to do alternative readings of historical discourses.
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Hanson, Lisa B. "DOMINICK ARGENTO'S JONAH AND THE WHALE : A STUDY OF THE ORATORIO AND COMPARISON TO REPRESENTATIVE TWENTIETH-CENTURY ORATORIOS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin990819616.
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Meyers, Emily Taylor 1979. "Transnational romance: The politics of desire in Caribbean novels by women." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10232.
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xi, 236 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.Writers in the Caribbean, like writers throughout the postcolonial world, return to colonial texts to rewrite the myths that justified and maintained colonial control. Exemplary of a widespread, regional phenomenon that begins at mid-century, writers such as Aimé Césaire and George Lamming take up certain texts such as Shakespeare's The Tempest and recast them in their own image. Postcolonial literary theory reads this act of rewriting the canon as a political one that speaks back to power and often advocates for political and cultural independence. Towards the end of the twentieth century and at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Caribbean women writers begin a new wave of rewriting that continues in this tradition, but with certain differences, not least of which is a focused attention to gender and sexuality and to the literary legacies of romance. In the dissertation I consider a number of novels from throughout the region that rewrite the romance, including Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), Maryse Condé's La migration des coeurs (1995), Mayra Santos-Febres's Nuestra señora de la noche (2006), and Dionne Brand's In Another Place, Not Here (1996). Romance, perhaps more than any other literary form, exerts an allegorical force that exceeds the story of individual characters. The symbolic weight of romance imagines the possibilities of a social order--a social order dependent on the sexual behavior of its citizens. By rewriting the romance, Caribbean women reconsider the sexual politics that have linked women with metaphorical constructions of the nation while at the same time detailing the extent to which transnational forces, including colonization, impact the representation of love and desire in literary texts. Although ultimately these novels refuse the generic requirements of the traditional resolution for romance (the so-called happy ending), they nonetheless gesture towards a reordering of community and a revised notion of kinship that recognizes the weight of both gendered and sexual identities in the Caribbean.
Committee in charge: Karen McPherson, Chairperson, Romance Languages; David Vazquez, Member, English; Tania Triana, Member, Romance Languages; Judith Raiskin, Outside Member, Womens and Gender Studies
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Laeber, Ana Paola. "(Des)conhecendo Centauro e suas mulheres: um estudo arquetípico em A ceia dominicana : romance neolatino, de Reinaldo Santos Neves." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFES, 2015. http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/1553.
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A partir de uma linguagem rica de múltiplas significações, realizamos nesta pesquisa uma ampla discussão por teorias que versam acerca do mundo mitológico. Observamos, de maneira especial, a obra do autor capixaba Reinaldo Santos Neves, A ceia dominicana: romance neolatino (2008), cuja tessitura de escrita se apoia em matrizes mitológicas. Esse romance, parte de uma trilogia, foi escrito baseado em vários autores clássicos, nacionais e capixabas, além de misturar livremente gêneros textuais diversos. Tendo em vista a complexidade da obra, elaboramos os seguintes questionamentos: que imagens arquetípicas são possíveis apreender da literatura de Reinaldo Santos Neves quando expressam o universo feminino e por que razão o protagonista se intitula biforme, centauro? Utilizamos a visão sobre os mitos e arquétipos literários, tendo como foco as estruturas míticas, tais como, a mulher fatal, o eterno retorno, o ritual de passagem e a metamorfose, etc. Dentre uma gama de teorias acerca do universo mítico, fizemos uso, preferencialmente, dos pressupostos teóricos do psicólogo Carl Jung com sua obra Os arquétipos do inconsciente coletivo (2000), do russo Eliezer Melentinski em A poética do mito (1987) e em Os arquétipos literários (2002), de Mircea Eliade em O mito do eterno retorno (1992), Tratado de história de las religiones (1974) e Mito e realidade (1972). Utilizaremos como consulta e apoio o Dicionário de mitos literários (1988) do crítico literário francês Pierre Brunel e também o Dicionário de Cultura básica do acervo digital da UNESP escrito por Salvatore D'onofrio. O resultado mostrou que a linguagem literária reinaldiana suscita os mitos e os arquétipos literários entendidos como pontos temáticos da literatura universal. Dessa forma, entendemos que as estruturas míticas retomam a narrativa contemporânea reinaldiana acerca dos acontecimentos mundanos, apontando um sujeito fragmentação.
From a language rich in multiple meanings, we performed this study a broad discussion by theories that deal around the mythological world. We note, especially, in Espirito Santo, Reinaldo Santos Neves’ work, A ceia dominicana: romance neolatino (2008), the composition of writing is based on mythological matrices. We observed that the novel is part of a trilogy, was written based on various classical authors, national and from Espirito Santo, and freely mix different genres. Given the complexity of the work, we developed the following questions: What are the archetypal images to grasp on Reinaldo Santos Neves literature when they express the feminine universe? Why is the protagonist called biforme, centaur? Thus, we conducted an analysis of Reinaldo Santos Neves’ work, A ceia dominicana: romance neolatino, using the insight into the myths and literary archetypes, focusing on the mythic structures, such as the femme fatale, the eternal return the rite of passage and the metamorphosis, etc. Among a range of theories about the mythical universe, we preferably used the theoretical assumptions, as the psychologist Carl Jung with his work Os arquétipos do inconsciente coletivo (2000), the Russian Eliezer Melentinski in A poética do mito (1987) and Os arquétipos literários (2002); Mircea Eliade in O mito do eterno retorno (1992), Tratado de história de las religiones (1974) and Mito e realidade (1972). We will use as consultation and support Dicionário de mitos literários (1974) by French literary critic Pierre Brunel also as Dicionário de Cultura básica from UNESP digital collection written by Salvatore D'onofrio. The result showed that the reinaldiana literary language raises the myths and literary archetypes seen as thematic points of world literature. Thus, we understand that the mythic structures retake the reinaldiana contemporary narrative about worldly events, pointing a subject fragmentation.
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Mortensen, Kelsy Ann. "De-Centering the Dictator: Trujillo Narratives and Articulating Resistance in Angie Cruz's Let It Rain Coffee and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3220.
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Narratives of resisting the Trujillo regime are so prevalent in Dominican-American literature that it seems Dominican-American authors must write about Trujillo to be deemed authentically Dominican-American. Within these Trujillo narratives there seems to be two main ways to talk about resistance. “The resistance,” an organized entity that actively and consciously opposes the Trujillo regime, can be seen in stories like those told about the Mirabal sisters. The other resistance narrates how characters capitalize on opportunities to disrupt business or political functions, thus disrupting the Trujillo machine. This resistance works much like Ben Highmore's explanation of de Certeau's resistance in that “it limits flows and dissipates energies” (104). Characters from the socio-economic lower-class typically use this type of resistance because they are not recognized by nor allowed direct access to the regime. My thesis focuses on the latter type of resistance through my study of Angie Cruz's Let It Rain Coffee and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Both authors narrate instances of unrecognized resistance against Trujillo, but they also articulate modern resistance to economic, racial, and gender pressures, such as materialism and hyper-masculinity, through Trujillo narratives. While these narratives create a space for Dominican-Americans of different gender, class, and race, they also create Trujillo as a marker of Dominican literature, perpetuating the idea of Trujillo as inextricably connected to Dominican identity and obfuscating more complex issues of race and gender in Dominican culture.
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Vasconcelos, Alex Donizete. "Identidade haitiana na história, na literatura e em discursos midiáticos do Haiti, da República Dominicana e dos Estados Unidos (2004-2014)." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2016. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/5746.
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This research was dedicated, in general terms, to establish the contours of certain identity, or, more precisely, of a long tradition of identity, that, engendered in the colonial period, characterized by a mainly negative and derogatory content of "being Haitian", that was structured and established throughout the country's history and, even today, influences in shaping the Haitians’ identities. Therefore, we look for scrutinizing the process of construction and assignment of such identities by means of the production and dissemination of an anti-Haitian discourse and ideology. For that, we carried out a discursive/ideological 'mapping' procedure, seeking, at first, to outline the contours of that Haitian identity tradition in its historiography and literature devoted to the theme, and secondly, to understand and to identify its manifestation in the media discourse produced and disseminated through the Haitian, Dominican and American newspapers, over the first ten years of the United Nations Mission for the Stabilization of Haiti (MINUSTAH) intervention, i.e., from 2004 to 2014. That way, our researches to showed, from a mapping process carried out in the nation´s historiography and literature linked to the subject, produced and reproduced in the long term - the recovery and appropriation of this tradition - their stigmas, stereotypes and practices – by the contemporary media discourse that addresses the historical, social, cultural, political or economic reality in Haiti, as well as the influence of that reality in shaping the contemporary Haitian identity.
Este trabalho de pesquisa foi dedicado, em linhas gerais, a estabelecer os contornos de dada identidade, ou, com mais acerto, de uma longa tradição de identidade, que, engendrada nos idos coloniais, caracterizada por um conteúdo predominantemente negativo e depreciativo do “ser haitiano”, estrutura-se e se estabelece ao longo da história do país, influenciando, ainda hoje, na conformação de suas identidades. Busca-se, portanto, perscrutar o processo de construção e atribuição dessas identidades por meio da produção e da disseminação de uma discursividade e de uma ideologia anti-haitianistas. Para tanto, procede-se a um ‘mapeamento’ discursivo/ideológico, procurando, por um lado, delinear os contornos dessa tradição de identidade haitiana na historiografia e na literatura dedicadas ao tema, e, por outro, perceber e identificar sua manifestação nos discursos midiáticos produzidos e disseminados por meio de jornais haitianos, dominicanos e estadunidenses, ao longo dos dez primeiros anos de intervenção da Missão das Nações Unidas para a Estabilização do Haiti (MINUSTAH), ou seja, no período de 2004 a 2014. Nossas pesquisas evidenciaram, dessa forma – a partir de um mapeamento realizado na historiografia e na literatura afeta ao tema, produzida e reproduzida na longa duração –, a retomada e a apropriação dessa tradição – de seus estigmas, estereótipos e práticas – por parte dos discursos midiáticos contemporâneos que abordam a realidade histórica, social, cultural, política ou econômica do Haiti, bem como a influência dessa na conformação das identidades haitianas contemporâneas.
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Montás, Lucía M. "LA CIUDAD DE LAS LETRADAS: REESCRIBIENDO SANTO DOMINGO EN LA NARRATIVA FEMENINA URBANA DOMINICANA DEL NUEVO MILENIO." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/hisp_etds/36.
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In the last few decades, Dominican female writers have contributed significantly to the literary representation of the city of Santo Domingo and urban life. This dissertation studies how these female writers produce a cultural paradigm for criticizing the urban crisis in the Dominican Republic that at times is at odds with much narrative written by men and with key concepts in Urban Theory that are taken for granted. The authors I study, Ángela Hernández, Emilia Pereyra, Emelda Ramos, Aurora Arias and Rita Indiana Hernández, understand the city and redefine the urban model by expressing their dissatisfaction in the civilizing and modernizing potential of urban space in their texts. I specifically analyze novels and short stories through a reinterpretation of Henri Lefebvre’s concept of “the Right to the City” that considers issues such as gender, race and identity by using an interdisciplinary theoretical framework that includes Geography, Urban Studies, Feminism, Queer Studies and Sociology.
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Sessa, Ariel. "A topoanálise em A ceia dominicana : romance neolatino de Reinaldo Santos Neves." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFES, 2015. http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/1983.
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O presente trabalho dissertativo de análise foi apresentado com o objetivo de pesquisar o elemento “espaço”, mais especificamente o topos na obra A ceia dominicana: romance neolatino (2008), de Reinaldo Santos Neves. Visou-se analisar a importância e relevância dos lugares nesta obra literária em suas diversas formas, como relacionar os reflexos e a importância da espacialidade no comportamento das personagens e a sua consequente função para o direcionamento da narrativa, a recepção leitora para a construção dos espaços através da semiose, a involuntária identificação extratextual do espaço capixaba através da cartografia reapresentada no livro a partir do mundo empírico, juntamente com a apropriação do espaço Clássico através da interface Satiricon/A ceia dominicana e a simbologia dos signos relacionados a este específico espaço literário. A base teórica utilizada foi a de Gaston Bachelard (2008) e Ozíris Borges Filho (2007), com a contribuição de outros teóricos respeitados no meio acadêmico relacionados aos Estudos Literários e também com a apropriação do aporte teórico de outras áreas de conhecimento, como a Geografia Humanista, a Física, a Psicologia e a Filosofia. Metodologicamente, procurou-se uma vertente mais abrangente para as análises devido à grande diversidade de linhas de pesquisa que a obra de Reinaldo Santos Neves promove a partir de sua pluralidade interpretativa e riqueza enquanto obra literária, assim utilizou-se o pós-estruturalismo para que houvesse liberdade de absorção de conhecimentos de tais áreas pautados na característica de escrita contemporânea do autor. Com tamanha possibilidade, o trabalho ganhou ares ensaísticos ao romper de forma tênue com a formalidade no que tange a composição dissertativa da escrita analítica, respeitando-se, porém, a forma monográfica em suas divisões e subdivisões. De forma geral, este trabalho pretende reforçar ao leitor a importância do conhecimento dos espaços na construção das narrativas, utilizando-se de uma literatura que permite tal análise do topos de forma ampla e didática.
Este análisis del trabajo argumentativo se presentó con el fin de estudiar el elemento "espacio", más específicamente el lugar de la obra A ceia dominicana: romance neolatino (2008), de Reinaldo Santos Neves. Tuvo como objetivo analizar la importancia y relevancia de los lugares en esta obra literaria en sus diversas formas, cómo relacionar las reflexiones y la importancia de la espacialidad en el comportamiento de los personajes y su consiguiente función para ayudar a guiar la narrativa, la recepción lector para la construcción de los espacios a través de la semiosis, la involuntária identificaciónextra-textual del espacio “capixaba” mediante la cartografia presentada de nuevo ficticiamente en el libro a través del mundo empírico, junto con la apropiación del espacio por el interfaz clásicoSatiricon/A ceia dominicanay el simbolismo de los signos relacionados con este espacio literario particular. La base teórica utilizada fue Gaston Bachelard (2008) y Oziris Borges Filho (2007), con la contribución de otros teóricos respetados en el mundo académico relacionado con los estudios literarios y la apropiación de la contribución teórica de otras áreas del conocimiento, como Geografía Humanista, Física, Psicología y Filosofía. Metodológicamente, he buscado una dimensión más amplia al análisis por la amplia diversidad de líneas de investigación, que la obra de Reinaldo Santos Neves promueve desde su diversidad y riqueza interpretativa como una obra literária, por lo que el post-estructuralismo fue utilizado por lo tanto para que haya absorción de conocimiento de tales áreas guiado por la característica de escritura de un autor contemporáneo. Con esta posibilidad, la obra ganó aire de los ensayosacadémicos para romper tenuemente la formalidad con respecto a composición de la disertación analíticamente, respetando, sin embargo, la forma monográfica en sus divisiones y subdivisiones. En general, este estudio pretende ratificar al lector el conocimiento de la importancia de los espacios en la construcción de narrativas mediante el uso de una literatura para permitir análisis del topos extensamente y didácticamente.
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Petit-Frere, Jessica. "Edwidge Danticat and Shadows: The Farming of Bones As a Vehicle for Social Activism." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2492.
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The Farming of Bones is Edwidge Danticat’s novel about Amabelle Desir, a Haitian migrant in the Dominican Republic during the 1937 Haitian massacre. The Massacre is a historical fact presented through a fictional text that acts as a testimonial. The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate how Danticat, in her role as an activist, urges readers to become social justice seekers and enter the discourse of race. Through an examination of Carl Jung’s and Vodou’s shadow theories in regards to the construction of a racial identity by Haitians and Dominicans, I uncover the racial narratives in place from Haiti’s colonization and independence to our current time. Danticat, through the novel, moves the reigning racial paradigm out of the shadow and thus allows readers to reflect on its effects. Thus it is not only the characters in the novel that must confront the shadow, but the readers themselves.
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Al, Shalabi Rasha. "Mapping the Dominican-American experience : narratives by Julía Alvarez, Junot Díaz, Loida Maritza Pérez and Angie Cruz." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/19396/.
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Dominican mass-migration to the United States only started in the 1960s but Dominican Americans are now a sizable minority and in 2014 they became the largest Latino group in New York City. This thesis examines fictional works by Dominican American writers who migrated to the United States from the early 1960s to the 1990s which explore the predicament of Dominican Americans before and after the consolidation of Dominican-American communities. The novels under scrutiny here were published in English between 1991 and 2012 by Julia Alvarez (b. 1950), Loida Maritza Pérez (b. 1963), Junot Díaz (b. 1969), and Angie Cruz (b. 1972) and present us with characters whose search for a ‘home’ and for ways in which to articulate their individual and collective identity are shaped by continuous negotiations between the traditional values of their country of origin and the potentially transformative opportunities afforded by their new country. I will show how these texts powerfully challenge homogeneity, marginalisation, mainstream ideologies, nationalism, and discrimination while questioning the economic, social, religious, patriarchal, educational, and political structures of both the Dominican Republic and the United States in order to formulate diverse modalities of belonging to what Julia Alvarez has called a new “country that’s not on the map” and establish their own distinct position as Dominican American writers.
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Orama, Mariella. "La dictadura desde la escritura femenina de Carmen Martín Gaite, Julia álvarez e Isabel Allende." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4927.
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Wolf, Dominik [Verfasser]. "Reading the Game : Anglo-American Perspectives on Football Fandom in the Age of Premier League Football [[Elektronische Ressource]] / Dominik Wolf." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1060045338/34.
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Valdés, Echeñique Catalina. "La historiografía literaria de Pedro Henríquez Ureña y sus aportes al conocimiento de la historia cultural de la Colonia." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2008. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/108501.
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En el presente estudio, nos hemos propuesto abordar la obra americanista de Henríquez Ureña,
circunscribiendo específicamente nuestra lectura a los numerosos ensayos que destinó a la
historia de las artes, las letras, el pensamiento y la sociedad de la época colonial.
La razón que nos atrajo a este aspecto de su obra fue la curiosidad y luego el interés que nos
produjo encontrar unidos en una misma escritura dos actitudes que hasta ese momento
concebíamos como irreconciliables: la valoración de la época colonial y la defensa de la
América republicana y su originalidad. Luego de estudiar su obra, la historiografía que la
precede y la influencia que ha tenido en los estudios culturales de la Colonia, nos atrevemos a
afirmar que su trabajo es uno pionero en la materia y que su aporte no ha sido del todo
asimilado por quienes han venido después.
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Kussman, Soosun K. "Aucun De Nous Ne Reviendra: The Journey of Working Through Trauma." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1249779135.
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Núñez, Montalván Karina Cecilia. "Relación entre dominio semántico y comprensión lectora en estudiantes de la especialidad de Lengua y Literatura, Facultad de Educación de la Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal, 2013." Master's thesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/7218.
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Determina la relación existente entre el dominio semántico y la comprensión lectora en los estudiantes de la especialidad Lengua y Literatura de la Facultad de Educación de la Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal. Es una investigación de tipo básico, en razón que los resultados van a enriquecer el conocimiento científico y las teorías respecto a la naturaleza del estudio. Es de nivel descriptivo y asume el diseño correlacional en vista que establece una relación entre las dos variables de estudio. La variable dominio semántico aborda las dimensiones: vocabulario en contexto, sinónimos en contexto, antónimos, parónimos, homónimos, hioperónimos e hipónimos y marcadores textuales, presenta un total de 50 ítems. La variable comprensión lectora aborda las dimensiones: nivel Literal, nivel Inferencial y nivel Criterial, presenta un total de 47 ítems. Ambos instrumentos tienen una fiabilidad aceptable: el de dominio semántico = 0,891 y el de comprensión lectora = 0,657; este último es de autoría de Violeta Tapia Mendieta. La muestra está conformada por 70 estudiantes. Los resultados de la investigación reportan la existencia de una relación estadísticamente significativa entre el dominio semántico y la comprensión lectora en los estudiantes. A nivel de dimensiones, se observa una relación media entre el dominio semántico y la comprensión lectora en el nivel literal, una relación débil entre el dominio semántico y la comprensión lectora en el nivel inferencial, y una relación baja entre el dominio semántico y la comprensión criterial.Tesis
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LeGris, Hannah Fraser. "HYBRIDITY, TRAUMA, AND QUEER IDENTITY: READING MASCULINITY ACROSS THE TEXTS OF JUNOT DÍAZ." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/9.
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When writing about Junot Díaz’s Drown (1996) Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) and This is How You Lose Her (2012), I focus on the iterations of masculinity depicted and embodied by Yunior de las Casas, the primary narrator of this collection. I explore the links between diaspora, hybridity, masculinity, and trauma, arguing that both socio-historical and personal traumatic experience reverberates through the psyches and bodies of Díaz’s characters. I demonstrate the relationship between Yunior’s navigation of the United States and the Dominican Republic and his ever-shifting sexuality, self-presentation, and gender identity. The physical and discursive spaces he must traverse contain multiple, contradictory narratives about how to be a man; within Díaz’s collection, we witness Yunior’s coming-to-terms with the way that these stories of masculinity are rendered dysfunctional and incoherent. Accordingly, Yunior uses the hegemonic discourses of masculinity as a way to cloak his own queer difference, ambivalently interacting and identifying with characters marked as Other. In this analysis, I read Yunior’s masculinity as reactionary to the expectations of Domincan society, and also explore how he shaped by migration, trauma, and unspeakable queer desire.
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Gunter, James Christiansen. "The Rhetoric of Violence." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2008. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2468.pdf.
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Kussman, Soosun Kim. "Aucun de nous ne reviendra the journey of working through trauma /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1249779135.
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Carlson, Nicole Marie. "Telling History Through the Stories of Women: Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies and In the Name of Salomé." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2006. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/494.
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My thesis discusses the ways in which Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies (1994) and In the Name of Salomé (2000) are revolutionary texts contesting traditional, male dominated history and redirecting historical and communal foci to the lives of Dominican women. I employ Walter Benjamin's theories found in his essays "The Storyteller" (1936) and "On the Concept of History" (1940) to assist my exploration of Alvarez's questions concerning the power and effect of storytelling, and the importance of reconstructing various historical voices and images, specifically, the importance of reconstructing female voices in male dominated cultures. I discuss the female-narrated component to Dominican history which Alvarez creates in her reconstruction of the lives of these women. Alvarez confronts the challenge of breaking these women out of their marginalized status by combining fiction with history in her reconstruction of their lives. Alvarez assumes the multifaceted role of mediator, story-teller, and historian as she remembers and re-presents Dominican history through the eyes of women who lived, experienced, and affected change within the Dominican Republic. Without merely act as a reporter of historical "facts," Alvarez reconstructs the lives of these women fictionally, applying her impressions and ideas about the personalities, feelings, and thoughts of these women, and historically, utilizing first and secondhand accounts and information about the women. Ultimately, the women are presented as individuals but are also connected to a collective memory and history. As individuals with human characteristics, the women are no longer inaccessible legends. As members of a collective memory and history, the women are redeemed from the isolating effect of their patriarchal society which would have women remain silent. Due to Alvarez's reconstruction, their stories finally have the potential for further dissemination in the future with the possibility to affect other oppressed peoples. Thus, Alvarez's reconstruction of the resistance of a few women in Dominican history produces the capacity for additional resistance by Alvarez's audience to the same forces that these women were combating which continue to exist today — forces such as patriarchy, dictatorial governments, fascism, and economic disparity.
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Plasencia, Ondina. ""Propuesta indecente" : Tratamiento de la mujer en textos de bachata." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-116798.
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Resumen Esta investigación trata del análisis con perspectiva de género de cinco canciones de bachata. Quiero saber cuál es el tratamiento a la mujer en los textos de este este estilo musical. La sociedad dominicana es muy patriarcal y los “amores patriarcales” se reflejan en muchas áreas de la sociedad especialmente en la música. La bachata es una música popular surgida en República Dominicana que viene de las zonas vulnerables, ha evolucionado mucho desde la década de los 60, pero aún sigue siendo compuesta por los hombres para las mujeres y se presentan diferentes aspectos sobre la mujer respecto al “amor patriarcal” y la sublimación. Hay leyes que protegen a las mujeres, pero como el género masculino es la norma, las leyes son escritas y ejecutadas por ellos y desfavorecen al género femenino, lo cual se continúareflejando en las bachatas. Summary On the basis of gender, this paper analyzes five bachata songs. It studies how women are depicted in the texts of this music style. The Dominican society is very patriarchal and "patriarchal love" reflects on many areas of society, especially music. Bachata is a popular music style that emerged within vulnerable areas in the Dominican Republic. However, it has evolved considerably since the 60s, but is still performed by men for women. Various aspects on women are presented in terms of "patriarchal love "and sublimation. There are laws that protect women, but since the male is the norm, the laws are written and enforced by them, and as such going against the female gender. This is still apparent today in the bachata.
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Lantzy, Leah. "La influencia del sueño americano en la inmigración latina." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1332186360.
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Jeo, Noella. "Perry Smith and Josef Kavalier : historical and literary victimized victimizers /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd938.D4.
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Orique, David Thomas 1959. "The unheard voice of law in Bartolome de Las Casas's "Brevisima relacion de la destruicion de las Indias"." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11616.
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xiv, 485 p.The organizing principle of this dissertation is that Las Casas's most famous work, the Brevisima relacion , is primarily an intricately reasoned legal argument against the excesses of early Spanish colonialism rather than a fiery polemical diatribe by the "first human rights activist." Contrary to such anachronistic (though enduringly popular) characterization, this study employs a historical perspective to view this influential text as belonging to the genres of the early modern juridical tradition. Accordingly, this investigation begins by examining the historical matrix of fifteenth-century and early sixteenth-century Spain to properly contextualize Las Casas's early life and certain initial colonial institutions of the Spanish Indies. Similarly, his juridical expertise is firmly rooted in an explication of his contemporaneous formation in canon law and theology. From these foundational strands of his life and work, his maturing juridical voice spoke most decisively in certain of the major debates among Spanish jurists, theologians, and politicians--as well as in the Brevísima relación --in the wake of the Iberian "discovery" of what was for all concerned a physical as well as philosophical "New World." The combined focus of subsequent chapters elucidates the fundamentally juridical dimensions of the text, beginning with the specific context accompanying its genesis in 1542 until its publication a decade later. The treatise's legal character as an official publication based on various evidentiary sources is further revealed by the text's triple function--to inform, to denounce, and to petition, which in turn corresponds to the genres of relaciones, denuncias , and peticiones of the civil juridical tradition. The Brevísima relación 's content unveils far more than this; the epistemological rationale and analytic framework are intimately linked to canonistic, Thomistic, and biblical genres of the ecclesial juridical tradition. Continuing this historical investigation, the concluding chapter demonstrates anew the fundamental grounding of Las Casas's approach in the vibrant first generations of juristic discourse of the so-called Spanish colonial era. His multifaceted juridical voice was distinctively encoded in a powerful melding of civil and ecclesial legal traditions. This dissertation intends to communicate this voice intelligibly with the proper accents of the past.
Committee in charge: Dr. Robert Haskett, Chairperson; Dr. Carlos Aguirre, Member; Dr. Stephanie Wood, Member; Dr. David Luebke, Member; Dr. Stephen Shoemaker, Outside Member
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Bruner, Brittany. ""This, too, was myself": Empathic Unsettlement and the Victim/Perpetrator Binary in Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6284.
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At first glance, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a tale that reinforces binaries. One of these is the self/other binary that is central to David Hume's and Adam Smith's theories of sympathy that conceive of a self imaginatively identifying and experiencing fellow-feeling for an other. However, this notion is complicated because Jekyll and Hyde are the same person. Further, many critics argue that Stevenson actually challenges binary thinking. While Hume and Smith do not challenge the self/other binary in connection with sympathy, trauma theory critics do challenge a self/other binary that lies at the heart of sympathy: the victim/perpetrator binary. Noted trauma theorist Dominick LaCapra develops a method of empathizing called empathic unsettlement where a secondary witness listens with empathy to a victim's traumatic witness while recognizing the difference of his or her position as a witness. He argues that perpetrators may also warrant understanding, but this understanding does not come through empathy. However, one of the hallmarks of empathic unsettlement is that it does not neatly resolve or replace traumatic narratives. Therefore, I argue that empathic unsettlement could also be a useful method for allowing a perpetrator to witness. While practicing empathic unsettlement for a perpetrator may not be worth the risk in real life, performing a thought experiment in literature can test how using empathy might provide a better way to theorize perpetration. Using two witnesses who attempt to practice empathic unsettlement for Jekyll and Hyde, Dr. Hastie Lanyon (who fails), and Mr. Gabriel John Utterson (who succeeds), I will show how empathic unsettlement could be used for both a victim and perpetrator to tease out the complexities of assessing a traumatic situation.
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Catalano, Dominic. "The roles of the visual in picturebooks beyond the conventions of current discourse /." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1122923992.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains x, 555 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 512-555). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.
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Cruz, Medardo de la 1964. "Epic and dictatorship in the Dominican Republic : the struggles of Trujillo's intellectuals." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/18426.
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This dissertation studies the use of the epic genre to legitimize totalitarian power. It focuses on the writings of a group of Dominican authors who worked at the service of the dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Most specialists of the period agree that the wealth of texts produced by these men of letters articulated an ideological system that allowed General Trujillo's brutal regime to remain in power for three decades (1930-1961). Their governmental positions, as well as their prestige as writers and orators, granted them unrestricted access to the public school system and to the means of mass communication. They used this access to promote their notions of national identity, while naturalizing Trujillo's totalitarian power by building consensus in favor of what came to be known as "The New Fatherland." Their work in this respect was so effective that almost fifty years after the fall of the dictatorship their ideas about what it meant to be Dominican still plays a significant role in the anti-Haitian sentiment that fills the editorial pages of Dominican newspapers. These Trujillista authors and public servants, however, did not constitute a homogeneous front. An underlying current of texts produced by some them effectively departed from the main tenets of the official ideology, questioning the basic assumptions upon which lay its definition of dominicanidad. However, far from generating a unified discourse, they expressed divergent views on the Dominican racial and national identity. This fissure in the inner circle of power took the shape of a struggle between two generic forms in the field of cultural production. Whereas the dominant discourse followed the linear structure of the "epic of the victors," identifying the Dominican identity with Spanish culture and the Catholic faith, the oppositional texts incorporated the digressive form of an "epic of the vanquished," highlighting the contributions of the African diaspora to the emergence of a Caribbean consciousness.text
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Cels, Marc B. "Anger in Dominican and Franciscan pastoral and homiletic literature before 1350 /." 2006. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=442469&T=F.
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Victoriano-Martínez, Ramón Antonio. "Rayano: una nueva metáfora para explicar la dominicanidad." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/26334.
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Through close readings of various texts that deal with issues of border, identity and the relationship between Haiti and Dominican Republic as well as with the flow of immigrants between Dominican Republic and the United States, this study introduce the trope of the “rayano” (the one that was born, lives or comes from the border) as an apt metaphor to explain the identity of Dominicans in the twenty-first century — an identity that should be viewed as one born out of movements, translations and interstices. The primary texts that this study will focus on will cover the Haitian-Dominican and Dominican-American experiences. In terms of the former, El Masacre se pasa a pie (1973) by Freddy Prestol Castillo and The Farming of Bones (1998) by Edwidge Danticat are useful for analyzing the defining moment of the relationship between Haiti and Dominican Republic in the twentieth century: the 1937 border massacre of Haitians and Dominican-Haitians ordered by Dominican dictator Rafael L. Trujillo. In the case of the Dominican-American relationship, Dominicanish (2000) by Josefina Báez, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) by Junot Díaz will be the texts through which it will be analyzed the Dominican diaspora and its relationship with the two defining spaces of Dominicanness in the twenty-first century: Santo Domingo and New York City. In addition to these texts, this study also will engage with the theoretical production regarding the triangular relationship between Dominican Republic, Haiti and the United States through an analysis of the different metaphors used by Lucía M. Suárez in The Tears of Hispaniola: Haitian and Dominican Diaspora Memory, Eugenio Matibag in Haitian-Dominican Counterpoint: Nation, State and Race in Hispaniola, and Michele Wucker in Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola.
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Zamora, Omaris Zunilda. "Let the waters flow : (trans)locating Afro-Latina feminist thought." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/24097.
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When thinking specifically of transnationalism, African diaspora and the fluidity of identity: Where do we locate Afro-Latina women? The answer for this question would seem to come from a Black or Chicano feminist thought, nonetheless, these theoretical frameworks have static spaces where fluid subjectivities like that of Afro-Latina women are not recognized. This report frames a theoretical conversation between these two frameworks through a dialectic discussion of their empty spaces or limits and proposes a new approach to Afro-Latina feminism based on the processes and intersections of Black consciousness, sexuality, and the knowledges that are created through the body and its fluidity. More importantly, paying close attention to the roles of translocation, transformation, and the fluidity of identity. In furthering this theoretical conversation, under the theme of Afro-Latina women, this report takes on the case of Dominican women’s transnational experiences and their different dimensions as represented in novels like, Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints and Ana Lara’s Erzulie’s Skirt. Looking specifically at the relationships between women and women, and women and their bodies as being transformed through the sacred, this report concludes that the centrality of Afro-Latina women’s experience is in recognizing that the body as an archive, is a place from where knowledges are re-created and disseminated creating a feminist epistemology for themselves.text
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Fraser, Wayne. "The dominion of women : the relationship of the personal and the political in Canadian women's literature." 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/28952.
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Muniz, Wendy V. "The Unofficial Archive: A Critique of Archival Culture in the Dominican Republic, 1865-1927." Thesis, 2017. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8Q531WG.
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My dissertation delineates the Dominican intelligentsia’s collecting of unofficial archives from the local bourgeoisie’s emergence after the Restoration of independence from Spain in 1865 through the Dominican State’s consolidation as a sovereign entity in the 1920s. By unofficial archives bourgeois actors meant, from foundational writer Manuel de Jesús Galván and first national historian José Gabriel García to scholars Pedro Henríquez Ureña and Abigaíl Mejía, private or nonofficial repositories, real or metaphoric, containing anything from personal belongings and printed works to unclaimed ruins. In dialogue with Walter Benjamin, Michel-Rolph Trouillot and Pierre Bourdieu, I show how in the Dominican context the use of authorized and state knowledge lagged behind that of informal, object-based knowledge. In doing so, “The Unofficial Archive” questions traditional understandings of the archive in intellectual history—Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault—as well as in Performance, Caribbean, and Latin American studies, reassessing the foundational role that a lack of records played in postcolonial archives during nation-building.
Chapter one introduces my reading of “archives.” Because Foucault and Derrida consider physical files and intellectual ideas separately, I contend that their methods account insufficiently for postcolonial archives, where material records and ideas are inextricably intertwined. To trace how the materiality of archives produce national habits and traditions the second chapter centers on the 1877 discovery of Christopher Columbus’s relics. As my close reading of historical works such as historian Emiliano Tejera’s Los restos de Colón en Santo Domingo (1878) shows, this recognition prompted supporters of the relics’ authenticity to create a national narrative describing the pillage and loss of the country’s archives, and to popularize this narrative through reproductions in print, visual, and architectural media like the 1898 Columbus Mausoleum in Santo Domingo’s Cathedral. In my third chapter, I examine how prominent bourgeois actors such as the Sociedad Amigos del País used the tradition about the missing archives to legitimize a national literature and historiography leading nation-building by creating unofficial archives in fiction, nonfiction, and printed ephemera. I read García’s Compendio de la historia de Santo Domingo (1867-1906) together with Galván’s Enriquillo: leyenda histórica dominicana, 1503-1533 (1882) as unofficial archives that meditate upon what it meant to the Dominican nation that its archives remained wanting. My fourth chapter analyzes the nationalization of colonial ruins as unofficial archives by the intellectual bourgeoisie as a means for the group to continue gaining power and to fight U.S. imperialism from the post-Restoration through the U.S. military intervention (1916-1924). I focus on the anti-colonial origins of a national archaeology in the work of Alejandro Llenas Julia, Pedro Henríquez Ureña’s philosophical writings on the ruin in Horas de Estudio (1910), and the use of the edifices by intellectuals such as Max Henríquez Ureña to stir an international cultural debate during the occupation in order to defend the country’s right to sovereignty. I conclude with the government’s gradual appropriation and display of unofficial archives during the 1927 inauguration of the National Museum as described in press articles by Abigail Mejía, which resulted in a political iconography that I call a “bric-à-brac” that officially stages the national archives as half-finished. Under this official lens, a new generation of intellectuals used the lack of records to sustain the hispanicist rule of Rafael L. Trujillo (1930-1961) on the idea that he would be the one to protect the nation’s heritage.
This dissertation brings together historical and material culture studies from a hemispheric point of view and bridges critical Caribbean and Latin American studies. From a Caribbean perspective, the project challenges Archival Studies to consider non-Western forms of archive emerging out of colonial contexts that remain unaddressed in scholarship about the origin of modern state archives in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. “The Unofficial Archive” brings new insights into transnational debates on cultural heritage, its corruption and plunder, and into the social aftermath of colonial governance and state coercion. It urges scholars to address the long-term effects that conflicts over the inalienability of historical treasures have had in former colonies and Empires, and to ponder the role that advances in technology have had in the democratization of the past and the shaping of race and gender identities from modern times to the present. Ultimately, this research reveals how individual citizens who were ignored by or disagreed with official politics used unconfirmed knowledge and information networks to prevail upon officialdom on matters concerning human rights, universal truth, and the meaning of nationhood.
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Rodriguez, Andrea. "Trujillo en dos novelas latinoamericanas /." 2003. http://www.consuls.org/record=b2646351.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Central Connecticut State University, 2003.Thesis advisor: Gustavo Mejía. In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Spanish. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-83). Also available via the World Wide Web.
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Nunez, Victoria. "Unpacking the suitcases they carried: Narratives of Dominican and Puerto Rican migrations to the northeastern United States." 2006. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3242108.
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For Latinos living in the continental United States, migration is an experience that is at once familiar, as a historical phenomenon that shapes our lives, and ephemeral, as a series of momentous events in the lives of individuals, families, and communities that are rarely memorialized. Latino migration has contributed to a redesigned ethnic landscape in the northeastern U.S. although this migration is far less discussed as a contested site of Latino migration than that into the western United States. The two largest groups of Latinos in the Northeast, Dominican and Puerto Rican migrants and their descendants, have recorded the narratives of their migrations in cultural texts through autobiography, folklore, prose, and poetry. The texts I discuss, by Pura Belpré, Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Antonia Pantoja, Junot Diaz and Angie Cruz are a part of North American literary history as well as Latino literary history. The core question guiding this research is: how do migration narratives reveal new perspectives, speak back, or contradict our existing understanding of Dominican and Puerto Rican migrations? A secondary question is in what ways do these texts contribute to a collective memory for Latino communities and thereby add to our understanding of ethnic identity? I argue these texts reveal the heterogeneity of the migrants' identities and their migration experiences. Four of the five authors identify with an Afro-Latino diasporic identity and contribute to our memory of Afro-Latino culture. The texts express the differential experience that women and men migrants have in their lives premigration in their home countries, as well as their lives post-migration. A close reading of migration narratives yields evidence of the migrants' agency, contradicting notions of passive Latina women and passive migrants who unquestioningly accept oppressive cultural practices. Tracing the moments of the migrants' agency in the texts balances structural arguments that suggest that migration was almost inevitable since the migrants came from very poor countries. These migration texts reveal erasures, correct stereotypes, and amend existing knowledge with subjugated knowledges that come from the migrants' first person perspective. The new perspectives contribute to a usable past for Latino communities.