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Spanish & Portuguese Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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The Power of the Voice: Listening to Mexican and Central American Immigrant Experiences (1997-2010)
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-27)This dissertation examines representations of immigrant experiences in Mexican and Central American cultural texts at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries. By examining immigrant experiences ... -
Alonso Quijano en el Callejón del Gato: Las ficciones de psycho-killers españolas
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-23)The goal of my dissertation is to study the pervasive presence of the psycho-killer in Spanish cultural production of the last two decades. By analyzing selected literary and filmic works, I explore how this character has ... -
FAMILIAS DESMEMBRADAS Y ORFANDADES: REPRESENTACIONES DE UNA ACTITUD POSMODERNA HACIA LA NACIÓN MEXICANA
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-10)The image of the traditional patriarchal family as the perfect allegory for the nation has been widely used in Latin American literature since the 19th century. Within the frame of postmodernism, this study challenges and ... -
Paradictatorial Nostalgia: The Exile Poetry of Juan Gelman, Ferreira Gullar, and Gonzalo Millan
(University of Kansas, 2009-09-11)In this study, recent nostalgia theory and Latin American poems of exclusion, expulsion, and exile at the end of the twentieth century intersect. In the context of Juan Gelman's cartas abiertas, Ferreira Gullar's Poema ... -
Cuando llovió dinero en Macondo: Literatura y narcotráfico en Colombia y México
(University of Kansas, 2009-05-13)This study deals with the representation of drug trafficking in six narrative texts from Colombia and Mexico. Narco-narratives examine the social structures that drug trafficking has brought to Latin American society, which ... -
The Adulteress in Spanish Tragedy (1830-1930)
(University of Kansas, 2009-05-15)Throughout Spain's history, the importance of the male honor code has remained a dominating theme in Spanish literature. For Spanish tragedians, the obsession with the male honor code involves the display of the adulteress ... -
Wanderl[o]st: Lost Identities and Losing Place in the New World (Dis)Order
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-22)Through the investigation of works by contemporary Spanish and Spanish-American writers--Roberto Bolaño, Abilio Estévez, Lucía Etxebarria, Ray Loriga, and Antonio José Ponte--this project explores subjects that get lost ... -
HACIA LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DEL SUJETO Y SUS PROCESOS DE LECTURA EN LA HIPERTEXTUALIDAD LATINOAMERICANA
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-21)ABSTRACT Eduardo Acuna-Zumbado, Ph.D. Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of Kansas This study contends that hypertextual writing puts forward, by its multilinear structure and its decentered process of reading, ... -
EN CARNE PROPIA: EMBODIED IDENTITIES IN CUBAN AND MEXICAN CULTURAL PRODUCTION
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-28)In twentieth-century Cuba and Mexico, each post-revolutionary state consolidated power through cultural production, especially film and literature, by funding national cinema and institutions such as the Union of Cuban ... -
Comunidades teatrales: la melancolía y la nostalgia en la representación y formación de la identidad argentina a fines del siglo XX y principios del siglo XXI
(University of Kansas, 2008-04-16)This study examines how the argentine theatre of the 1980s, 1990s and early XXI century represent the construction and deconstruction of the national identity through the lenses of melancholia and nostalgia. Both of these ... -
Siempre hubo clases: clases medias y modernización en la literatura hispánica decimonónica
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-02)Esta tesis se centra en el estudio de tres novelas del sigo XIX de tres países diferentes. Suprema ley de Federico Gamboa es de México, La gran aldea de Lucio Vicente López, de Argentina, y Fortunata y Jacinta de Benito ...