Spanish and Portuguese: Recent submissions
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Juan Ruíz de Alarcón Classical and Spanish influences
(University of Kansas, 1941) -
Subaltern Saints: Medieval Iberian Hagiography in Dialogue with Latin American Testimonio
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)This dissertation rereads five thirteenth-century Spanish hagiographic poems in the light of modern subaltern studies: the anonymous Vida de Santa María Egipciaca, and Gonzalo de Berceo’s Martirio de San Lorenzo, Vida de ... -
The philosophy of Pío Baroja with special reference to the influence of Nietzsche
(University of Kansas, 1932) -
The Representation of Nazism and World War II in the Literature of Argentina and Mexico
(University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)Since the 1960s Nazism, the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler, the atomic bomb, and World War II have been recurring tropes in Argentine and Mexican literature, demanding to be studied as an overarching phenomenon that has existed ... -
Artistic Representations of Andean Diasporas: Food and Carework; Music and Dance Performance; and Human Trafficking
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)In this dissertation, I examine representations of Andean diasporas in film, literature, and a variety of other cultural texts, from a comic strip to a cooking show. To contextualize my readings of these cultural ... -
Body Talk: Performing Violence Against Women in Contemporary Guatemala
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Drawing upon Diana Taylor’s concept of the repertoire, I propose that the performers’ and photographers’ use of the female body functions as a meta-language to denounce several types of violence against women. Guatemala ... -
(Un)Natural Pairings: Fantastic, Uncanny, Monstrous, and Cyborgian Encounters in Contemporary Central American and Hispanic Caribbean Literature
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Since the turn of the 20th century many writers, playwrights, and poets in Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean have published fantastic, gritty, and oftentimes unsettling stories of ghosts, anthropomorphic animals, ... -
The realistic technique of Emilia Pardo Bazán
(University of Kansas, 1930) -
CRUSADERS, MARTYRS, AND SAINTS: REPRESENTATIONS OF CHRISTIAN MILITANCY IN MEXICO, 1850-2013
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)This study examines the intersections between religious practices and violence, and their representations. It explores how religious insurgents in Mexico have employed religious imagery and expression to foment or justify ... -
Fausto impresiones del gaucho Anastasio el Pollo por Estanislao del Campo
(University of Kansas, 1932) -
M'Hijo el Dotor, by Florencio Sánchez
(University of Kansas, 1931) -
Social aspects of the works of Joaquin Dicenta
(University of Kansas, 1924) -
El Desengaño en un Sueño by Angel de Saavedra
(University of Kansas, 1930) -
Sonata de Otoño, by Don Ramón del Valle-Inclán
(University of Kansas, 1931) -
A study of the dramatic versification of Don Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla
(University of Kansas, 1932) -
Naturalism: The Stimulus for Pardo Bazán’s Artistry with Nicknames
(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Romance Languages, 2013) -
The development of the gracioso in the works of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón
(University of Kansas, 1930) -
EMBODYING MODERNITY IN MEXIO: RACE, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE BODY IN THE MESTIZO STATE
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Mexico’s traumatic Revolution (1910-1917) attested to stark divisions that had existed in the country for many years. After the dust of the war settled, post-revolutionary leaders embarked on a nation-building project that ... -
Short stories of Jacinto Octavio Picón
(University of Kansas, 1931) -
A New Version of Fortunata y Jacinta on the Spanish Stage: A Sesquicentennial Salute to Pérez Galdós
(Pennsylvania State University, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, 1995)