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Title: "Los pueblos, vibrantes y triunfantes en un hombre": Cultos a la personalidad y aislamiento en Corea del Norte y Cuba.
Creator: Trifoi, Bianca, Vázquez, Miguel Ángel, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: This paper argues that Kim Il-Sung of North Korea and Fidel Castro of Cuba established personality cults of differing degrees of intensity due to the relative degrees of historical and political isolation present in each state. Although both states followed a similar pattern of dominance, resentment, nationalism, and socialism in their recent histories, their differing overall histories dictated the intensity of their leaders' personality cults. Korea's long history of self-imposed...
Show moreThis paper argues that Kim Il-Sung of North Korea and Fidel Castro of Cuba established personality cults of differing degrees of intensity due to the relative degrees of historical and political isolation present in each state. Although both states followed a similar pattern of dominance, resentment, nationalism, and socialism in their recent histories, their differing overall histories dictated the intensity of their leaders' personality cults. Korea's long history of self-imposed isolationism in combination with xenophobia was continued in Kim's self-reliance ideology and allowed for a fanatical personality cult to develop. Cuba's only experience with isolation was that imposed by the United States through its embargoes, and the resulting hostility between Cuba and the United States actually helped legitimize Castro's regime and personality cult.
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Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003659
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Identity, Exile, and bacillus emigraticus in the Literature of Spanish Republican Mariano Viñuales (1900-1955).
Creator: Payne, Alyssa Maria, Quesada, Carmen Cañete, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University, Vázquez, Miguel Ángel
Abstract/Description: This investigation seeks to recover the memory of Mariano Viñuales (1900-1955), who was a Spanish writer forced into exile first to the Dominican Republic (1939-1942) and later to Mexico (1942-1959) due to his involvement in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Never able to return to his family in Spain, Viñuales experienced what Paul Tabori calls bacillus emigraticus, a shared experience by exiles of an intense longing to return to their home country. Delving into the personal history and...
Show moreThis investigation seeks to recover the memory of Mariano Viñuales (1900-1955), who was a Spanish writer forced into exile first to the Dominican Republic (1939-1942) and later to Mexico (1942-1959) due to his involvement in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Never able to return to his family in Spain, Viñuales experienced what Paul Tabori calls bacillus emigraticus, a shared experience by exiles of an intense longing to return to their home country. Delving into the personal history and literary legacy of Viñuales alongside chronological analysis of his works “¡Siembra!” (1940), “El león y la libertad” (1950), and “Mi tía Dominga” (1952) reveals how his literature represents the identity of Spanish Republican exiles, with special attention to familial themes. In doing so, this project contributes towards Spain’s Historical Memory Law (2007) which reverses the Pact of Forgetting (1977) to recover the memory of victims of the Spanish Civil War.
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Date Issued: 2021
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00155
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: La comida como crítica social en la picaresca española [= Food as a Social Critique in the Spanish Picaresque Tradition].
Creator: Hood, Caitlyn, Vázquez, Miguel Ángel, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the role of food as a social critique in the picaresque genre of Spanish literature. The picaresque novel of 16th and 17th century Spain revolves around the pseudo-autobiographical narrative of a rogue hero who survives life by any means possible, including thievery and deception. The genre demonstrates that only the upper classes of society were enjoying the fruits of Golden Age Spain. In particular, Lazarillo de Tormes and El buscón are the novels used in this analysis...
Show moreThis thesis examines the role of food as a social critique in the picaresque genre of Spanish literature. The picaresque novel of 16th and 17th century Spain revolves around the pseudo-autobiographical narrative of a rogue hero who survives life by any means possible, including thievery and deception. The genre demonstrates that only the upper classes of society were enjoying the fruits of Golden Age Spain. In particular, Lazarillo de Tormes and El buscón are the novels used in this analysis to reveal that food, especially the lack thereof, is used satirically in picaresque novels to draw attention to the starvation and suffering of Spanish commoners.
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Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003644
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: LA EDAD DE ORO EN LOS POEMAS PASTORILES DESDE LA PENÍNSULA IBÉRICA E INGLATERRA.
Creator: Céspedes, Paulina Oporto, Vázquez, Miguel Ángel, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: En momentos de gran cambio social, el tema del poema pastoril siempre parece resurgir. Aunque la formulación intrínseca del poema pastoril, un anhelo latente por el tiempo y el espacio perdidos, se ha mantenido constante, los minúsculos cambios en lo que constituye este respiro idílico revelan mucho sobre la época en que fue escrito. La noción de una Edad de Oro ilustra los ideales de la sociedad y, como tal, yuxtapone la banalidad de la vida cotidiana con aspiraciones estéticas altamente...
Show moreEn momentos de gran cambio social, el tema del poema pastoril siempre parece resurgir. Aunque la formulación intrínseca del poema pastoril, un anhelo latente por el tiempo y el espacio perdidos, se ha mantenido constante, los minúsculos cambios en lo que constituye este respiro idílico revelan mucho sobre la época en que fue escrito. La noción de una Edad de Oro ilustra los ideales de la sociedad y, como tal, yuxtapone la banalidad de la vida cotidiana con aspiraciones estéticas altamente idealizadas de las que el poeta intenta escapar a través de la poesía pastoril. Al centrarme en diferentes movimientos literarios con énfasis particular en el Siglo de Oro español y el período romántico británico, pretendo demostrar cómo los temas contemporáneos—es decir, el descontento político y la floreciente revolución industrial—dan forma a diferentes variaciones de poemas pastoriles que constituyen la distintiva pero escurridiza Edad Dorada nacional.
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Date Issued: 2019
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00128
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: VERDAD Y FICCIÓN EN EN EL TIEMPO DE LAS MARIPOSAS (1994) DE JULIA ÁLVAREZ Y VIVAS EN SU JARDÍN (2009) DE DEDÉ MIRABAL.
Creator: Coletti, Erin Melissa, Cañete-Quesada, Carmen, Vázquez, Miguel Ángel, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: This thesis investigates the case of the legendary Mirabal sisters, or the so called “Mariposas” [the “Butterflies”]: three young Dominican women who sacrificed their lives to end the tyranny of General Rafael L. Trujillo. The purpose of this thesis is to compare the portrayal of the Mirabal sisters in two different books, In the Time of the Butterflies (1994) by Dominican-American writer Julia Álvarez and Vivas en su jardín [Alive in their Garden] (2009) by Dedé Mirabal, the only sister to...
Show moreThis thesis investigates the case of the legendary Mirabal sisters, or the so called “Mariposas” [the “Butterflies”]: three young Dominican women who sacrificed their lives to end the tyranny of General Rafael L. Trujillo. The purpose of this thesis is to compare the portrayal of the Mirabal sisters in two different books, In the Time of the Butterflies (1994) by Dominican-American writer Julia Álvarez and Vivas en su jardín [Alive in their Garden] (2009) by Dedé Mirabal, the only sister to survive. Mirabal implements an important biographical component in her testimony while Álvarez utilizes the genre of historical fiction to describe the events leading to the sisters’ assassination in 1960. This thesis explores the concepts of “truth” and “fiction” in Mirabal’s memoir and Álvarez’s historical novel, arguing that the range of objectivity and subjectivity in these two genres are interchangeable in the representation of this tragic episode in the history of the Dominican Republic.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003612
Format: Document (PDF)

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