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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
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Title: La (in)visibilidad de la traductora: la traducciâon del inglâes al espaänol del cuento "Spanish Winter" de Jennifer Egan.
Creator: Almeida, Gabriela., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description: This thesis emphasizes the visibility of the translator as an agent who promotes cultural exchange. This project includes a translation of Jennifer Egan's short story "Spanish Winter" from her collection Emerald City and Other Stories (1996). It also presents the theoretical frame, the critical analysis, and the pitfalls of the translation. "Spanish Winter" is narrated in the first person by the protagonist, a troubled US American, divorced woman who travels by herself to Spain in the winter....
Show moreThis thesis emphasizes the visibility of the translator as an agent who promotes cultural exchange. This project includes a translation of Jennifer Egan's short story "Spanish Winter" from her collection Emerald City and Other Stories (1996). It also presents the theoretical frame, the critical analysis, and the pitfalls of the translation. "Spanish Winter" is narrated in the first person by the protagonist, a troubled US American, divorced woman who travels by herself to Spain in the winter. The importance of this text lies in the quest for identity of a female character whose journey symbolizes a search for herself. This postmodern tale, which depicts cultural exchanges between Spaniards and a US American woman and presents a contemporary theme told by a female narrator traveling abroad, is extremely relevant in today's globalized world. It is a valuable text whose translation promotes a fruitful literary exchange between the United States and the Spanish-speaking countries.
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Date Issued: 2012
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3342033
Subject Headings: Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Identity (Psychology) in literature, Americans, Translating and interpreting
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Title: ?Una nacion afro-ecuatoriana? Un estudio de "Juyungo" y "El ultimo rio" de Adalberto Ortiz y Nelson Estupinan Bass.
Creator: Ramirez, Cyntia A., Florida Atlantic University, Horswell, Michael J.
Abstract/Description: Ecuador is characterized by its variety of ethnic groups, including mestizos, Indians and African descendents that have formed a rich heritage of multiple cultures. Whereas much attention has been given to indigenous and indigenista literature, there is a large gap in Ecuador's literary criticism on its afro-Ecuadorian literature. This thesis examines two afro-Ecuadorian novels, Juyungo (1942) and El ultimo rio (1966). I explore the social and economic environment in which afro-Ecuadorians...
Show moreEcuador is characterized by its variety of ethnic groups, including mestizos, Indians and African descendents that have formed a rich heritage of multiple cultures. Whereas much attention has been given to indigenous and indigenista literature, there is a large gap in Ecuador's literary criticism on its afro-Ecuadorian literature. This thesis examines two afro-Ecuadorian novels, Juyungo (1942) and El ultimo rio (1966). I explore the social and economic environment in which afro-Ecuadorians had to live during the beginning of the 20 th century. Whereas Ecuador's contemporary racial ideology and the social construction of the individual dates from the colonial times, the authors of these afro-Ecuadorian novels contest that discrimination and racism and propose a radically different conception of the nation, one more inclusive of its diverse cultures.
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Date Issued: 2004
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13149
Subject Headings: Ecuadorian literature--Criticism and interpretation, Ecuador--20th century--Social aspects, Ecuador--20th century--Economic aspects, Spanish American literature--Black authors, Ortiz, Adalberto--Juynungo, Estupiñán Bass, Nelson--El ultimo río, Multiculturalism--Ecuador
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Title: AN ANNOTATED EDITION OF THE COMEDY "EL GENIO ALEGRE" BY SERAFIN AND JOAQUIN ALVAREZ QUINTERO.
Creator: GAZTELU, JOSE M., Florida Atlantic University, Rangel, Vicente H.
Abstract/Description: This edition was prepared in order to help the student decipher the complex dialectical language of this most characteristic play of the Quintero brothers, which is riddled with the popular speech of southern Spain. The introduction has four chapters. It begins with an explanation of the social circumstances in Spain at that time. Followed by a short biography of the authors ; and then, a third chapter dealing with the characteristics of their works in relation to the literary mainstream of...
Show moreThis edition was prepared in order to help the student decipher the complex dialectical language of this most characteristic play of the Quintero brothers, which is riddled with the popular speech of southern Spain. The introduction has four chapters. It begins with an explanation of the social circumstances in Spain at that time. Followed by a short biography of the authors ; and then, a third chapter dealing with the characteristics of their works in relation to the literary mainstream of Spain. The last chapter is a summary and analysis of the play and its characters. Finally, the annotation in English, in which special care was taken to identify all difficult passages; translate them and place them on the same page in which they occur, in such a way as to achieve a balance between the footnotes and the glossary, to make it easier and more enjoyable to read the work.
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Date Issued: 1977
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13834
Subject Headings: Álvarez Quintero, Serafín,--1871-1938--Criticism and interpretation., Álvarez Quintero, Joaquín,--1873-1944--Criticism and interpretation.
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Title: AN ANNOTATED EDITION OF: CARLOS ARNICHES' "LA SENORITA DE TREVELEZ.".
Creator: MANDIOLA, ANA., Florida Atlantic University, Rangel, Vicente H.
Abstract/Description: This edition was prepared as a study aide for the students of Spanish Literature at the college level. The work consists of two chapters. Chapter I presents the author, Carlos Arniches, the man and the playwright, while it offers relevant information on the language techniques and the characters he chooses. A section is also dedicated to the brief presentation of Arniches' sainetes followed by a study of the grotesque tragedy, in particular of La senorita de Trevelez. Chapter II covers...
Show moreThis edition was prepared as a study aide for the students of Spanish Literature at the college level. The work consists of two chapters. Chapter I presents the author, Carlos Arniches, the man and the playwright, while it offers relevant information on the language techniques and the characters he chooses. A section is also dedicated to the brief presentation of Arniches' sainetes followed by a study of the grotesque tragedy, in particular of La senorita de Trevelez. Chapter II covers exclusively the annotated edition of La senorita de Trevelez. The annotations are in English; all difficult expressions are explained with the necessary background for the best comprehension of the text. A bibliography of all the sources consulted is included. The student of the Spanish language will find in this edition a tool for a better mastery of the language, the culture of the time and the colloquial Spanish idiom.
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Date Issued: 1978
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13906
Subject Headings: Arniches y Barrera, Carlos,--1866-1943--Criticism and interpretation, Arniches y Barrera, Carlos,--1866-1943--Señorita de Trevélez
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Title: La Argentina y el desengano desde sus comienzos.
Creator: Lanza, Silva Patricia., Florida Atlantic University, Horswell, Michael J.
Abstract/Description: In his testimonial epic poem Argentina y la conquista del Rio de la Plata con otros acaecimientos de los Reynos del Peru, Tucuman, y estados del Brasil, the archdeacon Martin del Barco Centenera manifests a distinct point of view than that evidenced by the participants in the conquista. The concept of "otherness" developed by the author throughout the epic poem, acts as a coordinating nexus between the conquered subject and the conqueror. This alterity tinges the work with a disappointment...
Show moreIn his testimonial epic poem Argentina y la conquista del Rio de la Plata con otros acaecimientos de los Reynos del Peru, Tucuman, y estados del Brasil, the archdeacon Martin del Barco Centenera manifests a distinct point of view than that evidenced by the participants in the conquista. The concept of "otherness" developed by the author throughout the epic poem, acts as a coordinating nexus between the conquered subject and the conqueror. This alterity tinges the work with a disappointment that is more appropriate of the posterior baroque period, product of the disillusion engendered by the conquista.
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Date Issued: 2002
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12923
Subject Headings: Barco, Centenera, Martín del,--b 1535, Rio de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay)--In literature, Epic poetry
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Title: Atrave(s) and fronte(i)ras: la traducciâon del Portuguâes al Espaînol de la novella Brasilîena Adeus, Rio Doce.
Creator: Bandeira de Mello, Clarisse., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description: The translation of Geny Vilas-Novas' novel Adeus, Rio Doce emphasizes the importance of promoting a literary exchange between Brazil and the Spanish-speaking world. This study analyses contemporary Brazilian literature and situates the author in the post-modern literary movement, stressing two post-colonial fundamental themes: emigration and feminine literature. Millions of undocumented emigrants from Latin America live nowadays in the United States displaced in the American society and leave...
Show moreThe translation of Geny Vilas-Novas' novel Adeus, Rio Doce emphasizes the importance of promoting a literary exchange between Brazil and the Spanish-speaking world. This study analyses contemporary Brazilian literature and situates the author in the post-modern literary movement, stressing two post-colonial fundamental themes: emigration and feminine literature. Millions of undocumented emigrants from Latin America live nowadays in the United States displaced in the American society and leave suffering family members abandoned in their native countries. One of the roles of Latin- American women writers like Vilas-Novas is to reveal and denounce the subaltern conditions of this emigration movement in the globalization process, under the unusual perspective of those left behind. The linguistic and semantic challenges and difficulties faced during translation are a metaphor for the crossing of linguistic, cultural, social, and historical borders by Latin-Americans in search of better life opportunities.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/186336
Subject Headings: Brazilian fiction, Translations into English, Brazilian literature, Criticism and interpretation, Postmodernism (Literature), Feminism and literature, Criticism and interpretation
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Title: La aventura del heroe: Una aproximacion critica a "Lituma en los Andes" de Mario Vargas Llosa.
Creator: Barrero, Gabriela Ovando, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description: Lituma en los Andes tackles the universal substance of myths, its atavistic stock of culture, prejudice and superstitions, which applied to the complex Peru uncovers taboos and reveals a political statement, whose non-fictional counterpart can be found in La utopia arcaica: Jose Maria Arguedas y las ficciones del indigenismo, by the same author. This thesis uses a mythological and archetypal approach to prove that the narration--whose underlying element are Andean myths--is structured as the...
Show moreLituma en los Andes tackles the universal substance of myths, its atavistic stock of culture, prejudice and superstitions, which applied to the complex Peru uncovers taboos and reveals a political statement, whose non-fictional counterpart can be found in La utopia arcaica: Jose Maria Arguedas y las ficciones del indigenismo, by the same author. This thesis uses a mythological and archetypal approach to prove that the narration--whose underlying element are Andean myths--is structured as the mythological adventure of a hero who must comply with the archetypal rites of passage: separation, initiation, and return. Lituma's trials lead him to a social and spiritual maturity and to discover the mysterious ancestral Peru, disdained by the more westernized Peruvians of the coast. The Andeans' fear of foreigners is represented by the myth of the pishtaco or throat-cutter, counterpart of the classical Minotaur. The encounter of the two scissioned worlds is only possible through love and friendship, in the framework of a pluralistic society, which is suggested by the novel's resolution.
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Date Issued: 1999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15667
Subject Headings: Literature, Latin American
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Title: Black woman as an erotic being in Spanish-Caribbean narrative.
Creator: Henry, Marlyn Fay., Florida Atlantic University, Erro-Peralta, Nora
Abstract/Description: Characterization of Black women as erotic beings in Spanish-Caribbean narrative has shifted significantly from 1880 to 1990. Their representation as totally submissive and erotic beings has evolved into that of socially conscious and self accepting Black women. In Villaverde's Cecilia Valdes (1882), Cecilia and Maria de la Regla are depicted as objects of male sexual desires. Diaz's Pascua in Cumboto (1948) and Asturias' Mulata de tal (1963), although eroticized, insinuate an underlying...
Show moreCharacterization of Black women as erotic beings in Spanish-Caribbean narrative has shifted significantly from 1880 to 1990. Their representation as totally submissive and erotic beings has evolved into that of socially conscious and self accepting Black women. In Villaverde's Cecilia Valdes (1882), Cecilia and Maria de la Regla are depicted as objects of male sexual desires. Diaz's Pascua in Cumboto (1948) and Asturias' Mulata de tal (1963), although eroticized, insinuate an underlying androgynous nature which makes them more assertive in their use of sexuality. However, it is contemporary women writers who dismantle the erotic stereotype: Ferre's "Cuando las mujeres quieren a los hombres" (1974) portrays a Black prostitute who, advances socially and economically. Cabrera's Nana in "La tesorera del diablo" (1971) is the bearer of ancestral knowledge and moral values, and Cartagena Portalatin's Aurora, in "La llamaban Aurora," (1978) speaks forcefully on social issues and fully accepts herself as a Black woman.
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Date Issued: 1994
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15115
Subject Headings: Latin American literature--History and criticism, Caribbean literature (Spanish), African American women in literature, Sex symbolism, Sex role in literature
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Title: Los câirculos de Borges: el inglâes, la intertextualidad y la traducciâon.
Creator: Carlino, Susana Beatriz., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description: This thesis analyzes the interaction of three primordial circular concepts in the formation of the literary identity of Jorge Luis Borges: the English language, intertextuality, and translation. The allegory of concentric circles facilitates the explanation of the complexity of these processes that intertwine and interact expanding to the infinite. This is not only a metaphor but also a metaphysical dilemma which Borges has utilized to explain time not as an absolute progression where a...
Show moreThis thesis analyzes the interaction of three primordial circular concepts in the formation of the literary identity of Jorge Luis Borges: the English language, intertextuality, and translation. The allegory of concentric circles facilitates the explanation of the complexity of these processes that intertwine and interact expanding to the infinite. This is not only a metaphor but also a metaphysical dilemma which Borges has utilized to explain time not as an absolute progression where a before and after are feasible but rather as a cyclical idea in which the return and the repetition are eternal. The three key concepts will be analyzed, using as an example, a short story by one of the English writers who Borges has cited and translated, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Three Horsemen of Apocalypse." Borges translated Chestertons tale prior to writing "The Garden of Forking Paths," and this thesis demonstrates how we may discern Chesterton's influence on the Argentine's fiction, particularly within the genre of the detective story.
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Date Issued: 2012
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3342039
Subject Headings: Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation
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Title: Como Me Lo Contraron Te Lo Cuento: Estudio Critico Y Traduccion De "Vivir Del Cuento" De Manuel Ramos Otero.
Creator: Gregor, Patricia., Florida Atlantic University, Gamboa, Yolanda
Abstract/Description: There are characters whose existence depends upon their stories being told, and the same may be said of authors. The Puerto Rican author Manuel Ramos Otero died on October 7, 1990, leaving a body of work that includes four collections of short stories, two books of poetry, and a novel. At present, his work is not well-known outside of Puerto Rico. His readership is limited to Spanish speakers since he wrote exclusively in Spanish and his works have not been translated. This study introduces...
Show moreThere are characters whose existence depends upon their stories being told, and the same may be said of authors. The Puerto Rican author Manuel Ramos Otero died on October 7, 1990, leaving a body of work that includes four collections of short stories, two books of poetry, and a novel. At present, his work is not well-known outside of Puerto Rico. His readership is limited to Spanish speakers since he wrote exclusively in Spanish and his works have not been translated. This study introduces the author to the English-speaking reader, locating the work in its literary context, and presents a critical analysis and, to my knowledge, the first English translation of his short story "Vivir del cuento." It includes a discussion of the controversy regarding the appropriateness of English in Puerto Rican literature.
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Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13327
Subject Headings: Ramos Otero, Manuel.--Vivir del cuento., Ramos Otero, Manuel--Criticism and interpretation., Puerto Rican literature--20th century--Criticism and interpretation.
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Title: Concentracion deiones requirida para el cultivo de Litopenaeus vannamei en agua dulce.
Creator: Laramore, Susan E., Scarpa, John, McGraw, W. M.
Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007359
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Title: Discurso femenino de resistencia en la narrativa cubana antiesclavista: el personaje Teresa en Sab (1841) de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda.
Creator: Uribe, Alejandra, Cañete-Quesada, Carmen, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: This research study on the antislavery novel, Sab (1841), by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, explores issues of race, gender and social status in Cuban society during the 19th century. Avellaneda’s narrative establishes a difference between ethnic, gender and economic privileges portrayed through the most influential characters in the novel: the slave, Sab; the daughter of the landowner, Carlota; orphaned daughter of Carlota’s uncle, Teresa; and Enrique, a British landowner and Carlota’s...
Show moreThis research study on the antislavery novel, Sab (1841), by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, explores issues of race, gender and social status in Cuban society during the 19th century. Avellaneda’s narrative establishes a difference between ethnic, gender and economic privileges portrayed through the most influential characters in the novel: the slave, Sab; the daughter of the landowner, Carlota; orphaned daughter of Carlota’s uncle, Teresa; and Enrique, a British landowner and Carlota’s fiancé. This study pays particular attention to Teresa’s resistance to the patriarchal values in a colonial society ruled by Spain. I consider this character crucial to understand the antislavery discourse that Avellaneda incorporates in her novel to destabilize a hierarchical and prejudiced society. Furthermore, I will illustrate the major role of Teresa in the novel, whose presence has been shaded by the central female character, Carlota, and frequently underestimated by the critics.
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Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003661
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Title: Effects of parents’ educational level, school type and gender on the development of attention and memory.
Creator: Esmeralda Matute Villaseñor, Araceli Sanz Martín, Emilio Gumá Díaz, Mónica Rosselli, Alfredo Ardila
Abstract/Description: Information about the influence of environmental factors on the development of attention and memory is scarce. This study analyzed the relationship between parents’ educational level, school type and sex on the development of attention and memory. Four hundred and seventy six children (age 5 to 16 years) of public (PuS) and private schools (PrS) participated. The sample was divided in two age groups: G1, age 5 to 8 years and G2, age 9 to 16 years. Attention and memory sub-tests from the...
Show moreInformation about the influence of environmental factors on the development of attention and memory is scarce. This study analyzed the relationship between parents’ educational level, school type and sex on the development of attention and memory. Four hundred and seventy six children (age 5 to 16 years) of public (PuS) and private schools (PrS) participated. The sample was divided in two age groups: G1, age 5 to 8 years and G2, age 9 to 16 years. Attention and memory sub-tests from the Evaluación Neuropsicológica Infantil-ENI (Matute, Rosselli, Ardila and Ostrosky, 2007) were analyzed. There was a significant effect of age on all sub-tests scores where older children obtained higher scores. Also, there was a significant effect of sex and type of school in some tasks, where girls had higher performance than boys and, the students of PrS scored higher than students of PuS. An interaction between type of school and sex was also evident: PrS girls showed higher performance than other groups in some tasks of attention and memory, especially those that imply verbal information processing. There was a significant correlation between the parents’educational level and the performance in G2. Sons of parents with high educational level show better performance than sons of parents with low educational level. The results are discussed in terms of the environmental variables effect on the development of attention and memory.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000487
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Title: El discurso andino en Los rios profundos.
Creator: Mantilla, Mario I., Horswell, Michael J., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the arduous and controversial attempt of literary critics to classify appropriately the novel Los rfos profundos (Deep Rivers) by the Peruvian novelist and ethnographer, Jose Marfa Arguedas and reviews the main theories that were applied to decipher its meaning. But more than a task of classifying, the thesis itself is a work of interpretation, which required broadening the research boundaries previously employed. Confronting the dominance of Western discourse that has...
Show moreThis thesis examines the arduous and controversial attempt of literary critics to classify appropriately the novel Los rfos profundos (Deep Rivers) by the Peruvian novelist and ethnographer, Jose Marfa Arguedas and reviews the main theories that were applied to decipher its meaning. But more than a task of classifying, the thesis itself is a work of interpretation, which required broadening the research boundaries previously employed. Confronting the dominance of Western discourse that has shaped how we understand Andean literature, I identify the elements of indigenous Andean discourse that are deeply embedded in the novel. This perspective may decisively influence the way we read Latin American Literature and hopes to more rigorously draw attention to the presence of ancestral indigenous civilization in the cultural identity of Latin America.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000937
Subject Headings: Arguedas, José María--Ríos profundos, Latin American literature--Peru--20th century, Arguedas, José María--Political and social views, Acculturation in literature
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Title: El domínico-japonés: expresiones culturales de la identidad japonesa en la república dominicana desde mediados de los años 50.
Creator: Lopez, Stephanie, Cañete-Quesada, Carmen, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: As a result of General Rafael Trujillo’s desire to “whiten” the Dominican society during his regime (1930-61), various immigration incentives were placed into effect in order to attract Europeans and Asians to the small country in the Antilles from the 1930s to the 1950s. In a period when Europe was ravaged by wars, numerous Europeans accepted the refuge offered by the small country. However, it was not until the mid-1950s when Asians, particularly Japanese people, accepted to relocate to the...
Show moreAs a result of General Rafael Trujillo’s desire to “whiten” the Dominican society during his regime (1930-61), various immigration incentives were placed into effect in order to attract Europeans and Asians to the small country in the Antilles from the 1930s to the 1950s. In a period when Europe was ravaged by wars, numerous Europeans accepted the refuge offered by the small country. However, it was not until the mid-1950s when Asians, particularly Japanese people, accepted to relocate to the Dominican Republic. As a result, Trujillo accomplished repopulating the Dominican-Haitian border with people of non-African descent and growing the agriculture sector with the perseverance of the Japanese immigrants. In my research, I explore the process of assimilation and hybridization of this important community that counts for approximately 550 Dominican-Japanese.
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Date Issued: 2013
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003524
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Title: Entre Nebrija y Valdâes: un diâalogo gramatical sobre el castellano renacentista.
Creator: Lewis, Ron., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: The two earliest grammars of the Castilian language are the Grammar of the Castilian Language by Antonio de Nebrija and the Dialogue of the Language by Juan de Valdâes. The former was published in 1492, a historically paramount year for Spain, while the latter was completed in 1535 but not published until two centuries later. Working with edited texts of both grammars, secondary sources regarding the lives of Nebrija and Valdâes, and information about the history of Spain, this thesis...
Show moreThe two earliest grammars of the Castilian language are the Grammar of the Castilian Language by Antonio de Nebrija and the Dialogue of the Language by Juan de Valdâes. The former was published in 1492, a historically paramount year for Spain, while the latter was completed in 1535 but not published until two centuries later. Working with edited texts of both grammars, secondary sources regarding the lives of Nebrija and Valdâes, and information about the history of Spain, this thesis explores the linguistic substance of both works, evidence of the authors' personal attitudes and dispositions that influenced their works, and the political and social context surrounding all of these factors. The purpose of this investigation is to gain further insight into the Grammar and the Dialogue, as well as the history of Spain and the historical development of Castilian.
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Date Issued: 2010
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3335108
Subject Headings: Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Spanish literature, Criticism and interpretation, Language and culture, History
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Title: El estado, el bandido y La Violencia en Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazabal.
Creator: Rojas, Maria Eugenia., Florida Atlantic University, Duno-Gottberg, Luis
Abstract/Description: The period of Colombian history known as La Violencia (The Violence 1948-1963) was characterized by widespread terror and crime. Liberals and Conservatives faced off in a battle to win control over the state, more specifically, to achieve hegemony. Peasants and urban dwellers were in the middle of such confrontation. And eventually, were co-opted by the rhetoric of each fraction, thereby becoming murderers, victims, or both. Colombian writer Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazabal recreated this time in...
Show moreThe period of Colombian history known as La Violencia (The Violence 1948-1963) was characterized by widespread terror and crime. Liberals and Conservatives faced off in a battle to win control over the state, more specifically, to achieve hegemony. Peasants and urban dwellers were in the middle of such confrontation. And eventually, were co-opted by the rhetoric of each fraction, thereby becoming murderers, victims, or both. Colombian writer Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazabal recreated this time in two of his novels, Condores no entierran todos los dias y El ultimo gamonal. His historical narrative accounts the events and succeeds in recreating the languages and practices of La Violencia. This study will address these themes and explain how Gardeazabal portrays the role of the conservative State and its connections with criminal practices.
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Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13403
Subject Headings: Álvarez Gardeazábal, Gustavo--Criticism and interpretation, Colombia--Politics and government--1946-1974, Violence--Colombia--History--20th century
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Title: Estudio Semantico de los Neologismos Introducidos en la Lengua Castellana por el Rey Alfonso X en la Cuarta y Quinta Partida de su Libro Las Siete Partidas.
Creator: Revilla, Maria G., Arango, D., Florida Atlantic University
Date Issued: 1970
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000955
Subject Headings: Alfonso--X,--King of Castile and Leon,--1221-1284, Siete partidas (Spanish law code), Spanish language--To 1500, Spanish language--Semantics, Historical
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Title: El final del tango Perâonista: la desintegraciâon del cuerpo social en No Habrâa Mâas Penas ni Olvido.
Creator: Fuentes, Delia Pamela., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description: This thesis analyzes the complexities of Argentinean politics during Juan Domingo Perâon's last presidency, (1973-1974), as presented in Osvaldo Soriano's novel No habrâa mâas penas ni olvido. Soriano's work, set in the fictitious town of Colonia Vela, in the state of Buenos Aires, illustrates in a small scale the different social and political components that make up the national body. Historical and fictitious elements dramatize the conflict among the left and right wings of the Peronist...
Show moreThis thesis analyzes the complexities of Argentinean politics during Juan Domingo Perâon's last presidency, (1973-1974), as presented in Osvaldo Soriano's novel No habrâa mâas penas ni olvido. Soriano's work, set in the fictitious town of Colonia Vela, in the state of Buenos Aires, illustrates in a small scale the different social and political components that make up the national body. Historical and fictitious elements dramatize the conflict among the left and right wings of the Peronist Party. These two factions divide the villagers, who hold diverse images of Perâon and what the party entails, while putting their political beliefs and physical well-being at stake. Quickly the two splinter parties trigger an open arm conflict while fighting under the same slogan: "Perâon o muerte". Supported by diverse theoretical perspectives, this thesis reveals that Soriano's novel sheds light into one of the most confusing periods of Argentinean history while rescuing the sacrifices of the people.
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Date Issued: 2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3175015
Subject Headings: Criticism and interpretation, Spanish American literature, Criticism and interpretation, History, Literature and the war, Politics and government, Social life and customs
Format: Document (PDF)

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