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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: 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: 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: 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 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: La generacion de cuentistas cubanos de entre guerras y su contribucion al desarrollo del cuento en Cuba e Hispanoamerica. (Spanish text).
Creator: Mesa, Adrian Victor., Florida Atlantic University, Schwaller, John F.
Abstract/Description: Proponemos demostrar en este trabajo que la generacion de cuentistas cubanos de entre guerras, es la que consolida el cuento como genero literario independiente de la novela. Influye en el proceso de formacion de la nacionalidad cubana, haciendo una gran contribucion a las corrientes literarias que predominan en este periodo. Hemos hecho un estudio de los mas importantes autores, analizando sus obras, mostrando como han contribuido al desarrollo del cuento.
Date Issued: 1991
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14689
Subject Headings: Short stories, Cuban--20th century--History and criticism, Cuban literature--20th century--History and criticism
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Title: LA REPRESENTACIÓN DEL TRAUMA PERMANENTE EN COLOMBIA SECUNDARIO AL CONFLICTO ARMADO EN LOS EJÉRCITOS DE EVELIO ROSERO.
Creator: Morrison, Claudia, Poulson, Nancy, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: The Colombian armed conflict has affected Colombia’s civil population of all walks of life and has been a long-term problem. Within these, the most affected are people from the rural areas, minorities such as women, adolescents, children, and the indigenous communities. This work analyses the literary representation of trauma and the internal displacement in Colombia in Los ejércitos (2007) by Evelio Rosero. The introduction provides historical context and definitions of trauma. The analysis...
Show moreThe Colombian armed conflict has affected Colombia’s civil population of all walks of life and has been a long-term problem. Within these, the most affected are people from the rural areas, minorities such as women, adolescents, children, and the indigenous communities. This work analyses the literary representation of trauma and the internal displacement in Colombia in Los ejércitos (2007) by Evelio Rosero. The introduction provides historical context and definitions of trauma. The analysis of the impact of trauma on the collective and the minorities follows. For theoretical and historical references, this thesis draws concepts mostly from psychoanalysis, Irene Visser’s modified Grid Theory of social thought, and official Colombian documents. The thesis examines how the structure of Los ejércitos and some of its characters provide the representation of trauma in relation to the armed conflict in Colombia and the internal displacement that ensued.
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Date Issued: 2020
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013597
Subject Headings: Rosero Diago, Evelio, 1958-, Comparative literature, Latin American studies
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Title: La transformacion de Ia bruja en las obras de Maria de Zayas.
Creator: Petersen, Elizabeth Marie, Gamboa, Yolanda, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: In my thesis, I argue that the 1 ih -century Spanish writer, Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor, in a unique form of 'mimesis,' uses elements of magic to transform the popular concept of the Spanish witch. Drawing on theories from Jacques Lacan's mirror phase, Homi Bhabha and Barbara Fuchs's notion of mimesis, and Judith Butler's idea of gender performitivity, I demonstrate how Zayas frees the witch from the subjugated language constructed by the Catholic Church and society of her time. I examine six...
Show moreIn my thesis, I argue that the 1 ih -century Spanish writer, Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor, in a unique form of 'mimesis,' uses elements of magic to transform the popular concept of the Spanish witch. Drawing on theories from Jacques Lacan's mirror phase, Homi Bhabha and Barbara Fuchs's notion of mimesis, and Judith Butler's idea of gender performitivity, I demonstrate how Zayas frees the witch from the subjugated language constructed by the Catholic Church and society of her time. I examine six of the short stories in her two novels to show how the author alters the role of the witch associated with the devil, transforming her to a saint associated with "lo magico de los cielos, " assigning the diabolical role to the man.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000948
Subject Headings: Zayas y Sotomayor, María de,--1590-1650--Criticism and interpretation, Mimesis in literature, Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--Criticism and interpretation, Postmodernism (LIterature), Witches--Fiction
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Title: MANIFESTACIONES AMBIENTALES Y LITERARIAS DEL EROTISM EN "CIEN ANOS DE SOLEDAD." (SPANISH TEXT) (GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ, COLOMBIA).
Creator: OSSORIO, BIANCA., Florida Atlantic University, Rangel, Vicente H.
Abstract/Description: Esta tesis es el estudio del amor en la novela Cien anos de soledad del autor Gabriel Garcia Marquez, estudio compuesto de los siguientes capltulos: I) El autor y su obra; II) Incidencias de la realidad socioeconomica, III) Particularidades del tropico y de las costas latinoamericanas; IV) El erotismo a la luz del psicoanalisis; V) Influencia surrealista; VI) Las multiples caras del amor, y los personajes; VII) La soledad y el amor. Siguiendo la biografia del escritor en el primer capltulo,...
Show moreEsta tesis es el estudio del amor en la novela Cien anos de soledad del autor Gabriel Garcia Marquez, estudio compuesto de los siguientes capltulos: I) El autor y su obra; II) Incidencias de la realidad socioeconomica, III) Particularidades del tropico y de las costas latinoamericanas; IV) El erotismo a la luz del psicoanalisis; V) Influencia surrealista; VI) Las multiples caras del amor, y los personajes; VII) La soledad y el amor. Siguiendo la biografia del escritor en el primer capltulo, el segundo y tercero enfatizan los factores ambientales que influencian el amor. El cuarto y quinto analizan el amor de acuerdo con las teorias psicoanaliticas y la modalidad literaria del surrealismo. El sexto y septimo complementan el tema y conducen a La conclusion de que el despliegue de erotismo que revela la obra, es--contrario a lo que parece--un mensaje moralizador de su autor.
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Date Issued: 1971
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13461
Subject Headings: García Márquez, Gabriel,--1927-2014--Cien años de soledad, Love in literature
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Title: Mas alla de la palabras: La textualidad en los tejidos de Jalq'a y Tarabuco.
Creator: Duff, Maria Nuria., Florida Atlantic University, Horswell, Michael J.
Abstract/Description: The textiles of Jalq'a and Tarabuco, from Bolivia, are known worldwide for their beauty and complex designs. While most academic attention has concentrated on weaving techniques and esthetics, this thesis explores the semiotics of the designs, not only in an ethnographic context, but as an expression of ideology, cosmogony, and the indigenous groups' cultural history. In addition to reading colonial Andean sources on the pre-Inca and Inca weaving traditions, I analyze the symbolic elements of...
Show moreThe textiles of Jalq'a and Tarabuco, from Bolivia, are known worldwide for their beauty and complex designs. While most academic attention has concentrated on weaving techniques and esthetics, this thesis explores the semiotics of the designs, not only in an ethnographic context, but as an expression of ideology, cosmogony, and the indigenous groups' cultural history. In addition to reading colonial Andean sources on the pre-Inca and Inca weaving traditions, I analyze the symbolic elements of a sample of acsus, women's traditional skirts. I link the symbols still used today to depictions of pre-Inca mythology and the cultural inclusions from Hispanic culture that have created a syncretism from processes of transculturation.
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Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13350
Subject Headings: Textile design--Bolivia, Indians of South America--Influence, Indian textile fabrics--Bolivia, Indian philosophy--Bolivia, Tarabuco, Bolivia--Description and travel
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Title: Mesianismo lmperialista en el Siglo de Oro: experiencia imperialista y espiritualidad mesianica en el caso de Cristobal Colon.
Creator: Hawkins, Jason Wesley, Gamboa, Yolanda, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Religious ideology played a powerful role in the shaping of the Spanish Empire as seen in the writings of Christopher Columbus, the first widely documented European explorer to reach the Americas. Columbus was driven by intense feelings of divine providence and saw his project in biblical and prophetic terms. In his diaries and letters, as well as his Book of Prophecies, Columbus' religious fervor shows a messianic zeal and his rhetoric mimics that of the newly emerging Spanish Empire who, in...
Show moreReligious ideology played a powerful role in the shaping of the Spanish Empire as seen in the writings of Christopher Columbus, the first widely documented European explorer to reach the Americas. Columbus was driven by intense feelings of divine providence and saw his project in biblical and prophetic terms. In his diaries and letters, as well as his Book of Prophecies, Columbus' religious fervor shows a messianic zeal and his rhetoric mimics that of the newly emerging Spanish Empire who, in tum, mimicked the messianic and imperialist rhetoric of the Catholic Church. This zeal was not particular to Columbus' personality but rather it reflects the common beliefs of his times. The cosmology of Columbus was a composite ofvarious Medieval and early Renaissance philosophers whose erroneous conceptions of geography and apocalyptic visions of the future were based on astrological patterns and various prophecies in the Bible rather than empirical facts.
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Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000926
Subject Headings: Columbus, Christopher--Religion, America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish
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Title: Miradas transatlanticas del rebelde: Una reinterpretacion de Lope de Aguirre a traves de las cronicas y de Ia novela del exilio de Ramon J. Sender.
Creator: Tellez Espiga, Enrique, Horswell, Michael J., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: The chroniclers who accompanied Lope de Aguirre on his expedition to find "EI Dorado," accuse him of being a "crazy" tyrant, responsible for the rebellion to emancipate the conquerors from the Spanish crown. Aguirre was made a scapegoat, in Girard ian terms, not only for that reason but due to his critique of what Angel Rama defined as the "Lettered City," a rebuke voiced in the infamous letter he wrote to the Spanish king denouncing imperial institutions in the Americas. 20th century,...
Show moreThe chroniclers who accompanied Lope de Aguirre on his expedition to find "EI Dorado," accuse him of being a "crazy" tyrant, responsible for the rebellion to emancipate the conquerors from the Spanish crown. Aguirre was made a scapegoat, in Girard ian terms, not only for that reason but due to his critique of what Angel Rama defined as the "Lettered City," a rebuke voiced in the infamous letter he wrote to the Spanish king denouncing imperial institutions in the Americas. 20th century, Spanish writer Ramon J. Sender's novel, La aventura equinoccial de Lope de Aguirre (1964), reverses the historical discourse in order to use Aguirre's attack on the "Lettered City," to criticize the intellectuals who supported Franco's regime in Spain, as well as the Catholic Church. This thesis's critical reading of the source chronicles on which Sender based his novel leads to a more profound understanding of both the early modem imperial and the modem fascist violence unleashed, not only by supposed "tyrants-scapegoats" the likes of Aguirre, but by power itself: that of monarchies and dictators.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000969
Subject Headings: Aguirre, Lope de,--d 1651--History and criticism, Sender, Ramón José,--1901-1982--Criticism and interpretation, Sender, Ramón José,--1901-1982--Aventura equinoccial de Lope de Aguirre--Criticism and interpretation, Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939, Violence--Religious aspects--Christianity
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Title: Un negro para la nacion: Raza e identidad nacional en las obras de Alejo Carpentier y Jacques Roumain.
Creator: Tucker, Walteria C., Florida Atlantic University, Duno-Gottberg, Luis
Abstract/Description: This study questions the representation of the "black subject" in Alejo Carpentier's ¡Ecue Yamba O! (1933) and Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosee (1944), in order to discuss the mechanisms of inclusion and/or "cooptation" employed by the liberal-marxist elite in their nationalist/anticolonial efforts. During the time period in which these two works were written, the ideological, economic and political interventionism of the United States inspired various movements or artistic...
Show moreThis study questions the representation of the "black subject" in Alejo Carpentier's ¡Ecue Yamba O! (1933) and Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosee (1944), in order to discuss the mechanisms of inclusion and/or "cooptation" employed by the liberal-marxist elite in their nationalist/anticolonial efforts. During the time period in which these two works were written, the ideological, economic and political interventionism of the United States inspired various movements or artistic resistence against "yankee" power in the Caribbean. My study shows how Carpentier and Roumain incorporate the "black subject" in their narratives tin order to generate a national identity to be used as an weapon against U.S. influence in their countries. I also analyze how the characterizations of these "black subjects" in ¡Ecue Yamba O! and Gouverneurs de la rosee, function within the Cuban and Haitian nationalist ideologies of the time period.
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Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13404
Subject Headings: Roumain, Jacques,--1907-1944--Criticism and interpretation, Carpentier, Alejo,--1904-1980--Criticism and interpretation, Blacks in literature, Race awareness in literature, Blacks--Haiti--Race identity, Blacks--Cuba--Race identity, Negritude (Literary movement)
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Title: RAMON DEL VALLE-INCLAN'S "LUCES DE BOHEMIA": AN ANNOTATED EDITION WITH INTRODUCTION AND AMPLIFICATIONS. (SPANISH TEXT).
Creator: BAHAMONDE, JOSE RICARDO, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description: This edition was prepared as an independent or classroom study tool, in Spanish, for students of contemporary Spanish drama. The introduction includes a brief chapter on Valle-Inclan's biography. the following chapters focus their attention on the evolution of the author's style from his early period up to the esperpentos. the opinions of critics are mentioned throughout to familiarize the reader with authoritative references as well as with his work. Once the esperpento period is reached,...
Show moreThis edition was prepared as an independent or classroom study tool, in Spanish, for students of contemporary Spanish drama. The introduction includes a brief chapter on Valle-Inclan's biography. the following chapters focus their attention on the evolution of the author's style from his early period up to the esperpentos. the opinions of critics are mentioned throughout to familiarize the reader with authoritative references as well as with his work. Once the esperpento period is reached, one chapter is devoted to the treatment of the represented in Luces de bohemia. Finally the play is annotated in English and the difficult vocabulary is glossed. Amplifications at the end of each scene give additional, valuable information. More than fifty sources were consulted and/or quoted. By using this edition the reader deals with only one volume representative of what many references had to say about Valle-Inclan, his times, his works, the esperpento, and Luces the bohemia.
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Date Issued: 1974
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13677
Subject Headings: Literature, Romance
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: RE-IMAGINANDO UTOPÍAS: LA DESILUSIÓN PORTEÑA DE BORGES.
Creator: Baccinelli, Mitchel, Poulson, Nancy Kason, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Borges’s literary production, particularly between 1923 and 1955, drastically changes in its depiction of Buenos Aires. The city that Borges considered his home was the center of various political and cultural changes in Argentina during those years, and the more that Argentina changed, the deeper Borges’s disillusionment became. Examining these changes in the depiction of themes such as city, community, and history, we can better understand the process of disillusionment by which Borges...
Show moreBorges’s literary production, particularly between 1923 and 1955, drastically changes in its depiction of Buenos Aires. The city that Borges considered his home was the center of various political and cultural changes in Argentina during those years, and the more that Argentina changed, the deeper Borges’s disillusionment became. Examining these changes in the depiction of themes such as city, community, and history, we can better understand the process of disillusionment by which Borges begins with a utopic view of Buenos Aires that becomes dystopic before it is abandoned in order to imagine a new utopia.
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Date Issued: 2021
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013749
Subject Headings: Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986, Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986--Criticism and interpretation
Format: Document (PDF)

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