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Sismología en La Fiesta del Chivo de Mario Vargas Llosa: Heteroglosia en la Narración del Trauma

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Abstract:
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo (1891-1961), the ruthless Dominican Republic ruler dominated his island’s politics for over thirty years. In his acclaimed 2000 novel, The Feast of the Goat, Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa creates Urania Cabral, a 49-year-old émigrée who at 14 left her nation after becoming Trujillo’s sexual victim. The novel, told from many perspectives, focuses on her return, the dictator’s last day, and the story of the four conspirators waiting to ambush him the night of May 30th 1961. My study analyzes the complex narrative structures of the novel as masterful “rupturing” techniques. Through these the reader pieces together the broken body politic of a traumatized nation as Urania reconstructs in painful detail how the impotent dictator digitally rapes her to ensure her body bears the mark of his brutal anger and frustration.
Title: Sismología en La Fiesta del Chivo de Mario Vargas Llosa: Heteroglosia en la Narración del Trauma.
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Name(s): Carreño Cabrejos, Pablo Francisco José, creator
Gosser Esquilin, Mary Ann, Thesis advisor
Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Capstone Project
Issuance: single unit
Date Created: 2014
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: pdf
electronic resource
online resource
Extent: 99 p.
Language(s): Spanish
Abstract: Rafael Leonidas Trujillo (1891-1961), the ruthless Dominican Republic ruler dominated his island’s politics for over thirty years. In his acclaimed 2000 novel, The Feast of the Goat, Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa creates Urania Cabral, a 49-year-old émigrée who at 14 left her nation after becoming Trujillo’s sexual victim. The novel, told from many perspectives, focuses on her return, the dictator’s last day, and the story of the four conspirators waiting to ambush him the night of May 30th 1961. My study analyzes the complex narrative structures of the novel as masterful “rupturing” techniques. Through these the reader pieces together the broken body politic of a traumatized nation as Urania reconstructs in painful detail how the impotent dictator digitally rapes her to ensure her body bears the mark of his brutal anger and frustration.
Identifier: FA00003903 (IID)
Subject(s): Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936---Criticism and interpretation.
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936---Political and social views.
Held by: Florida Atlantic University Libraries: Digital Library
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003903
Host Institution: FAU

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