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Textual identity in John Barth's "The Sot-Weed Factor" and in Alejo Carpentier's "El siglo de las luces"
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Textual identity in John Barth's "The Sot-Weed Factor" and in Alejo Carpentier's "El siglo de las luces".
Creator
Gonzalez, Roger Geertz., Florida Atlantic University, Gosser Esquilin, Mary Ann
Abstract/Description
In The Sot-Weed Factor, set in the eighteenth century, John Barth describes the adventures of Ebenezer Cooke and Henry Burlingame. Ebenezer, or Eben, and Henry, see the world and themselves through a diversity of texts, not just written ones. Ironically, Henry tries to dissuade Eben from relying on these texts. In El siglo de las luces, Alejo Carpentier depicts the development of the protagonists Esteban and Victor during the French Revolution in France and its repercussions in the Caribbean....
Show moreIn The Sot-Weed Factor, set in the eighteenth century, John Barth describes the adventures of Ebenezer Cooke and Henry Burlingame. Ebenezer, or Eben, and Henry, see the world and themselves through a diversity of texts, not just written ones. Ironically, Henry tries to dissuade Eben from relying on these texts. In El siglo de las luces, Alejo Carpentier depicts the development of the protagonists Esteban and Victor during the French Revolution in France and its repercussions in the Caribbean. Esteban realizes during and after the Revolution that it and himself are influenced by texts that cannot express reality or help establish identity and therefore, he abandons it. However, Victor continues to participate in it since his identity relies on its manifestations. Texts in these novels includes more than just written materials such as paintings that the characters and readers "read" or try to understand and/or "write," and even mark on their bodies.
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Date Issued
1997
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15482
Subject Headings
Barth, John.--Sot-weed factor., Carpentier, Alejo,--1904-1980.--Siglo de las luces., Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Rewriting history in Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of This World and Michelle Cliff's Abeng
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Rewriting history in Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of This World and Michelle Cliff's Abeng.
Creator
Amiel, Tricia., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
Traditional Caribbean history has been directed by and focused upon the conquerors who came to the region to colonize and seek profitable resources. Native Caribbean peoples and African slaves used to work the land have been silenced by traditional history so that it has become necessary for modern Caribbean thinkers to challenge that history and recreate it. Alejo Carpentier and Michelle Cliff challenge traditional Caribbean history in their texts, The Kingdom of This World and Abeng,...
Show moreTraditional Caribbean history has been directed by and focused upon the conquerors who came to the region to colonize and seek profitable resources. Native Caribbean peoples and African slaves used to work the land have been silenced by traditional history so that it has become necessary for modern Caribbean thinkers to challenge that history and recreate it. Alejo Carpentier and Michelle Cliff challenge traditional Caribbean history in their texts, The Kingdom of This World and Abeng, respectively. Each of these texts rewrites traditional history to include the perspectives of natives and the slaves of Haiti and Jamaica. Traditional history is challenged by the inclusion of these perspectives, thus providing a rewritten, revised history.
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Date Issued
2012
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3342034
Subject Headings
Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Slavery, Historiography, Slavery, Historiography, Slavery, Historiography, History
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EL SENO ESCONDIDO: NODRIZAS Y NANAS COMO AGENTES MARAVILLOSOS EN LA NOVELA LATINOAMERICANA DE LA SEGUNDA MITAD DEL SIGLO VEINTE
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EL SENO ESCONDIDO: NODRIZAS Y NANAS COMO AGENTES MARAVILLOSOS EN LA NOVELA LATINOAMERICANA DE LA SEGUNDA MITAD DEL SIGLO VEINTE.
Creator
Casanova, Betsaida L., Gosser Esquilín, Mary Ann, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
In Latin America, wet nurses and nannies have played a relevant role in the transmission of legends, myths, medicinal knowledge, popular beliefs, and the religious practices of marginalized groups. This historical reality also ties them closely to the vitality of the marvelous real in Latin American culture and history as theorized by Alejo Carpentier. This dissertation focuses on examining the characters of wet nurses and nannies, especially in connection with the expression of the marvelous...
Show moreIn Latin America, wet nurses and nannies have played a relevant role in the transmission of legends, myths, medicinal knowledge, popular beliefs, and the religious practices of marginalized groups. This historical reality also ties them closely to the vitality of the marvelous real in Latin American culture and history as theorized by Alejo Carpentier. This dissertation focuses on examining the characters of wet nurses and nannies, especially in connection with the expression of the marvelous real in Latin American novels published in the second half of the twentieth century. Employing primarily Alex Woloch’s theory of characterization, this dissertation explores the character space and position within the character system of la Vieja in El acoso (1956) by Alejo Carpentier, Peta Ponce in El obsceno pájaro de la noche (1970) by José Donoso, and Petra Avilés in La casa de la laguna (1996) by Rosario Ferré. They serve as marvelous agents introducing elements of the marvelous real in the narrative. These characters are at the center of an extensive network of cultural codes that signify different sources of the marvelous real in Latin American culture. The marvelous network they establish functions as a vindicating mechanism that leads to the penalization of the families that hire their services, who represent a decadent and oppressive social system, whereas the wet nurses or nannies embody the oppressed groups in society. This is a literary strategy to impart, at a symbolic level, the justice that traditionally has been denied, both textually and socially, to these women.
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Date Issued
2019
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013361
Subject Headings
Wet nurses in literature, Carpentier, Alejo, 1904-1980 Acoso, Donoso, José, 1924-1996 Obsceno pájaro de la noche English, Ferré, Rosario Casa de la laguna, Characters and characteristics in literature, Nannies--Fiction
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negro para la nacion: Raza e identidad nacional en las obras de Alejo Carpentier y Jacques Roumain
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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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