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De canibales y conquistadores
(Georgetown University, 2016)
Historically, Dominican scholars have defined a national identity within discourses aligned with Europeanizing aspirations. This Eurocentric preference in the production of Dominican history contrasts with a majority ...
IN SEARCH OF IDENTITY: THE PLACE OF SPACE, (PROTO)RACE AND IDEOLOGY IN COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL HONDURAS
(Georgetown University, 2012)
The objective of this study is to identify and explain the different processes and discursive practices that constructed the national character and identity of the Honduran people. Through a diachronic analysis of Honduras ...
Ficciones raciales: representaciones de raza y genero a traves de la literatura y las artes visuales en Colombia 1830- 1875
(Georgetown University, 2013)
RACIAL FICTIONS: REPRESENTATIONS OF RACE AND GENDER THROUGH LITERATURE AND VISUAL ARTS IN COLOMBIA 1830- 1875
AVATARES DE LA AGENCIA Y RESISTENCIA INDIGENA: TITU CUSI YUPANQUI (15??-1571) Y ESTERCILIA SIMANCA (1976)
(Georgetown University, 2015)
The dissertation proposes a comparative analysis of two indigenous authors who wrote more than four centuries apart: Inca Titu Cusi Yupanqui from 16th century Peru, and a 21st century female Wayuu writer, Estercilia Simanca ...
Denaturalizing the Market, Revaluating the Body: Neoliberal Biopolitics in Latin American Literature and Film, 1990-2010
(Georgetown University, 2016)
During the last three decades of the twentieth century, neoliberalism was the dominant political economic discourse in Latin America, as many countries implemented a series of reforms to promote free markets and free trade. ...
The Child's Gaze and the Politics of Memory and Mourning: Spatiality, Spectrality and Sound in Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Cinema
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Forgetting has become for many nations an undeniable part of their social and political reality, and in cases like Spain, has even been deemed the key to a future free from the repetition of conflict. However, the elimination ...
Poéticas Amargas: Estéticas Y Políticas De La Plantación De Azúcar En Brazil Y El Caribe (1990-2018)
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Bittersweet Poetics asks how a multimedia group of works of art about the sugar plantation —ranging from graphic novels and installation art made out of sugar to photographs—reimagine and rewrite national discourses about ...
A Nation of Flesh: Confronting Cattle at the Argentine Slaughterhouse (1839-2001)
(Georgetown University, 2021)
This dissertation explores a cultural history of the slaughterhouse in Argentina from the inception of the nation to the beginning of the twentieth century. Against the understanding of the slaughterhouse as a space designed ...
Atlas: Una Cartografía del Deporte en la Literatura Latinoamericana (1888-1940)
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This dissertation analyzes the relationship between writing and the emergence of the modern athletic imagination in Latin America at the end of the 19th century as a way of charting the subjective dimensions of globalization. ...
De héroes y heroínas: Cortés y Pizarro frente a las heroicas mujeres de la Colonia y la lucha de la Independencia
(Georgetown University, 2019)
To speak of heroes is to speak of figures possessed with particular talents, figures of an audacious nature framed by glory. There are countless examples of such characters in the narrative of the Conquest of America and ...