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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 ...

This thesis looks at the interrelation between literary journalism in contemporary Spain, or periodismo de arte in Francisco Umbral’s words, and everyday life. Specifically I examine how weekly newspaper columns by fiction ...

FINDING GOD IN ALL THINGS: TERESA OF ÁVILA'S USE OF THE FAMILIAR

This dissertation examines Jorge Luis Borges’s influence on contemporary cinema. I postulate that cinematic appropriations of Borges are shifting from art house to blockbuster films, facilitated partly by postmodern ...

The Uruguayan writer Felisberto Hernández (1902-1964) has been typically depicted as an outsider or a marginal figure within Latin-American Literature. Paradoxically, his influence and popularity have grown in time, with ...

This thesis examines the interrelationship between the literary expressions of love entwined in the construction of relationships among marriageable characters and the symptoms of melancholy. I am analyzing the correlations ...

This dissertation argues that the defeat of the Second Republic in the Civil War (1939) and the subsequent dictatorship (1939–1975) disrupted a nation-building process in Spain due to the hegemonic power of National ...

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 ...

The crafting of travel accounts was decisive for the implementation of exploitative practices towards indigenous societies and nature in the New World. The descriptions of flora, fauna, and local inhabitants not only ...