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La imaginación biográfica: El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega y la formación del campo cultural peruano (1847-1916)
(Georgetown University, 2011)
This dissertation examines the importance of the life and work of the 16th century mestizo writer, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, in establishing the field of cultural production in Peru. My research analyzes the historiographical ...
Las ficciones del traductor: el traductor como protagonista en la literatura reciente en español
(Georgetown University, 2016)
This dissertation examines the upsurge in the representation of translators and the act of translation in contemporary fiction. In Latin American and Spanish literature of the past three decades, I focus on works that ...
Sleek Words: Art Deco and Brazilian Modernism
(Georgetown University, 2014)
I explore Art Deco in the Brazilian Modernist movement during the 1920s. Art Deco is a decorative arts style that rose to global prominence during this decade and its proponents adopted and adapted the style in order to ...
Dominicanas Unbound: Religion, Culture and Politics in Dominican and Dominican American Women's Literature
(Georgetown University, 2014)
What is the connection between contemporary Dominican literature and Louis Althusser's theories about how the ruling classes are able to maintain power? I conclude that there is a sector of Dominican literature that gives ...
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 ...
A "REVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS": REDEFINING VENEZUELAN NATIONAL IDENTITIES THROUGH CINEMA
(Georgetown University, 2011)
I explore the popular Venezuelan National Film Platform, one of President Chávez's controversial social initiatives established in 2004. The Platform promotes the "Revolution of Consciousness" through cinema supporting ...
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
Vulnerable Cosmopolitanism in Latin America: Hospitality Dynamics/ Pop Interferences in Contemporary Literature and Film
(Georgetown University, 2016)
This dissertation studies the interrelation between cosmopolitanism, hospitality and pop culture in 20th and 21st century Latin American literature and film. Some of my research's leading questions are: what are the ethics ...
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 ...
Towards a Transnational Aesthetic in Latin American Literature
(Georgetown University, 2015)
This thesis looks at the representation of national and transnational spaces in contemporary Latin American literature. In doing so, it argues that contemporary writing expands both the geographical imaginary of the physical ...