Browsing Duke Dissertations by Duke Department "Romance Studies"

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Agencies of Abjection: Jean Genet and Subaltern Socialities

Amin, Kadji (2009)

This dissertation explores the concept of <italic>agential abjection</italic> through Jean Genet's involvement with and writings about the struggles of disenfranchised and pathologized peoples. Following Julia Kristeva, ...
Arte Abstracto E Ideologías EstéTicas En Cuba

Menendez-Conde, Ernesto (2009)

<bold>This dissertation deals with Cuban art criticism and other written texts related to Abstract Art. From a critical perspective that relates art to society and political and institutional practices, all of the above ...
Baudelaire's Responses to Death: (In)articulation, Mourning and Suicide

Wu, Joyce (2012)

Although Charles Baudelaire's poetry was censored in part for his graphic representations of death, for Baudelaire himself, death was the ultimate censorship. He grappled with its limitations of the possibility of ...
Beautiful Annoyance: Reading the Subject

Ozierski, Margaret Alice (2011)

This dissertation examines the pair subject-subjectivity embedded in the problematic of the end of art, as it is figured in exemplary fashion by film and literature. The analysis examines critically the problem of the ...
"Construyendo Nuestro Pedacito De Patria": Space and Dis(place)ment in Puerto Rican Chicago

Secrist, Karen Serwer (2009)

This dissertation explores the relationship between identity and place in the imagination, performance and production of post-World War II Puerto Rican urban space in Chicago. Specifically, I contend that the articulation ...
El Agotamiento De La Izquierda: Subalternidad Y Soberania

Cabezas, Oscar (2008-08-19)

El agotamiento de la Izquierda: subalternidad y soberanÃa is a comparative project that examines the concept of political sovereignty in a variety of cultural texts in Latin America, including novels, essays and film. ...
El Ayllu y la Reconstitución del Pensamiento Aymara

Fernandez-Osco, Marcelo (2009)

This dissertation focuses on the intellectual and political trajectory of the Taller de Historia Oral Andina (THOA), an autonomous indigenous working group in which I participate, alongside other Aymaras and Quechuas ...
Food, Eating, and the Anxiety of Belonging in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literature and Art

Bacarreza, Leonardo Mauricio (2012)

In my dissertation I propose that the detailed representation of food and eating in seventeenth-century Spanish art and literature has a double purpose: to reaffirm a state of well-being in Spain, and to show a critical ...
GenealogÃ a De Imaginarios GeogrÃ Ficos Colombianos: Representaciones Culturales, Espacio, Estado Y Desplazamiento En El Proceso De

Junguito, Andrea (2008-12-11)

Colombia has historically been known as a fragmented country because of its poor territorial integration. This dissertation intends to transcend the traditional way in which this (dis)integration process has been studied, ...
Guilt and the War within: the Theater of Jean-Paul Sartre and Jean Giraudoux

LaMarca, Mary Ann (2008-12-12)

The moral and ethical choices made during the Nazi Occupation of France would echo for generations: they served as a source of pain and pride when the French sought to rebuild their national identity after the ignominy ...
<italic>Caja negra</italic> y <italic>Por favor, rebobinar</italic> : cine de culto, <italic>blockbusters</italic>, rock, pop, e intervenciones sobre el campo cultural

Reinaga, Lucia (2013)

In my dissertation I propose that Álvaro Bisama's <italic>Caja negra</italic> is a book that both continues and defies the interventions in the field of culture articulated in Alberto Fuguet's <italic>Por favor, ...
Jose Rizal and the Spanish Novel

Castroverde, Aaron C. (2013)

This dissertation is a preliminary attempt to define and theorize Spanish literature of the late nineteenth century from the perspective of the colonized. I take as my starting point the novels of the Filipino writer ...
La République réinventée: littératures transculturelles dans la France contemporaine

Chirila, Ileana Daniela (2012)

This dissertation theorizes the complex contemporary phenomenon of literature produced in French by writers of allophone origins, which is to say, writers born in non-Francophone countries. Vassilis Alexakis, Gao Xingjian, ...
The Making and Unmaking of Colette: Myth, Celebrity, Profession

Antonioli, Kathleen Alanna (2011)

This dissertation takes the paradoxical role of Colette in the canon of French and women's writing, from her earliest works to present, as an entry into a radically new interpretation of her life and literary oeuvre. ...
The Nouvelle Cuisine Revolution: Expressions of National Anxieties and Aspirations in French Culinary Discourse 1969 - 1996

Mallory, Heather Alison (2011)

This dissertation posits that Nouvelle Cuisine brings together two of the most powerful cultural forces involved in constituting French national identity: food and revolution. As a result of this privileged ...
Parisian Social Studies: Positivism and the Novels of Balzac, Paul de Kock and Zola

O'Neil-Henry, Anne Therese (2011)

In this dissertation I argue that the movement of panoramic literature under the July Monarchy (1830-1848) and its influence on the nineteenth-century urban novel must be re-imagined in the context of the proto-sociological ...
Placing Islam: Alternative Visions of the Morisco Expulsion and Spanish Muslim-Christian Relations in the Sixteenth Century

O'Halley, Meaghan Kathleen (2013)

This thesis explores attitudes of Christians toward Islam and Muslims in Spain in the sixteenth century and intends to destabilize Islam's traditional place as adversary in Early-Modern Spanish history. My research ...
A Poetics of Globalism: Fernando Vallejo, the Colombian Urban Novel, and the Generation of `72

Nicholson, Brantley Garrett (2011)

This thesis explores the confluence and clashes between local and global cultural flows in Latin America through the multiple literary movements and tendencies for which the Colombian author, Fernando Vallejo, acts as ...
Questioning the Writing Cure: Contemporary Sub-Saharan African Trauma Fiction

Mahon, Margaret Ellen (2012)

This dissertation examines a series of novels by Aminata Zaaria, Ken Bugul, Gaston-Paul Effa, Boubacar Boris Diop and Yolande Mukagasana. At the heart of my study is a problem that haunts much literary production and ...
Realism, Race and Citizenship: Four Moments in the Making of the Black Body, Colombia and Brazil, 1853 - 1907

Rodriguez-Balanta, Beatriz Eugenia (2010)

Realism, Race and Citizenship: Four Moments in the Making of the Black Body, Colombia and Brazil, 1853 - 1907 investigates the visual and literary mechanisms used to refurbish racial and social hierarchies in Brazil and ...