Browsing by Department "Romance Studies"
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A Comparative Sociological Investigation of the Conceptions and Perceptions of Mental Health and Illness in Arica, Chile and Rome, Italy
(2013-05-08)This comparative study aimed to discover the principal factors that influence the perceptions of citizens in Arica, Chile and Rome, Italy toward mental illness. Specifically, the study aimed to investigate how these perceptions ... -
A Comparative Sociological Investigation of the Conceptions and Perceptions of Mental Health and Illness in Arica, Chile and Rome, Italy
(2013-11-12)This comparative study aimed to discover the principal factors that influence the perceptions of citizens in Arica, Chile and Rome, Italy toward mental illness. Specifically, the study aimed to investigate how these perceptions ... -
A Música Tropicália: Três Histórias, Um Movimento
(2018-04-20)Tropicália é o nome do movimento cultural influenciado pela cultura popular e de massa e pela cultura de vanguarda que se tornou proeminente no Brasil no final da década de 1960. Durante este período, um grupo de músicos, ... -
A Poetics of Globalism: Fernando Vallejo, the Colombian Urban Novel, and the Generation of `72
(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 a ... -
Agencies of Abjection: Jean Genet and Subaltern Socialities
(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
(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
(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 articulation ... -
Beautiful Annoyance: Reading the Subject
(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 subject ... -
Boccaccio's Women Philosophers: Defining Philosophy, Debating Gender in the Decameron and Beyond
(2020)This dissertation investigates the ‘woman philosopher’ in the works of fourteenth-century Italian author, Giovanni Boccaccio. Across his literature, Latin and Italian alike, Boccaccio demonstrated an ongoing interest in ... -
Caribbean Iconographies of Cultural Nationalism: Haiti, Cuba, Puerto Rico
(2020)Caribbean Iconographies of Cultural Nationalism: Haiti, Cuba, Puerto Rico traces a chronological evolution of images circulating between the Caribbean and the United States demonstrating the intersection of religion and ... -
“Ceci n’est pas une pipe”: A Comparison of French and U.S. Health Research on the Neurodevelopmental and Epigenetic Effects of Tobacco Exposure on Vulnerable Populations
(2016-04-25)This thesis explores how cultural beliefs and practices influence biomedical research landscapes in two high resource cultural contexts, the US and the Euro-American francophone world. First, I examine how cultural mores ... -
‘Christ the Redeemer Turns His Back on Us:’ Urban Black Struggle in Rio’s Baixada Fluminense
(2018)“Even Christ the Redeemer has turned his back to us” a young, Black female resident of the Baixada Fluminense told me. The 13 municipalities that make up this suburban periphery of Rio de Janeiro have suffered for decades ... -
Clément Marot : traduction, religion, et musique
(2012-05-14)Clément Marot était poète, éditeur, traducteur, et musicien du seizième siècle. Dans son travail, il a essayé de rendre la traduction un art égal à la création littéraire, une quête démontrée par son réécriture de François ... -
Come be my guest (or not): National Identity, Hospitality, and Construction of a Literary Genealogy of Haitian-Dominican Bordering Ideologies in Three Dominican Foundational Fictions
(2017-05-09)Following its 1844 independence from Haiti, the Dominican Republic was faced with two questions: national identity and establishment of a border with its neighbor. These two questions fueled among the nation’s political ... -
Commandeering Aesop’s Bamboo Canon: A 19th Century Confederacy of Creole Fugitive Fables
(2016)In my thesis, “Commandeering Aesop’s Bamboo Canon: A 19th Century Confederacy of Creole Fugitive Fables,” I ask and answer the ‘Who? What? Where? When? Why?” of Creole Literature using the 19th century production of Aesopian ... -
Comunicación y confianza: La influencia cultural en la comunicación entre doctores y pacientes latinos en Durham
(2017-04-30)Los latinos en Durham, Carolina del Norte, constituyen un componente significativo de la comunidad en términos de tamaño y aportación social y económica. Sin embargo, experimentan barreras al acceso y una peor calidad de ... -
"Construyendo Nuestro Pedacito De Patria": Space and Dis(place)ment in Puerto Rican Chicago
(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 ... -
Cowboys and Indians in Africa: The Far West, French Algeria, and the Comics Western in France
(2017)This dissertation examines the emergence of Far West adventure tales in France across the second colonial empire (1830-1962) and their reigning popularity in the field of Franco-Belgian bande dessinée (BD), or comics, in ... -
Deux Langues, Deux Mondes? —Une étude de la situation littéraire actuelle de l’écrivain maghrébin bilingue
(2010-06-28)Since gaining Independence from France in 1962 and 1956 respectively, Algeria and Morocco have sought to reinstate the prestige of the Arabic language. French, however, has not completely been eliminated from the daily ... -
Diferencias y disparidades de salud para la comunidad hispana en Durham
(2020-04-01)Due to multiple factors including language and culture, predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods in Durham County may experience health differently than other areas in the county. In conjunction with the Durham County Department ...
