Browsing by Subject "Latin American literature"
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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 ... -
Art in the Interregnum: The Aesthetics of Transition, 1973-Present
(2021)Art in the Interregnum: The Aesthetics of Transition, 1973-Present adopts the interregnum, a concept imported into critical usage by Antonio Gramsci, as a periodizing framework for understanding cultural production today. ... -
Documenting Chile: Visualizing Identity and the National Body from Dictatorship to Post-Dictatorship
(2016)I study three contemporary Chilean works of visual culture that appropriate and re-assemble visual material, discourse, and atmosphere from the bureaucracy of the military state. I examine Diamela Eltit’s textual performance ... -
Fictional Timing: Neoliberalism and Time in the Contemporary Latin American Novel
(2020)My dissertation, “Fictional Timing: Neoliberalism and Time in the Contemporary Latin American Novel”, studies recent developments in the Latin American novel to better understand the relation between economics and time in ... -
<italic>Caja negra</italic> y <italic>Por favor, rebobinar</italic> : cine de culto, <italic>blockbusters</italic>, rock, pop, e intervenciones sobre el campo cultural
(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, ... -
La Colonización del Tlacauhtli y la Invención del Espacio en el México Colonial
(2015)Este trabajo estudia el proceso de invención del espacio en el México colonial durante el siglo XVI y XVII, entendiendo la invención del espacio como la inserción de una conceptualización del entorno ajena a la experiencia ... -
Laboratorios-isla: Monstruos, enfermedades y farmacopeas literarias en el Caribe hispano
(2018)This dissertation examines how fiction from the 1950s to the present exposes the historical functioning of Caribbean territories as laboratories for political, economic, and scientific experimentation. Through close-readings ... -
Poetics of Revelation: Communities of the Literary Oracular in Transatlantic Modernism
(2022)In this dissertation, Poetics of Revelation: Communities of the Literary Oracular in Transatlantic Modernism, I study practices of cultural mediation in “visionary” poetics from Mexico (Octavio Paz), Spain (María Zambrano), ... -
The Minted-City: Money, Value, and Crises of Representation in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (1822-1903)
(2020)This dissertation analyzes how Colombian criollos – people of real or imagined European origins – dealt with the problem of representing value as part of their efforts to build a “civilized” nation during the nineteenth ...
