Hispanic Studies Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations for the Hispanic Studies department.

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Description:: The dissertation examines the representations of catastrophe that emerge in Mexico City following the devastating 1985 earthquake and the upheaval of the nineties. The study …
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Garner-Prazeres, Julia Hilary (creator); Ortega, Julio (Director); Mazzucchelli, Aldo (Reader); Pastor, Beatriz (Reader); Brown University. Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Mexico City; catastrophe; Earthquakes; Disasters; Science fiction; Mexico--Mexico City
Language:: English
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Latin American historiographic metafiction is presently enjoying prominence as the object of unprecedented market success and renewed critical attention. Much has been made in recent …
Year:: 2013
Contributor:: Matthews, Kyle James (creator); Ortega, Julio (Director); Mazzucchelli, Aldo (Reader); Olea Franco, Rafael (Reader); Brown University. Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: historiographic metafiction; nation; identity; bodies; Bakhtin; Lacan; Žižek; Fernando del Paso; Jorge Volpi; Ignacio Solares; Álvaro Uribe; Historical novel; Group identity; Grotesque; Bakhtin, M. I. (Mikhail Ivanovich); Lacan, Jacques > 1901-1981; Žižek, Slavoj; Paso, Fernando del > 1935-; Volpi Escalante, Jorge > 1968-; Solares, Ignacio > 1945-; Uribe, Alvaro > 1953-; Mexico
Language:: English
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Jorge Luis Borges' participation in the Spanish literary vanguard of the 1920s constitutes a formative and prolific segment of his career, largely underappreciated within the …
Year:: 2013
Contributor:: Decker, Polina Krylova (creator); Ortega, Julio (Director); Mazzucchelli, Aldo (Reader); Valis, Noel (Reader); Brown University. Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Jorge Luis Borges; influence; Spanish Ultraism; German Expressionism; Transatlantic avant-garde; Poetry; Translations; Borges, Jorge Luis > 1899-1986
Language:: English
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation analyzes the relationship between fathers and daughters in seventeenth-century Spanish theater. While scholarship has examined female characters in their role as daughters in …
Year:: 2015
Contributor:: Betancur, Bryan (creator); Bass, Laura (Director); Merrim, Stephanie (Reader); Kahn, Coppelia (Reader); Brown University. Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: early modern theater; family relationships; gender; privanza; Families; Fathers and daughters; Sex; Patriarchy; Spain
Language:: English
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation analyzes historical novels written in Spain and the Spanish peripheries (Basque Country, Catalonia, and Galicia) in the last fifteen years, focusing on how …
Year:: 2013
Contributor:: Colbert, David A (creator); Bou, Enric (Director); Ortega, Julio (Reader); Kortazar, Jon (Reader); Brown University. Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Keywords: Spanish Peninsular literature and culture; Basque literature and culture; historical memory; nation; identity; periphery; contemporary novels.; Collective memory; Ethnicity
Language:: English
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: While scholars have examined at length the critical problems of humor and violence in Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote, rarely have they considered the workings …
Year:: 2016
Contributor:: Granda, Carmen Cecilia (creator); Bass, Laura (Director); Chang, Julia (Reader); Merrim, Stephanie (Reader); Brown University. Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Cervantes; Don Quixote; embodied affect; body politic; Shame; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de > 1547-1616
Language:: English
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Translatio Hierosolymae: The Rhetoric of Jerusalem in Early Modern Spain locates Jerusalem at the heart of a series of social practices and discourses through which …
Year:: 2013
Contributor:: Leahy, Chad J (creator); Carreno, Antonio (Director); Bass, Laura (Reader); Wey-Gomez, Nicolas (Reader); Brown University. Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Early Modern Spain; Jerusalem; politics; Lope de Vega; Madrid: Franciscans; Jerusalén conquistada; Isidro
Language:: English
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Throughout 2011, Chile was swept by a wave of protests using performance to communicate demands for educational reform. Ranging from flash mobs to kiss-ins, these …
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Bush, Daniella W (creator); Ortega, Julio (Director); Ybarra, Patricia (Reader); Tierney-Tello, Mary Beth (Reader); Brown University. Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Diamela Eltit; trauma; urban space; Chilean politics; transitions; Performance; Dictatorship; Eltit, Diamela > 1949-
Language:: English
Collection:: Hispanic Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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