This dissertation examines the relationship between literature, empathy, and human rights in historical and contemporary novels from the Americas. Paying particular attention to racial injustice …
In this dissertation I examine the relationship between nature and city as it manifests in Brazilian short stories from the 1950s to the 1990s, particularly …
Already at the tail end of the twentieth century, scholars of globalization were interrogating what it means to be a global citizen. International events, global …
This dissertation analyzes literary representations of Brazilian public works to explore questions about power and narrative. It explores how, from the 1900s through the 1970s, …
The Return of the Contemporary seeks to frame debates about the semantics of our present through a hemispheric analysis of Latin American and Caribbean literature …
This dissertation considers the enduring influence of patriarchal discourse on Brazilian national identity and especially the relationship between fathers, family models, and socially rooted authoritarianism …
This dissertation is a study of structures, images and performance of fetishism as cultural and literary strategies in the theater of Nelson Rodrigues. It explores …
This study interrogates how Brazilian cultural productions have examined the place of Muslims in Brazil’s national narrative, prioritizing the analysis of eleven texts published from …
Abstract of Navigating the Postslavery Public/Private Divide: Cordiality in Brazilian and Southern American Literature by Marcos Cerdeira, PhD., Brown University May 2019. This dissertation investigates …
This dissertation aims to analyze, mainly through a performance studies approach, socio-political and cultural issues in three Brazilian contemporary novels, featuring professional writers as narrators. …
This dissertation examines the circulation of technologies of acceleration around the Atlantic in the early 20th century focusing on Brazil, Angola, and Portugal and the …
This dissertation studies how three major Brazilian writers engage with philosophical skepticism, arguing that fictional works by Machado de Assis, João Guimarães Rosa, and Clarice …
This thesis attempts to shed light on the encounters between narrative and mysticism through a Kabbalist reading of a short story by Brazilian modernist writer …
My dissertation re-examines the role of literature in the nation building process of Brazil and Argentina via contemporary debates on the relationship between aesthetics and …
