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 …
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 …
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 …
This thesis examines the language of six poets from the Southern Cone and Peru, in the context of a post-dictatorial predicament characterized by the unresolved …
My dissertation explores how historical narrative has become central to contemporary Peruvian literature, analyzing its function and significance in political, cultural, and literary debates on …
This dissertation engages in the debate about ethics within the humanities, specifically, in literature that comes out of periods of political violence. In contexts of …
This dissertation analyzes detective novels written in Spain and Latin America in the last thirty-five years, focusing on how the texts debate the idea of …