This thesis locates the corporeal, (homo)erotic, temporal, and transnational tensions that give shape to a spectral presence in the works of three Latin American Neo-Baroque …
BARBAS-RHODEN, Laura (2011). Ecological Imaginations in Latin American Fiction. Gainesvilie, Florida: University Press of Florida, 196 p. ISBN: 978-0813044156.
Taking Peru’s Internal Armed Conflict (~1980-2000) and its many “struggles of voice” (Lucero 2008) as case study, the present dissertation looks to examine the literary …
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 employs the idea of sacrifice as a central literary and political device through which to explore the blurring of aesthetic and political boundaries …
This dissertation threads innovations in modernist literature, architecture, and design with the contemporaneous rise of the psychoanalytic clinic to trace a crucial tension across 20th-century …
“The Peripheral Metropolis: The City, Montage and Modernity” examines Latin American writers in the 1920s and 1930s who, in writing about Mexico City, Lima and …
“The Poetics of Intervention: Art and Politics in Contemporary Latin America” explores the relationship between art and activism and politics and aesthetics in spaces of …
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 …
My dissertation examines the representation of paranoia in the work of several writers active in Argentina in the first half of the twentieth century. I …
This dissertation offers the first paradigmatic study of Latin poetry written in colonial Latin America in the style of Virgil. The aim of this project …