This paper is an analysis of Contraproyecto (1984/1987) by the Chilean poet Carla Grandi as a counterproject against the masculine literary canon and the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. It considers the four distinct ...
Por su propagación rápida y origen desconocido, SIDA sorprendió todo el mundo en los años 1980s. SIDA se descubrió en 1981 después de un patrón de hombres jóvenes homosexuales de repente muriéndose de un tipo ESPECIFICO ...
La Inquisición española. Es imposible escapar a las imágenes de tortura, intolerancia religiosa, y autoridad suprema que evoca esta institución. De cierto modo, este punto de vista tradicional es exagerado, y contribuye a ...
Durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX, cerca de un millón inmigrantes cubanos llegaron a los Estados Unidos. Esta inmigración ocurrió en cuatro distintas olas. El éxodo empezó con la revolución cubana. La primera generación ...
Esta tesis analiza la novela escrita por el hondureño Ramón Amaya Amador, Prisión verde. Utilizando la teorías propuestas por Steven J. Stern acerca de la función de la memoria histórica y las ideas de Hayden White acerca ...
En los 1960s, el teórico brasileño Paulo Freire creó una pedagogía llamada “Educación Popular.” En la teoría, Freire dice que la meta de la educación debería ser dar a los estudiantes las herramientas para transformar la ...
This thesis focuses on how the policies of the Franco regime (1939-1975) have affected the competency levels of spoken English in Spain today. I use the theoretical framework of language and nationalism, and how language ...
Poetry in the Sandinista movement was a crucial place for negotiations over political and social representation, and became a site where popular culture was created and where movement ideology was consolidated. Literature ...
Dominican-Americans, with respect to their language identities, have been battling with a duality. On one hand, they appear to demonstrate high levels of language loyalty; that is to say, they are proud of speaking Spanish ...
The textbook is a tool that has had a central position in the educational world for centuries. It has become a subject of controversy in recent years because of the monetary and political agendas that influence its content ...
This thesis examines an art exhibit entitled El Viaje de los Niños (2012), curated by Philadelphia artist Nora H. Litz. This exhibit is made up of ten dioramas depicting the journey from Mexico to the United States. Nine ...
The 1692 biography of the Indian slave and religious figure Catarina de San Juan by her confessor Juan Castillo Grajeda constructs a vision of Catarina, and by proxy Asians in New Spain, as inherently servile and humble, ...
My thesis is dedicated to studying the Latin American vanguard movement of the 20th century, particularly the life of the Argentine artist known as Xul Solar and his relation to European artistic
tendencies. It also ...
La designación “Reconquista” normalmente se aplica al período entero entre
la batalla de Covadonga en 718 y la conquista de Granada en 1492. Sin
embargo, la palabra “Reconquista” sugiere que la guerra tenía como objetivo
la ...
Through two original victim testimonies on Guatemala's civil war collected in October of 2012, my thesis explores how and why people tell their stories. It deals specifically with the ownership, veracity, and function of ...
This study explores the representation of the immigrant in contemporary Argentine film. The immigrant character portrayed, I argue, acts as a symptom of identity crises internal to the Argentine nation.
Siguiendo la transición de la familia de Yunior en los cuentos por
Junot Díaz, podemos ver la significancia de la lengua hablada y
también no hablada – el silencio. No hay nada fuera de lo normal en
su historia, pero ...