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    Book Review of Transnational Cervantes, William Childers
    (Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert, 2008) Worden, William
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    Cervantes Transforms Ovid: The Dubious Metamorphoses in Don Quijote
    (University of Toronto Press, 2010) Worden, William
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    Cervantes, Sancho Panza, and the Literary World of Don Quixote
    (UNC-CH Department of Romance Studies, 2005) Worden, William
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    Creating conditions for authenticity in the Spanish classroom: promoting agency, empathy, and inquiry through a U.S.-Mexico role-immersion simulation
    (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018) Finney, Sara; Drewelow, Isabelle; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
    The present study investigates if and how a US-Mexico border role-immersion simulation creates conditions for authenticity in an intermediate Spanish classroom. Aiming to promote whole-person engagement within a rich contextualized scenario, 16 undergraduate students adopted the roles of real-world cultural identities and were tasked with achieving individual and collective goals aimed at curbing the problems of drug trafficking and violence at the border. Learners participated in a variety of activities including becoming familiar with the scenario, selecting and developing character roles, and engaging in a set of learner-managed class sessions in which they collectively devised solutions to problems. In order to understand how the dynamic interplay among the various elements in the simulation influenced learners’ subjective perceptions, I adopted an ecological vision of the classroom and used a qualitative approach, collecting self-reported and interactional data. Following Charmaz’s (2006) Constructivist Grounded Theory, I conducted a line-by-line coding of the pre- and post-simulation questionnaires and two post-simulation interviews and then derived categories based on recurrent themes. As for the interactional data, I video-recorded and transcribed two learner-managed classes. After translating these verbal exchanges as well as learners’ virtual communications on the technology platform Google Plus into English, I coded the data in terms of agency, as operationalized by van Lier (2008), and analyzed it, drawing on complexity theory. Findings showed that a majority of learners likened their simulation experience to being immersed in real-world circumstances. These learners also exhibited high degrees of both intellectual and affective (i.e., personal) engagement during the simulation. Learners who only displayed one of the two were less likely to consider their classroom experience authentic. These results suggested that adopting an ecological perspective to explore relationships among the many dynamic elements present in the simulation uncovered the potential of this role-immersion simulation to cultivate in learners a sense that they were engaged in authentic linguistic and cultural encounters. However, data also indicated that learners’ capacity to perceive their experience as authentic and personally meaningful may be contingent on the particular nature of their encounters and their incoming views and experiences related to the communities under study.
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    El arte nuevo de hacer vidas: the soldier, the playwright, and the mystic: multiple transgressions in the presentation of their vidas/lives
    (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013) Mooney, Jane; Janiga-Perkins, Constance; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
    This dissertation contemplates the lives and writings of three seventeenth-century Spanish Colonial conventual authors - Catalina de Erauso, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Madre Jerónima Nava y Saavedra - from a feminist and socio-historical perspective. From the elite female environment of the cloistered convent Erauso, Sor Juana, and Nava intruded upon the male-dominated worlds of the Conquest, literature, and ecclesiastical debates. They appropriated the patriarchal narrative genres of Lives of Saints, the comedia, essays, and soldier's tales - all popular literary genres in early modern Spain and Colonial Spanish-America. Using these different literary genres Erauso, Sor Juana, and Nava produced textual representations of themselves that stand in stark contrast to the prescriptive female behavioral norms of the period. The analysis focuses on the manner in which, Erauso, Sor Juana and Nava appropriated, subverted, and exploited the dominant culture's own literary mechanisms (comedias, legal defense, essays, and confessional letters ) and its ideologies (female gender proscriptions) to legitimize their personal deviation from the dominant cultural norm. The innovations and particularities present in their works underscore these conventual authors' individual interpretations of femininity, masculinity, and spirituality, which enabled them to gain a sense of agency for themselves. What Erauso, Sor Juana, and Nava said through their texts and with their lived experiences, specifically their unorthodox reformulations of gender roles, was transgressive for their times. Why then did the pillars of early modern Spain (the Church, the Crown, and Society) accept and even promote Erauso's Vida i sucesos, Sor Juana's La Respuesta, and Los empeños de una casa, and Nava's Autobiografía de una monja venerable? This dissertation's key proposition is that the Catholic Baroque worldview of the seventeenth-century Spanish Empire informed society's acceptance of the non-normative content and structure of Erauso, Sor Juana, and Nava's manuscripts and their lives. Seventeenth-century Spanish society's fascination with the Baroque phenomenon of monstrous hybrids and the dramatic character of the muger varonil was crucial in influencing widespread acceptance of these transgressive historical figures. Elucidating the Baroque Catholic milieu provides the opportunity to makes visible these exceptional women long hidden under the obfuscation of culture and time.
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    El Gran Concierto Postmoderno Del Caribe: La Música Popular Como Herramienta Del Sujeto Periférico
    (University of Alabama Libraries, 2022) Ruz, Gerardo De Jesus; Rodeño, Ignacio; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
    Esta investigación analiza de qué forma dentro la literatura postmoderna caribeña el sujeto se apropia de la música popular para hacerse oír y/o mostrar su individualidad ante la cultura hegemónica. En algunos casos, el sujeto de los bordes se apodera de la música para evidenciar la hibridez cultural. En otros tantos, el ritmo musical despierta la melancolía haciendo que el hombre postmoderno rememore hechos personales y colectivos del pasado. De la misma manera, la música popular permite a los sujetos de los bordes sobrevivir a situaciones políticas adversas o exponer un espíritu hedonista; es decir, la música popular sirve como herramienta para narrar las diversas realidades de los diferentes grupos que habitan la periferia. En cualquier caso, la música popular actúa como un afecto que moldea las subjetividades de los individuos. Este trabajo se basa en los aspectos previamente mencionados: la apropiación de la música popular y las dinámicas entre la alta cultura y la cultura popular. También, se logran reflejar las diversas identidades del sujeto caribeño, esa mezcla cultural e identitaria, tomando en cuenta las teorías de los afectos, postmoderna, queer y su relación con la música en el quehacer identitario del caribeño. En esta disertación se enfoca en, el Caribe hispánico, tanto insular como continental. Las obras literarias de este proyecto incluyen: Sirena Selena vestida de pena (2000) de Mayra Santos-Febres (Puerto Rico); Ritos de Cabaret (1991) de Marcio Veloz Maggiolo (República Dominicana); Te di la vida entera (1996) de Zoé Valdés (Cuba); Aire de Tango (1973) de Manuel Mejía Vallejo (Colombia) y Ya no estás a mi lado, corazón (2003) de Enrique Plata (Venezuela). This research analyzes how, within Caribbean postmodern literature, the peripheral subject appropriates popular music to make themselves heard and/or show their individuality before the hegemonic culture. In some cases, the subject takes over popular music to highlight the hybridity between high culture and popular culture. In many others, the musical rhythm awakens melancholy, making the postmodern man recall personal and collective past events. In the same way, popular music allows the peripheral subject to survive adverse political situations or expose a hedonistic spirit; that is, popular music serves as a tool to narrate the diverse realities of the different groups that inhabit the periphery. Popular music also acts as an affect that shapes the subjectivities of individuals. This work is based on the appropriation of popular music and the dynamics between high and popular culture. Also, it is possible to reflect the diverse identities of the Caribbean subject, considering the theories of affects, postmodernism, queer, and its relationship with music in the Caribbean identity. This dissertation focuses on the Hispanic Caribbean, both continental and insular: Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Colombia, and Venezuela. The novels for this dissertation include these five countries: for Puerto Rico, Sirena Selena vestida de pena (2000) by Mayra Santos-Febres; Dominican Republic, Ritos de cabaret (1991) by Marcio Veloz Maggiolo; Cuba, Te di la vida entera (1996) by Zoé Valdés; Colombia, Aire de tango (1973) by Manuel Mejía Vallejo; Venezuela, Ya no estás a mi lado, corazón (2003) by Enrique Plata.
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    El impacto de textos en contextos familiares en comunidades de práctica para la adquicisción de vocabulario y estructuras gramáticales de español inicial acelerado
    (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014) Burgos, Francisco; Picone, Michael; Mantero, Miguel; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
    This study, which involved classroom-based experimental research conducted during the Fall semester of 2013 in a Spanish class at Oakwood University, aimed at extending the findings of previous studies on the use of familiar texts in reading and writing (Brown 2007, Vygotsky 1978, Kern 2000, Rollins & Villamil 2001, McCourt 2006, Morris, Beck & Smith 2004, Smith & Carvill 2000, Baring 2008, Bonard 2000, White 2009, Freire 1970. To do so, this study examined empirically the impact of familiar texts on students' reading and writing outcomes using treatment and control conditions for comparison. This study was also interested in demonstrating whether working with these types of texts within a "community of practice" affected reading and writing outcomes. This study presented quantitative evidence in relation to the use of familiar texts for pre-, co- (simultaneous), and post-reading and writing activities at beginning college levels. The tests determined that there were statistically significant differences between scores on reading and writing exercises in the treatment and control conditions. The results suggest that students who were in the treatment condition (with familiar texts) outperformed students in the control condition and did so at a level that is statistically significant. Qualitative evidence was also obtained suggesting positive impact for learning within a community of linguistic practice. Participant surveys revealed that the students felt less anxious and more motivated when their ability to identify with the learning environment was enhanced via the use of familiar texts for pre-, co-, and post-reading and writing activities.
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    Elementos definitorios de la posvanguardia y el posmodernismo en México y Guatemala: transculturación, intertextualidad e indentidad en la ficción corta de seis autores
    (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011) McCrary, Virginia Ledesma; Worden, William; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
    This dissertation entitled: Elementos definitorios de la posvanguardia y el posmodernismo en México y Guatemala: Transculturación, intertextualidad e identidad en la ficción corta de seis autores, investigates six collections of short stories written by six authors from México and Guatemala. These writers are classified within the present century as postvanguard and postmodern writers with distinctive elements of intertextual connections that exist among the authors and their writings. The authors and their works are: Juan Rulfo's El llano en llamas (1953); Augusto Monterroso's Obras completas y otros cuentos (1959); Elena Garro's La semana de colores (1964); José Agustín Ramírez's Inventando que sueño: Drama en cuatro actos (1968); Dante Liano's Jornadas y otros cuentos (1978); and Ana María Rodas' Mariana en la tigrera (1996). This dissertation studies writers from two nations that share a common border, a language, and the same religion; these are all elements that make possible cultural and literary interchanges between the countries. The investigation offers a comprehensive and thorough analysis of the short stories in light of their intertextuality, transculturation, and hybridity. These are the main themes to be analyzed in this study which highlights marginal, transgressive, and peripheral elements of the societies depicted while also focusing on the feminine body in a world ruled by patriarchy. In addition, this dissertation demonstrates how the authors subvert the trends of dominance in societies that have been ruled since ancient times by the male gender. It should be noted that while some of the authors' short stories, particularly those by Rulfo and Monterroso, have been the object of various literary analyses, many of the texts examined in this dissertation have not been studied extensively. Consequently, this dissertation will help fill the critical gap that exists by offering a needed examination of the importance of these authors and their short stories as significant literary works in Latin America.
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    Espacio y violencia en la novela centroamericana del siglo XXI
    (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013) Rojas-Arce, Laura; Bazuero-Pecino, Álvaro; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
    Throughout the 21st century, Central America has experienced widespread violence despite the signing of the Peace Agreements during the 1990s. The existing conflict has inevitably influenced the literature of this region and this dissertation entitled Espacio y violencia en la novela centroamericana del siglo XXI, examines four Central American texts that form an important part of the writings from this time and place. The novels to be analyzed include: El arma en el hombre (2001) by the Salvadorian writer Horacio Castellaños Moya, El hijo de casa (2004) written by Guatemalan Dante Liano, Sombras nada más (2002) by the Nicaraguan author Sergio Ramírez and Verano rojo (2010) by Daniel Quirós, a Costa Rican writer. This dissertation aims to show that violence in these areas has infiltrated spaces of social interaction and more specifically, the boundaries between public and private spaces have been transgressed and blurred due to increased conflict in both spheres. Throughout these novels, the characters are depicted both as victims of this brutality and, in many cases, instigators of violence, illustrating diverse and contrastive perspectives. The analysis of these texts also brings to light the sociopolitical context surrounding this vicious atmosphere; problems such as national corruption and a general mistrust of the legal system have directly impacted the sociopolitical climate in these countries. These novels establish that the violence has not dissipated, but instead maintains a continuous presence making it an almost daily occurrence. Conflict consistently permeates public, private, urban and rural spheres and these texts illustrate a wide array of perspectives, all of which serve to demystify the singular view of history that the hegemony wishes to propagate.
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    Espejo de identidades: género, inmigración y violencia en cine dirigido por mujeres españolas y latinoamericanas
    (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012) Boris, Marta; Corbalán, Ana; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
    My dissertation Espejo de identidades: género, inmigración y violencia de género en directoras latinoamericanas y españolas, examines four 4 Latin American films and two 2 Spanish films, all of which were directed by Hispanic females during the 20th and 21st centuries. These directors intend to establish a new representation of women which that diverges from the traditional historical male depiction of these women. I have chosen to study the works of Gabriela David (Argentina), Sofía Vaccaro (Argentina), María Novaro (Mexico), Marysa Systach (Mexico), Chus Gutiérrez (Spain) and Irene Cardona (Spain) because they provide diverse contemporary perspectives regarding the way in which Spanish-speaking directors approach the topics of immigration and gender in a postmodern context. This dissertation seeks to deconstruct the connection that has linked gender and female-directed cinema, arguing that cultural factors as well as ideology are the true underpinnings for cinema directed by women. The increasing number of female-directed films over the past two 2 decades in these two particular geographical areas has brought about the need for fresh research to establish a new representation of female-directed cinema which that deconstructs the connection linking gender and films directed by women, which is commonly called cine de mujeres. Contrary to what is currently understood as cine de mujeres, this new representation of cinema directed by women is one in which the intention of the female director is not to exclusively portray the fictional stories of women that respond to patriarchal stereotypes. Instead, the director establishes a transgression of those stereotypes, identifying with and giving voice to a marginal and subaltern individual that transcends gender, origin, race, and ethnicity, which in many instances happens to be a woman. Overall, my dissertation offers an in-depth study of female filmic discourse, identity discourse, gender violence, migration studies and film strategies, among others.
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    Food, Meaning, and Power:The Role of Women in the Imagining of Cuisine in Spain and Colonial Mexico
    (University of Alabama Libraries, 2025) Jones, Raymond Douglas; Granja Ibarreche, Xabier
    While much of the labor involved in preparing food in the western world has historically been the responsibility of women, men codified and documented so-called appropriate eating through religious and political institutions. While many women have chosen to cook, to nourish their families, as part of their identity, historically domesticity was imposed upon women through patriarchal systems. In the Hispanosphere during the colonial era, the Catholic church established clearly that subjects of the Spanish Crown should follow European consumptive patterns. In this way, Europe sought to assimilate the governed into so-called polite society. As Spain interacted with new peoples and their foodways, authorities on cuisine classified foods, building an ideal diet inextricably linked with Spanish Christian identity. These men created the framework that defined appropriate consumption in the Iberian Peninsula and its viceroyalties, marginalizing the foods and foodways of indigenous, African, and non-Christian populations within the official discourse on food. Despite this marginalization in published works, necessity permitted these dietary taboos to enter into other public texts. Private texts written by women expanded on this in New Spain, describing diet more than adhering to prescribed patterns of consumption. This dissertation demonstrates that the women of New Spain reacted to these imposed dietary patterns in their culinary writing and cemented some European dietary practices as Mexican while rejecting others. Through strategic performance of femininity, these women created Mexican cuisine as a transcultural product of the encounter between the Old and New World. This dissertation analyzes colonial era cookbooks from Spain and the Valley of Mexico to show the beginnings of Mexican cuisine. My purpose in writing this dissertation is to show how women exercised power from spaces we may traditionally consider oppressive such as the kitchen, and how they helped to shape food culture and what later became national identity.
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    From angels to agents: women, travel, and nation-building in Nineteenth-century Argentine literature
    (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015) Grassmann, Elizabeth; Moody, Sarah; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
    Abstract This dissertation examines how women were represented in nineteenth-century Argentine literature through the evaluation of the societal functions of women in literary texts and by investigating what power women employed in these writings. I explore what challenges were made toward traditional female characterizations and gender roles to analyze what advancements occurred for women of this time period as reflected in the literature. I also investigate if this literature contributes to a feminist perspective. The main objectives of this study are to further develop our understanding of women as active participants in the public/private sphere, to demonstrate how literature of this time period can be a tool to exercise female agency, and to explore how these literary works contribute to the renegotiation of traditional binaries such as public/private and male/female. I study antirrosista texts and travel narratives to assert that some women authors employed these genres to destabilize conventional gender roles and identities to rebel against patriarchal attempts to restrict and control female identity and positions in society. The findings of this research offer insight into how female agency was established in nineteenth-century Argentine literature through the position of heroine and the construction of alternative female models of identity through gender inversion, blurring gender lines, or, in some cases, directly contesting gender divisions. This research also affirms that antirrosista literature and travel narratives are mutually informing and co-implicating due to their status as resistance literature.
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    Helping Undergraduates Make Connections to Don Quixote
    (Modern Language Association, 2015) Worden, William
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    Kristeva par kristeva: les enjeux de l'intertextualite
    (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016) Hope, Sandrine; Zupančič, Metka; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
    This dissertation aims to demonstrate the intertextuality of Julia Kristeva’s novels with her own theoretical writings, revealing the connections between the two discourses and a continuity of thoughts by Kristeva as well as a desire to establish a dialog with the public in order to foster an evolution in mentalities. Despite the large number of works published on Kristeva, no one has analyzed how the four novels seem to be extensions and illustrations of Kristeva’s theories, creating an intertextuality between the texts, nor has anyone worked exclusively on the four novels together. Since the beginning of the present research, one author has published an article on intertextuality within Kristeva, but has limited the scope of her paper on the intertextuality of the characters between some of the novels. The corpus of this current work includes the four novels published before the mid 2000s: Les samouraïs (1990), Le vieil homme et les loups (1991), Possessions (1996), and Meurtre à Byzance (2004). These novels encompass two different genres: the roman à clef and the mystery novel. The theoretical frame of intertextual approach, as Kristeva developed it,is guided by her own theoretical writings about literature with Semeiotikè: Recherches pour une sémanalyse (Extraits) (1978). Another theoretical work, La révolution du langage poétique (1974), will also serve as references to provide a more complete definition of the concept of intertextuality. A large number of echoing ideas exist at various levels within Kristeva’s ample opus, therefore the present research will delimit the occurrences of intertextuality within the boundaries of alterity. Alterity will be defined within the parameters of foreignness as it is exposed in Kristeva’s theoretical work Étrangers à nous-mêmes (1988), as well as the concept of the woman and her position in the world, all of which makes her foreign, as Kristeva highlights it in the collection of articles Seule une femme (2013).
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    La escritura de la memoria como herramienta de diálogo en la metanovela española del siglo XXI
    (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014) Hines-Brooks, Shelly Marie; Corbalán, Ana; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
    This dissertation explores how the use of metafiction in four novels that were published in the 21st century creates a dialogue with the historical memory of the Spanish Civil War. These works, which are referred to as 'metanovels' in this study, are: El corazón helado (2007) by Almudena Grandes; Mala gente que camina (2006) by Benjamin Prado; Otra maldita novela sobre la guerra civil (2007) by Isaac Rosa, and Cielo abajo (2005) by Fernando Marías. One of the most important focuses of the project is how present perspectives influence interpretations of the past. In fact, in all of the analyzed novels there are characters that live in the 21st century and investigate a mystery from the Civil War or the dictatorship. This study argues that the generational distance in time from the historically traumatic events provides a point of view that facilitates a type of reconciliatory re-writing of the Civil War that was not possible three decades before the publication of the books studied. Furthermore, according to this research the technique of reflexivity used by the authors --and represented in the books themselves by characters who are also readers and/or writers-- increases the sense of connection and the feeling of involvement in the reconstruction of the past felt by the readers of these works. Finally, this research project maintains that the metanovels pertaining to the literary genre analyzed in this study function as keepers of Spanish historical memory for their readers.
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    La novela policiaca femenina hispánica: hacia un canon de tendencia posmodernista
    (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011) Florez, Monica; Corbalán, Ana; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
    This dissertation, entitled La novela policiaca femenina hispánica: hacia un canon de tendencia posmodernista, examines 11 detective novels from Hispanic women writers of the present century in order to establish the emergence of a new literary canon. The works under study are Ritos de muerte (1996), Serpientes en el paraíso (2002), Un barco cargado de arroz (2004), Nido vacío (2007), and El silencio de los claustros (2009) by Spanish writer Alicia Giménez Bartlett; No me llames cariño (2004) by Spanish writer Isabel Franc; La mujer que sabía demasiado (2006) by Colombian writer Silvia Galvis; Son de Almendra (2006) by Cuban writer Mayra Montero; La muerte me da (2007) by Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza; Elena sabe (2007) by Argentinean writer Claudia Piñeiro; and Atajo al paraíso (2008) by Spanish writer Teresa Solana. These specific novels and authors were chosen because they provide a varied and contemporary transnational perspective on how Spanish-speaking women approach and appropriate the detective genre in the postmodern context. Therefore, this investigation offers an in-depth and critical analysis of these detective texts in light of their postmodern elements: the use of metafiction, intertextuality, satire and black humor, strong narrative experimentation, metaphysical and anti-detective elements, bodily and gender transgressions, and feminine representations of masculinity so as to demonstrate how they subvert the formulas and parameters of classical detective fiction. Considering how much the production and criticism of Hispanic crime literature has grown in the last two decades, there is a considerable lack of research in terms of the feminine contribution to the genre. This study then helps to fill this critical gap by offering a timely and needed perspective on the importance of women's writings within the field of Spanish and Latin American literary studies.