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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

Mooney, Jane (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

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 ...
From angels to agents: women, travel, and nation-building in Nineteenth-century Argentine literature

Grassmann, Elizabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

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 ...
Fronteras, indígenas, revolucionarios y bandidos: cuatro siglos de resistencia en el suroeste de Los Estados Unidos de América

Dick, James Walsh (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

This thesis encompasses an analysis of various narratives regarding popular heroes of the region that now compromises the Southwest of the United States and the frontier with Mexico between the seventeenth and twentieth ...
La novela policiaca femenina hispánica: hacia un canon de tendencia posmodernista

Florez, Monica (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

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 ...
Masks and moments of discernment in the bildungsroman caribeñounidense: the case of Edwidge Danticat and Junot Díaz

Blackbourn, Forrest Maddux (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

This dissertation explores the coming-of-age processes of characters that are perceived as marginal as a result of migratory experiences involving the Caribbean and the United States. Through the theoretical frameworks of ...
Narrativa Centroamericana de la Posquerra: Aproximaciones de identidad nacional, raza y genero

Robinson, Gregory Alexander (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

The short story narrative genre has had a tremendous impact on Central America since the beginning of the 20th Century. This study examines the common themes of identity, race, and gender in 6 contemporary authors from ...
Sentimiento y sencillez: cuatro poetas olvidadas de principios del siglo XX

Martínez de Medina, Aida E. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

This study seeks to understand posmodernista literary production in Latin America by analyzing the work of four poets who have been identified by the critics as worthy of investigation: Rosa Umaña Espinosa (Nicaragua), ...
Towards a genre of return in the contemporary Central American novel

Roberts, Seth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

This dissertation examines exile in four contemporary Central American novels and focuses on the return of each protagonist after an extended absence. The works establish homecoming as a critical feature of Central American ...
Transgresión, transformación y paradoja en las aventuras transatlánticas de la Monja Alférez, Doña Catalina de Erauso contadas por ella misma

Vargas, Maria Esperanza (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

This dissertation concentrates on three main areas related to the life and adventures narrated in Vida i sucesos de la Monja Alférez, the autobiography of Catalina de Erauso, the Lieutenant Nun, who escaped from a convent, ...

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Browsing Theses and Dissertations - Department of Modern Languages and Classics by Subject "Latin American literature"

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