Browsing Colleges and Schools by Department "Hispanic Studies"
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(2018-03-19)In the religious system known as Regla de Ocha-Ifa, changes occur that are important today for the reconfiguration of identity and cultural elements of Cuba and its diaspora. One of the most accepted concepts to explain ...
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(2016-06-01)This dissertation explores the ethical-political relationship of Colombian art production (literature, film, and installation art) from 1995 to 2015 that focused on the Colombian War. During the period of time between the ...
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(2014-07-25)Madness and art are two concepts that are quite often historically interrelated. The term “madness” designates various mental ailments, depression being one of them (major depressive disorder or depressive episodes in their ...
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(2018-07-26)This research analyzes the concepts of humanity and animality in the Hispanic Early Modern period from an interpretation of the social processes of exclusion and domination as processes of animalization and domestication. This ...
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(2016-12-09)The Catholic experience in the Texas-US borderlands represents a void within the humanities. The attitudes that surround the topic of religion in socio-historical and literary studies have limited the scope of works. Two ...
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(2016-04-29)“Celestinas, parcas y diosas: representaciones artístico-literarias de la mujer unidas por el hilo,” studies iconography and literary works to analyze the relationship between women and thread throughout history. There are ...
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(2011-10-21)The presence of early modern Spanish history in Spanish film has received only limited scholarly attention. The entire group of Spanish films dealing with the Spanish early modern era has never been placed under study by ...
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(2018-05-01)The myth-making (mythopoeia) of El Cid and King Arthur as hegemonic devices flows through a diachronical shapeshifting process with religious and political functionality linked to the Christianization of Spain and Britain. ...
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(2012-07-16)This dissertation demonstrates how ACE has successfully equipped thousands of poor Filipinos with the tools necessary for them to raise themselves out of poverty by offering them a culture-specific curriculum that they can ...
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(2014-12-01)My dissertation studies the end of the poet as a public intellectual in Latin America. I analyze the works of Rubén Darío, particularly El Rey Burgués, the nonfiction works of Jorge Luis Borges, and culminate with the ...
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(2012-02-14)The following study is a critique of the democratic pursuits in Latin America. This thesis focuses on twentieth century political developments in Peru, Brazil and Mexico. The question that guides and serves as the impetus ...
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(2022-05-25)The main purpose of this dissertation was to create a framework to analyze pedagogic literature for children as a cultural discourse. Furthermore, I proposed the examination of discourse as a socio-cultural critique of ...
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(2012-07-16)The printing press was introduced to Puebla, Mexico, in the middle of the 17th century. Juan de Borja y Gandía and his wife Inés Vásquez Infante, Spanish immigrants from Cadiz, Spain established a printing press and book ...
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(2016-11-28)The cinematography of Mexican director Carlos Reygadas is the main focus of this dissertation, which aims to validate the artistic quality of his four films: Japón, Batalla en el Cielo, Luz Silenciosa and Post Tenebras ...
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(2022-04-12)This study analyzes the nature and links between enjoyment, boredom, and anxiety in the Spanish language classroom at the university level. The students participating in the study were enrolled in courses of Spanish for ...
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(2018-08-03)The present dissertation focuses on the Cuban aesthetic cultural production (cinema, visual arts, performance and literature) of the last 15 years through an interdisciplinary theoretical framework that draws on theories ...
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(2011-10-21)In 1747, José de Escandón led an expeditionary force into the Seno Mexicano, the remote northern frontier of New Spain, which had developed into a safe haven for rebellious natives who had fled to the region as they resisted ...
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(2015-08-04)Flotar en la viscosidad. Literatura cubana de los 90, is a dissertation that focuses on Cuban literature in the 90s as one of the stages of major changes and literary projections after 1959 in Cuba, as part of Latin American ...
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(2014-07-01)Fifty years after Fernando González’s death (1895-1964) his books are still widely read literary circles and his cultural legacy is vibrant, but academic approaches to his work are rare and they focus on a limited number ...
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(2010-12-07)From 1686 to 1690, General Alonso de León led five military expeditions from Northern New Spain into modern-day Texas in search of French intruders who had breached Spanish sovereignty and settled on lands claimed by the ...