This thesis explores the international dimensions of Rosario Castellanos’ writings, which exhibit a constant—and evolving—preoccupation with feminist literature from across the world. The Mexican woman, public intellectual, professor, author, and ambassador dialogued with Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, Betty Friedan, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Gabriela Mistral, and Clarice Lispector, among others, while relating their ideas to Mexican women’s lives. Her journalistic production, essays, poetry, and narrative undergo an evolution as Castellanos articulates a unique Mexican feminist project that factors in race, class, and other intersections affecting Mexican women. I access Castellanos—who has been considered the “Simone de Beauvoir of Mexico”—through the lens of global feminism, which considers the varying layers of power and powerlessness when women of disparate regions and cultures seek solidarity. Through a global feminist perspective, we see how Castellanos, rather than blindly importing First World women’s agendas, carefully intervenes in global feminist discouses with what Mexican women need. In her evolution, Castellanos grows closer to a feminist project that, rather than buying into the myth of a global sisterhood, evokes instead a desire for a Latin American sisterhood and for Mexican women’s self-definition.

John Gwenogvryn Evans was an important figure in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Welsh Celtic Studies, because he published accurate diplomatic editions of medieval manuscripts that are still used today. He also compiled an important and detailed Report on Welsh Manuscripts for the Historic Manuscripts Commission that was of significant utility to scholars of his day, and still has uses for its detailed description of manuscripts. His extraordinary talent for accuracy in the reproduction of medieval script came to the attention of John Rhŷs, then Professor of Celtic at Jesus College, Oxford. Through Rhŷs he was exposed to the best scholarship of his day, and with the assistance of scholars such as Egerton Phillimore and John Morris Jones, he was enabled to produce work of enduring value. Due to his limited training in Welsh linguistics, and in research methodology, there were, from the start, serious flaws in his interpretation of early Welsh. Later, on losing contact with academic influences due to unwise actions, he fell into a pseudoscientific mentality more common earlier in the 19th century, seeking to find historical fact in poetry of legend and prophecy. Major errors arose from his later inclination to consider the date of a manuscript and the date of the content to be identical, and the ridicule that resulted from his 'amendments and translations' to early poetry so undermined his credibility that he never completed the full range of his intended series of texts. This study traces the origins, manifestations, and consequences of his dual nature through seven chapters. It considers the value of his solid earlier work, and balances it against the follies of his later translations, and seeks to give a fairer view of the value of his work to his own generation, and to those that followed on from him.

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Orientador: Wilton Carlos Lima da Silva / Banca: Áureo Busetto / Banca: Iara Lis Franco Schiavinatto / Resumo: Esta dissertação investiga a construção da memória do padre secular fluminense Januário da Cunha Barbosa (1780-1846), a partir do exame de variadas narrativas biográficas primordialmente publicadas na Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro (IHGB). Trata-se de memoriais escritos para edificar uma memória. Mais do que isso, são memórias corporativas de um grupo de letrados, nomeadamente membros do IHGB, que dissertaram sobre a vida do fundador desta instituição projetando nele a figura ideal de um homem de letras, cuja luta se deu em vários fronts, no púlpito, na imprensa nascente, no parlamento e por fim em sua "maior criação", a idealização e fundação do Instituto Histórico / Abstract: This dissertation has investigated the construction of the memory of the fluminense secular priest Januário da Cunha Barbosa (1780-1946), as from the diversity of analysis of the autobiographical narrative primarily published in the journal of Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro (IHGB). These are memorials written to educate a memory. Moreover, these are corporate memories of a group of scholars who are appointed members of IHGB, who lectured about the founder of this institution, projecting himself the ideal character of a literate's man, whose struggle occurred in several fronts, at the pulpit, at the emerging press, at the parliament, and eventually in his "biggest achievement" the idealization and foundation of the Instituto Histórico / Mestre

This thesis seeks to show how heroes are created, the role hero-making plays in the creation of national identity and how the mythology constructed around heroes affects historical memory, by examining the heroic narrative constructed around Commodore Stephen Decatur, United States Navy. Stephen Decatur became a hero during the first Barbary War in 1805, his abrupt rise to heroism was occasioned by a mix of luck, drama, partisan politics and nationalism. After his death, Decatur received very complimentary attention from nineteenth century biographers anxious to present Americans with national heroes. In the twentieth and twenty-first century Decatur remained popular, especially with American reengagement in the Middle East and the "War on Terror." Recent biographies of Decatur are of interest as they reveal the continuities and changes in the American heroic ideal over time, and how the momentum of a narrative can deeply shape our understanding of the past.

The 19th century in Colombia is a particularly fruitful period to analyze the work of translators. At a time marked by the emergence of Nation-States, and consequently, by the search of models to be followed in almost every area. The figure of poet and translator Rafael Pombo (1833-1912) emerges. In this case-study we will analyze how this context affected the translations he produced. Based on the analysis of his translations of canonical authors and classical fables and child stories, as well as paratextual and parallel sources, this study will show how Rafael Pombo became an "intercultural mediator" at a time when the "Americas" met each other. Furthermore, in Pombo's work we can explore several translations functions, particularly a pedagogical function. This research will show that through the discovery of the relation between contexts, the translation, and his translations, and by articulating the translator's motivations and conception of translation, we can trace a general survey of translation and translation history can become a tool to account for translation practices at a particular time.

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Alexander Morris (1826--1889) is best remembered for his service as Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and the North-West Territories (1872--1877), and for acting as the chief Canadian negotiator for Treaties 3--6 with the Amerindian peoples of western Canada. Ideologically speaking, Morris was a conservative, an imperialist, and a devout Christian. Historians have generally argued that Euro-Canadian officials like Morris failed to appreciate the significance of the treaties and the long-term reciprocal relationship that they entailed for Amerindian peoples. It is argued here, however, that Morris's understanding of the treaty relationship may have been much closer to the Amerindian perspective than previously believed. Over time, and through a series of interactions and intellectual exchanges with Amerindian leaders, Morris was able to transcend his social formation and empathize significantly with their viewpoint.

Cette thèse regroupe la biographie du peintre Jean Piaubert (1900-2002), la présentation de l’œuvre, le catalogue raisonné des ses œuvres abstraites (peintures et dessins), ainsi qu’un ensemble de documents annexes / This thesis gathers the biography of the painter Jean Piaubert (1900-2002) and the catalogue raisonné of his abstract painting and drawings.

From Introduction: On 17 October 1876 a young man called James Butler embarked at Poplar Docks, London on the steamer Dunrobin Castle for distant Cape Town. His destination was Grahamstown in the Eastern Province of the Cape Colony, his purpose: to recover from a severe illness, probably tuberculosis, in a warm and sunny climate. He was twenty-two years and three months old. His sheltered Quaker background had not prepared him for life in a country strange in so many ways, much less for an experience which was to change the course of his life. His visit to South Africa lasted two and a half years: at the end of it his health was largely restored and he had decided that he might return to Cradock if the doctors in London thought it advisable. Cradock was the small Eastern Cape town where in fact he was to spend the rest of his life. The diary which he kept for that crucial two and a half years begins with the voyage to Cape Town and chronicles not only his travels around the Eastern Cape, but provides also a record of his own emotional growth from a somewhat insecure boy to an assured young man confident in his own future under God's guidance.