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1	El bildungsroman en el Caribe hispano / The Bildungsroman in the Spanish Caribbean Lorenzo Feliciano, Violeta 31 August 2011 (has links) This dissertation examines the bildungsroman genre in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. A close examination of the development of this genre demonstrates that it has ideological implications that link the young protagonists’ development with that of the nation. The authors on whom I focus—Ángela Hernández, Rita Indiana Hernández, René Marqués, Pedro Juan Soto, Magali García Ramis, Severo Sarduy, and Jesús Díaz—do not merely imitate the European model but revise, adapt, and often subvert it thematically and, in some cases, aesthetically. I argue that these bildungsromane differ, for the most part, from the European prototype due to their openly political themes, such as the establishment of the Estado Libre Asociado in Puerto Rico, the 1959 Revolution in Cuba, and, in the case of the Dominican Republic, Trujillo’s dictatorship. I claim that Dominican bildungsromane do not propose national projects or models but rather question the purported homogeneity of identity of the country as a normalized political body. On the other hand, in Cuba and Puerto Rico the genre has been used to promote absolute discourses of nationality as well as political projects that must be questioned due to their discriminatory and sometimes racist and violent nature. Bildungsroman Coming of age narratives National identities Puerto Rican Literature XXth Century Cuban Literature XXth Century Dominican Literature Hernández, Ángela Hernández, Rita Indiana Marqués, René García Ramis, Magali Martínez Maldonado, Manuel Díaz, Jesús Sarduy, Severo Soto, Pedro Juan Spanish Caribbean Literature 0312 0360
2	El bildungsroman en el Caribe hispano / The Bildungsroman in the Spanish Caribbean Lorenzo Feliciano, Violeta 31 August 2011 (has links) This dissertation examines the bildungsroman genre in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. A close examination of the development of this genre demonstrates that it has ideological implications that link the young protagonists’ development with that of the nation. The authors on whom I focus—Ángela Hernández, Rita Indiana Hernández, René Marqués, Pedro Juan Soto, Magali García Ramis, Severo Sarduy, and Jesús Díaz—do not merely imitate the European model but revise, adapt, and often subvert it thematically and, in some cases, aesthetically. I argue that these bildungsromane differ, for the most part, from the European prototype due to their openly political themes, such as the establishment of the Estado Libre Asociado in Puerto Rico, the 1959 Revolution in Cuba, and, in the case of the Dominican Republic, Trujillo’s dictatorship. I claim that Dominican bildungsromane do not propose national projects or models but rather question the purported homogeneity of identity of the country as a normalized political body. On the other hand, in Cuba and Puerto Rico the genre has been used to promote absolute discourses of nationality as well as political projects that must be questioned due to their discriminatory and sometimes racist and violent nature. Bildungsroman Coming of age narratives National identities Puerto Rican Literature XXth Century Cuban Literature XXth Century Dominican Literature Hernández, Ángela Hernández, Rita Indiana Marqués, René García Ramis, Magali Martínez Maldonado, Manuel Díaz, Jesús Sarduy, Severo Soto, Pedro Juan Spanish Caribbean Literature 0312 0360

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El bildungsroman en el Caribe hispano / The Bildungsroman in the Spanish Caribbean

El bildungsroman en el Caribe hispano / The Bildungsroman in the Spanish Caribbean