Thesis (doctoral)--Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-352).

The present work intends to give a look inside the novel: Regina. 2 de octubre no se olvida, written in 1987 by the Mexican author Antonio Velasco Pina. The novel is an esoteric reinterpretation of the massacre that occurred in Mexico in 1968 when the Mexican government killed many students in a manifestation that was taking place at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas situated in Tlatelolco. The thesis is centered on the esoteric aspect of the novel as a new identity proposal for the Mexican society. To show this, our research includes the theory of construction of identity by opposites. We based this part on the studies done by Daniel Mato and Jorge Larrain. In the same line of thought the present research intends to show that identity is not a steady aspect of human life, but rather a continual construction and deconstruction of it. To show this, we are comparing the novel and what we believe is a new identity proposal with other works about Mexican identity such as the writings of authors like Octavio Paz, Jose Vasconcelos, Roger Bartra, Carlos Monsivais and others.

Au lendemain de son independance, l'Estonie a entamé un processus de construction de la nation en excluant en grande partie la minorité russophone immigrée au cours de la période soviétique. L'intégration européenne de l'Estonie à parallèlement favorise la libéralisation de ses politiques minoritaires. La langue constituant le principal marqueur identitaire en Estonie, notre thèse s'intéressé plus particulièrement à l'évolution des politiques linguistiques estoniennes entre 1988 et 2004. Alors que la libéralisation des politiques linguistiques officielles laisse entendre une meilleure intégration de la minorité russophone, nos recherches démontrent que les politiques linguistiques officieuses (idéologies linguistiques, application des politiques linguistiques officielles, attitudes et comportements linguistiques) sont demeurées rigides, ce qui permettrait d'expliquer en partie pourquoi la minorité russophone demeure exclue dans plusieurs contextes. L'exclusion linguistique étant un concept peu traité dans la littérature, notre recherche basée sur des données empiriques tirées de sources secondaires s'accompagne d'une réflexion sur les formes d'exclusion linguistique et le sens que nous pouvons leur donner selon une approche normative adaptée au cas estonien.

Since the 1950's, Peru has moved from a rural to an urban society. Rural migration caused a demographic explosion and emerging shantytowns ( barriadas) in peripheral areas of Lima, where a third of Peru's population currently resides. This phenomenon has transformed Lima's Hispanic character. The main actors of this process, referred to in this study as otro suburbano, were mostly Andean-peasant migrants and marginal urban individuals. Together, they built barriadas and occupied traditional urban spaces, and were considered as suburban groups excluded from the conventional city. Despite Peruvian literature's mimetic tradition, critics have stated that Peruvian writers have lacked interest in this phenomenon. This dissertation demonstrates that, by applying the concept of otredad suburbana, we find, in fact, significant relations between Lima's urban transformation and fictional stories. The focus of this study is the configuration of the otredad suburbana in Peruvian narrative between 1950 and 1992 through the analyses of eight short stories, three novels and one nouvelle, written respectively by Huanay, Congrains, Ribeyro, Bonilla, Salazar Bondy, Urteaga, Jara, and Higa. This study is divided into four parts corresponding to four points of view depicting the otro suburbano: (1) Andean-migrant (the other from the margin), (2) Urban-criollo (the other from the centre), (3) Emerging-migrant (the other and the hybridizing centre), and (4) Contemporary-urban (the other and the suburbanizing centre). Considering the literary text as the vehicle of an author's ideology, analyses are based on semiotic-narratological concepts (Bal, Genette, Lanser) and supported by categories from sociological and cultural studies (Comejo Polar, Lauer, Matos Mar, Nugent, Romero). This dissertation concludes that, (1) the otro suburbano, as fictional figure, appears alternately as a sublime, victimized, scatological, perturbing and tanatic subject; (2) the otro suburbano , in the narrative production, passed from being a contemplated object to being an agent of its own discourse; and (3) as a consequence of the other's massive presence, stories illustrate Lima moving towards a desuburbanizing periphery and consequently a suburbanizing centre.

This study is a critical edition with an introduction and notes of Hado y divisa de Leonido y de Marfisa, the last creation of one of the most influential playwrights of all time, D. Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681). This is an eclectic edition based on a manuscript with signature MS. 8314 from L'Arsenal Library in Paris, corrected and modified when deemed necessary with the help of other existing textual witnesses. The introduction includes an analysis of the political, social and economic context of this comedia and the circumstances of its production; the literary context and characteristics that it shares with the byzantine and chivalry novels; its textual transmission; its musical tradition; its staging and its polymetrical structure. At the end of this study are included the explanatory notes as well as the textual variants of all witnesses analyzed.

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Christine de Pizan, in several of her works, showed her effort to create a community of women which is the symbol of the united force from all women. In Le Livre des Trois Vertus, the community of women has the image of fortress where the members of the Cite are well protected against the attacks from anti-feminists. / In "La communaute des femmes dans Le Livre des Trois Vertus de Christine de Pizan", I first analyze the historical and literary context in which Christine decided to defend women's interests in her writing. In this context we see the origin of her idea of the community of women. / The second chapter demonstrates Christine's effort to establish her authority as well as that of the community of women. As a woman writer, she had to establish her authority in literary tradition dominated by male writers. Christine appealed to divine authority by following the example of Saint Augustine, author of the Cite de Dieu (c. 427), and by obeying the three goddesses who gave her the right to use her pen to educate women and to create the community of women in Le Livre des Trois Vertus (1405). / In the third chapter, I examine how Christine, by redefining the role of women in society, and by reorganizing relationships between women, succeeded in reinforcing the union of the community of women. / In chapter four, the study of the transplantation of the letter of Sebile de la Tour (originally composed in Le Livre du Duc des Vrais Amans 1405) into Le Livre des Trois Vertus supports the contention that Christine de Pizan, by combining two different genres (romance and essay), established a connection between literature and real life, made the courtesy lyric useful for women's moral education. Christine practiced the genre of romance (which had been always dominated by male writers) to defend women's interest in love and to provide a mirror for the community of women. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-01, Section: A, page: 0180. / Major Professor: Lori Walters. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1994.

What has been termed as a post-Negritude era has seen many Caribbean writers trying to forge an autonomous identity that would adequately articulate the multifaceted nature of the Caribbean subject This study will attempt to show that Maryse Conde is interested in expanding and (re)-negotiating the parameters used to define Caribbean identity formation. Conde intentionally blurs the lines that have helped maintain traditional tropes and oppositions that limit acceptable definitions of Caribbean identity. Her work resists closure and draws on the amalgam of cultures that makes the Caribbean propitious to multiple identity formation In the first chapter, I will show how Conde's attempts to relocate the matrix of Caribbean identity from Africa to the Antilles highlight the cultural conflicts at work within Caribbean societies. The second chapter revolves around the specificity of gender in assessing identity and reflects the complex role of women in determining social structure. The third chapter will show that, even though Conde is concerned with the question of race as a polemic debate, she seldom problematizes it as an orthodox black/white dichotomy. Her criticism suggests that race is a cultural construct and underscores the need for dealing with individual personalities rather than physical traits. The fourth chapter looks at the dynamic process of creolization and the quest for authenticity through language and stylistic expression Paradoxically, even as Conde repositions the Caribbean identity as a product of multiple cultural intersections, her representation of cultural plurality leads inexorably back to the Antilles as the primary source of inspiration, drawing from it, claiming it, and above all, accepting it as one's own / acase@tulane.edu

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This study elucidates the nature of evil as manifested in three selected works of twentieth century French literature: La Condition humaine of Andre Malraux; Le Journal d'un cure de campagne of Georges Bernanos; and La Peste of Albert Camus. Since such manifestations suppose a theoretical perspective as well as a symbolic expression of an existential experience, a methodology that allowed a two-directional focus involving both an historical survey of prominent conceptualizations of evil and the application of those symbolic terms, themes and myths to the literary expression of evil was employed. The historical survey demonstrates a dramatic shift in the theoretical perception of evil: from a naturalistic interpre- tation to a traditional theodicy to a modern anthropodicy. The three selections studied demonstrate the strong influence of the shift in theodicy that interprets man's human condition in terms of Pascalian anguish of man without God. The portion of the study analyzing the symbolic manifestations of evil according to such diverse theological perspectives as atheism, theism, and humanism concludes that evil as portrayed in twentieth century French literature reflects a similar contextual framework as well as related symbolic expressions of evil. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-08, Section: A, page: 2291. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.