The purpose of this study was to explore the daily life of the younger generation of Mexican Americans through a phenomenology design. Specifically, in regard to how the culture-sharing pattern of biculturalism is reflected in their lives and the way they construct their bicultural identity. The study utilized rich qualitative data to paint a clear and descriptive picture of the internal process of biculturalism within eight Mexican American college students. Ultimately, the data analysis aimed to collect and reflect their voices and the stories. This was done through three distinct data methods that complemented each other: interviews (oral), photo elicitation (visual), and document analysis (written). Results indicate that, the way bicultural individuals organize and respond to their culture in terms of behavior and cognition, is independent from the feelings they experience while engaging in cultural frame switching. No matter how well the participants are able to organize their dual cultures and compartmentalize them in their life, they still struggle with conflicting and opposing feelings. Nonetheless, even though their cultures and ideologies can clash at times and feel contradictory, this young generation can still manage to respond and function in both cultures, but to varying degrees.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-09T12:28:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-02-18Bitstream added on 2015-04-09T12:47:17Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000813391.pdf: 1986149 bytes, checksum: d81810d695d36601d15589bb10e0ea44 (MD5) / A forma mais simples de apresentar os três episódios que compõem este trabalho é supor que o argentino Jorge Luis Borges ocupe provisoriamente o centro duma rede de obras e de escritores de ficção científica hermética latino-americana – uma rede que pode ser lida como uma conspiração. A figura de Borges – mistura heterodoxa de literatura e de “vida”, de revelações, de epifanias, de “mentiras verdadeiras”, de excessos intelectuais – permite ingressar na tradição da ficção científica herege desde o instante inicial quando os conquistadores invadiram o território que ainda não era América. O “kairós” histórico, político, cultural, ideológico, econômico do desencontro dessas duas cosmovisões provocou uma “guerra de imagens” e de discursos em cujo fragor mestiçaram-se desejos milenaristas europeus e concepções ameríndias também proféticas, também transcendentes e com idêntica impossibilidade – como o sonho dos seus invasores – de ser utopia em uma “terra sem mal”. Nessas heterodoxias misturadas – caóticas, potentes para pensar e híbridas na sua origem europeia – cozinhou-se o húmus da ficção científica hermética que, com maior ou menor intensidade, fermentou até explodir no século XX. Em consequência, o gnóstico e cabalístico Borges é um mecanismo textual, com suas árduas especulações e com suas conspirações, para ler duas linhas genéricas surgidas desse húmus herege – linhas que, por nascer dos códigos do pensamento heterodoxo, são principais, porém não únicas. A primeira eclode no século XVII entre Brasil e Lisboa. Responde à ideia do complô, da conquista do espaço, da invasão, do domínio total (macrocosmo). O padre jesuíta Antônio Vieira baseado no milenarismo português constrói, no contexto de uma vida polêmica, um peculiar córpus composto de sermões apocalípticos e satíricos; uma carta-tratado (“papel”) que justifica um silogismo ... / El camino más directo para presentar estos tres episodios es suponer que el argentino Jorge Luis Borges ocupa –de forma provisoria- el centro de una red de obras y de escritores de ciencia ficción hermética latinoamericana –red que puede ser leída como una conspiración. La figura de Borges –mezcla heterodoxa de literatura y de ´vida´, de revelaciones, de epifanías, de ´mentiras verdaderas´, de excesos intelectuales- permite acceder a esa tradición de ciencia ficción hereje desde el instante inicial en el que los conquistadores invadieron el territorio que no era América todavía. El ´kairós´ histórico, político, cultural, ideológico, económico del desencuentro de dos cosmovisiones provocó una ´guerra de imágenes´, y de discursos, en cuyo fragor se mestizaron anhelos milenaristas europeos y concepciones amerindias también proféticas, también trascendentes y con idéntica imposibilidad -que el sueño de sus invasores- de resultar utopía en una ´tierra sin mal´. En esas heterodoxias mezcladas -caóticas, potentes para pensar y ya híbridas en su origen europeo- se cocinó el humus de la ciencia ficción hermética que, con mayor o menor intensidad, fermentó por centurias hasta explotar en el siglo XX. El gnóstico y cabalístico Borges es, entonces, un mecanismo textual, con sus arduas especulaciones y con sus conspiraciones, para leer dos líneas genéricas surgidas de ese humus hereje -líneas que al desprenderse de los códigos del pensamiento heterodoxo son principales, pero no únicas. La primera eclosiona en el siglo XVII entre Brasil y Lisboa. Responde a la idea de complot, de conquista del espacio, de invasión, de dominio total (´macrocosmos´). El padre jesuita Antônio Vieira en base al milenarismo portugués construye, en el entramado no menos polémico de su vida, un peculiar corpus compuesto por sermones apocalípticos y satíricos; una carta-tratado (´papel´) que justifica un silogismo ...

O presente trabalho trata da representação da identidade de gênero e de que forma pode-se lançar um novo olhar sobre a história da ditadura argentina a partir de personagens femininas, tendo por objeto de estudo o romance A veinte años, Luz, de Elsa Osório. Procura-se examinar de que modo as figuras femininas são representadas e se vão ao encontro de ou transgridem o discurso patriarcal instituído. Para tal, levantam-se, nesta pesquisa, questões como o papel desempenhado pelas mulheres na representação da história argentina, dando ênfase à atuação das Avós da Praça de Maio. Além disso, estabelece-se uma relação entre produção e crítica feministas na América Latina, de modo a esboçar vínculos que possibilitem o levantamento de índices de regionalidade. Para relacionar tais temas, foi realizada uma abordagem interdisciplinar, utilizando-se a Literatura e a Antropologia como principais bases teóricas. / Submitted by Marcelo Teixeira (mvteixeira@ucs.br) on 2014-05-21T19:24:36Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Amanda D Parizote.pdf: 517281 bytes, checksum: 39f380a3628f951c7617d994352ffea8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-21T19:24:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Amanda D Parizote.pdf: 517281 bytes, checksum: 39f380a3628f951c7617d994352ffea8 (MD5) / This study deals with the gender identity representation and how a new version about the history of Argentina´s dictatorship can be derived from female characters. Its object of study is the novel A veinte años, Luz, by Elsa Osorio. Its aim is to identify how the female characters are represented and if they follow the patriarchal standard or go against it. For this purpose, this research broaches the role performed by women in the representation of Argentina´s history, emphasizing the action of Avós da Praça de Maio. Beside this, a relation between feminist production and criticism is established in order to outline bonds that enable the survey of indications of regionality. To relate such subjects, an interdisciplinary approach was made, placing Literature and Anthropology as part of the main theoretical supports.

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Esta pesquisa procura desenvolver uma leitura da produção literária de duas mulheres a russo-ucraniana naturalizada brasileira Clarice Lispector e a colombiana Marvel Moreno. Da primeira, foram selecionados contos publicados no volume Laços de família (1960). Da segunda, contos publicados no volume Oriane, tía Oriane (1980). Vale-se, para tanto, de metodologias do comparativismo e de teorias sobre a literatura feminina. E procura problematizar questões referentes a esse universo em que mulheres escrevem sobre o ser feminino, aí considerado num sistema que inclui experiências existenciais, relações sociais e que considera também o campo mais amplo da própria condição humana. Entre os vários aspectos estudados, considerou-se o modo como as autoras comparadas estruturam as personagens femininas, nos seus diversos estágios de desenvolvimento: enquanto crianças e adolescentes em formação, na sua primeira juventude como mulher, na vida de casada e no seu papel de mãe. A análise comparativista dos contos está fundamentada em alguns elementos considerados pela crítica feminista como determinantes do conjunto de obras produzidas por mulheres, ressaltando-se, dentre eles, o uso frequente do discurso indireto livre e da narração em primeira pessoa, recursos que, mediante a mobilização da lembrança do passado, da auto-análise e da auto-descoberta, colaboram para uma problematização da identidade feminina e do significado da existência. / This research aims to develop a reading of the literary work of two women russianucranian naturalized brazilian Clarice Lispector and Colombian Marvel Moreno. Significant stories of both authors were selected for this study; from the first, were chosen some stories published on volume entitled Laços de família (1960), and from the Colombian writer, some stories on volume Oriane, tía Oriane (1980). To do this, methodologies as comparatism and female literature theories are the principal theoretical elements. It also tries to problematize questions related to that universe within women write about female being, thought as a part of a system including being experiences, social relationships, and with regards to the wider field of human condition itself. Among the diverse aspects, the way both authors organize female characters on their different levels of growing was considered: from childhood, teenage years, the first youth as a woman and the life as a wife, until they assume their mother roles. Comparative analysis of the stories is supported by some elements that feminist critic consider as deciding factors to be inserted into the group of writings produced by women, and between them those whose relevancy rests on the frequent use of free indirect speech and first-person narrator; this sources, mediated by past memories, selfexamination and the self-discovery strengthen the complexity of female identity and the meaning of existence.

Submitted by Geandra Rodrigues (geandrar@gmail.com) on 2018-05-17T18:56:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 marcelabatistamartinhao.pdf: 1205483 bytes, checksum: 4338b1816f91f644aebfc250ed9d4f75 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2018-05-22T11:36:23Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 marcelabatistamartinhao.pdf: 1205483 bytes, checksum: 4338b1816f91f644aebfc250ed9d4f75 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-22T11:36:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 marcelabatistamartinhao.pdf: 1205483 bytes, checksum: 4338b1816f91f644aebfc250ed9d4f75 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-21 / Esta dissertação versa sobre a obra poética da poeta colombiana Marta Quiñónez, que atualmente vive em Medelin, publicada até o momento, que consiste nos seguintes volumes: Noctívago (1998), Acantilado (1999), Abecedário de Eximición (2000), Eva (2001), Kartalá (2002), La Trinidad (2005), Arcanos (2007), No. Libro de haripalas (2010), Dame tu canto ciudad (2012), Conversaciones en Comala (2012), Paréntesis (2013), El rostro del pan (2014) e Continente Mohíno (2016), publicado originalmente em 1996. O trabalho se concentra em quatro eixos principais, a saber: diáspora, migração, território e o lar, em diálogo com os temas do amor, da afetividade, da territorialização/desterritorialização nos centros urbanos, e da casa, perpassando as discussões de gênero e raciais na divisão dos espaços geográficos e sociais. Discutimos como este corpo e subjetividade feminina negra homossexual se reconfigura para a construção subjetiva de seu lar, considerando-se a experiência da desterritorialização e da migração, e o poema como a força reterritorializadora que alça as noções de pertencimento e conexão à sua própria criação poética como principal catalizadora de suas vivências. Percorremos toda sua obra em certa cronologia temática, iniciada com Continente Mohíno (1996) até El rostro del pan (2014), cujo principal objetivo é compreender a relação estabelecida entre sua escrita poética e o imaginário da diáspora contemporânea e fluxos migratórios, no que diz respeito aos territórios e a construção subjetiva do lar. A versatilidade e criatividade de sua poesia é flagrante por seu próprio curso de vida de movimento e desarraigo, que confluem para uma literatura capaz de abrigar suas vivências para além dos reducionismos históricos e sociais do lugar da mulher negra homossexual na literatura e na sociedade. / This dissertation approaches the poetic work of Colombian poet Marta Quiñónez, who currently lives in Medelin, which has been published to date, consisting of the following volumes: Noctívago (1998), Acantilado (1999), Abecedário de Eximición (2000), Eva (2001), Kartalá (2002), La Trinidad (2005), Arcanos (2007), No. Libro de haripalas (2010), Dame tu canto ciudad (2012), Conversaciones en Comala (2012), Paréntesis (2013), El rostro del pan (2014) and Continente Mohíno (2016), originally published in 1996. The work focuses on four main axes: diaspora, migration, territory and home, in dialogue with the themes of love, affectivity, territorialization/deterritorialization in urban centers, and the house, bypassing gender and racial discussions in the division of geographic and social spaces. We discuss how this homosexual black female body and subjectivity reconfigures itself for the subjective construction of its home, considering the experience of deterritorialization and migration, taking the poem as the reterritorializing force that elevates the notions of belonging and connection to its own poetic creation as main catalyst of her experiences. We go through all her work in a certain thematic chronology, beginning with Continente Mohíno (1996) until El rostro del pan (2014), whose main objective is to understand the relation established between her poetic writing and the contemporary diaspora imaginary and migratory flows, concerning territories and the subjective construction of home. The versatility and creativity of her poetry is blatant for her own life course of movement and uprooting, which converge to a literature capable of sheltering her experiences beyond the historical and social reductions of the homosexual black woman's place in literature and society.

[pt] A tese acompanha as trajetórias de Diamela Eltit, João Gilberto Noll e Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, realizando através do trabalho desses três escritores uma cartografia das questões estéticas e políticas que atravessam as últimas décadas. Seus projetos narrativos, tão diferentes entre si quanto pertinentes para nosso tempo, foram marcados por uma perda de sentido referente às crises da utopia revolucionária e vanguardista, que se torna visível na transição da ditadura à pós-ditadura. A partir dessa perda, surgirão algumas alternativas para uma literatura por vir: uma escrita performática, que coloca em jogo o corpo do próprio escritor para dar sentido aos trânsitos contemporâneos, no caso de Noll; uma escrita agonística, que faz da provocação cínica uma arma contra a apatia contemporânea, no de Fogwill; uma escrita resistente, que deixa ver os efeitos perversos do consenso neoliberal, no de Eltit. / [en] This thesis follows the paths of Diamela Eltit, João Gilberto Noll and Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, charting, through their works, the territory of aesthetical and political questions of the last decades. The narrative projects of these writers, as distinct from each other as they are pertinent to our time, were marked by a loss of meaning that relates to the crisis of revolutionary and avant-garde utopias, which becomes visible in the transition from dictatorship to post- dictatorship. Taking this loss as a starting point, some alternatives for a literature to come will appear: a performatic writing, that puts in place the body of the writer himself to give sense to contemporary transits, in Noll´s case; an agonistic writing, that uses cynical provocation as a weapon against contemporary apathy, in Fogwill´s; a resistant writing, that allows us to see the perverse effects of the neoliberal consensus, in Eltit´s.

The way we read and interpret literature is frequently influenced by factors that operate beyond the scope of the average reader's awareness. In this thesis, selected works by two Wayuu writers, Estercilia Simanca Pushaina and Vicenta Maria Siosi Pino, are analyzed and interpreted in an attempt to unveil some of these behind-the-scenes agents and issues, as well as explore how the stories' classification in the children's literature genre reveals a deep-rooted colonial tendency to infantilize indigenous individuals in contemporary Colombia. Despite the fact that the two authors, both mestizo women who self-identify with the Wayuu indigenous group of northern Colombia, prefer to write short stories that highlight the child and adolescent experience, the implicit themes and the complexity of their texts reject the "children's story" label that has been imposed on their literature. Furthermore, this thesis discusses how the two authors utilize the colonial trope of the Indian-as-child to their advantage by capsizing the imagery, thus rejecting the original power of the symbol and claiming it as their own. The first section of this investigation provides certain contextual specifics related to the cultural and social environment of the Wayuu indigenous group, particularly regarding that experienced by women. The second chapter includes an explanation of the impact a book's genre and its "paratext" may have on the reception and interpretation of these texts, and additionally proposes that the colonial practice of infantilizing indigenous people appears in both the assignment of genre as well as in several extratextual elements surrounding the stories. Chapter three offers an in-depth analysis of five selected pieces of the Wayuu authors' writing and explores how the texts may be read on multiple levels. This close reading reveals several examples of overt criticism towards the hegemonic society as well as displays instances of a more subtle rebellion; both explicit and implicit messages effectively expose and protest the current conditions of abuse, oppression and injustice that continue to anguish the Wayuu people.

In my dissertation, I study a selection of little known Spanish and Cuban texts published during the Cuban War of Independence at the end of the 19th century. In this project, I provide a transatlantic approach of literary texts in various genres and subgenres, and political messages exchanged between Cuba and Spain, which have been neglected by scholars in the field. By analyzing the emergence of a colonial discourse in the works of novelists, politicians and thinkers who wrote about the Cuban-Spanish confrontation, I establish their ambiguous and frequently contradictory colonial messages. In doing so, this dissertation furthers our understanding of the complexities of the political moment as well as the interest and ideals that ignited the conflict. The study is of great relevance in view of the recent agreements between the United States and Cuba. The relations between the two countries are evolving in a way that was unthinkable at the beginning of the 20th century. Furthermore, secessionist feelings within the Spanish nation are reemerging and similar allegations and demands that brought Cuba to independence are in place. For all these reasons, it is necessary revisiting and comprehending the complex and, frequently contradictory, discourses that emerged in a moment, which was determinant for the development and future political attitudes of the three nations involved.

L’Amérique centrale s’est trouvée au centre de l’attention médiatique pendant les années 80 à cause de l’embrasement produit par les conflits armés et du fait de l’intérêt pour les témoignages liés aux revendications politiques. Le temps est venu de s’interroger aujourd’hui sur les voies empruntées par la littérature centre-américaine une vingtaine d’années après la signature des traités de paix. Cette question se trouve à l’origine de la présente étude : nous essayons de comprendre de quelle manière le roman contemporain s’intéresse à la construction des nouvelles subjectivités, quelles sont les nouvelles modalités de représentation propres à la fiction. La littérature centre-américaine contemporaine se présente de manière générale comme un domaine d’une grande diversité ; nous pouvons y lire une remise en question des contradictions, des luttes sociales et des discours dominants des sociétés de l’Isthme. Ces questionnements sont, à notre avis, reliés au texte littéraire du fait de la position privilégiée accordée à la subjectivité. Celle-ci a différentes manières de définir l’individu contemporain afin de renvoyer au lecteur toute une série d’énoncés tantôt intimistes, tantôt politiques et transgresseurs, qui montrent une crise dans la représentation des identités aussi bien personnelles que nationales. Jusqu’à quel point pouvons-nous considérer que la littérature centre-américaine contemporaine présente un renouvellement concernant les positions des sujets représentés dans les romans ? De quelle manière ces changements interagissent-ils dans une région conflictuelle, une région qui peine encore à définir sa propre identité ? Nous nous efforçons dans la thèse d’approfondir l’analyse des positions subjectives et des procédés littéraires ainsi que la démarche philosophique permettant la construction de nouveaux sujets-personnages dans un corpus constitué de romans publiés entre 1998 et 2009 par les écrivains suivants : Horacio Castellanos Moya, José Ricardo Chaves, Maurice Echeverría, Jacinta Escudos, Mauricio Orellana Suárez, Milagros Palma, Roberto Quesada et Uriel Quesada. Nous nous intéressons de manière particulière aux procédés narratifs mettant en rapport l’intimité et la subjectivité, avec la représentation des espaces corporels dessinés dans les romans, ainsi que les espaces géographiques et les lieux de la violence. Ces éléments vont dévoiler de nouveaux engagements et de nouveaux discours à un moment qui paraît dominé par la subjectivité. / Central America attracted greatly the media attention during the 1980s because of the armed conflicts and the increasing interest in testimonies linked to the political vindications. Now is the time to question the paths taken by Central American literature twenty years after the peace agreements were signed in the region. This question is found at the beginning of the present study on which we try to comprehend in what way the contemporary novel is interested in the construction of new subjectivities and in new means of representation specific to fiction. Contemporary Central American literature presents itself generally as a space of great diversity. We can read in it an important questioning of the contradictions, of the social struggles, and of the dominant discourses of isthmian societies. These questionings are, in our opinion, articulated on the literary text thanks to the privileged position given to subjectivity. It uses different ways to define the contemporary subject with the purpose of confronting the reader to a series of statements, intimist as well as political and transgressive, which express a crisis on the representation of national and personal identities. How far can we consider that contemporary Central American literature shows an important displacement related to the positions of the subjects represented in the novels? In what way said displacements interact in a conflictive region, a region which still has difficulties to define its own identity? On this thesis we make an effort to delve in the analysis of the subjective positions and in the literary and philosophical strategies which allow the construction of new subject-characters, in a corpus constituted of novels published between 1998 and 2009 by the following writers: Horacio Castellanos Moya, José Ricardo Chaves, Maurice Echeverría, Jacinta Escudos, Mauricio Orellana Suárez, Milagros Palma, Roberto Quesada, and Uriel Quesada. We are particularly interested in the narrative processes which relate intimacy and subjectivity with the representation of corporal spaces in the novels, as well as the geographical spaces and violence spaces. These elements will demonstrate new commitments and new discourses in a time that seems dominated by subjectivity.