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1	International Interventions: Rosario Castellanos (1925-1974) and Global Feminist Discourses Gallo, Erin 06 September 2018 (has links) 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. Feminism Intellectual Biography Mexican literature Rosario Castellanos
2	¿Y qué cree que no puedo? : La obra teatral El eterno femenino de Rosario Castellanos desde una perspectiva feminista. Bergström, Ellen January 2019 (has links) This essay’s main goal is to analyse Rosario Castellanos’s play El eterno femenino, published in 1975. Castellanos was an essayist, a poet, and novelist and played an important role for the feminist movement in Mexico during her time. In her work, she presents a stereotyped image of the Mexican woman and her history. Using humour and irony, she creates a satire which plays with the myth of the eternal feminine and ridicule gender stereotypes. This literary analysis is based on a feminist perspective. By examining the work through its social and political context and putting it in dialogue with the feminist literary theories, the primary aim is to receive a better understanding of the importance of the work. Having in mind the historical context of the feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s in Mexico and the modern feminist literary criticism which took off in the late 1960s, the investigation focuses on the relation between the play and the situation of the Mexican women and their position in society as well as the aspects of the understanding of gender historically. The results show us how the woman is presented, in the traditional roles of the Mexican society, as the virgin, the married woman, the mother and the housewife in a humoristic way. The connection between the work and the feminist wave in Mexico during the 1970s is seen through the protagonist Lupita who becomes aware of a historical and contemporary oppression. Castellanos creates a fictional universe where the woman can finally tell her own story. We discover the traditional role of women as well as their battle against it. feminism Rosario Castellanos Mexiko feminismo Rosario Castellanos México Specific Literatures Litteraturstudier
3	La memoria en imagen-tiempo: Los adioses de Natalia Beristáin Miller, Elizabeth Adriana 10 June 2021 (has links) Este estudio examina la teoría de la imagen-tiempo de Gilles Deleuze tal como queda representada en Los adioses (2017), con el propósito de plantear la eterna recurrencia del pasado en la vida de la escritora mexicana Rosario Castellanos (1925-1974). Además, explora las diferentes técnicas de imagen-tiempo que utiliza Beristáin tales como la yuxtaposición entre las temporalidades del pasado, presente y futuro que conforman las respectivas memorias del pasado y que, al ser combinadas con las vivencias del presente, representan una culminación de experiencias que permiten una nueva perspectiva del pasado. Con cada nueva perspectiva se presenta una dinámica representación de emociones y sensaciones que causan un choque afectivo y por ende hacen manifiesto el constante cambio a la otredad de la escritora. Rosario Castellanos Natalia Beristáin Cartas a Ricardo Los adioses imagen-tiempo Gilles Deleuze Arts and Humanities
4	A bilingual, critical edition of Rosario Castellanos’s Excélsior newspaper articles (1963–1974) Weddell, Cecilia Carmen 17 November 2022 (has links) For the last eleven years of her life—1963 to 1974—the Mexican woman-of-letters Rosario Castellanos published a regular article in the opinion section of the Mexico City newspaper Excélsior. This edition provides a selection of 65 of these 341 articles, in both the original Spanish and in translation to English, with editorial annotations illuminating the articles’ historical, literary, and textual contexts; it is accompanied by a chronology largely of Castellanos’s life and work, in particular detail for the Excélsior years, and by a catalogue of all her Excélsior opinion articles. / 2029-11-30T00:00:00Z Latin American literature Critical edition Excélsior Mexican journalism Mexico Periodismo Rosario Castellanos
5	Rosario Castellanos et l'altérité indienne dans la "trilogie du Chiapas" : une vision ethnocentrique de l'Indien mexicain Ruiz, Virginie 06 July 2010 (has links) (PDF) La " trilogie du Chiapas ", constituée par deux romans Balún Canán (1957), Oficio de tinieblas (1962) et un recueil de nouvelles Ciudad Real (1960) illustre l'affrontement entre les dominants blancs, héritiers de la Conquête espagnole et les dominés, les Indiens, dépossédés de leurs terres ancestrales. Aux yeux de la critique littéraire pratiquement unanime, Rosario Castellanos (1925-1974) donne une vision de l'Indien " de l'intérieur " très novatrice dans le courant littéraire indigéniste. Selon cette perspective, la trilogie apparaît comme un hymne à la parole indigène en lutte contre le silence et l'oubli. Notre travail effectue une nouvelle lecture qui interroge l'ambiguïté constitutive de la trilogie, comme preuve non pas de l'adéquation, mais de la fracture existante entre l'univers indigène et sa représentation littéraire. En confrontant l'histoire du Chiapas, la réalité ethnologique des Tzotzil-Tzeltal, la place de Rosario Castellanos au sein de l'indigénisme mexicain des années cinquante et sa production littéraire, nous démontrons que l'auteure offre une vision ethnocentrique de l'Indien qui véhicule l'idéologie indigéniste officielle. Les stratégies narratives mises en place par le recours à une perspective ethnique fictive, aux intertextes indigènes, aux mythes d'apparence maya ne servent pas à valoriser la culture indienne. Rosario Castellanos ne parvient pas à (re)connaître l'Indien dans son altérité, car, par delà sa dénonciation des injustices sociales, elle engage avant tout une réflexion sur l'intégration de l'Indien à la nation mexicaine et sur sa nécessaire acculturation. Amérique latine littérature du XXème siècle Rosario Castellanos Mexique Indien "trilogie du Chiapas" altérité
6	Educating Mexico in Emilio Fernández's Río Escondido and Rosario Castellanos's Balún Canán Dalton, David Scott 09 December 2011 (has links) (PDF) Following the bloody Revolution of 1910-1917, Mexican leaders took a great interest in rebuilding their devastated, war-torn country. In an attempt to further national unity, the post-Revolutionary regime sought to construct a unified, national identity. Many officials, such as José Vasconcelos, Mexico's first Secretario de Educación, viewed education as one of the keys to redeeming the nation. These government officials, empowered by their ideals and their sense of civic duty, worked to extend educational benefits to even the most overlooked segments of Mexican society. This thesis will examine two fictional texts that consider these efforts to transform and unify the nation through education in the post-Revolutionary years. Emilio "El Indio" Fernández's film, Río Escondido (1947), and Rosario Castellanos's novel, Balún Canán (1957), document the results of this federal intervention on behalf of its citizens in frontier towns far from the nation's capital. Nonetheless, Fernández and Castellanos provide very different appraisals of Mexico's post-Revolutionary education agenda. I view Río Escondido as official discourse because it lauds the national government initiatives to extend learning to all Mexicans and suggests that education will redeem the Mexican people. In Balún Canán, on the other hand, those in power utilize the education system to maintain control in society. Thus the novel criticizes failures within federal policies to provide education to less privileged sections of society. Despite their differences, both texts speak to a reality that Mexico dealt with during the mid-twentieth century when it attempted to solve its problems through education. Balún Canán education Emilio Fernández maestro rural official discourse redemption Río Escondido Rosario Castellanos rural school
7	La Búsqueda de la Identidad Femenina en las Novelas de Dos Autoras Mexicanas Shrefler, Carmen Lara 05 1900 (has links) The novel is one means by which writers can provide examples of the possibilities for women in patriarchal societies to seek greater independence. Sabina Berman (1955- ) and Silvia Molina (1946- ) are modern day Mexican novelists whose writings support the betterment of the female condition in this Latin American society. This study focuses on these two authors and describes and analyzes several of their female protagonists who can be characterized as being in search of their self-identity and self-realization. The novels of interest are La Bobe (2006) and La Mujer que Buceó Dentro del Corazón del Mundo (2010) by Sabina Berman and La Mañana Debe Seguir Gris (1977) and El Amor Que Me Juraste (1998) by Silvia Molina. The theoretical framework used to analyze these novels is based on The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir and on the writings of the Mexican author Rosario Castellanos. These novels provide examples of how women can challenge patriarchal social norms in order to seek their identity as an individual and their self-realization. However, to do this, women must be willing to accept the risks and costs that may accompany this self-searching. By seeking identity women can satisfy their longings and desires, but at the same time this may also produce undesired results. Nevertheless, these novels show that women have the ability to seek their personal identity if they take the initiative to do so. Patriarcado autorrealización subordinación second sex Simone de Beauvoir Rosario Castellanos. Women in literature. Self-realization in literature. Berman, Sabina -- Characters -- Women.
8	The child’s perspective of war and its aftermath in works of adult prose and film in Mexico and Spain Nickelson-Requejo, Sadie 01 June 2011 (has links) This dissertation investigates the literary and cinematic use of the child’s perspective to present the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War and their aftermath in several Mexican, Spanish, and international (Mexican-Spanish collaborative) narratives of the 20th and early 21st Centuries written by adult authors and filmmakers, and targeted for adult audiences. The Mexican narratives are Cartucho and Las manos de mamá by Nellie Campobello, Balún Canán by Rosario Castellanos, and Bandidos, a film by Luis Estrada; selected Spanish works are El espíritu de la colmena by Víctor Erice, Cría cuervos by Carlos Saura, and El sur by Adelaida García Morales; and both international works are films by Guillermo del Toro, El espinazo del diablo and El laberinto del fauno. I attempt to determine the textual or cinematic function of the child as first person (homodiegetic) narrative viewer in these works, and I study the different ways in which this child’s point of view is constructed in order to depict the overwhelming tragedy of war. I note patterns and diversities in subject matter presented by the narrative voice, and observe the characteristics of the child narrative viewer’s world and priorities (as presented by the authors and filmmakers), paying careful attention to how each perceives and understands his or her country’s violent upheaval and its aftermath. The theoretical framework of this investigation draws mainly from trauma theory, Gothic studies, and the tradition of the fairy tale. I illustrate how within the war narrative in addition to the author’s/filmmaker’s desire to recreate the sentiment that a child would evoke in adult readers and viewers, the child narrative viewer is employed for three main reasons: to play upon or against preexisting notions of the child’s innocence; to represent (possibly subversively) the nation; and as therapeutic means of returning to a paradise lost or creating a paradise never experienced. / text Children and war Child's perspective Child witness Mexican Revolution Spanish Civil War Nellie Campobello Rosario Castellanos Luis Estrada Víctor Erice Carlos Saura Adelaida García Morales Guillermo del Toro Cartucho Las manos de mamá My mother's hands Nine guardians Bandidos El espíritu de la colmena The Spirit of the beehive Cría cuervos Raise ravens El Sur The South El Espinazo del diablo The Devil's backbone El Laberinto del fauno Pan's labyrinth Spanish literature Mexican literature Campobello, Nellie, 1900-1986 Saura, Carlos, 1932- Toro, Guillermo del, 1964-
9	Through the Eyes of Shamans: Childhood and the Construction of Identity in Rosario Castellanos' "Balun-Canan" and Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me, Ultima" Nava, Tomas Hidalgo 09 July 2004 (has links) (PDF) This study offers a comparative analysis of Rosario Castellanos' Balún-Canán and Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima, novels that provide examples on how children construct their identity in hybrid communities in southeastern Mexico and the U.S. southwest. The protagonists grow and develop in a context where they need to build bridges between their European and Amerindian roots in the middle of external influences that complicate the construction of a new mestizo consciousness. In order to attain that consciousness and free themselves from their divided selves, these children receive the aid of an indigenous mentor who teaches them how to establish a dialogue with their past, nature, and their social reality. The protagonists undertake that negotiation by transgressing the rituals of a society immersed in colonial dual thinking. They also create mechanisms to re-interpret their past and tradition in order to create an image of themselves that is not imposed by the status quo. In both novels, the protagonists have to undergo similar processes to overcome their identity crises, including transculturation, the creation of sites of memory, and a transition from orality to writing. Each of them resorts to creative writing and becomes a sort of shaman who pulls together the "spirits" from the past, selects them, and organizes them in a narration of childhood that is undertaken from adulthood. The results of this enterprise are completely different in the cases of both protagonists because the historical and social contexts vary. The boy in Bless Me, Ultima can harmoniously gather the elements to construct his identity, while the girl in Balún-Canán fails because of the pressures of a male-centered and highly racist society. Rosario Castellanos Rudolfo Anaya Balún-Canán Bless Me Ultima Shamans Tomás Hidalgo Nava construction of identity Chiapas Mexico New Mexico Ladino mestizo Chicano Mexican American childhood Octavio Paz José Vasconcelos Gloria Anzaldúa René Girard Edouard Glissant Pierre Nora lieux de mémoire milieux de mémoire hybrid hybridity transculturation Fernando Ortiz Angel Rama syncretism written narration shamanism of letters Homi K. Bhabha colonial discourse mestizo consciousness sexism colonialism Tzeltal indigenista orality mestizaje transgression of rituals Paulo Freire Mexican literature Chicano literature Mexican-American literature transculturation and nature Virgin of Guadalupe curandera Amerindian roots racism Spanish conquest acculturation assimilation project of modernization imposed views Antonio Ladino girl Comitán racist society colonial dual thinking identity crisis creative writing sites of memory U.S. southwest Classics Comparative Literature

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