Ce travail explore les représentations du corps mort dans des cuentos hispano-américains contemporains pour essayer d’établir par ce biais une typologie des rapports que l’être humain entretient de façon générale avec la mort. L’idée centrale que nous avançons est que la littérature reproduit un nombre limité de réactions universellement valables, se montrant ainsi capable de mettre à la disposition de ses lecteurs un inventaire étrangement fiable des attitudes qu’eux-mêmes, à l’instar des personnages, sont susceptibles d’aborder face à cet événement ultime. Le choix du cadavre comme protagoniste des récits étudiés s’explique par le fait qu’il soit la seule image concrète et tangible de la mort et que, par son apparence repoussante, il représente une terrible source de hantise qui conditionne et altère toute tentative paisible de se rapprocher de celle-ci. Le cadre théorique des mondes possibles littéraires qui posent la fiction comme expérience envisageable et la particularité formelle du genre littéraire du cuento avec sa petite étendue et son caractère auto-suffisant permettent la vision du texte comme espace tombal où gisent ces nombreux cadavres fictionnels. Le lecteur a ainsi accès de près au corps mourant/mort, froid, putride, puant, dépecé ou bien embaumé, et les expériences littéraires acquises de cette manière s’ajoutent à son effort d’apprivoisement de la réalité effrayante de la mort. / This work explores the dead body as it is represented in a number of contemporary Latin American cuentos in order to establish a typology of the different reactions of human beings in general when faced with death. I suggest that literature reproduces a limited number of universal behaviours in this situation and thus it gives readers a fairly reliable inventory of the attitudes that they, like the characters, are likely to adopt.The corpse as a protagonist of the short stories discussed here has been selected because it is the only concrete and palpable image of death and that, by its repulsive appearance, it represents a terrible source of fear which conditions and alters any intention of peacefully trying to come to terms with it. The theoretical framework of the literary possible worlds whereby fiction is seen as a potential experience, and the formal characteristics of the cuento, such as its reduced, self-contained nature, allow the text to be read as a funerary space where all these fictional dead bodies lie. The reader is thus brought into close contact to the dying/dead, cold, putrid, stinking, dismembered or embalmed body and the literary experiences he/she goes through help him/her to come to grips with the frightening reality of death.

Investigación de carácter cualitativo que recupera los imaginarios sociales a través de las historias de vida del colectivo Asociación de Taxistas Independientes del Callao, con el fin de entender la manera en que estos individuos construyen su relación con la ciudad. Esta aproximación, desde las teorías de la comunicación y los imaginarios sociales, desarrolladas principalmente por Hall, Baeza, Bourdieu, Gaggiotti, Simmel, entre otros, permiten visibilizar la interpretación del espacio a partir de sus recuerdos, problemas, necesidades y aspiraciones. Se analizan categorías fundamentales como la migración, la pesca en los años 50, el terrorismo, la estabilidad laboral y la situación económica actual, logrando acercarnos a un entorno cotidiano, a sus deseos de reivindicación y sensibilización, y al reconocimiento de una realidad pasada, presente y futura. Finalmente, se obtienen reflexiones sobre la problemática de una ciudad en cuanto a implicaciones económicas, sociales y culturales. / Qualitative study that represents the social imaginaries of an specific group, the Association of Independent Taxi Drivers of Callao, through their life stories. The purpose of this research is to understand the way in which such individuals construct and communicate their relationship with the city. This approach use communication and social imaginary theories by authors like Baeza, Hall, Bourdieu, Gaggiotti, Simmel, among others, to recognize the interpretation of the space through memories, problems, necessities and aspirations. The analysis of fundamental categories, which are found in shared stories, such as migration, fishing in the 50’s, terrorism, job security and current economic situation, allows the access to an everyday environment, the identification of desires for advocacy and awareness and the recognition of past, present and future reality. This input helps reflect about the problems a city faces in terms of economic, social and cultural implications.

The aim of this work is to understand the historic process which achieved the construction of the Latin American contemporary music movement in Belo Horizonte, more specifically, the Latin American Composer s Gatherings of Belo Horizonte, held in the years 1986-1988-1992-2002 sponsored by the Fundação de Educação Artística. It was also possible to get knowledge of their artistic cultural programs (works, composers, performers) in which one can found included the production of Brazilian music and music of Minas Gerais, as well as the theoretical questions presented in form of Thematic Panels. As for their importance not only in local, but national and international levels, the Latin American Composer s Gatherings have had a strong social impact in the city of Belo Horizonte in the decades of 1980-90, mainly through the academic scene, contributing to the musical formation of young composers and performers and for the structure of the musical composition area at the Escola de Música da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. As far as the common problems facing Brazil and Latin America on the above decades are concerned, a changing in favor of the Latin American contemporary music passed necessarily by the understanding that the politic and economic aspects were strongly connected with the cultural one. As for their production and musical diffusion, a major participation of all professionals - composers, performers, educators and musicologists - in the sense of interfering in the current teaching musical model practiced in institutions of fundamental, median and college levels. / O objetivo deste trabalho é compreender o processo histórico que levou à construção do movimento de música contemporânea latino-americana em Belo Horizonte, mais especificamente, os Encontros de Compositores Latino-americanos de Belo Horizonte, realizados nos anos 1986-1988-1992-2002, por meio da Fundação de Educação Artística. Buscou-se tomar conhecimento acerca de sua programação artístico-cultural (obras, compositores, intérpretes), na qual se encontram naturalmente incluídas a produção de música brasileira e mineira, bem como as questões teóricas apresentadas em forma de painéis temáticos. Diante da sua importância, não só em nível local, mas nacional e internacional, os Encontros de Compositores Latino-americanos tiveram um forte impacto social na cidade de Belo Horizonte nas décadas de 1980-90, principalmente no meio acadêmico, contribuindo para a formação musical de jovens compositores e intérpretes e para a estruturação da área de composição da Escola de Música da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Considerando os problemas comuns ao Brasil e à América Latina nas referidas décadas, uma mudança no quadro em favor da música contemporânea latino-americana passava necessariamente pela compreensão de que os aspectos político e econômico estavam intimamente relacionados ao cultural. Quanto à sua produção e difusão musical, conclamava-se uma maior participação de todos profissionais compositores, intérpretes, educadores musicais e musicólogos no sentido de interferir no modelo de ensino de música praticado nas instituições de nível fundamental, médio e universitário. / Doutor em História