Esta tesis examina cómo las narrativas de María Nsué Angüe, Joaquín Mbomio Bacheng, Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo, y Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel re-escriben la historia de Guinea Ecuatorial. Los autores articulan un discurso contestatario a las construcciones sociales afincadas por el discurso homogéneo colonialista. Los análisis textuales se realizan tomando en cuenta la vigencia cultural española en el discurso político nacional inmediato a la independencia del país en 1968. Las obras cuestionan la definición de la identidad guineana con respecto a la implementación de los valores culturales, históricos, lingüísticos, religiosos, y políticos en el territorio guineano. Las indagaciones, los rechazos, las condenas, y las rupturas que se analizan las representaciones literarias son posibles mediante el acercamiento teórico de la memoria. A partir de esta interacción discursiva literaria surgen nuevas interpretaciones que permiten entender la experiencia histórica del sujeto guineano.

Migration and exile due to human rights violations have long been key topics in Latin American studies. In the Colombian context, a compelling corpus of texts has surfaced that deals specifically with the phenomenon of forced internal displacement. Colombia is second only to Sudan in terms of the number of victims––some four million people––who have had to leave their homes and communities because of civil unrest. In this dissertation, I consider the socio-political construct of the displaced to be a homogenizing term used by the media and official discourse to refer to those affected by internal exile. This study centres on the uses and impacts of this identity marker at individual and collective levels within a cultural studies approach. In Chapter 1, I discuss three different genres: a novel, which references testimonio accounts, and a play that is partly based on both. The sheer diversity of characters that become part of the displaced category exposes relevant racial, ethnic, and ideological alliances that emphasize us-them relations. An analysis of Luis Alberto Restrepo’s film La primera noche, Chapter 2 deals with the juxtaposition of the rural and urban so as to expose the ramifications of dispossession at multiple degrees of individual and collective identification and examines effects of marginality by contrasting the conditions of the displaced against those of other marginalized populations. In Chapter 3, I argue that music is a tool of both denunciation and declaration through an analysis of a collection of songs written and performed by members of Afro-Colombian displaced communities. I study these vallenato and rap songs, fused with unconventional lyrics and musical elements, as testimonial texts that contest issues of land rights vis-à-vis collective identity and agency. Finally, Chapter 4 is a cross-examination of the shelter within a series of photographs. I first read the refugee centre as a bio-political space where residents are subject to extreme inhumane conditions, and I then show the shelter to be a space that elicits movements of solidarity and resistance, and counters the notion of the displaced as a homogeneous group.

Esta tesis examina cómo las narrativas de María Nsué Angüe, Joaquín Mbomio Bacheng, Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo, y Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel re-escriben la historia de Guinea Ecuatorial. Los autores articulan un discurso contestatario a las construcciones sociales afincadas por el discurso homogéneo colonialista. Los análisis textuales se realizan tomando en cuenta la vigencia cultural española en el discurso político nacional inmediato a la independencia del país en 1968. Las obras cuestionan la definición de la identidad guineana con respecto a la implementación de los valores culturales, históricos, lingüísticos, religiosos, y políticos en el territorio guineano. Las indagaciones, los rechazos, las condenas, y las rupturas que se analizan las representaciones literarias son posibles mediante el acercamiento teórico de la memoria. A partir de esta interacción discursiva literaria surgen nuevas interpretaciones que permiten entender la experiencia histórica del sujeto guineano.

This dissertation focuses on novels and films produced in the second half of the twentieth century that critique traditional notions of home in contemporary America to expand on the large body of work on American domesticity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These texts demonstrate the damaging power and overwhelming force of conventional domesticity, complicating traditional notions of home by speaking from positions of marginality. In each text, key figures react to limited ideologies of domesticity that seek to maintain sameness, silence, and servitude by enacting embodied resistance to domestic entrapment. The areas of convergence between the figure of the conventional, middle-class home, and the material and psychic reality of home disavow the expectations of the middle-class home ideal and offer real resistance to narrow, and often damaging, visions of home. These spaces allow for new conceptions of home and suggest that it may be possible to conceive of home as something other than fixed in place, governed by family and community, or created by prolific consumption of goods. In this way, this dissertation intervenes in the established binary of home/stability in opposition to mobility/freedom, which maintains the limits of appropriate ways of establishing and enacting domesticity along gender and class lines. By considering portraits of domesticity that are often left out of discussions of home in the United States my research intersects with a broad range of theoretical fields and discourses about mobility, historical and popular culture representations of the tramp, the body and surveillance, the home as spatial construct, and housekeeping as both oppressive and subversive. Drawing on historical and theoretical examinations of women within the home space, coupled with literary criticism and close-readings, I seek to determine the nature of confining domesticity and examine the varied ways that different groups of people respond to their entrapment. At stake in this dissertation is a deeper understanding of the ways that literary and filmic representations of home at the end of the twentieth century suggest a conflict between the ways that home and houses, are popularly represented and the fact that home remains a contested and dangerous space.

In this work it is presented the characteristics of the author, in consideration of biography, what critics wrote. Separate autobiographical motives from hers creative work. In this work are also presented main women characters characteristics and famous women from religion, films, literatures, cultures, pop cultures, also women who had influence to history, politics. Likewise are analyzed feminine titles who are defining family relations, work titles, vulgar and nice callings.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / A casa da infância é uma entidade bipartida: uma, a casa vivida na experiência indiferenciada de ser, um lugar-tempo do inaugural, do espanto, do afeto; outra, aquela que este lugar-tempo produz no imaginário daquele que dela se afastou, geográfica e temporalmente, a casa onírica. No sujeito, memória e imaginação não se dissociam, e somente assim é possível retornar ao lugar-tempo mítico desta casa primeva; a memória é então fonte (ou ponte) para esta celebração da ausência retornada viva através da transmutação da lembrança em narrativa processo constante nos indivíduos que as obras ficcionais buscam reproduzir. A presente tese, Do imaginário à narrativa: a memória da casa da infância, pretende explorar a memória da casa e a ficção indissociável a esta na construção de um pre-texto gerador de narrativa no sujeito e a forma como este processo é ficcionalizado em produções literárias contemporâneas que recorrem a ela como temática e estrutura / The childhood home is a double entity: one, the house lived in the experience indistinguishable from being, a place-time of the inaugural, of the awe in face of the new, of affection; the other, that which this place-time produces in the imaginary of one who distanced themselves from it, both geographically and in time, the oneiric house. In the subjects, memory and imagination do not dissociate one from the other, and it is only so that it is possible to return to this mythic place-time of the first house; memory is, thus, the source (or bridge) to this celebration of the absence come alive through the transformation of recollection into narrative constant process in the individuals which fictional works try to reproduce. The presente study, Do imaginário à narrativa: a memória da casa da infância, aims at exploiting the memory of the house and the fiction inalienable from it in the construction of a pre-text generator of narrative in the subject and the form in which this process is fictionalized in contemporary literary productions that recur to it as theme and structure

Mary Manjikian and other critics argue that post-911 apocalyptic Literature is anarchic, breaking away from the state through its destruction. This thesis challenges this claim, looking at the state through the abstract form presented by Deleuze and Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus to argue that while the state in its physical manifestation is indeed removed within the post-apocalyptic narrative, an internal desire for governance and a return to status-quo remains. Chapter 1 examines Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road in relation to this theory, particularly within the interactions between the father and son, showing that through the father, an argument can be made for the characters’ wish to return to a time where a physical state existed. Chapter 2 examines the relevance of the zombie narrative in relation to other “post-911 apocalyptic Literature” to examine both where these texts and media fit in relation to the state and contemporary culture – particularly in relation to politics. Through AMC’s “The Walking Dead”, the zombie narrative not only exhibits similar tendencies for a yearning of state power, but also expands the definition of a post-apocalyptic narrative, as when the state returns, not only is the narrative altered to one of dystopian fiction, the “other” becomes more ambiguous, as the zombies begin to pose little threat, leading to political tension amongst survivors. Chapter 3 and 4 examine the return to popularity of Lovecraft-esque fiction alongside the cultural infectiousness of the zombie. Beginning with Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu” and moving to China Miéville’s novel Perdido Street Station, the thesis will conclude with an examination of eldritch horror as an alternative to the post-apocalyptic in terms of rethinking the relationship of the state in contemporary culture, and arguing that the political “other” is now viewed as monstrous and difficult to define in a manner which zombies are unable to fully represent.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / A casa da infância é uma entidade bipartida: uma, a casa vivida na experiência indiferenciada de ser, um lugar-tempo do inaugural, do espanto, do afeto; outra, aquela que este lugar-tempo produz no imaginário daquele que dela se afastou, geográfica e temporalmente, a casa onírica. No sujeito, memória e imaginação não se dissociam, e somente assim é possível retornar ao lugar-tempo mítico desta casa primeva; a memória é então fonte (ou ponte) para esta celebração da ausência retornada viva através da transmutação da lembrança em narrativa processo constante nos indivíduos que as obras ficcionais buscam reproduzir. A presente tese, Do imaginário à narrativa: a memória da casa da infância, pretende explorar a memória da casa e a ficção indissociável a esta na construção de um pre-texto gerador de narrativa no sujeito e a forma como este processo é ficcionalizado em produções literárias contemporâneas que recorrem a ela como temática e estrutura / The childhood home is a double entity: one, the house lived in the experience indistinguishable from being, a place-time of the inaugural, of the awe in face of the new, of affection; the other, that which this place-time produces in the imaginary of one who distanced themselves from it, both geographically and in time, the oneiric house. In the subjects, memory and imagination do not dissociate one from the other, and it is only so that it is possible to return to this mythic place-time of the first house; memory is, thus, the source (or bridge) to this celebration of the absence come alive through the transformation of recollection into narrative constant process in the individuals which fictional works try to reproduce. The presente study, Do imaginário à narrativa: a memória da casa da infância, aims at exploiting the memory of the house and the fiction inalienable from it in the construction of a pre-text generator of narrative in the subject and the form in which this process is fictionalized in contemporary literary productions that recur to it as theme and structure

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-06-26Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:44:01Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 mendonca_sas_dr_assis.pdf: 680189 bytes, checksum: 4dd9247712b7e90d904a68f7c5a94bbc (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / O presente trabalho faz uma leitura de dez contos de Josefina Plá(1909-1999), escritora pouco conhecida no contexto latino-americano, especialmente no que diz respeito à prosa. As narrativas focalizam a mulher das classes pobres no universo feminino paraguaio e, nesse sentido, o estudo em questão abrange as relações entre a literatura e a vida social paraguaias, levando em consideração várias tendências teóricas literárias, culturais, especialmente no que concerne ao estudo das representações das relações entre o gênero feminino e os vários segmentos socioculturais do entorno local. Como referencial teórico nos valeremos dos estudos de Oscar Tacca(1983), Jonathan Culler(1999), das abordagens feministas de Michelle Perrot(2005), Elaine Showalter(1994), Ruth Silviano Brandão(1995, 2006) e Susana Moreira de Lima(2007), dos estudos culturais com Angel Rama(1982) e Cornejo Polar (2000) e da crítica sobre Josefina Plá e a literatura paraguaia com Ángeles Mateo del Pino(1994), Francisco Pérez-Maricevich(2009), Hugo Rodriguez-Alcalá (2000) e Miguel Ángel Fernández(2004). Com base nessas abordagens e diante de um contexto formado por confrontos culturais e por uma identidade configurada pelo hibridismo e por valores históricos, políticos, estéticos, religiosos e sociais em constante transformação, demonstramos que os contos de Plá apresentam como denominador comum as mulheres pobres vivendo papéis diversos e importantes na formação do processo identitário cultural paraguaio, principalmente as mulheres guaranis e mestiças. Observamos ainda a representação de uma mulher diferente daquela abordada com exclusividade pela historiografia local como heroína ou musa, uma vez que a mulher paraguaia, assim como as mulheres representadas pela escola romântica, sempre... / The present work is a reading of ten story by Josefina Plá(1909-1999), writer little-known in the Latin American context, especially regarding to the prose. The narratives focus on women from the poorer classes in the female Paraguayan universe and, accordingly, the study in question concerns to the relationship between literature and social life in Paraguay, taking into account various theoretical literary, cultural trends, especially in relation to the study of representations of the relations between female and various socio-cultural segments of the local environment. How we use of theoretical the studies by Oscar Tacca (1983), Jonathan Culler(1999), feminist approaches Michelle Perrot(2005), Elaine Showalter(19994), Ruth Brandão(1995, 2006) and Susana Moreira Lima(2007), cultural studies with Angel Rama(1984) and Cornejo Polar (2000) and criticism about Josefina Plá and Paraguayan literature with Mateo Ángeles del Pino(1994), Francisco Pérez-Maricevich(2009), Hugo Rodríguez-Alcalá(2000) and Miguel Ángel Fernández(2004). Based on these approaches, and in the presense of a context formed by cultural confrontations and identities shaped by hybridity and by historical, political, aesthetic, religious and social values in constant transformation, we have shown that Plá’s stories have as a common denominator poor women playing diverse and important roles in the shaping of cultural paraguayan identity process, mainly the guarani women and mixed-race. We also observed the representation of a different woman from that that was dealt with exclusively by the local historiography as heroin or muse, as the Paraguayan woman, and the women represented by the Romantic school, were always masked and idealized by the image... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

This thesis analyses representations of madness and mental illness in Scottish fiction from 1979. I begin by exploring the development of the relationship between Scottish identity on one hand, and madness and unreason on the other, arguing that in criticism of Scottish fiction, representations of schizoid experience are often understood as contributing to discourses centring on Scottish identity and the construction of a Scottish literary tradition. The contention of this thesis is that reading madness in this way often simplifies the complex relationship between representations of psychosis and other forms of unreason on the one hand, and political, philosophical and theoretical structures on the other. Its purpose is to proffer a corrective to this simplification and to develop a thematic mode of approaching Scottish writing. This thesis analyses representations of madness in the work of Alasdair Gray, Janice Galloway, Alan Warner, Elspeth Barker, Bella Bathurst, and Alice Thompson. In Chapter One, I discuss the relationship between madness, creativity and autonomy in Gray's Lanark, 1982, Janine and Poor Things; Chapter Two deals with the significance of traumatic experience to Janice Galloway's The Trick Is to Keep Breathing and Foreign Parts, and the environmental concerns of Alan Warner's Morvern novels form the basis of Chapter Three. The second section of the thesis deals with representations of madness in the work of three women authors. In my fourth chapter, I attempt to formulate an approach to Gothic stylistics by comparing the function of madness and other Gothic traits in Barker's O Caledonia and Bathurst's Special. The final chapter approaches Alice Thompson's enigmatic work by theorising how she aestheticises her concern with the limits of rational knowledge in The Existential Detective, The Falconer, and Pandora's Box. The purpose of this thesis is to place the writing of madness in Scotland within the context of broad literary and philosophical traditions. This contributes to the field of Scottish literary studies by widening its scope to think through questions raised by the representation of madness. In particular, it allows for the analysis of the ways these writers distinguish between madness and sanity, the nature of the distinction between reason and unreason, and the implications these questions have for wider epistemological inquiries into the nature of knowledge and narration. In doing so, it allows for engagement with current debates in literary theory, particularly feminist and ecologically-orientated criticism, affect theory and trauma, as well as asking how a concern with literary style and genre can contribute to readings of unreason.