Tesis (Doctor en Filología)--Universidad de Valladolid, España, 2007. / Digitized and made available on the World Wide Web by Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, 2007.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2009. / Title from PDF title page (January 12, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-107).

Stuttgart, FH, Diplomarb., 2000.

Thesis--Michigan State University, 1973. / Bibliography: p. 192-196.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2005. / Supervisor: César Salgado. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of English, 2004. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references.

Nos travaux s’articulent autour de la construction identitaire par l’écriture des auteures de la diaspora cubaine à New York et s’appuient sur les autofictions de Sonia Rivera-Valdés et Jacqueline Herranz-Brooks. Ces auteures contemporaines, qui définissent les contours du sujet lesbien à travers érotisme et désir, déstabilisent les identités nationales, culturelles et sexuelles en mettant en scène des personnages qui évoluent en dehors de la norme, en marge du système politique, social et sexuel. Elles redéfinissent l’identité cubaine à partir d’une perspective intimiste, qui s’éloigne de l’image politisée. Notre approche littéraire et socio-historique éclaire les mécanismes de constructions identitaires des auteures au regard du contexte de production des œuvres. Les nombreux témoignages, auprès des auteures et des garantes de l’institution cubaine, nous ont permis d’identifier ce contexte littéraire et socio-historique dans lequel les auteures ont évolué et produit leurs œuvres. Sonia Rivera-Valdés et Jacqueline Herranz-Brooks, à travers leur trajectoire littéraire, se définissent en tant qu’auteure lesbienne dans un espace géographique fragmenté. Elles « fictionnalisent » leurs souvenirs pour retracer leurs parcours de vie, qui est la fois témoignage (discours qui révèle une situation socio-historique : être lesbienne à Cuba, la difficulté d’intégration des migrantes à New York) et en même temps fiction, leur permettant ainsi de projeter leurs idéaux. C’est donc entre témoignage et reconstruction du passé, ancré dans le présent de production, que les auteures se construisent dans un espace fragmenté entre Cuba et New York. L’écriture, ainsi que la photo pour Herranz-Brooks, en tant qu’actes créatifs leur permettent de refaire vivre leurs expériences afin de construire une identité en devenir d’auteure et de femmes lesbienne, migrante, cubaine de la diaspora. / My work deals with the building of identity through the writing of women writers from the Cuban Diaspora in New York. It focuses on autofictions by Sonia Rivera-Valdés and Jacqueline Herranz-Brooks. These contemporary writers, - who have a knack for defining the lesbian subject through the use of eroticism and desire- also manage to unsettle national, cultural and sexual identities by putting forward characters who develop out of the norm, away from the political, social and sexual system. These writers give a new definition to Cuban identity from an intimate perspective, which is far from the politicized image we know. My literary and socio-historical approach sheds light on the mechanisms of the construction of the identities of these women writers, considering in particular the context of production of their works. The numerous field surveys on the writers and guarantors of the Cuban institution made it possible for me to identify the literary and socio-historical context in which the women writers developed and produced their works. Through their literary careers, Sonia Rivera-Valdés and Jacqueline Herranz-Brooks describe themselves as lesbian writers living in a fragmented geographical space. They succeed in fictionalizing their memories in order to tell their lives. The text is both testimony – a narrative describing a socio-historical situation, being a lesbian in Cuba, the difficult integration of the migrants in New York- and fiction, enabling them to project their ideals. It is therefore in between testimony and reconstruction of the past anchored in the present that the women writers build a fragmented space between Cuba and New-York. Writing, as well as photography for Herranz-Brooks, seen as creation, made it possible for them to give life again to their past experiences so as to build themselves an identity as writers and as lesbian, migrant, Cuban women from the Diaspora.

This dissertation studies the cultural concept of “decadence” in Latin America during the nineteenth and twentieth century. It focuses on the reception of Cuban writer Julián del Casal (1863-1893) as an emblematic case. It approaches “decadence” in literary, sociological and historical terms, and relates its emergence (as cultural concept) to the legitimation crisis of colonialism brought about by the advent of industrial capitalism in the nineteenth century. The dissertation presents a comparative study of the relationship between fin de siècle and the twentieth century categorizations of the "decadent" and "degenerate" artist. Julián del Casal is analyzed as a cornerstone for such debates in three interrelated spheres: literary criticism in pre-Independence Cuba, including discussions on nationhood, art, culture, and literature; Latin American modernismo criticism, in particular the debates among writers and critics on the role of literature in fin-de-siècle Latin America; and twentieth-century literary reformulations of “decadence” among writers associated with the journal Orígenes. The dissertation combines theoretical approaches on the sociology of literature, cultural and Transatlantic theories of “decadence”, and close readings of archival material. This dissertation makes a contribution to bridging the gap between literary and cultural approaches to “decadence” as both a literary strategy and a cultural and political phenomenon. It asserts that, in order to understand the significance of “decadence” in Cuba and in the rest of Latin America, it is important to go beyond traditional approaches, which have circumscribed the study of “decadence” to the nineteenth-century, and have treated it merely as an aesthetic phenomenon. Instead, the dissertation highlights the significance of this concept, in the study of twentieth-century literature and politics, as a tool to revisit the impact of colonialism and nation-formation in Latin America.

Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses. / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / 2031-01-02

abstract: Contemporary criminological literature seldom studies important ethnic subgroup differences in crime and delinquency among Hispanic/Latino youth. Therefore, their risk for crime and delinquency is poorly understood in light of the enormous ethnic and generational mixture experiences within of experiences within the Hispanic/Latino population in the United States. Using social control theory and cultural evaluations of familism, this thesis examines dissimilarities in the risk for crime and delinquency, in addition to its relations with family unity, parental engagement, youth independence, and family structure among second generation Mexicans (n = 876) and second generation Cubans (n = 525) using data from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS) 1991-2006 (Portes and Rumbaut). The results concluded that second generation Cubans who obtained government assistance were more likely to engage in crime than second generation Mexicans. Consistent with social control theory, a major finding in this thesis is that presence of a family member who is involved in criminal activity increased crime within the sample of second generation Mexicans and second generation Cubans. Furthermore, in households less than five, second generation Cubans who have a delinquent family member were more likely than second generation Mexicans who have a delinquent family member to report criminal involvement, while in households greater than five, second generation Mexicans who have a delinquent family member were more likely than second generation Cubans who have a delinquent family member to report criminal involvement. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.S. Criminology and Criminal Justice 2012