For civilization and citizenship: emancipation, empire, and the creation of the black citizen-soldier tradition examines the origins and evolution of black military service and its relation to how black and white Americans understood citizenship from the Civil War Era to the First World War. This dissertation analyzes how different generations of black soldiers pursued full, civic citizenship through their military service and formed their own vision of citizenship rooted in military service and how the War Department sought to deal with the tensions created by a biracial Army. While it asserts that a separate, black citizen-soldier tradition linking service and citizenship emerged over the course of the nineteenth century, this dissertation argues that this tradition was informed by and rooted in American military culture and traditions. Concentrating on the nexus of American racial ideologies, War Department policies, and black aspirations for citizenship, this dissertation not only reveals the early, firm connection between military service and citizenship among African Americans, but also reveals the ironic nature of the black citizen-soldier tradition. Far from simply examining black soldier’s failures to translate their service into fuller, civil status, For civilization and citizenship analyzes the unique ways in which black soldiers resisted American racial ideologies and the rise of Jim Crow as well as the overall Americanness of black efforts to attain citizenship. In contrast to other studies’ emphasis on either direct, nonviolent or armed resistance to white supremacy, this dissertation proposes that the black citizen-soldier tradition represented a distinct, powerful form of black resistance that manifested as accommodation to American civilization’s institutions and imperial agendas while seeking to fundamentally change their meaning and ethos. As black soldiers served in the armies of the Union in the American Civil War, those of the western frontier in the postbellum era, and those of overseas empire at the end of the nineteenth century, they confirmed their status as Americans while countering the dominant racial tropes of American civilization. For citizenship and civilization reveals the links between emancipation, empire, and changing meanings of citizenship in the U.S. through the black citizen-soldier tradition.

Este trabalho faz um estudo conjunto e comparativo dos romancistas José Martiniano de Alencar, brasileiro, e Manuel de Jesús Galván, dominicano. Foram analisados os romances O guarani e Iracema, de Alencar, e Enriquillo, de Galván. O objetivo da pesquisa foi demonstrar que a obra indianista dos dois romancistas apresenta como característica comum a criação de um mito fundador da nacionalidade. Em ambos, o mito proposto retrata a formação da América Latina como a fusão do elemento indígena e do elemento ibérico e a adesão aos valores da civilização ocidental trazidos à América pelos europeus. Os pilares que sustentam o edifício da civilização ocidental são a ciência grega, a religião cristã e o direito romano. Os enredos dos romances estão permeados de fatos, conceitos, personagens e episódios que ilustram o projeto inicial que foi implantado pelos portugueses no Brasil e pelos espanhóis na Ilha Hispaniola e demais territórios sob sua tutela, nos primórdios da colonização. Este projeto incluía a transferência para a América de todo o arcabouço institucional que Espanha e Portugal possuíam. José de Alencar e Manuel de Jesus Galván são conservadores, católicos e fiéis às tradições. Seus romances indianistas enaltecem as bases tradicionais sobre as quais se fundaram as sociedades latino-americanas, e refutam as tendências revolucionárias que pretendem solapar as vetustas tradições da civilização ocidental. Idéias revolucionárias que contestam os valores da civilização ocidental são vistas pelos romancistas em apreço como algo estranho à índole institucional dos países americanos. Neste sentido, a obra indianista de José de Alencar e de Manuel de Jesús Galván se distingue por um profundo sentimento patriótico, ao identificar os verdadeiros valores nacionais, enaltecê-los e empregá-los na tarefa de plasmar literariamente um mito fundador da nacionalidade. Nos romances indianistas de Alencar e de Galván, o mito fundador da nacionalidade é uma narrativa centrada em personagens excelentes, capazes de fornecer um exemplo à nação. Este exemplo é encontrado na nobreza que caracteriza aqueles personagens e à qual eles pertencem naturalmente por serem os membros de uma elite tradicional surgida espontaneamente e por méritos próprios. Exemplar também é a fé cristã de todos os personagens centrais e seu respeito pelos preceitos da religião. Igualmente exemplar é o respeito às regras de Direito Natural no arcabouço jurídico e institucional descrito pelos romancistas estudados em seus romances de fundação. Realizou-se ainda uma confrontação com a crítica corrente sobre os romancistas estudados com o fim de revelar os equívocos e o anacronismo das apreciações mais difundidas sobre suas obras. / This work is a joint study and comparison of novelists José Martiniano de Alencar, Brazilian, and Manuel de Jesús Galván, Dominican. The novels O guarani and Iracema, by Alencar, and Enriquillo, by Galván were analysed. The objective of the research was to demonstrate that the indianist work of the two novelists features in commom the establishment of a founding myth of nationality. In both, the proposed myth portrays the formation of Latin America as a fusion of Indigenous element and the Iberian element and the adherence to the values of Western civilization brought to America by the Europeans. The pillars supporting the building of Western civilization are the Greek science, the Christian religion and the Roman law. The plots of the novels are permeated with facts, concepts, characters and episodes that illustrate the initial project that was implemented by the Portuguese in Brazil and the Spanish in Hispaniola Island and other territories under their tutelage in the early days of colonization. This project included the transfer to America of the whole institutional framework that Spain and Portugal had. José de Alencar and Manuel de Jesús Galván are conservative, Catholic and faithful to the traditions. Their indianist novels extol the traditional bases on which are founded the Latin American societies, and refute the revolutionary tendencies that aim to undermine the time-honoured traditions of Western civilization. Revolutionary ideas that challenge the values of Western civilization are seen by novelists in question as something foreign to the institutional nature of the American countries. In this sense, the indianist work of José de Alencar and Manuel de Jesús Galván is distinguished by a deep patriotic feeling, to identify the true national values, exalting them and using them in the task of shaping literarily a founder myth of nationality. In the indianist novels by Alencar and Galván, the founding myth of nationality is a narrative centred on excellent characters, able to provide an example to the nation. This example is found in the nobility featuring those characters and to which they naturally belong to be members of a traditional elite that emerged spontaneously and by own merits. Exemplar is also the Christian faith of all the central characters and their respect for the precepts of religion. Also exemplary is the respect for natural law rules in the legal and institutional framework described by the novelists studied in their founding novels. It held even a confrontation with the current criticism of the novelists studied in order to reveal the misconceptions and the anachronism of the most widespread assessments about their works.

Este trabalho faz um estudo conjunto e comparativo dos romancistas José Martiniano de Alencar, brasileiro, e Manuel de Jesús Galván, dominicano. Foram analisados os romances O guarani e Iracema, de Alencar, e Enriquillo, de Galván. O objetivo da pesquisa foi demonstrar que a obra indianista dos dois romancistas apresenta como característica comum a criação de um mito fundador da nacionalidade. Em ambos, o mito proposto retrata a formação da América Latina como a fusão do elemento indígena e do elemento ibérico e a adesão aos valores da civilização ocidental trazidos à América pelos europeus. Os pilares que sustentam o edifício da civilização ocidental são a ciência grega, a religião cristã e o direito romano. Os enredos dos romances estão permeados de fatos, conceitos, personagens e episódios que ilustram o projeto inicial que foi implantado pelos portugueses no Brasil e pelos espanhóis na Ilha Hispaniola e demais territórios sob sua tutela, nos primórdios da colonização. Este projeto incluía a transferência para a América de todo o arcabouço institucional que Espanha e Portugal possuíam. José de Alencar e Manuel de Jesus Galván são conservadores, católicos e fiéis às tradições. Seus romances indianistas enaltecem as bases tradicionais sobre as quais se fundaram as sociedades latino-americanas, e refutam as tendências revolucionárias que pretendem solapar as vetustas tradições da civilização ocidental. Idéias revolucionárias que contestam os valores da civilização ocidental são vistas pelos romancistas em apreço como algo estranho à índole institucional dos países americanos. Neste sentido, a obra indianista de José de Alencar e de Manuel de Jesús Galván se distingue por um profundo sentimento patriótico, ao identificar os verdadeiros valores nacionais, enaltecê-los e empregá-los na tarefa de plasmar literariamente um mito fundador da nacionalidade. Nos romances indianistas de Alencar e de Galván, o mito fundador da nacionalidade é uma narrativa centrada em personagens excelentes, capazes de fornecer um exemplo à nação. Este exemplo é encontrado na nobreza que caracteriza aqueles personagens e à qual eles pertencem naturalmente por serem os membros de uma elite tradicional surgida espontaneamente e por méritos próprios. Exemplar também é a fé cristã de todos os personagens centrais e seu respeito pelos preceitos da religião. Igualmente exemplar é o respeito às regras de Direito Natural no arcabouço jurídico e institucional descrito pelos romancistas estudados em seus romances de fundação. Realizou-se ainda uma confrontação com a crítica corrente sobre os romancistas estudados com o fim de revelar os equívocos e o anacronismo das apreciações mais difundidas sobre suas obras. / This work is a joint study and comparison of novelists José Martiniano de Alencar, Brazilian, and Manuel de Jesús Galván, Dominican. The novels O guarani and Iracema, by Alencar, and Enriquillo, by Galván were analysed. The objective of the research was to demonstrate that the indianist work of the two novelists features in commom the establishment of a founding myth of nationality. In both, the proposed myth portrays the formation of Latin America as a fusion of Indigenous element and the Iberian element and the adherence to the values of Western civilization brought to America by the Europeans. The pillars supporting the building of Western civilization are the Greek science, the Christian religion and the Roman law. The plots of the novels are permeated with facts, concepts, characters and episodes that illustrate the initial project that was implemented by the Portuguese in Brazil and the Spanish in Hispaniola Island and other territories under their tutelage in the early days of colonization. This project included the transfer to America of the whole institutional framework that Spain and Portugal had. José de Alencar and Manuel de Jesús Galván are conservative, Catholic and faithful to the traditions. Their indianist novels extol the traditional bases on which are founded the Latin American societies, and refute the revolutionary tendencies that aim to undermine the time-honoured traditions of Western civilization. Revolutionary ideas that challenge the values of Western civilization are seen by novelists in question as something foreign to the institutional nature of the American countries. In this sense, the indianist work of José de Alencar and Manuel de Jesús Galván is distinguished by a deep patriotic feeling, to identify the true national values, exalting them and using them in the task of shaping literarily a founder myth of nationality. In the indianist novels by Alencar and Galván, the founding myth of nationality is a narrative centred on excellent characters, able to provide an example to the nation. This example is found in the nobility featuring those characters and to which they naturally belong to be members of a traditional elite that emerged spontaneously and by own merits. Exemplar is also the Christian faith of all the central characters and their respect for the precepts of religion. Also exemplary is the respect for natural law rules in the legal and institutional framework described by the novelists studied in their founding novels. It held even a confrontation with the current criticism of the novelists studied in order to reveal the misconceptions and the anachronism of the most widespread assessments about their works.

Overseas Shipwrecks: Depictions in Spanish and Portuguese Sources from the 16th Century PhDr. Jaroslava Marešová Abstract This dissertation analyses Spanish and Portuguese shipwreck accounts of the 16th century. These accounts were written mainly by survivors of catastrophic shipwrecks on overseas voyages to America and India and therefore belong to the huge corpus of works written in the 16th century about exploring and conquering new territories. But unlike the most of the written sources of the period, these accounts does not celebrate the overseas enterprise, they bring a new, tragic, perspective and describe the dangers and misery of overseas voyages. Portuguese shipwrecks accounts were very popular among the readers of the 16th century and therefore they created a kind of tradition. They are often seen as a specific genre and represent an important topic of the Portuguese literature of the 16th century and are studied by many Portuguese literary scholars. In this dissertation six Portuguese accounts are analysed, five of them written by survivors. There are not as many shipwreck accounts written in Spanish. The best known of them is the account by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. The second shipwreck account written in Spanish and analysed in this dissertation is the letter by Maestre Juan in which he...

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Orientador: José Alves de Freitas Neto / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T14:36:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vieira_FelipedePaulaGois_M.pdf: 1337919 bytes, checksum: 415ed55304105db092b286b8dd345f94 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: O presente texto de dissertação analisa os limites do Real Maravilhoso como conceito e discurso estético-político de representação da América Latina. A intenção é buscar nos debates entre os principais expoentes da chamada nova narrativa hispano-americana reflexões sobre a identidade do continente. Essa literatura iniciada nos anos de 1950 e continuada nas décadas seguintes é responsável por fomentar uma ideia de unidade latino-americana, criando um pastiche sobre aquilo que seria a América. Como salienta grande parte dos estudiosos do tema, a narrativa desse período, de maneira consciente, tentou realizar a busca de um centro do espaço americano e começou propensa a dar uma versão típica da nossa realidade: a América como espaço do maravilhoso. Divergindo dessa representação, na década de 1990 tem início o movimento McOndo, criado pelos escritores chilenos Alberto Fuguet e Sergio Gómez, para definir uma geração de novos escritores latino-americanos cuja principal característica era rechaçar o aspecto mágico que passou a ser o ?selo? dos autores do Real Maravilhoso. Analisar os limites e as implicações políticas desses discursos, assim como as formas através das quais os intelectuais da década de 1960 e 1990 representaram a América Latina, é o principal objetivo do trabalho / Abstract: This dissertation explores the limits of the Real Maravilhoso as a concept and an esthetic-political speech of Latin America representation. The purpose of it is looking for reflections about the continent identity through discussions among the main exponents of the new Spanish American narrative. This literature that was introduced in the 1950s and has been proceeded in the following decades is responsible for promoting a concept of Latin-America unity, creating a common sense of what would be America. As emphasized by many literary critics and historians, the narrative of this period, in a conscious way, tried to achieve the search of a center of an American space and began tending to give a typical version of our reality: America as a place of wonder. Diverging from this representation, in the 1990s the movement McOndo has begun, created by chilean writers Alberto Fuguet and Sergio Gómez, to define a generation of new Latin American writers whose main feature was to reject the magical aspect that became the "seal" of the Real Maravilhoso's authors. Analyze the limits and political implications of these speeches, as well as the intellectuals of the 1960s and 1990s represented Latin American, is the main objective of this study / Mestrado / Historia Cultural / Mestre em História

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.

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The problem of the present investigation may be briefly stated as follows: To make a comparison of the physical development, motor capacities, and strength of the Spanish-American and Anglo-American boys of the El Paso High School, El Paso, Texas.

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