Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Full text release at OhioLINK's ETD Center delayed at author's request

I have investigated the theme of imposters in three Hispanic American plays and two Caribbean plays from the early twentieth century; I selected each play from a different country so that I can present a broader perspective of Hispanic American and Caribbean themes. In these five plays, the main characters fabricate their own identities for various reasons. My focus is on analyzing those imposters and on presenting how the dramatists present this type of imposters in their works. Identity is one of the most prominent themes in Hispanic American and Caribbean literature because the history of these regions involves a long period of European colonization. As a result of this colonization the cultures of these regions imitated European culture for centuries. For this reason the act of constructing a distinct American identity has been a struggle for Hispanic American and Caribbean writers. The five plays analyze this struggle by depicting main characters who pretend to be someone else and abandon their own identity. I have analyzed the imposters and incorporated findings from various studies that make a connection between the play and Hispanic American and Caribbean history. My goal is to demonstrate the historical circumstances that provoke the characters into falsifying their own identities. In the final chapter I will perform a contrastive analysis of the five plays and focus on their similarities and differences. Each of the five plays demonstrates a different circumstance, and the characters fabricate their own identities for a different reason. However, all five cases produce a negative consequence in the play or give the readers a negative impression of imposters.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1979. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 172-176). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-04-16Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:09:30Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 bonadio_fb_me_arafcl.pdf: 5274542 bytes, checksum: b48425be385dfb4df391cf3cb3211ad1 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Tendo em vista o momento educacional brasileiro e a necessidade de se trabalhar pela qualidade no ensino, especialmente na disciplina de língua portuguesa, o objetivo deste trabalho é oferecer aos professores de língua portuguesa do terceiro e quarto ciclos do Ensino Fundamental uma referência para a elaboração de práticas pedagógicas coerentes com os princípios estabelecidos pelos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais - PCN. Num primeiro momento, será feita uma leitura do conteúdo desse documento e a articulação de suas questões centrais com as entrevistas feitas com professores da rede pública de duas cidades do interior do estado de São Paulo. Num segundo momento, partir das conclusões obtidas nessa análise serão propostas atividades relacionadas às práticas lingüístico-discursivas requeridas pelos PCN, buscando um encaminhamento didático-metodológico coerente com os pressupostos dos PCN. / Having in mind the Brazilian educational moment and the need of working in teaching quality, specially in the Portuguese language subject, the purpose of this study is to offer Portuguese language teachers of the third and forth cycles of the basic education a reference to elaborate coherent teaching practices with the principles established by the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais - PCN. At a first moment, a reading of this document content will be done and the articulation of its main topics with interviews of some public school's teachers of two cities in the interior of the São Paulo State. At a second moment, from the conclusions obtained in this analysis, activities will be proposed related to the linguistic-discursive practices demanded by PCN, aiming at a didactic and methodological procedure coherent with the assumptions of PCN.

Thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-172).

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University of Macau / Faculty of Arts and Humanities. / Department of Portuguese

University of Macau / Faculty of Arts and Humanities. / Department of Portuguese

What is our relationship with nature? How do we represent nature in written text? The short stories that compose this book relate with how to address the interaction between mankind and the space it occupies on Earth. Cambió todo tanto offers different voices that tackle how human activity (precisely, industry) alter the physical realm. And how that alteration reciprocates in human behaviour and consciousness.