Critics have appointed various genres to Maria Zambrano's Delirio y destino. I write that Delirio y destino creates a new genre. The most encompassing generic framework for Delirio y destino is auto-biography, or an autobiography written with the added intent of biography.
I present Zambrano's life and times, the context of Delirio y destino, and the importance of generic definition. I review key critics' generic propositions, and supply Zambrano's definition of autobiography and confession. After showing the other genres as sub-genres to auto-biography, the thesis focuses on the text's confirmations.
I catalog Zambrano's generic postulations and goals in writing. I show Zambrano's life-writing as representative of the life-writing of peers, and her version of Spain. I expound Zambrano's individual self-discovery, and the national self-revelation and self-creation. I relate Zambrano's narrative style to auto-biography. My thesis reveals Zambrano's dual purpose of writing her life and that of her Spain, creating the assignment of auto-biography.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:RICE/oai:scholarship.rice.edu:1911/17686 |
| Date | January 2004 |
| Creators | Howes, Beth |
| Contributors | Kauffmann, R. Lane |
| Source Sets | Rice University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, Text |
| Format | 98 p., application/pdf |
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