Critics have praised Roberto Fernandez's Raining Backwards since its publication in 1988. This investigation will use Mikhail Bakhtin's theories to show how the work challenges stereotypes and subverts authority by undermining cultural icons that Cubans and Americans revere. / Chapter I will focus on heteroglossia, the diverse language strata within one language. Chapter II studies polyglossia, and diglossia, more commonly known as bilingualism. Disglossia--the inability to speak in a language is also explored. Moreover, this chapter deals with chronotope and the subversion of authority. Chapter III focuses on structure, theme, motif, and dialogue. Chapter IV focuses on the different forms of parody and how the author uses parody to interilluminate other texts, or forms of authority. Chapter V, based on the background information provided in the previous chapters, focuses on the role of the speaker (author) of text and the idea of the traduttori traditorri as well as stylization. Chapter VI investigates menippea and skaz. Chapter VII explores choteo and carnival as well as post-modernism to conclude the study. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-01, Section: A, page: 0209. / Major Professor: Ernest Rehder. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1994.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77338 |
| Contributors | Deaver, William Ormond, Jr., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 164 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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