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Description:: This dissertation explores the relationship between cultural production in Puerto Rico from 2005 to the present and the unfolding debt crisis on the island. I explore the relationship between colonialism as an institution, coloniality as a broader structuring of power, and the current debt crisis by examining cultural objects that...
Keyword:: debt, decolonial, popular culture, Puerto Rico, and literature
Subject:: Latin American literature
Creator:: Rivera Montes, Zorimar
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_879798 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15945

Description:: One of the challenges of interrogating the increasing precarity of living conditions in some regions of the Americas is seeking for a way of productively addressing the intersections between inequality, climate crisis, and systemic violence. This dissertation analyzes a corpus of contemporary Latin American and Latinx literary and visual works...
Keyword:: Estudios decoloniales, Ecocrítica, Estudios latinoamericanos, Literatura, Cultura visual, and Plantación
Subject:: Latin American literature and Latin American studies
Creator:: Gil Gómez, Leonardo
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: es
Date Uploaded:: 02/02/2022
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15828 and etdadmin_upload_856841

Description:: In this dissertation I examine the entanglement between female literacy and female sexuality in nineteenth-century Brazilian novels. I investigate the ways in which male authors used literature as a mechanism for policing female sexuality and stabilizing the traditional family. I argue that nineteenth-century Brazilian fiction exhibits a recurring preoccupation with...
Keyword:: Júlia Lopes de Almeida, Epistolary, Crime of passion, José de Alencar, Machado de Assis, and Marriage
Subject:: Comparative literature, Women's studies, and Latin American literature
Creator:: Vezzani, Cintia Kozonoi
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 10/06/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15702 and etdadmin_upload_841735

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