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La conspiración de las gramíneas: estrategias de la literatura y la cultura visual latinoamericanas y latinx contemporáneas para una crítica de la plantación

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

Knowledge, Place, and Experience in the Migrant Journey: How Central American Migrant Youth Negotiate Violence in Mexico

Description:: This dissertation explores the experience of violence and precarity among Central American youth as they travel through Mexico to the United States. Based on a multi-sited ethnographic study conducted across Mexico from 2015 to 2019, I illustrate how the journey of these youth migrants is, in its basic expression, an...
Keyword:: Migration, Central America, Violence, Youth, Latin America, and Children
Subject:: Sociology, Social research, and Latin American studies
Creator:: Escamilla Garcia, Angel Alfonso
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15999 and etdadmin_upload_896810

Shaping Pablo Escobar in Colombian Newspapers

Description:: Pablo Escobar is not only part of Colombia’s cruel past but also of its very difficult present. Escobar was one of the first major modern drug traffickers, and the founder and head of the Medellín Cartel. He was responsible for more than four thousand deaths. He had an incalculable fortune...
Keyword:: Pablo Escobar, Colombian Newspapers, Persona, Humor, Metaphor, and The War on Drugs
Subject:: Journalism, Rhetoric, and Latin American studies
Creator:: Uribe Rincón, Catalina
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_761642 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15225

Uttering Sonic Dominicanidad: Women and Queer Performers of Música Urbana

Description:: Uttering Sonic Dominicanidad: Women and Queer Performers of Música Urbana Verónica Dávila Ellis What meanings are ascribed to the voices and sonic compositions of Caribbean and Latinx women and queer performers? What do their sounds tell us about Caribbean identity, gender, sexuality, and race? This dissertation centers the work of...
Keyword:: Women and Gender, Latinx, Dominican Music, Queer, Caribbean, and Performance
Subject:: Caribbean studies, Ethnic studies, and Latin American studies
Creator:: Dávila Ellis, Verónica Enid
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15299 and etdadmin_upload_765285

Entrance Forbidden to the Yiddish Theatres: Performance, Prostitution, and Protest in Buenos Aires (1900-1930)

Description:: Scholars of early-twentieth-century Buenos Aires—an international theatre hub— disproportionately emphasize Spanish-language performances. This tendency erases the histories of immigrant performing artists, such as Yiddish-speaking Jews who fled en masse to Argentina in order to escape rising antisemitism in Europe and Russia. By focusing on Yiddish theatre in Buenos Aires, this...
Keyword:: Sexuality, Gender, Buenos Aires, Yiddish theatre, Avant-garde, and Modernism
Subject:: Judaic studies, Theater history, and Latin American studies
Creator:: Markenson, Casey Tova
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_756700 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15198

Geografías de Indigeneidad: Espacio, Raza, y Poder en los Andes (1880-1930)

Description:: Geographies of Indigeneity: Space, Race, and Power in the Andes (1880-1930), reframes the intellectual construction of indigeneity as the structural principle informing the postcolonial nation in the Andes. My main claim is that Andean scientific elites defined indigeneity as an ethnicity attached to a territory, privileging only Inca-centric lineages and...
Keyword:: Indigeneity, Andean studies, Indigenous studies, Latin American studies, Cultural studies, and 19th century
Subject:: Native American studies, Literature, and Latin American studies
Creator:: Maradiegue, Walther
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: es
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15293 and etdadmin_upload_765080

“Welcome, American Brother”: Cultural Encounters Between Walt Whitman and Brazilian Writers

Description:: In December 1889, a few weeks after the monarchy in Brazil was replaced by a republican government, seventy-year-old USAmerican poet Walt Whitman wrote a poem called “A Christmas Greeting” to welcome the “Brazilian brother” into democracy. Though filled with hope and excitement for yet another republic born in the Americas,...
Keyword:: Poetry and Poetics, Lusophone Studies, Translation, Hemispheric/ Transnational Studies, Walt Whitman, and Brazil
Subject:: Comparative literature and Latin American studies
Creator:: Anzini, Patrícia
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_626611 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14455

Shaping the Body of the Nation: “Organicist Agrarianism” in 1930s Brazil

Description:: This dissertation explores an intellectual and political tradition that questioned the use of natural resources and the socioeconomic structures of rural Brazil in the early 20th century. “Organicist agrarianism” postulated an orderly transformation of the Brazil under the guidance of the state in the name of a natural and eternal...
Keyword:: Political history, Conservation, Intellectual history, Agrarianism, History of ideas, and Brazil
Subject:: History, Latin American history, and Latin American studies
Creator:: Bottura, Juri
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14522 and etdadmin_upload_639646

The Relationship between Domestic High Court in Latin America and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Description:: Abstract This dissertation aims to understand how the domestic high courts in Latin America rely on the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The “relationship between courts” is a phenomenon that happens in domestic and international politics when domestic high courts start to resist or follow international jurisprudence....
Keyword:: Domestic Courts, International Courts, Judicial Behavior, and Human Rights
Subject:: International relations, International law, and Latin American studies
Creator:: de Lima e Silva, Caroline
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_686324 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14837

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La conspiración de las gramíneas: estrategias de la literatura y la cultura visual latinoamericanas y latinx contemporáneas para una crítica de la plantación

Knowledge, Place, and Experience in the Migrant Journey: How Central American Migrant Youth Negotiate Violence in Mexico

Shaping Pablo Escobar in Colombian Newspapers

Uttering Sonic Dominicanidad: Women and Queer Performers of Música Urbana

Entrance Forbidden to the Yiddish Theatres: Performance, Prostitution, and Protest in Buenos Aires (1900-1930)

Geografías de Indigeneidad: Espacio, Raza, y Poder en los Andes (1880-1930)

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