ABSTRACTThis dissertation explores how Afro-Latina narratives use historiographic metafiction and digital tools to reconstruct silenced histories, reclaim spiritual epist[...]

This dissertation investigates how the cinema of Kleber Mendonça Filho reflects and responds to the neoliberal reconfiguration affecting the Global South, with a particul[...]

This dissertation analyzes cosmological systems of African descent and how they depict a deeper, rooted connection between Africans in diaspora and traditional African re[...]

Although English and Spanish share some grammatical structures, they differ in their use ofthe subjunctive mood. As a result of this difference, the acquisition of the Sp[...]

Supported by the theoretical works of Mikhail Bakhtin, Michel Foucault, and GeorgesBataille, I intend to show how discourse and eroticism are used as strategies to subver[...]

The following study focuses on the evolution of national discourse in literature in Puerto Rico, through the lens of two women authors. Through an analysis of La casa de[...]

This thesis examines the Wounaan meu-Spanish language contact situation in Panama and puts into question the motivation for the frequent reportative use of dice(n) que in[...]

In Mala gente que camina (2006), Benjamin Prado employs strategies that are peculiar of the metafictional novel for the purpose of revealing among the most insidious of c[...]

The present study concentrates on the representation of the exile in the recent works of two renowned Algerian born French writers, Assia Djebar and Hlne Cixous. The anal[...]

Rafael Alberti (1902-1999), member of Generacin del (19)27, is well known for his love of painting, which has represented him in literary history as one of the most commi[...]

This study discusses the representation of childhood in two neo-regionalist novels in Brazilian literature: O Quinze (1930) and Vidas Secas (1938). It explores the contri[...]

In Brazil, the concept of racial democracy has consequently erased and ignored both Afro-Brazilian identity and literature; the existence of both is debated, and within a[...]

This dissertation examines the origins and continued presence of the literary figure of the tyrannical mother in the works of five contemporary Spanish novelists. With th[...]

Francisco de Osuna, who lived from about 1492-1540, is known for his six Abecedarios Espirituales, or Spiritual Alphabets. He is less known for Norte de los estados, his[...]

Adverbials are lexical resources which often duplicate the temporal/aspectual information contained within verb morphology. Research has shown that learners comprehend th[...]

Literature is a useful tool for teaching a foreign language. It is important to use correct reading strategies for a full understanding and comprehension of literary text[...]

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine a corpus of cultural productions from Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Spain that delve into various forms of state-sponsored[...]

The Generation of the 80s, which is represen ted by poets such as Lu is Garca Montero, Carlos Marzal, Vicente Ga llego, and Almudena Guzmn among others, reproduces dist[...]

The Tropicalia movement emerged in Brazil in the late sixties with the intent to renegotiate the criteria and meanings of a Brazilian national identity. Parallel and inde[...]

En este estudio se analizan las relaciones de poder entre los distintos personajes femeninos en los comics de superhroes. Partiendo de la hiptesis de que las diferencias[...]

The choice between Spanish copulas ser and estar is one that can be potentially difficult for Second Language Learners of Spanish. One structure in particular that often[...]

This dissertation is a socio-economic study of the Camorra as portrayed through Roberto Savianos book Gomorra: Viaggio nell'impero economico e nel sogno di dominio della[...]

Utilizing current theories of gender representation in horror film, the project of this thesis is to analyze the position of the female protagonists in Tesis, Abre los oj[...]

Comic literature, especially the comic strips published in newspapers, frequently reflects, and contributes to current issues of public debate. This project investigates [...]