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El acercamiento a la escritura femenina de El beso de la mujer araña y El cuarto de atrás
(2015-07-01)El concepto de la escritura femenina propuesto por la francesa Hélène Cixous quiere reinventar la escritura para crear una nueva forma de escribir que sea fluida, expresiva, y, sobre todo, libre de las convenciones literarias ... -
La deconstrucción de un binario a través del reflejo de un espejo en “Una consulta delicada” y “Entrevista con el Ángel” de Cristina Peri Rossi
(2013-05-01)La teoría queer está compuesta de varias teorías críticas sociales que abordan las facetas diferentes del género y de la sexualidad. Unos de los conceptos y términos de la teoría queer son prestados de las teorías de Simone ... -
Activist Efforts of the Mapuche People and Mapuche Advocacy Organizations to Preserve their Land Rights
(2001-01-01)The Mapuche people are the only indigenous group in Spanish America not to have capitulated to Spanish colonization. Then the nationalist Chilean government expropriated 94% of their original land holdings. The Mapuche, ... -
No Exit: Mario Vargas Llosa and the Peruvian Predicament
(2009-01-01)This paper, entitled ?No Exit: Mario Vargas Llosa and the Peruvian Predicament?, looks at three novels by Vargas Llosa: Conversation in the Cathedral, The Storyteller, and Death in the Andes. Each of these novels being set ... -
Translations for Language Teaching and Civic Engagement
(2012-07-01)Heritage Language education is a field that has gained recognition and interest in more recent years. A variety of studies and even a journal completely devoted to this subject have come up in the last decade. Within the ... -
Facing Translation: A reading on the untranslatability of Jean Cocteau's "Les Enfants Terribles"
(2005-01-01)Jean Cocteau?s murky and sensuous book, Les Enfants Terribles , if read with a linguistic and Derridean sensibility favoring flux and undecideability, is a novel written both using and against language. It is, hence, an ... -
Black Skin, White Masks : Fanon's Appropriation and Interpretation of Existentialist Phenomenology.
(2001-01-01)In his 1952 exploration of black identity in Black Skin, White Masks , Martinican psychiatrist and revolutionary Frantz Fanon approaches his personal experience of assimilation to European whiteness and alienation from ... -
Manuala Garcia and Jose de la Rosa: California Music
(1998-01-01)Within the nineteenth century alone, Californios lived under Spanish, Mexican, and United States forms of government. The lyrics of the songs produced at the time represent a literary/musical documentation of the Mexican ...
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