Languages, Literatures, & Cultures Theses and Dissertations
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Item El Estilo Es Una De Las Formas De La Edad (Una Biografia De Martin Adan)(1992) Gargurevich, Eduardo; Mora, Jorge Aguilar; Spanish and Portuguese; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md)This study deals with the life and major works of the contemporary Peruvian writer Martin Adan, the literary name of Rafael de la Fuente Benavides (Lima, 1908-1985). The methodological approach used in this dissertation combines socio-criticism, stylistic analysis, textual explications and biographical narrations in an attempt to constantly relate life and writing, under the assumption that life, in both its personal and social dimension, can be illuminated by a study of the writings. In order to provide a satisfactory explanation for Martin Adan's statement that entitles this dissertation (EI estilo es una de las formas de la edad), our text includes an Introduction and eight chapters. In the Introduction we discuss how this study was born and our understanding of Adan's statement as an invitation to consider writing and life an indissoluble unity. This understanding therefore justifies the different methodological approaches that the reader will find employed in the study. In the first chapter we confront the problem of the double identity of Rafael de la Fuente Benavides and Martin Adan. In this first chapter we narrate the origin of both identities, trying to relate the two and discovering that the artistic existence of Martin Adan relies precisely on the continuous searching for such a relation. From the second chapter on, the study begins dealing with Adan's works in a chronological way. Thus, chapter two deals with his first publications, while the final chapter deals with those books that appeared in the final moments of the artist's life. This chronological development has allowed us to observe how Adan's works relate to the different events of his life. At the same time, our extensive research concerning Adan's life, the different versions of his published works, as well as his original manuscripts exemplifies the analytic approach that best fits our main goal: to observe the development of a writing practice and a life. While the different chapters may be considered as offering eight different ways to read Martin Adan, it must not be forgotten that throughout the whole dissertation, what lends unity to this investigation is the relationship between writing and life. Style, in Martin Adan's case, reflects the different approaches he takes to confront his most recurrent obsessions. And this exactly is what Adan is constantly saying: style is one of the forms of age.Item "From Dragonfly to Butterfly": Nation, Identity and Culture in Postrevolutionary Mexico (1920-1940) as Reflected in Nellie Campobello's Dance and Narrative(1998) de la Calle, Sophie; Cypess, Sandra; Languages, Literatures and Cultures; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md)This dissertation explores the question of identity in dancer and writer Nellie Campobello (1900-?) in post-revolutionary Mexico. I examine the evolution of her dance, her narrative and her poetry in the light of important cultural and political changes. Because a principal element in this discussion is the formation of a strong national identity, I have decided to study its effects on both her dance and her literary works. Part 1 considers the role of the Nation-State in articulating the postwar-self together with the role of prominent intellectuals such as Jose Vasconcelos; his impact upon a new cultural and Mexican aesthetic in which myth ___ j and symbols such as the National Stadium played a decisive role in imagining the nation. Part 2 explores the dance in the context of the polemical and radical 30s when Nellie Campobello emerged as a representative of the new aesthetics in which the "masculine" as opposed to the "feminine" redefined the national identity. The II stadium dance" and the 11 soldadera" were seen as best expressions for revolution and socialism in the Cardenas era. The focus of part 3 is the cultural and aesthetic shift from the radical and the "masculine" to the conciliatory and the "feminine". With the help of influential fatherly figures such as Martin Luis Guzman, a past member of the Ateneo de la Juventud, Nellie Campobello adapted herself to his classical tradition. From this point on this study focuses on literary texts to discuss her contributions to questions of identity. In part 4 I examine the formation of identity in the context of the rebelious and iconoclastic thirties reflected in Campobello's early poetry. I then study Cartucho and its rejections of myth and its recuperation of the forgotten men and women of the Revolution. Part 5 returns to the ambivalent relationship between Campobello and Guzman, sponsor of Campobello's new image. Her strategic alliance with a prestigious figure of "criollo" culture in the late thirties would help reshape the "coarse" Cartucho into the "refined" and spiritual image of Las manos de mama. Consequently, part 6 examines the effects and the consequences of her metamorphosis from the rebelious and authentic to the ambivalent and more "domestic" image of the feminine redefined by national myths.