Literatura hispanoamericana

A principios de 2002 se emitió el documental Els nens perduts del franquisme, basado en las investigaciones del historiador Ricard Vinyes sobre las presas políticas y sus hijos en las cárceles franquistas. Hasta ese día las pocas noticias que se tenían de las apropiaciones, venían del otro lado del Atlántico. Las dictaduras latinoamericanas de los años 70 habían marcado el mundo occidental con el fantasma de los desaparecidos y con el robo de[Leer más]

This dissertation examines the interchange between individual and social love, eros and philadelphos, in the writings of four Latin American poets of the Cold War era: Pablo Neruda, Ernesto Cardenal, Gioconda Belli, and Raúl Zurita. Chronologically, I frame this work beginning with Neruda’s return to writing love poetry in the early 1950s, up until the breakdown of collectivist movements in the late 1980s with the expansion of capitalism and the[Leer más]

In the field of study of the work of Julio Cortázar there are many studies about his celebrated stories and novels. Likewise, his first miscellaneous novel, La vuelta al día en ochenta mundos (1967), which has been examined in an academic thesis, has been analyzed (more individually than together), especially for the close relationship that exists between "Casilla del camaleón" and the poetic theory of the author. However, later we[Leer más]

This thesis explains Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez through its local and international context. It analyses the text as an important element of propaganda in Gaspar de la Cerda´s government, as viceroy of New Spain. In addition, the thesis deals with the importance of stereotypes and prejudices among European powers in the XVII literature and their influence in Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez. The research also defines the literary genre of[Leer más]

La tesis doctoral estudia la historia de la recolección del romancero tradicional en Hispanoamérica, la pervivencia del romancero tradicional en Cuba y República Dominicana, con un estudio comparativo de ambos corpus, y aporta un corpus completo de versiones de romances cubanos y dominicanos.[Leer más]