Browsing by Author "Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz"

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    Elegua's Surrealist shroud: Surrealism and Afro-Cubanism in the Negrista works of Alejo Carpentier and Wifredo Lam
    (2003) Robbins, Dylon Lamar; Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz
    The Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier (1904--1980) and painter Wifredo Lam (1902--1982) draw upon Surrealism in their representations of an Afro-Cuban religiosity in their early Negrista works. Through a comparison of Carpentier's ¡Ecue-Yamba-O! (1933) and "Historia de lunas" (1933) with a selection of Lam's works of the 1940's---"The Jungle" (1942), "The Eternal Presence" (1945), "The Wedding" (1947), and "The Visitor" (1950)---this analysis uncovers how both writer and artist use collage and a surrealist mood in representing certain aspects of Afro-Cuban religiosity, specifically Abacua ceremonial incantations, Itutu, and trance or possession. This thesis also attempts to unmask the limitations of these techniques as a representational paradigm in limning the Afro-Cuban.
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    Limites de La cuidad letrada: Alcances, limites, y cegueras
    (2006) Bonfield, Michael Casey; Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz
    This thesis studies the principal work of Angel Rama, La ciudad letrada (1984), as a focal point in the field of Latin American Cultural Studies. The analysis is carried out by first creating a close reading of the text, wherein the central concepts of the work are established and unpacked. This operation is important because the contributions and limits of the work have not been submitted to an extensive analysis in the critical literature. The theory of the Lettered City is then related to Rama's intellectual trajectory and to the critical assessments of selected authors. Finally, both the theory and its critics are analyzed from the present, in hindsight, in order to reach a critical balance of the contributions of both La ciudad letrada and its critics. We conclude that both have suffered from a certain silence on the voices of women, sexual minorities and other popular voices.
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    Narrativas e imágenes de la revolución y de la memoria: “Cenizas de Izalco” y la exposición “Inside El Salvador”
    (2009) Condon, Bianca Bettaglio; Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz
    En este trabajo de investigación se estudia la problemática del pasado histórico de El Salvador a partir de dos momentos coyunturales de su historia: 1932 y la matanza de campesinos, que ha sido reelaborado como contexto de fondo histórico en la novela Cenizas de Izalco (1966) de Claribel Alegria, y la guerra civil de 1979 a 1992, narrada a partir de la exposición fotográfica Inside El Salvador exhibida en la Universidad de Austin, Texas en abril de 2008. Además, se pretende demostrar cómo la acción de evocar y rememorar el pasado desde el presente permite construir y reconstruir las historias que quedaron al margen del discurso oficial, como una forma de rescate y de resistencia al olvido.
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    Rememoración y resistencia: Los efímeros relatos visuales del grupo Escombros (Argentina postdictadura) de 1988 al 2007
    (2008) Preti de Bertolusso, Maria; Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz
    En esta tesis se estudia cómo a través de los relatos visuales del grupo artístico Escombros , los conceptos de memoria nacional, social, colectiva e individual que han desarrollado en la vía pública de la Argentina en tiempos de postdictadura, son una forma de resistencia al olvido de las personas "desaparecidas" durante la dictadura militar de 1976-1983. Además, el análisis de las obras del grupo nos permite revisar el pasado dictatorial, donde el miedo, el horror y la tortura eran métodos utilizados para subordinar y exterminar a un sector, y silenciar a otro, provocando un trauma colectivo e individual, semejante al genocidio del Holocausto judío. El análisis de la obras intenta rescatar aquel pasado y reconstruirlo nuevamente desde el presente, procurando una nueva forma de rememoración y aprendizaje de una experiencia irrepetible.
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    The construction of Chicana identity in "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros
    (2006) Cepeda, Christine C.; Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz
    Two powerful Mexican female archetypes, La Virgen de Guadalupe and La Malinche, have had a powerful impact on the identities of Mexican American women for many generations. I will focus on the theories of Octavio Paz, a male Mexican intellectual, and Gloria Anzaldua, a Chicana feminist, among other critics, in order to unmask the limitations that these archetypes have imposed on women of Mexican heritage. In The House on Mango Street , the young protagonist, Esperanza Cordero, observes the women in her family and in her inner-city neighborhood as her only available role models. She observes their inability to defy traditional roles for women of Mexican heritage and experiences the effects of those patriarchal constructions in her own life. This analysis explores how one Chicana adolescent goes from childhood to womanhood while living on Mango Street and her refusal to accept those Mexican archetypes in an effort to construct her identity as a Chicana unwilling to conform to those ideals.