Lic. en Lengua Inglesa - Tesinas
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Item Re-writing the past from an ex-centric space : the revision and retrhinking of slavery in American hIStory in Morrison’s belloved and a mercy and in smiley’s the all-true travels and adventures of Lidie Newton(Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Concepción del Uruguay., 2015-12) Naef, Rocío ELiana; Chiacchio, CeciliaThis paper examines Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987), and A Mercy (2008) and Jane Smiley’s The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (1998) from a perspective which combines the fields of postcolonial and postmodern literary studies. Accordingly, this thesis aims at showing how these novels portray ex-centricity and, secondly, at explaining how, from an ex-centric perspective, they explore and revise the concept, understanding and implications of slavery in American history. Narrative devices and character portrayal are considered. Notion such as Hutcheon’s “the ex-centric” ([1988] 2004), Bhabha’s ([1994] 2004) and Mohanty’s (1986; 2003) “difference” and Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin’s “double colonization” (2000) are central to the present work which intends to provide a detailed analysis of the corpus, seeing how these categories operate in understanding and interpreting the texts and in creating a space from which to rethink and revise the history of slavery in the US in the times depicted by the novels.Item Perpetuation of the latino stereotype inatino writing : analysis of dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García and how the García girls lost their accents by Julia Alvarez(Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Concepción del Uruguay., 2016-12-16) Zitterkopf, Matías; Carrozzo, GloriaThe aim of this thesis is to study and show the effects of the overuse of the Latino stereotypes in Latino literature, which we believe does not deconstruct old conceptions and images but perpetuate them. The subjects of this analysis are two literary works read during the course of studies: Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García and How the García Girls lost their Accents by Julia Alvarez. These books helped us exemplify and support our ideas regarding the perpetuation of stereotypes since they use the common places of Latin America and the traits of its peoples. Having supported the theory with examples of the literary works chosen and having also included a chapter on stereotypes in films and the media, it was concluded that in some cases the use of old images of Latinos imposed by colonizers serve only as a colorful detail in Latino writing but do nothing to deconstruct negative stereotypes.Item Multiple border identities and code-switching : the case of fronteras americanas / American Borders by Guillermo Verdecchia(Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Concepción del Uruguay., 2016) Ghiglione, Marcela Paula; Spoturno, María LauraThe current thesis aims at gaining a better understanding of the dramatic text Fronteras Americanas/ American Borders by Guillermo Verdecchia (1993- 2011) in relation with the discursive construction of border identity through the use of code-switching. Following an interdisciplinary approach which combines the fields of Sociolinguistics and Postcolonial, Literary and Cultural Studies, the different instances of code-switching within the play have been analysed from various points of view. In line with Muysken’s (1997, 2000) patterns of alternation, insertion and congruent lexicalization, the case study offers an analysis of the structural configuration of CS in the dramatic text. The Markedness Model (Myers-Scotton 1989, 1993 and 1998) has also been deployed to interpret the social motivations for these linguistic switches from a functional perspective, focusing on the five maxims put forward by the author. This analysis has been enriched by the literary and cultural angles approached by Bromley (2000), Martin (2005) and Maver (2009), whose perspectives have been enhanced by the exploration of the concepts of third space (Bhabha [1994] 2004), home (Sarup 1996) and the formation of a border identity (Michaelsen and Johnson 1997; Ashcroft et al. (2000- 2007). The results of this interdisciplinary analysis revealed that multiple border identities are recreated by instances of code-switching in the dramatic text Fronteras Americanas/ American Borders (1993- 2011). Moreover, code-switching has proved to be a functional and cultural method for inscribing alterity and recreating a sense of a border home.Item Self-reflexive fiction : the red notebook in Paul Auster´s the New York trilogy(Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Concepción del Uruguay., 2015-12) Siri, María Verónica; Chiacchio, CeciliaPostmodernism represents a fertile terrain for metafiction, which embodies the act of writing about writing and in which the boundary between fiction and reality is so narrow and elusive that it occasionally disconcerts the reader. There are two major assumptions underlying this work: first, that postmodernism challenges the status of reality and fiction by postulating their blurring boundaries; and second, the belief that texts produce meaning and, thus, the novel conveys an explanation of the world and the way we understand it. Within that frame, we work on the hypothesis that the red notebook in Paul Auster‟s The New York Trilogy (1987) is not just an ordinary object in the plotline; it represents literature and the act of writing, at the same time that it constitutes a meaningful space that gathers reader and writer and which serves them to interpret the world. In order to demonstrate these ideas, first, we demarcate the theoretical framework around the concepts postmodernism, metafiction, self-reflexivity, mimesis and the status of fiction and reality. Then, we make a critical analysis of the red notebook in Auster‟s The New York Trilogy and we also examine his own The Red Notebook (1995) in order to find connections between both texts to the light of the theoretical concepts. On a broader frame, we take into consideration Auster‟s literary and critical position within American postmodern literature and American literary tradition.Item Books are where things are explained. Literature as the new repository of meaning in Flaubert´s Parrot (Julian Barnes) and Atonement (Ian McEwans)(Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Concepción del Uruguay., 2015-09) Granillo, María Paula Leonor; Aguilar, PaulaJulian Barnes and Ian McEwan, the two well-known writers whose novels Flaubert 's Parrot and Atonement respectively I intend to base this dissertation on, are mostly widely read and internationally recognized authors of contemporary British fiction and have already joined the ranks of classic authors of British literatureItem Female stereotypes in the novel The Agüero Sisters by Cristina García(Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Concepción del Uruguay., 2015) Martínez, Mariana Estela; Weller, Carmen Matilde PatriciaThe aim of this work is to explore the construction of Latino women stereotypes through the choice of vocabulary in the nov,I The Agüero Sisters by Cristina García . Lexical choices were selected and analyzed on r basis of Cultural Studies and Critica Linguistics. Our results mainly revealed the objectification and animalization of women with idealized bodies and relaxed attitudes tof ards their sexual life, which make men fall under their powerful spell.