Lic. en Lengua Inglesa - Tesinas

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    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, Cecilia
    This 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.
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    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, Cecilia
    Postmodernism 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.