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Romance Languages Theses and Dissertations
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Pisacane, Gerardo
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
In the era of online streaming services, the distribution of TV content has altered the old paradigm of the ‘one-way flow’ of media products. An Internet-distributed television such as Netflix enables shows to circulate ...
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Clementi, Jordan
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
DISSERTATION ABSTRACTTitle: Broken Boundaries: Alternative Futures in Women’s Literature of the Global South (1984-2006)
How do Black women in the Global South envision alternative futures which subvert the prescribed ...
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Youssefzadeh, Kiana
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)
What does it mean for a woman in or from an Islamic space to be liberated? My dissertation examines the works of five Francophone authors from Iran and Algeria—Marjane Satrapi, Négar Djavadi, Délphine Minoui, Assia Djebar, ...
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Vidal, Yosa
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
My dissertation questions the current cultural boom of fictional and non-fictional works on the politics of memory, characterized by a Manichaean rhetoric of heroes versus enemies, heroes versus traitors. I argue that ...
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Saedi, Maryam
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
This dissertation explores the complex and multifaceted concept of the Absurd, tracing its trajectory through history from its origins in France to its flourishing in contemporary Iran. At its core, Absurdity is the poignant ...
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Hadjivassiliou, Sheela
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
Fields like postcolonial studies widely deploy terms like multiculturalism, métissage (mixing) and créolité (creoleness) to describe the multiplicity of identity and heritage found in the regions of the global South. These ...
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Boyero Agudo, Lara
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
En este trabajo cualitativo que sigue una metodología de participación de acción, estudio el desarrollo de la conciencia crítica sociolingüística de la lengua y el género en doce hablantes bilingües latines en un curso ...
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Sotelo, Elizabeth
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
In “La crónica literaria urbana en Perú y México (1999-2022),” I explore the political significance of contemporary literary chronicles published in books to identify agencies and political operators. The theoretical ...
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Velasco, Javier
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
Esta disertación analiza el desarrollo de la estética literaria decadentista en Bolivia en conexión con las infraestructuras de urbanización del espacio a principios del siglo XX. A diferencia del decadentismo europeo, que ...
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Jaramillo, Jon
(University of Oregon, 2023-07-06)
The HIV/AIDS crisis in Latin America was overshadowed by the late phase of the Cold War, while authoritarian governments promoted discourses reflecting moral and ethical exceptionalism. People with AIDS (PWAs) experienced ...
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Regan-Maglione, Kevin
(University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)
This dissertation examines the queer prison testimonial practices in a graphic novel, three memoirs, and two films that reproduce a new kind of witnessing. The authors are Luca de Santis with illustrator Sara Colaone, ...
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Tweede, Cornesha
(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)
Chapter 1 is a thorough literary review and further discussion of the field and how Black women characters are conventionally perceived to discuss my own “second look” and my reading practices. The introduction also provides ...
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Tejada Lopez, Macarena
(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)
Gradually in Spain, the Blue Division—a volunteer corps of 47,000 sent by the Spanish fascist government to fight alongside Hitler in the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front (Novgorod-Leningrad area) between October 1941 and ...
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Plescia, Mariko
(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)
Time, Memory, and Justice in Chilean and Ecuadorian Documentary Film studies the relationship between a shift in temporality and emerging forms of political agency in Latin American documentary film. What became of the ...
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Serfozo, Eva
(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)
This dissertation examines discourses on the memories of both the Holocaust and of the national dictatorships in Spain (1939-1975) and Hungary (1949-1990). In both post-dictatorial societies, the narrative shift about the ...
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Cogan, Elizabeth
(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)
Writers of every period articulate a sense that the world is changing; in modernity, that constant change is intensified by an accelerating pace and comprehensive upheaval. Our reaction to change (personal, social, or ...
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Pérez Ibáñez, Doralba
(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)
This dissertation proposes a study of female Caribbean subjectivity based on corporeality. By establishing relationships that break racial, geopolitical, linguistic and cultural barriers that have historically separated ...
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Brenner, Natalie
(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)
This dissertation offers an alternative account of Jewish history and experience from within the post-Holocaust and postcolonial Francophone world through the study of six autobiographically-inclined texts written by three ...
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Sedano Naviera, Nagore
(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)
Since the 1980s, Spain has attempted to recuperate the intellectual legacy of the republican exiles who fled the country after losing the Civil War (1936-1939). However, in doing so, it has produced the recuperation-integration ...
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Gallo, Erin
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)
This thesis explores the international dimensions of Rosario Castellanos’ writings, which exhibit a constant—and evolving—preoccupation with feminist literature from across the world. The Mexican woman, public intellectual, ...
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