Theses - Spanish and Portuguese
About this collection
Recent Submissions
-
Queer Genealogies in Transnational Barcelona: Maria-Mercè Marçal, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Flavia Company
(2017-09-26)This dissertation examines lesbian and queer desire in texts in Catalan and Spanish written in Barcelona, Montevideo, and Buenos Aires from the 1960s to the present. In the texts, desire includes but is not limited to the ... -
Naturalism Against Nature: Kinship and Degeneracy in Fin-de-siècle Portugal and Brazil
(2017-10-13)The present thesis analyses the work of four Lusophone Naturalist writers, two from Portugal (Abel Botelho and Eça de Queirós) and two from Brazil (Aluísio Azevedo and Adolfo Caminha) to argue that the pseudoscientific ... -
Based on True Stories: Representing the Self and the Other in Latin American Documentary Narratives
(2017-08-01)This doctoral thesis studies the relationship between journalism and literature in contexts in which freedom of speech is at risk. It takes as primary sources a variety of nonfiction, crónicas, literary journalism and ...
