Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2015, Spanish and Portuguese

This dissertation analyzes the construction of a pervasive social imaginary of unequal order in Central America between 1870 and 1900. This period was crucial in the region, which underwent a series of economic, political, and social reforms that would forever transform the natural and social landscapes of the isthmus. Although most of these structural changes have already been studied, it is still unclear how literary and cultural production intersected with the liberal elites' endeavors of social classification, economic modernization, and political institutionalization. This dissertation addresses that problem through theoretical elaborations on the social imaginary (Cornelius Castoriadis) and the distribution of the sensible (Jacques Ranciere). I specifically analyze three different types of cultural texts: household economy guides for girls and young women; cuadros costumbristas (sketches of manners); and sentimental novels and theater plays. Part 1 deals with the cultural measures that contributed to a symbolic and material division of public spaces and private spaces, both ruled by the rationale of capitalism. Chapters 1 through 3 study in detail the role of household economy manuals in the dissemination and implementation of the new capitalist logics of productivity, rationalization, and accumulation across the domestic or private spaces. Chapter 1 analyzes how these cultural texts created two opposing female archetypes: the "economic woman" or "productive housewife", figured as an agent of domestic modernization, and the "abject servant", a subaltern subject that would undergo a set of new domestic policies of surveillance, discipline, and exploitation. Chapter 2 addresses the role of the productive housewives in the implementation of new modes of regulation of time and desire within the urban households, while Chapter 3 covers the rearrangements in domestic spaces brought by the new concepts of comfort and hygiene. Part 2 deals with the simultaneous reo (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Abril Trigo (Advisor); Ana Del Sarto (Committee Member); Fernando Unzueta (Committee Member); Marta Elena Casaus Arzu (Committee Member) Subjects: Latin American History; Latin American Literature; Latin American Studies

Master of Arts, University of Toledo, 2021, Philosophy

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz has yet to achieve her proper place in the early modern canon of philosophy. For the past century Sor Juana, the 17th century Mexican nun and scholar, has been examined through different lenses—literary, gender studies, and Latin American philosophy. In this thesis, I argue for the need to examine Sor Juana's works through the lens of philosophy of literature. In three chapters, I look at two of Sor Juana's works and how she used the genres of letter writing and poetry to advance her philosophical ideas about women and herself. The first is a poem known as Hombres Necios or Foolish Men, and the second is a letter known as La respuesta a Sor Filotea or The Reply to Sor Filotea. Poetry and letter writing were some of the only genres permitted to women at this time. Sor Juana took advantage of this restriction and exploited the natural attributes of these two genres so that her arguments were less vulnerable to censorship. The first chapter examines Hombres necios through a philosophy of poetry lens. In the poem, Sor Juana asserts that there are sexual double standards that women suffer; these double standards are placed on them by men. Many scholars like Octavio Paz, Frank Warnke, Alan Trueblood, Electa Arenal, and Amanda Powell examine Sor Juana's poetry through literary or feminist lenses. I add to their interpretations and contribute to the philosophical discussion the idea that Sor Juana's poem creates a space for her arguments. By using the structure of the redondilla, or “little round one”, Sor Juana emphasizes different words to create double meanings and give words to the anger that women feel. The poem allows men a slight reprieve of guilt, before they are confronted with her conclusion that all men are to blame. The second and third chapter focuses on the similarities that Sor Juana draws between her own persecution and self-defense to that of Socrates found in Plato's Apology. By comparing the two defenses, we see parallels betw (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Ammon Allred (Committee Chair); Madeline Muntersbjorn (Committee Member); Manuel Montes (Committee Member) Subjects: Latin American Literature; Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2014, Spanish and Portuguese

Both Spain and Peru experienced protracted violent conflicts between insurgent groups and State forces during the second half of the twentieth century. In Spain, this involved Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), a radical Basque nationalist organization which sought Basque autonomy via armed struggle in a conflict which lasted from 1959 until 2011. In Peru, the insurgent threat was represented by Sendero Luminoso, a Maoist guerrilla insurgency based in the Peruvian highlands that sought drastic sociopolitical change within Peru. Sendero Luminoso launched what they deemed a people's war in 1980, and the bloody conflict that ensued continued until 1992. The damage caused by each of these conflicts was monumental, both in terms of the loss of human life and damage to infrastructure in both countries. In this dissertation I examine the depiction of these conflicts in a selection of Peruvian and Spanish novels and films. I argue that each work promotes a certain version of the conflict it describes, and that this can be revealed through an analysis of the humanizing and dehumanizing discourses at play in the representation of the actors in both of these conflicts. From Peru, I will examine Santiago Roncagliolo's novel Abril rojo (2006) and Fabrizio Aguilar's film Paloma de papel (2003). From Spain, I will analyze the novel Ojos que no ven (2010) by J.A. Gonzalez Sainz and the film Yoyes (2000) by Helena Taberna. In this work, I argue that these discourses of humanization and dehumanization affirm or deny, respectively, the humanity of subjects involved in these violent political conflicts. I assert that dehumanization is employed to legitimate systemic violence during a state of exception, while humanization serves to refute that legitimation by providing a more comprehensive image of the actors and their motivations. Furthermore, I signal the significance of the use of these discourses, as I consider these works to be part of a larger corpus from a number of disciplines that (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Ulises Juan Zevallos-Aguilar (Advisor); Ignacio Corona (Committee Member); Aurélie Vialette (Committee Member) Subjects: Latin American Literature; Latin American Studies; Literature

Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA), Bowling Green State University, 2024, Contemporary Music

The Festival Internacional de Flautistas en el Centro del Mundo has helped countless flute students across the globe to get an international education, increasing the development and knowledge of the next generations of musicians. This dissertation will explain how the Festival, through its abundance of rehearsals, performances, and masterclasses, has become an imperative resource for the growth of the international flute community. My intention with this document is to advocate for a more widespread dissemination of Latin American musical repertoire and educational opportunities and to build strong flute communities in every country, regardless of financial status or other limitations. This document also serves as a guide for flutists from any country who wish to benefit from the pedagogical ideas, repertoire selections, and historical performances from the Festival Internacional. Through historical and narrative methodologies, this research presents findings from over thirty years of festival performances and classes, including interviews with key guest artists and participants as well as a review of festival programs.

Committee: Teresa Sanchez D.M.A. (Committee Chair); Dominic Wells Ph.D. (Other); Elaine Colprit Ph.D. (Committee Chair); Kevin Schempf M.M. (Committee Chair) Subjects: Education; History; Latin American History; Latin American Literature; Music; Music Education; Pedagogy; Performing Arts; Personal Relationships; Social Research; Teacher Education; Teaching

PhD, University of Cincinnati, 2017, Arts and Sciences: Romance Languages and Literatures

The aim of this research is to explore the existence of a Latin American literature on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, more specifically in Spain. A tradition that has its origins in the figure of the Inca Garcilaso; which was consolidated at the beginning of the last century and whose evolution has increased in the present. This migratory literature together with other internal triggers has brought about an alteration of the traditional Latin American canon throughout the 20th century and its overcoming in 21st by a literature “en espanol”. This panorama leads me to glimpse a large number of young Latin-American writers with a presence in Spain during the last ten years, stimulated by the publishing world and by a long tradition endorsed by the vanguardias (avant-garde) first, later by the boom, and finally by the "Bolano phenomenon", and already consecrated within a concept of literature in Spanish, aspects that I cover in the first two chapters of this dissertation. Using the terminology of Dagmar Vandebosch, I have organized the literary production of these authors, through three narrative movements: cosmopolita (cosmopolitan), migrante (migrant) and radicante (radicalizing); which I have developed over three subsequent chapters and illustrated with the literary analysis of six novels : Monasterio of Eduardo Halfon, La pena maxima of Santiago Roncagliolo, Una tarde con campanas of Juan Carlos Mendez Guedez, Paseador de perros of Sergio Galarza, Un jamon calibre 45 of Carlos Salem, and Hablar solos of Andres Neuman. Finally, I consider relevant the contribution of all these aspects to the academic field with the clear objective of helping a better understanding of certain areas of study such as: migrant narrative, transatlantic studies, transnational narratives, the relevance of the publishing world, the Spanish-language narrative of the 21st century, the Hispano-American narrative of the 21st century and the narrative written in Spain in the 21st centu (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Patricia Valladares-Ruiz (Committee Chair); Andres Perez-Simon (Committee Member); Nicasio Urbina (Committee Member) Subjects: Latin American Literature

Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, 2015, Spanish

En el presente trabajo emprendo un analisis de uno de los rasgos mas esenciales de la novelistica del autor mexicano Jorge Ibarguengoitia (1928-1983): un aparato critico subyacente en su obra que plantea un debate sobre los modos de la representacion a la vez que cuestiona los discursos que adoptan los mismos. Ibarguengoitia presenta dicho aparato critico por medio de la relacion polifacetica y equivoca entre la realidad extraliteraria y la ficcion que forja en su obra. A partir de las obras Estas ruinas que ves (1975), Las muertas (1977) y Dos crimenes (1979)—la llamada trilogia del “Plan de Abajo”—subrayo una cohesion aproximativa y estilistica que cultiva Ibarguengoitia, producto de una base de recursos que emplea para lograr la presentacion heterogenea de la relacion entre la no ficcion y la ficcion. Esta base consta de los siguientes aspectos: primero, la concepcion de lo que yo denomino el espacio quimerico, el cual consiste en la invencion y el retrato detenido de la region ficticia del Estado de Plan de Abajo; segundo, los recursos narrativos que maneja el autor, los cuales comprenden elementos autorreferenciales y autorreflexivos, para alterar la percepcion de los discursos emitidos en su novelistica y desplegar este cuestionamiento discursivo a niveles metaliterarios, intertextuales e intratextuales; tercero, la enunciacion multiple o la heteroglosia, la cual permite una polifonia de voces que plasma una omnisciencia artificiosa y plantea una disparidad discursiva que impulsa que el lector cuestione todo discurso. Con la finalidad de senalar la mirada critica de Ibarguengoitia, analizo el espacio socialmente construido en su novelistica como puesta en escena de la que se vale el autor para comentar el poder del que disponen los discursos para tergiversar, fabricar y mitificar la verdad, lo cual influye en la percepcion y la presentacion de su realidad social. En sintesis, expongo que la trilogia del Plan de Abajo cimienta una fusion entre la documentac (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Amy Robinson Dr, (Advisor); Valeria Grinberg Pla Dr. (Committee Member); Francisco Cabanillas Dr. (Committee Member) Subjects: Hispanic American Studies; Hispanic Americans; Language; Latin American Literature; Literature; Modern Language; Modern Literature

Artium Baccalaureus (AB), Ohio University, 2015, Spanish

When 16th century Spanish conquistadors, friars, sailors, and elite men travelled to the New World, they encountered populations that both challenged and confirmed their preconceived notions regarding Amerindian peoples. As indigenous women of the Americas constituted an unknown entity to 16th century Spanish chroniclers, the way in which such authors represented them impacted both Renaissance and contemporary conceptions of indigenous women. Considering Amerindian writing was not well preserved, understandings of indigenous women often rely on the colonial documents that depict them. This thesis proposes that the Chronicles of the Indies, or cronicas de Indias, penned by Juan Gines de Sepulveda, Friar Bartolome de las Casas, Friar Diego de Landa, and Gonzalo Guerrero describe indigenous women in manners that can now be understood as constituting three possible representative archetypes: the woman known for her goodness, the unknown woman, and the woman known for her wickedness. Although it was likely unintentional, these chroniclers converted flesh-and-blood indigenous women from an unknown entity into the literary image of women known either for their goodness or their wickedness. This transformative process was carried out through the chronicler's depictions of women that accompanied their interpretations of the colonization of the Americas. In this way, Spanish chroniclers ultimately stereotyped the indigenous woman, attributing their European ideals to an unknown population. These male authors developed a pattern of literary appropriation that accompanied the physical possession of indigenous women throughout the conquest and colonization of the land that is today known as Latin America.

Committee: Daniel Torres Dr. (Advisor); Betsy Partyka Dr. (Advisor) Subjects: History; Latin American History; Latin American Literature; Literature

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, 2006, English (Arts and Sciences)

The Divine and Miss Johanna is a novel that began as a first-person tale of a spiritual woman who fell in love with someone else and left her husband. Her parents took the husband's side in the messy break up. Its title has varied from Blue to Runaway Wife to The Silver Lake. Should a reviewer classify the book as it was in its early stages, it would have been classified as “women's literature.” The author's journey as a writer has been at least as profound as the influences that created an entirely different novel—the study of modernism, postmodernism, gothic, magic realism, and the sublime as well as the effect professors' and writers' comments had on the author and her writing. The Divine and Miss Johanna evolved into a novel that blurs the boundaries between the American gothic tradition and the lush, lyrical world of magic. It is a book that questions what it means to be a Christian and the meaning of spirituality. Told in different voices, all of the characters move in spaces that a reader might interpret as real, as a projection of the character's unconscious, or, perhaps, as a space of deep denial. In turn, The Divine and Miss Johanna is negotiating the territory between American gothic and Latin American and African magic realism in a uniquely American way. The novel also explores the hypocrisy of Christianity and the import of faith. The author believes that the book now is literature—not “women's literature.” The critical introduction establishes the context in both the author's life and her readings and scholarly research for such hybridity.

Committee: Zakes Mda (Advisor) Subjects:

Master of Arts, Miami University, 2003, Spanish

This thesis compares four decadent or protodecadent fin du siecle novels (Sin rumbo (1885), De sobremesa (1896), Dionysis (1904) and El angel de la sombra (1926)) written in XIX century Latin America from a narratological perspective. Beginning with a discussion of the methodology used and its theoretical ramifications, this study proceeds to project a generic minimal story for the genre, followed by an outline of the fundamental character types that includes a discussion of leit motifs present in these novels. Finally, as a point of departure, a definition of decadence as found in these novels is offered as an introduction to the study of the individual works themselves. Individually, each novel is summarized and analyzed in terms of its own minimal story and subsequently compared to other novels of the period. At the same time, the characters of the novels are also analyzed. Close attention is paid to the features of particular interest such as the leit motifs and the particular innovations of each individual novel. In the Conclusion, the generic minimal story initially projected is compared to the minimal story of each novel to include the gamut of possible story features as revealed in the works study here in addition to other end of century novels.

Committee: Raul Ianes (Advisor) Subjects: Literature, Latin American

PhD, University of Cincinnati, 2012, Arts and Sciences: Romance Languages and Literatures

This dissertation brings a new approach to Valle y Caviedes studies by using the theory of professional fields proposed by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, in conjunction with Norbert Elias' work on court societies. Caviedes is considered the most significant satiric writer in the viceroyalty of Peru. His literary career is a crucial contribution to the Peruvian literary field of the 17th century and poses a particular interest regarding the relationship between the literary field and the field of power. My research focuses on Caviedes' position in the colonial literary field as well as on his interaction with the colonial field of power in the viceroyalty of Peru in the 1600s. The origins of the colonial literary field coincided with a moment of cultural splendor in the metropolis and received the influence of the Spanish Golden Age transforming it into a literature that manifests its own concerns and interests. The viceroys, who sponsored poetic communities and academies, brought Spanish court cultural to America. Accordingly, my work studies the relations between the writer and the court, as well as the cultural interaction between the viceroyalty and the metropolis. It is essential for this work to know how the literature of the writer emerged and to have an idea of his habitus by reconstructing his network of relations. The colonial literary field appeared in the context of a court society very similar to its Spanish metropolitan counterpart that established in the Peruvian viceroyalty a political, social and cultural system where the agents of this field tried to position themselves. Caviedes started being known in the colonial literary field and in Lima' society through his main symbolic cultural capital: his satiric poetry. In this literary practice, he satirized the authorities of the Peruvian viceroyalty. The satirical poetry in Caviedes' poems was part of the literary strategy that was motivated by the competitiveness and the search for distinc (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Carlos Gutierrez Ph.D. (Committee Chair); Armando Romero Ph.D. (Committee Member); Nicasio Urbina Ph.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Latin American Literature