Browsing by Author "Cane-Carrasco, James"
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Anzaldúan Theory: Frameworks of Self-Love, Healing, and Transformation
Cuellar, Amanda (2020-12-18)Approaches to the critical theory advanced by Chicana scholar Gloria Anzaldúa tend to focus primarily on the concept of borderlands or other concepts—such as El Mundo Zurdo, the Coatlicue State, mestiza consciousness, ... -
Balas y palabras: novela, testimonio y crónica sobre el sicario colombiano (1988-2023)
Florez Palacios, Edwin Leonardo (2023-05-12)This dissertation analyzes the sociocultural phenomenon of hitmen in Colombia through its literary representation during the last 35 years. During that time, the figure of the hitman acquired great prominence both in the ... -
Charro: The Transnational History of a Cultural Icon
Moreno, Gary (2014-05-09)This is a transnational cultural history of the charro horseman in Mexico and the United States. It begins with an analysis of the archetype in nineteenth century art and literature, exploring various works of visual and ... -
Defining Rights: Contesting the Contra War Through Human Rights Advocacy, 1981-1988
Moore, Erik (2018-05-12)Non-governmental organizations successfully limited U.S. support of counterrevolutionary guerrillas (Contras) in Nicaragua in the 1980s by advocating for peace through a lexicon of human rights. NGOs deployed their message ... -
A Different Shade of Green: Efraím Hernández, Chapingo, and Mexico's Green Revolution, 1950-1967
Caire-Pérez, Matthew (2016-05-13)This dissertation deals with certain undiscussed episodes in modern Mexican agricultural history. -
Foreshocks of Revolution: The 1960 Valdivia Earthquake, An Environmental Road Toward Socialism
Del Rio Cabral, Jimmy (2022)The 1960 Valdivia earthquakes set the stage for drastic change in the city of Valdivia, southern Chile, and eventual larger ramifications on the Nation. In 1969, the people of Chile accomplished the impossible, they elected ... -
Hotel Argentina: Pasos hacia una construcción de la identidad provisional en la literatura argentina contemporánea (1991-2011)
Sitya Nin, Carolina (2018-05-11)This dissertation proposes a theory of provisional identities conceptualized in the form of discourse innovations that operate as literary solutions to national identity crises and applies it to post-1990 works in Argentinean ... -
La amazona del Nuevo Mundo
De Lara, Christy (2023-05-12)This study analyzes the presence and function of the mythical figure of the amazon in the New World. Reading the testimonies of the European explorers through theories that examine the power of fear, the concept of social ... -
Paradigmas en la literatura posmoderna en autores centroamericanos: Ficcionalización del testigo, memoria historiográfica y compromiso social
Martínez Hyde, Yolany (2016-12-16)My disertación, “Paradigmas en la literatura posmoderna en autores centroamericanos: Ficcionalización del testigo, memoria historiográfica y compromiso social,” se enfoca en las obras literarias de los autores centroamericanos ... -
Recreating Main Street: Midcentury U.S. Expatriate Soft Power in the Heart of Mexico, 1930-1980
Kennedy, Courtney (2019-12-13)The American Colonists of Mexico City were used as conduits of and representatives for U.S. foreign policy and U.S. corporate influence in post WWII Mexico in a reconfiguration of the Good Neighbor policy. By using soft ... -
Red Soil, White Oil: Petroleum and White Supremacy in the Progressive-Era United States
Boxell, Mark (2020-12)“Red Soil, White Oil” explores how white settlers and federal officials in early-twentieth-century Indian Territory and Oklahoma erected a regime of petroleum extraction that undermined the property rights of Native ... -
The Revolution in Crisis: A History of Human Rights in Mexico, 1970-1980
Quezada, Ariana (2016-05-14)This work looks at the proliferation of human rights in Mexico in the 1970s. By looking at how the term entered Mexico, one can determine that individualistic notions of rights (human rights) proliferated in Mexico in the ... -
“TO SACRIFICE THE VITAL RHYTHMS OF THEIR BEING”: IMPAIRMENT, RESISTANCE, AND INDUSTRIAL CRISIS IN SÃO JERÔNIMO, RIO GRANDE DO SUL, 1944-1964
Williams, Cody (2019)This thesis mainly examines how Brazilian coalminers dealt with the consequences and opportunities presented them through Retirement and Pensions Institutes in a period of national and global tumult from 1942 to 1947. An ... -
Transforming Catholicism: Mexican-Origin People and the Catholic Church in San Antonio and Oklahoma City in the Twentieth Century
Perez, Jesus (2020-12)Transforming Catholicism examines the relationship between Catholic Social Justice and Mexican-origin people in San Antonio and Oklahoma City. The dissertation covers the twentieth-century but focuses on the period 1925-1992. ...