Sökning: "American South"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 44 avhandlingar innehållade orden American South.
1. The Archival Life of Home Movies : Regional Reflections and Negotiated Visions of a Shared Past
Sammanfattning : This study investigates the ways in which private home movies are transformed into curated archival objects. Through the concept of the archival home movie, it explores the impact of preservation and content description on access, use, and, thus, regional historiography. LÄS MER
2. Ecologías extrañas : Lecturas postnaturales de poemas extensos latinoamericanos del siglo XXI (Roxana Miranda Rupailaf, Daniel Samoilovich y Luigi Amara)
Sammanfattning : This study discusses the articulation of a form of ecological thought grounded in a postnatural aesthetics in twenty-first century long poems from Latin America. I argue that the relationship between poetry and ecology, as analyzed in Latin American ecopoetry, and particularly in the long poem of the 70s and 80s, needs to be supplemented with a postnatural framework, in order to theorize the articulations of ‛the living’ ‒assemblages between human and more-than-human worlds‒ in the contemporary long poem. LÄS MER
3. "Me voy pal Norte" : La configuración del sujeto migrante indocumentado en ocho novelas hispanoamericanas actuales (1992-2009)
Sammanfattning : This study explores the representation of the undocumented migrant in the contemporary Latin American novel. Clandestine crossings have long been a theme in Mexican and Chicano literature, often narrated from a highly nationalistic working-class stance, but it is here argued that recent literary production on this problematic is significantly more heterogeneous. LÄS MER
4. Fibre Formations : Wool as an anthropological site
Sammanfattning : Contemporary debates on sustainability usually relies on standardised and normative categories, such as ‘social’ and ‘nature’, and on linear notions of time. This study explores a more complex perspective on the delicate borderlands between the ‘un-sustainable’ and the ‘sustainable’. LÄS MER
5. ”Me voy pal Norte”. La configuración del sujeto migrante indocumentado en ocho novelas hispanoamericanas actuales (1992-2009) : “Me voy pal Norte”. The Configuration of the Migrant Subject in Eight Contemporary Latin American Novels (1992-2009)
Sammanfattning : This study explores the representation of the undocumented migrant in the contemporary Latin American novel. Clandestine crossings have long been a theme in Mexican and Chicano literature, often narrated from a highly nationalistic working-class stance, but it is here argued that recent literary production on this problematic is significantly more heterogeneous. LÄS MER
