Browsing Hispanic Studies by Title
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Feminisms at Work: The (Re)Production of Gender and Culture in Contemporary Galicia
(2022)Dynamic, multifaceted and multimodal feminist and woman-led artistic production has made its mark in the Galician cultural sphere in recent years. Non-canonical artistic formulations located on the fringes of, and often ... -
From ways of seeing to ways of being : a study of the phenomenological and ontological dynamics of vision in the fiction of Julio Cortázar
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2013)The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate that the dynamics of vision in the fiction of Julio Cortazar can be successfully analysed as paradigmatic of phenomenological ontology. A close and comprehensive reading of ... -
Galicia on the Move
(2020)If migratory processes inform and construct global imaginaries, discussions of the societal impact of Galician mobility remain as pertinent as ever. The Galician community has been characterized by the intranational and ... -
Imagination in novels and autobiography in letters : the female presence in Juan Valera's life and fiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2014)Juan Valera (1824-1905) left behind a substantial epistolary corpus. Some of the author’s letters have been destroyed over the years, others lost, but all those penned by Valera which still exist have been painstakingly ... -
Introduction: Can the Sendai Framework, the Paris Agreement, and Agenda 2030 Provide a Path Towards Societal Resilience?
(2022)The Global Risk Report 2021 highlights the portfolio of risks that may reshape the world in the coming years (WEF, The Global Risks Report 2021 (16th ed.). ISBN: 978-2-940631-24-7. http://wef.ch/risks2021, 2021). Although ... -
Kafka, Beckett, Onetti - a poetics of existential estrangement : notes towards the definition of a subgenre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2002)The following thesis was researched and written during the period October 1998 to September 2001 at Trinity College, Dublin. It originated as an investigation into the adequacy of the term 'existentialist' as applied to ... -
Language, Performance, Memory and Transculturation in the Jocs Florals Catalans of Cuba
(Environmental Protection Agency, 2022)This article studies the role of language, literature and performance in the consolidation of the Catalan community of Cuba, particularly through the literary prize Jocs Florals Catalans of Havana, celebrated in 1923 and ... -
Los pájaros are feliz and are dreaming about gwiazdy: Facilitating Translingual Creative Writing in the Primary Classroom
(2020)Although one in five state-educated children in England speaks a language other than English at home, there is little space in the National Curriculum for the expression of this linguistic heritage. In this article we ... -
Munster Landscape
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No es trágico fin, sino el más felice que se pudo dar : women's interrelationships in the prose of María de Zayas y Sotomayor
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2008)The enigmatic figure of Maria de Zayas acquired renown during her own lifetime for her two novella collections, Novelas amorosas v ejemplares and Desenganos amorosos, which were first published in 1637 and 1647, respectively, ... -
Of Monsters and Women: Feminist Response to Gender-based Violence in Galician Noir
(2022)This article contrasts strategies of resistance to gender-based violence in two examples of audiovisual media which draw on or subvert the burgeoning genre of Galician noir; season one of the TVG-Netflix hit O sabor das ... -
People of the Mangrove: A lens into socioecological interactions in the Ecuadorian Black Pacific
(2021)Adapted to survive in the interface between land and sea, mangroves are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. They are also highly adaptive to the imagination, with the theme of the mangrove being differently ... -
Responding to the challenge of political violence : the Catholic hierarchy in Northern Ireland (1921-1972) and the Basque Country (1936-1975)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2010)This thesis will examine the response of the Catholic hierarchy to political violence in Northern Ireland (1921-1972) and the Basque Country (1936- 1975). These were critical years in the political development of both ... -
Sketches of Black People by White Catalan-Cuban Intellectuals: Transculturation in Fernando Ortiz's and Jaume Valls's Afrocubanismo in 1920s Havana
(2020)The study of the raise of Afrocubanismo enables understanding of how, during the 1920s, Cuban nationalism adapted in order to exploit the recombinant qualities common to the territories of the Caribbean. Drawing on Fernando ... -
Staking a Claim: Dispute, Displacement and Galician Identity in Marta Rivera de la Cruz's Hotel Almirante (2002)
(2019)This article interrogates the depiction of Galician identity in the Spanish-language novel Hotel Almirante (2002), by Marta Rivera de la Cruz, the Lugo-born writer, journalist and Ciudadanos politician whose role as a ... -
Subverted gender, destabilised identity : how Love transcends desire in the queer tragedies of Federico García Lorca
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2004)This thesis attempts to demonstrate the centrality of the dialectical tension between physical desire and metaphysical Love in the theatre works of Federico García Lorca. The study is informed by contemporary queer theory’s ... -
Translingual Empowerment: Exophonic Women’s Writing in Catalan and Spanish
(2022)On claiming that a language constitutes ‘the only country without borders’, German-Bosnian writer Saša Stanišić taps into the multifaceted debates surrounding its role in literary practice. Throughout history, the global ...