Browsing Hispanic Studies by Title
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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 ... -
Unity-in-Variety, admiratio, and Verisimilitude in the Interpolated Stories of Don Quijote, Part One
(2022)The interpolated stories included in Don Quijote, Part one have frequently been studied as oppositional to the main plot in function of thematic binaries such as literature-life, illusion-reality, truth-fiction, idealism-realism ... -
Women writers and the Mexican Revolution
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2003)The aim of this thesis is to explore how women are represented in novels written by women which have conflict as their central thematic concern. Consequently, it was necessary to examine the context in which these texts ... -
The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism
(2021)A comprehensive interdisciplinary volume with thirty-one essays divided into eight parts, The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism, part of the Routledge Handbooks in Translation and Interpreting Studies series, ...