BALLADARES UQUILLAS, MARIA AUXILIADORA
(2018)
UNA RARA INOCENCIA: EL DEBILITAMIENTO DE LA METÁFORA EN DALTON, ALEGRÍA, LEDESMA VÁZQUEZ Y WATANABE.
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
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Abstract
This dissertation focuses on the strategies by which the poetic creation of four Latin American writers–Roque Dalton, Claribel Alegría, David Ledesma Vázquez and José Watanabe–is raised as resistance in regards to the use of a worn-out metaphorical exercise by which the bodies of indigenous or “classless” peoples, of women, of members of the LGBT-IQ community, and of animals, respectively, are regularly treated as symbols or as allegory, in detriment to their own dignity and life. In the corpus taken into consideration, the reader encounters a poetic language that favors a focus on the material realm; as well as the dismantling of ideologies from which an entire social apparatus has been constructed that promotes violence towards bodies and their instrumentalization. In each case, the poem evolves into a discourse in which the possibility of affect and the power of relationships is preserved. Hence the negativity in Dalton’s poetry, Alegría’s use of the re-appropriation of myth, the consciousness of abjection in Ledesma Vázquez, and the detached journey in Watanabe.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
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| Date: |
31 January 2018 |
| Date Type: |
Publication |
| Defense Date: |
8 December 2017 |
| Approval Date: |
31 January 2018 |
| Submission Date: |
4 December 2017 |
| Access Restriction: |
No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
| Number of Pages: |
238 |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Hispanic Languages and Literatures |
| Degree: |
PhD - Doctor of Philosophy |
| Thesis Type: |
Doctoral Dissertation |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Latin American poetry - 20th century, Latin American poetry - 21st century, myths, animals, abjection |
| Date Deposited: |
31 Jan 2018 14:14 |
| Last Modified: |
31 Jan 2018 14:14 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/33599 |
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