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1. Johnson-Ortiz, Aaron. Exile & Utopia.

Degree: MFA, School of Art & Design, 2010, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/77495

► The ampersand between the terms “exile” and “utopia” transforms a feeling of loss of home into a hope for a better world. That is the… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: History; Geography; Politics; Mexico; US; Transnationalism; Networks; Abstraction; Photography; Dossier; Trace; Collage; Surveillance; Subterfuge; Revolution; Resistance; Solidarity; Zapatismo; Ricardo Flores MagóN; Exile; Utopia; Art

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Johnson-Ortiz, A. (2010). Exile & Utopia. (Thesis). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/77495

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Johnson-Ortiz, Aaron. “Exile & Utopia.” 2010. Thesis, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/77495.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Johnson-Ortiz, Aaron. “Exile & Utopia.” 2010. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

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Johnson-Ortiz A. Exile & Utopia. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Michigan; 2010. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/77495.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

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Johnson-Ortiz A. Exile & Utopia. [Thesis]. University of Michigan; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/77495

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

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2. Pous, Federico. Beyond Incarceration: Prison Literature and Political Subjectivation in Cold War Latin America.

Degree: PhD, Romance Language and Literature: Spanish, 2014, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/109046

► My dissertation, Beyond Incarceration: Prison Literature and Political Subjectivation in Cold War Latin America, analyzes prison literature written about political prisoners’ experience during the military… (more)

▼ My dissertation, Beyond Incarceration: Prison Literature and Political Subjectivation in Cold War Latin America, analyzes prison literature written about political prisoners’ experience during the military dictatorships in Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay in the second half of the 20th century. I investigate how the political function of prisons was reshaped within the repressive strategies of Latin American states, by concentrating on specific moments in which prison breaks sparked public debate that altered the social perception of the political. Drawing on the historical, sociological, and political archives and debates of the times, I read Roa Bastos’ Hijo de Hombre, Manuel Puig’s El beso de la mujer araña, Augusto Boal’s Torquemada, and José Charlo and Aldo Garay’s film El círculo to unravel the underlying tissues of silences, erasures and oblivion, i.e. the political unconscious that shaped leftist subjectivities from within prison walls. My research intervenes in the cultural studies inquiry about Cold War conditions in Latin America: Since the end of the Southern Cone dictatorships, debates about cultural history in the area have been dominated by very valuable work dealing with the ‘politics of memory’. These post-dictatorship debates have centered on human rights but also on bearing witness to state violence and trauma via literature, testimonio, and film in subsequent years. While this has been very important work, it has tended to leave some questions from that period unaddressed. My research returns to the dictatorships during the Cold War in order to rethink the process of political subjectivation as it evolved in the “revolutionary” groups of the Left. Prisons are the unique theater for my inquiry. By intertwining historical events, prisoners’ testimonies, and prison literature, I examine anew the constitution of subjectivity that was being re-evaluated within prison as it came to impact broader social debates. My findings indicate that rather than bringing political activity to an end, the massive incarceration of militants actually converted the prison into a new site for political formation. Unpredictable folds in subjectivation developed leading to more intensified unity as well as more vigorous political critiques of the very movements to which the prisoners belonged. Advisors/Committee Members: Williams, Gareth (committee member), Alberto, Paulina Laura (committee member), Verdesio, Gustavo (committee member), Noemi Voionmaa, Daniel (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: My Dissertation Analyzes Prison Literature and Political Subjectivation About Political Prisoners’ Experience in Cold War Latin America; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Pous, F. (2014). Beyond Incarceration: Prison Literature and Political Subjectivation in Cold War Latin America. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/109046

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Pous, Federico. “Beyond Incarceration: Prison Literature and Political Subjectivation in Cold War Latin America.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/109046.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Pous, Federico. “Beyond Incarceration: Prison Literature and Political Subjectivation in Cold War Latin America.” 2014. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Pous F. Beyond Incarceration: Prison Literature and Political Subjectivation in Cold War Latin America. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2014. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/109046.

Council of Science Editors:

Pous F. Beyond Incarceration: Prison Literature and Political Subjectivation in Cold War Latin America. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/109046

University of Michigan

3. Collinge, David M. The Turning Wheel of Hostility: The E.T.A. in Literature and Film in Spain Since the 1970s.

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages and Literatures: Spanish, 2015, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113544

► Through an analysis of the terrorist subject, focused on the Basque separatist organization known as the E.T.A (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, 1959-2011), this dissertation demonstrates that… (more)

▼ Through an analysis of the terrorist subject, focused on the Basque separatist organization known as the E.T.A (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, 1959-2011), this dissertation demonstrates that a paradigm of war continues to structure Spanish politics. Scholars in Spanish cultural studies often avoid the contentious core of separatist violence, focusing instead on questions of identity, on the victims, or on the E.T.A's value as a historical reference. Faced with these positions, it is more important than ever to redirect critical attention to the intertwined realties of Spain's democratic present and its conflictive past. This study begins by considering the goals of the E.T.A and the paradigm of war that shapes the group, based on Carl Schmitt's understanding of politics as enmity. In this light, the E.T.A.'s assassination in 1973 of Spanish Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco, as retold in Eva Forest's Operación Ogro (1974), is analyzed as an act of war rather than a symbol for political transformation. This is developed through Rancière's critique of consensus in Dis-agreement and Derrida's work on hospitality. Then, the film La fuga de Segovia (Imanol Uribe, 1981) is read as emphasizing a practice of freedom, presented in Jean-Luc Nancy's terms, with unique implications for the functioning of democracy. Next, the split nature of subjectivity is examined in Ramón Saizarbitoria's novel Hamaika pauso/Los pasos incontables (1995). With the help of Derrida's discussion of a passive decision in The Politics of Friendship, it is argued that true decision is conditioned by the unconscious and, thus, cannot guarantee a specific political outcome. Finally, in a discussion of the consequences of symbolic and structural violence via Zizek and Derrida, it is shown that Spain's fixation on the victim's of terrorism results in the nullification of the political subject, risking the suppression of historical memory. This emptying of the political subject is problematized through a reading of Jaime Rosales's film, Tiro en la cabeza (2008), which proposes that reflections on memory and the victim must relate differently to death since it is human finitude (rather than the duration of memory) that makes a thinking of the past significant. Advisors/Committee Members: Moreiras-Menor, Cristina (committee member), Brown, Catherine (committee member), Highfill, Juli A. (committee member), Williams, Gareth (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Basque Nationalism, Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, ETA, Euskadi, Euskal Herria; Jacques Derrida, Political Theory, Hospitality, Freedom, Jean-Luc Nancy; Violence, Hostility, War, Historical Memory Law, Separatism, Terrorism; Gillo Pontecorvo, Operación Ogro, Eva Forest, Imanol Uribe, La fuga de Segovia, Angel Amigo; Ramón Saizarbitoria, Haimaika pauso, passive decision, Los pasos incontables, identity, Basque Studies, Robbe Grillet,; Jaime Rosales, Tiro en la cabeza, Slavoj Zizek, Victim, autoimmunity; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Collinge, D. M. (2015). The Turning Wheel of Hostility: The E.T.A. in Literature and Film in Spain Since the 1970s. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113544

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Collinge, David M. “The Turning Wheel of Hostility: The E.T.A. in Literature and Film in Spain Since the 1970s.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113544.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Collinge, David M. “The Turning Wheel of Hostility: The E.T.A. in Literature and Film in Spain Since the 1970s.” 2015. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Collinge DM. The Turning Wheel of Hostility: The E.T.A. in Literature and Film in Spain Since the 1970s. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2015. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113544.

Council of Science Editors:

Collinge DM. The Turning Wheel of Hostility: The E.T.A. in Literature and Film in Spain Since the 1970s. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113544

University of Michigan

4. Whitener, Brian. The Rise of Finance: Cultural Production and Politics in Mexico and Brazil after 1982.

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages and Literatures: Spanish, 2016, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/120910

► The Rise of Finance: Cultural Production and Politics in Mexico and Brazil after 1982 examines the impact of the rise of finance, or the turn… (more)

▼ The Rise of Finance: Cultural Production and Politics in Mexico and Brazil after 1982 examines the impact of the rise of finance, or the turn from production-based forms of accumulation to financial ones, on cultural production, social life, and subjectivity in Mexico and Brazil in the period from the 1982 debt crisis to the present. The first two chapters of this dissertation examine how cultural production reacts in the aftermath of the 1982 debt crisis and the process of state and capital restructuring which follows. In the opening chapter, I trace how Jorge Volpi’s En busca de Klingsor, in the face of financial indeterminacy, reconstitutes the racialized imaginary of the national popular, turning away from defining race via biology or culture, by specifying an “ontological” or moral division between good or bad subjects. The second chapter examines the same time period in Brazil and argues that the specificity of the post-82 period was not that of crisis (as in the Mexican case) but one of hyperinflation. As a result, the recomposition of the national popular form of social control which cultural production participates in takes a different form: again as a turn away from race thought as biology or culture but which is replaced in the Brazilian case by a spatial division between the formal and informal city. The chapters in part 2 of the dissertation argue that the post-2001 moment is marked by, in Brazil, what I term, “failed forms of financial corporativism,” or the attempted use of finance in the form of personal credit to bind subjects to the nation, and, in Mexico, a turn of the economy not to personal credit, but rather to “circulation” more generally (i.e., a turn away from the sphere of production into drug logistics, finance, and remittances) in which the state is unable to produce either processes of subjectivization or meaningful collectivities. Finally, in the conclusion, I examine what the twin conditions of increasing surplus capital and surplus population mean for our thinking of politics in Latin America. Advisors/Committee Members: Williams, Gareth (committee member), Wingrove, Elizabeth R (committee member), Jenckes, Katharine Miller (committee member), Rodriguez-Matos, Jaime (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Mexico; Brazil; finance; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Whitener, B. (2016). The Rise of Finance: Cultural Production and Politics in Mexico and Brazil after 1982. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/120910

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Whitener, Brian. “The Rise of Finance: Cultural Production and Politics in Mexico and Brazil after 1982.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/120910.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Whitener, Brian. “The Rise of Finance: Cultural Production and Politics in Mexico and Brazil after 1982.” 2016. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Whitener B. The Rise of Finance: Cultural Production and Politics in Mexico and Brazil after 1982. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2016. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/120910.

Council of Science Editors:

Whitener B. The Rise of Finance: Cultural Production and Politics in Mexico and Brazil after 1982. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/120910

University of Michigan

5. Dajes, Talia. Staging Terror: Violence and the Aesthetics of Civil War in Contemporary Peru.

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages & Literatures: Spanish, 2013, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/97973

► This dissertation examines the relation between aesthetics and the public sphere in Peru during the period of political violence (1980-2000) stemming from the conflict between… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Spanish; Peruvian Literature and Culture; Visual Art and Performance; Latin American Literature and Culture; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Dajes, T. (2013). Staging Terror: Violence and the Aesthetics of Civil War in Contemporary Peru. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/97973

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Dajes, Talia. “Staging Terror: Violence and the Aesthetics of Civil War in Contemporary Peru.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/97973.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Dajes, Talia. “Staging Terror: Violence and the Aesthetics of Civil War in Contemporary Peru.” 2013. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Dajes T. Staging Terror: Violence and the Aesthetics of Civil War in Contemporary Peru. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2013. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/97973.

Council of Science Editors:

Dajes T. Staging Terror: Violence and the Aesthetics of Civil War in Contemporary Peru. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/97973

University of Michigan

6. Marinescu, Andreea. Dialoguing Across Catastrophes: Chilean Post-Coup and Post-Dictatorship Cultural Production in the Works of Roberto Bolano and Raul Ruiz.

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages & Literatures: Spanish, 2010, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78743

► This dissertation examines how the works of Chilean diasporic artists, novelist Roberto Bolaño and Raúl Ruiz, question old forms of representation and their underlying assumptions… (more)

▼ This dissertation examines how the works of Chilean diasporic artists, novelist Roberto Bolaño and Raúl Ruiz, question old forms of representation and their underlying assumptions in order to open new conceptual spaces from which to think the political in the wake of the 1973 military coup. The texts examined respond to the destructive effects of certain ways of thinking about art, politics, and history. Nonetheless, the process of witnessing opens up the possibility of new spaces for political critique. Firstly, the texts work to dismantle what is perceived as the fixed unity of the political subject. Secondly, these texts connect aesthetic innovation to political innovation. Thirdly, they engage with the systematic exclusion of the feminine element in Latin American political thought. Chapter 1 analyzes Chilean exilic documentary and argues that, in contrast with Patricio Guzmán and Miguel Littín’s realist style, Ruiz privileges surrealist documentary in order to illustrate the crisis in the dominant political paradigm and the conceptual difficulties of its representation. In Chapter 2, a close reading of Ruiz’s Life is a Dream (1986), I establish that the film’s critical intervention in the original Baroque play opens up a space for the subject’s self-critique. I use Freudian theory to argue that Ruiz problematizes the concept of a transparent memory by exploiting the unconscious dimension of both memory and dreams. Moving from cinematic form to literature, my third chapter expands the discussion on the interrelationship between art and politics by analyzing Estrella Distante (1996) and Nocturno de Chile (1999) in order to understand the epistemological underpinnings of Latin American fascist discourse. Using Walter Benjamin’s theory of history, I argue that Bolaño sees fascist culture as desirous of autonomy from history or politics and he embarks on the discursive dismantling of that autonomy. My final chapter reads the maternal figure in Amuleto (1999) in order to show how Bolaño offers a feminist critique of the masculine underpinnings of Latin American revolutionary teleology. My reading reclaims an ignored maternal figure in order to reformulate a political practice of resistance informed by an ethics of care. Advisors/Committee Members: Williams, Gareth (committee member), Benamou, Catherine L. (committee member), Jenckes, Katharine Miller (committee member), La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence M. (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Roberto BolañO; RaúL Ruiz; Surrealist Documentary; Testimonio; Maternal Ethics; Chile; Humanities

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Marinescu, A. (2010). Dialoguing Across Catastrophes: Chilean Post-Coup and Post-Dictatorship Cultural Production in the Works of Roberto Bolano and Raul Ruiz. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78743

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Marinescu, Andreea. “Dialoguing Across Catastrophes: Chilean Post-Coup and Post-Dictatorship Cultural Production in the Works of Roberto Bolano and Raul Ruiz.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78743.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Marinescu, Andreea. “Dialoguing Across Catastrophes: Chilean Post-Coup and Post-Dictatorship Cultural Production in the Works of Roberto Bolano and Raul Ruiz.” 2010. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Marinescu A. Dialoguing Across Catastrophes: Chilean Post-Coup and Post-Dictatorship Cultural Production in the Works of Roberto Bolano and Raul Ruiz. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2010. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78743.

Council of Science Editors:

Marinescu A. Dialoguing Across Catastrophes: Chilean Post-Coup and Post-Dictatorship Cultural Production in the Works of Roberto Bolano and Raul Ruiz. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78743

University of Michigan

7. Wells, Robert Snider. Humanism and Deshumanizacion - Fiction and Philosophy of a Transatlantic Avant-Garde.

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages & Literatures: Spanish, 2011, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/86389

► This dissertation treats the narrative fiction, philosophical essays, and the revistas (cultural/aesthetic/philosophical journals) published and disseminated by the Argentine and Spanish avant-gardes between 1918 and… (more)

▼ This dissertation treats the narrative fiction, philosophical essays, and the revistas (cultural/aesthetic/philosophical journals) published and disseminated by the Argentine and Spanish avant-gardes between 1918 and 1936. I argue that the multifaceted relationships formed within this cross-cultural exchange are constituitive of a transatlantic avant-garde assemblage. The key compositors in this assemblage’s constitution are Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Jorge Luis Borges, and José Ortega y Gasset. Additionally, the translatlantic revista, Síntesis, is presented as a case study that confirms my hypothesis regarding the transatlantic nature of this specific avant-garde assemblage. Within this assemblage, the avant-garde’s aesthetic expressions and philosophical figurations of the human provide it its unique composition and consistency. As I further submit, avant-garde notions regarding the relationship between the human and the aesthetic can often be genealogically traced to German humanistic and anti-humanistic philosophies, such as those that emerge out of Kant’s Critique of Judgment, Schiller’s On the Aesthetic Education of Man, and Nietzsche’s general ouevre. A thinker trained in German philosophy, Ortega acts as the primary transatlantic avant-garde figure that rides an alternately transparent and turbid wave of thought and practice revolving around the human. In El tema de nuestro tiempo, La deshumanización del arte, and La rebelión de las masas, Ortega complicates and radicalizes certain humanistic concepts in the name of dehumanized aesthetics, hierarchical order, and reactionary politics. Ortega’s influence in Argentina can be seen in the work of Eduardo Mallea, whose book, Historia de una pasión argentina, recapitulates many of Ortega’s basic theses. Many other vanguardists receive racical ideas from both their avant-garde contemporaries and from the German philosophical tradition, though not all follow Ortega down a path toward conservatism. The Spanish writer, Pedro Salinas, utilizes a dehumanized aesthetic technique in Víspera del gozo, but does so in order to critique Ortega’s limited epistemological approach. Meanwhile, the Argentine novelists, Roberto Arlt and Macedonio Fernández, propose their own radical alternatives in hopes of freeing life from such limited models. Arlt does so in El juguete rabioso, Los siete locos, and Los lanzallamas, while Macedonio does so Adriana Buenos Aires and Museo de la Novela de la Eterna. Advisors/Committee Members: Highfill, Juli A. (committee member), Williams, Gareth (committee member), Colas, Santiago (committee member), Moreiras-Menor, Cristina (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Avant-garde; Humanism; José Ortega Y Gasset; Aesthetic Philosophy; Dehumanization; Macedonio FernáNdez; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Wells, R. S. (2011). Humanism and Deshumanizacion - Fiction and Philosophy of a Transatlantic Avant-Garde. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/86389

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Wells, Robert Snider. “Humanism and Deshumanizacion - Fiction and Philosophy of a Transatlantic Avant-Garde.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/86389.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Wells, Robert Snider. “Humanism and Deshumanizacion - Fiction and Philosophy of a Transatlantic Avant-Garde.” 2011. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Wells RS. Humanism and Deshumanizacion - Fiction and Philosophy of a Transatlantic Avant-Garde. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2011. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/86389.

Council of Science Editors:

Wells RS. Humanism and Deshumanizacion - Fiction and Philosophy of a Transatlantic Avant-Garde. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/86389

University of Michigan

8. Quin, Alejandro. Taming the Chaos: Nature, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Writing in Modern Latin America.

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages & Literatures: Spanish, 2011, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/89749

► This dissertation examines the relation between nature and sovereignty in 19th and 20th-century Brazil, Colombia, and Paraguay by focusing on the cultural production (literary and… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Nature, Sovereignty, and Writing in Modern Latin America; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Quin, A. (2011). Taming the Chaos: Nature, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Writing in Modern Latin America. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/89749

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Quin, Alejandro. “Taming the Chaos: Nature, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Writing in Modern Latin America.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/89749.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Quin, Alejandro. “Taming the Chaos: Nature, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Writing in Modern Latin America.” 2011. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Quin A. Taming the Chaos: Nature, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Writing in Modern Latin America. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2011. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/89749.

Council of Science Editors:

Quin A. Taming the Chaos: Nature, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Writing in Modern Latin America. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/89749

University of Michigan

9. Matos-Martin, Eduardo. Thinking Biopolitics: Reflections on Franco's Dictatorship through Contemporary Fiction.

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages & Literatures: Spanish, 2010, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/75902

► The purpose of this doctoral dissertation is to explore the Spanish dictatorial regime (1936-1975) from the point of view of biopolitics (including works by Michel… (more)

▼ The purpose of this doctoral dissertation is to explore the Spanish dictatorial regime (1936-1975) from the point of view of biopolitics (including works by Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, Maurizio Lazzarato, Toni Negri, Michael Hardt, Gilles Deleuze and others) by taking as its object of study a narrative corpus that includes Spanish literary and filmic works produced during the dictatorship and the early democratic period, together with contemporary productions framed in the current movement of the recovery of historical memory. Overall, this thesis analyzes Francoism from the angle of the biopolitical and tanatopolitical double matrix on which it was built and sustained, and finally, it further considers the movements of rupture that emerged against such domination. While previous scholarship on literary and filmic narratives of the Spanish fascist past have strongly emphasized issues such as memory and restitution of history’s victims, I take a different approach and investigate the ways in which these fictions intersect with political theory and ask: How does a dictatorial regime work? What are the structures of power of such regimes, and their impact on society? How do literary and cultural products uncover the complexities of the society built under such a regime? What are the implications of Francoist biopolitics for dissident identities such as the “reds”? For this purpose, this dissertation is divided into three chapters. The first chapter explores the repressive power of the Spanish fascist rule by analyzing the narratives of Julio Llamazares, Alberto Méndez and Isaac Rosa, Luna de lobos (1985), Los girasoles ciegos (2003), and El vano ayer (2004). My second chapter explores the normalizing power carried out by Franco, accompanied with the literary analysis of three novels: Miguel Delibes’ Cinco horas con Mario (1966), Antonio Muñoz Molina’s Ardor Guerrero (1996), and Max Aub’s La gallina ciega (1971). Finally, my third chapter explores the question of the opposition movements that managed to survive throughout the dictatorship in dialogue with my analysis of Guillermo del Toro’s film, El laberinto del fauno (2006), and Rafael Chirbes’ novel, La larga marcha (1996). Advisors/Committee Members: Moreiras-Menor, Cristina (committee member), Brown, Catherine (committee member), Highfill, Juli A. (committee member), Martin-Cabrera, Luis (committee member), Williams, Gareth (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Franquismo; Biopolitica; Literatura Espanola; Cine Espanol; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Matos-Martin, E. (2010). Thinking Biopolitics: Reflections on Franco's Dictatorship through Contemporary Fiction. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/75902

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Matos-Martin, Eduardo. “Thinking Biopolitics: Reflections on Franco's Dictatorship through Contemporary Fiction.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/75902.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Matos-Martin, Eduardo. “Thinking Biopolitics: Reflections on Franco's Dictatorship through Contemporary Fiction.” 2010. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Matos-Martin E. Thinking Biopolitics: Reflections on Franco's Dictatorship through Contemporary Fiction. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2010. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/75902.

Council of Science Editors:

Matos-Martin E. Thinking Biopolitics: Reflections on Franco's Dictatorship through Contemporary Fiction. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/75902

University of Michigan

10. Arroyo-Rodriguez, Daniel. Guerrilla Narratives in Spanish Contemporary Culture.

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages & Literatures: Spanish, 2010, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/77908

► Guerrilla Narratives in Spanish Contemporary Culture This dissertation challenges the historicity of war and peace that was first opened up by General Francisco Franco’s unilateral… (more)

▼ Guerrilla Narratives in Spanish Contemporary Culture This dissertation challenges the historicity of war and peace that was first opened up by General Francisco Franco’s unilateral declaration of the end of the Spanish Civil War in April 1939. The consensus has been that this war lasted from 1936 to 1939. But when we examine the historical and political through the prism of culture we can see that the hostilities persisted until the early 1960’s. Central to this reevaluation is the scarcely studied figure of the maquis. This term refers both to the guerrilla warfare and to the individual combatants who continued to fight until the early 1960’s. As a point of departure, my first chapter explores how the cultural discourse promoted by Franco’s regime in the 1940’s and 1950’s dehumanizes the maquis and deprives them of all rights so that they can be easily killed, as exemplified in the novel La sierra en llamas (1953) by Ángel Ruíz Ayúcar. In the second chapter I study the combatants’ self-perception as revolutionary militants in the novels Cumbres de Extremadura (1938) by José Herrera Petere, and Juan Caballero (1956) by Luisa Carnés. Moving from literature to cinema, in ¬¬-the third chapter I study the depiction of the maquis during the democratic transition that takes place in the second half of the 1970’s. Due to the ideological nature of these characters, their representation at this time is incompatible with the consensual discourse promoted by the overriding need for peaceful democratization. For this reason, the history and legacy of the maquis are displaced by official democratic discourse, as I discuss in relation to the film El corazón del bosque (1979) by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón. I complement this analysis in my fourth and final chapter, in which I explore marginal literary representations of these combatants in the 1990’s as part of the movement for the recuperation of historical memory. In this chapter, I analyze how the novel Maquis (1996) by Alfons Cervera reevaluates these characters as potentially transformational figures that can help us understand political power during Franco’s regime and in democratic Spain. Advisors/Committee Members: Moreiras-Menor, Cristina (committee member), Highfill, Juli A. (committee member), La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence M. (committee member), Williams, Gareth (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Spanish Civil War; Guerrilla Warfare; Maquis; 20th Century Spanish Peninsular Literature; Spanish Historical Memory; 20th Century Spanish History; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Arroyo-Rodriguez, D. (2010). Guerrilla Narratives in Spanish Contemporary Culture. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/77908

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Arroyo-Rodriguez, Daniel. “Guerrilla Narratives in Spanish Contemporary Culture.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/77908.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Arroyo-Rodriguez, Daniel. “Guerrilla Narratives in Spanish Contemporary Culture.” 2010. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Arroyo-Rodriguez D. Guerrilla Narratives in Spanish Contemporary Culture. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2010. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/77908.

Council of Science Editors:

Arroyo-Rodriguez D. Guerrilla Narratives in Spanish Contemporary Culture. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/77908

University of Michigan

11. Naser Rocha, Lucia. De la politizacion de la danza a la dancificacion de la politica.

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages & Literatures: Spanish, 2017, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138454

► This dissertation moves from the analysis of the ways contemporary dance is politicized in the Brazilian cultural field to the massive protests that shook many… (more)

▼ This dissertation moves from the analysis of the ways contemporary dance is politicized in the Brazilian cultural field to the massive protests that shook many cities of that country since June 2013, read as choreography. The dissertation analyzes the dance pieces Wagner Ribot Pina Miranda Xavier Le Schwartz Transobjeto (Wagner Schwartz), Eu sou uma fruta gogoia em 3 tendências (Thelma Bonavita), Matadouro (Marcelo Evelin), The Hot 100 Choreographers (Cristian Duarte), Lote (Duarte), Como_CLUBE (Bonavita) y Proyecto Multitud (Tamara Cubas), to observe how, in dialogue with their contexts, they problematize identity, history, nationhood and the body as archive, in order to analyze the ways these dimensions organize contemporary social life. In dialogue with the approaches of Jacques Rancière about the politics of aesthetics (The politics of aesthetics...) and André Lepecki´s about coreo-politics (“Coreopolítica...”), this work aims to discuss the ways in which choreographic tools are able or not to interrupt hegemonic distributions of the sensible and to create new spaces of experience and relation. These conceptualizations of politics are contrasted with the “impolitic” approach developed by authors such as Roberto Esposito (Terms of the political...) and Alberto Moreiras (Línea de sombra...). Chapters One and Two concentrate on dance pieces that performatively discuss Brazilian identity and the historical and semiotic processes that take part in the disputes over its construction, focusing on the tensions between the global and the local, and on brazilian history. Chapter Three discusses the history and conventions of the Uruguayan and Brazilian dance fields; emphasizing on the tensions between the spectacular and the phenomenological, that throughout dance history led to poetics and politics that coexist in a disputed way. This chapter focuses on different ways of understanding representation and communication in dance languages which precede contemporary dance and those inhabiting her. With that in mind, the dissertation pays attention to the aesthetic, political and cultural frames that intervene on the creative and performative processes of contemporary theatrical dance. Looking at the theatrical forms of dance and how its communication and symbolization processes are based on the body, this dissertation tries to recover the political potential of the experiential dimension of dance practices and also the organizing and counter-hegemonic tools of choreography. This tension between the experiential and the spectacular exposes analogies between dance and politics, opening questions and challenges that this dissertation tries to deploy by analyzing the emergence of massive public demonstrations in the Brazilian political scene, interrupting, as an event, the institutionalized political processes of liberal democracy. Thus, chapter four goes back to Brazil, but not to study artistic works, but the ways in which the choreographical, as frame for social mobilization, intervenes in the political, creating encounters… Advisors/Committee Members: Williams, Gareth (committee member), La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence M (committee member), Moreiras-Menor, Cristina (committee member), Villalobos Ruminott, Sergio R (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: dance choreography politics; Music and Dance; Arts

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Naser Rocha, L. (2017). De la politizacion de la danza a la dancificacion de la politica. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138454

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Naser Rocha, Lucia. “De la politizacion de la danza a la dancificacion de la politica.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138454.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Naser Rocha, Lucia. “De la politizacion de la danza a la dancificacion de la politica.” 2017. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Naser Rocha L. De la politizacion de la danza a la dancificacion de la politica. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2017. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138454.

Council of Science Editors:

Naser Rocha L. De la politizacion de la danza a la dancificacion de la politica. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138454

University of Michigan

12. Bernal Benavides, Juanita. The Secret History of Paramilitarism: Capitalist Insurrections in Colombia's 20th and 21st Centuries.

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages & Literatures: Spanish, 2017, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138684

► The dissertation explores and questions the commonly held view that paramilitaries began in Colombia in the 1980s as unofficial counterinsurgency groups designed to fight leftist… (more)

▼ The dissertation explores and questions the commonly held view that paramilitaries began in Colombia in the 1980s as unofficial counterinsurgency groups designed to fight leftist guerrillas. While this characterization of contemporary paramilitarism is true, it does not shed light on the fact that since the beginning of the 20th century it is possible to see similar groups involved in the violent imposition of the capitalist mode of production. Nor does it illuminate the fundamental and foundational relation between paramilitarism and Colombia’s national cultural history. I explore in my dissertation how Colombia was built on different forms of paramilitary force that were embedded at the beginning of the 20th century in regimes of accumulation such as rubber (in the South of the country and lead by Peruvian Amazon Company) and banana (in the North and lead by United Fruit Company). As such, in my dissertation, I argue that paramilitarism is the linchpin of transnational control with extractive purposes, whose interests are rooted in English and American imperialism, respectively. The dissertation maintains that paramilitarism lies at the heart of Colombian nation-state formation without being part of the State Apparatus; it gives form to the nomos of the Nation-State, and to the seizure, division, and administration of space. It also shows how, on the one hand, paramilitarism can be the rubber's company private army of indigenous people: the "muchachos de confianza" or “the boys”, whose main role is to execute violence on the company's slaves and wage the war for land accumulation and rubber extraction monopoly. On the other hand, it exposes how paramilitarism can also be the use of monopoly's violence by Colombia's National Army in defense of the fruit company's interests and against the striking workers who refused to keep working under dubious conditions. The dissertation establishes as paramilitarism particular characteristics: its offensive fight according to the dispossession and expropriation of the land; the waging of a war as an economic insurrection, and a condition of being outside of normative limits (limits like friend-enemy, the Public International Law that rules war among Nation-States, visible-invisible, official-unofficial) or in a place where they are blurred. The research focuses on the analysis of "The Vortex" (1924) by José Eustasio Rivera and "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez. It puts them in dialogue with regional maps and photographs from Thomas Whiffen's book "The North-West Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes" (1915), United Fruit Company advertising maps and photographs, as well as issues of its Unifruitco magazine. The analysis shows how paramilitarism presence has been silenced, in many cases by a transculturation discourse, according to the modern ideology of economic progress and development. The latter sees as necessary Colombia's entry into the global market and silences the way in which the modern nation is supported on the… Advisors/Committee Members: Williams, Gareth (committee member), Alberto, Paulina Laura (committee member), Herrero-Olaizola, Alejandro (committee member), Rodriguez-Matos, Jaime (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Paramilitarism; Colombia, Amazonia, Caribe; Banana, rubber, natural resources, exploitation; Peruvian Amazon Company, United Fruit Company; Capitalist accumulation, dispossession, expropriation, land; Thomas Whiffen, José Eustasio Rivera, Gabriel García Márquez; Humanities (General); Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Bernal Benavides, J. (2017). The Secret History of Paramilitarism: Capitalist Insurrections in Colombia's 20th and 21st Centuries. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138684

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Bernal Benavides, Juanita. “The Secret History of Paramilitarism: Capitalist Insurrections in Colombia's 20th and 21st Centuries.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138684.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Bernal Benavides, Juanita. “The Secret History of Paramilitarism: Capitalist Insurrections in Colombia's 20th and 21st Centuries.” 2017. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Bernal Benavides J. The Secret History of Paramilitarism: Capitalist Insurrections in Colombia's 20th and 21st Centuries. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2017. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138684.

Council of Science Editors:

Bernal Benavides J. The Secret History of Paramilitarism: Capitalist Insurrections in Colombia's 20th and 21st Centuries. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138684

University of Michigan

13. Herbert, Laura. Silver Screen Sovereignty: Mexican Film and the Intersections of Reproductive Labor and Biopolitics.

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages & Literatures: Spanish, 2017, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/140841

► This dissertation examines representations of femininity and political economy in Mexican sound film. I contend that the Mexican film industry’s longstanding fascination with the nuclear… (more)

▼ This dissertation examines representations of femininity and political economy in Mexican sound film. I contend that the Mexican film industry’s longstanding fascination with the nuclear family and sex work is an extended biopolitical commentary about capitalist development’s reliance on a gendered division of labor. My understanding of biopolitics departs from Michel Foucault’s work on the topic as an expression of sovereignty that emerged alongside capitalism. My analysis of this gendered division of labor derives from Marxist feminist accounts of social reproduction in which gender norms are used to assign women responsibility for reproductive labor, or the work necessary to replenish and sustain the workforce and social sphere. This project is a departure from past scholarship on Mexican film that has emphasized femininity’s connections to maternity and sexual desire and undertheorized its relationship to economic development and state power. Chapter 1 explores the cabaretera, a subgenre of melodrama from the 1940s and 1950s. Close readings of Aventurera (Dir. Alberto Gout, 1950) and Víctimas del pecado (Dir. Emilio Fernández, 1951) suggest that these films advocated for a gendered form of labor similar to the one described by Silvia Federici and other Marxist feminist scholars in their work on primitive accumulation. It argues that this is emblematic of the emerging biopolitical state under the Partido Revolucionario Institucional and shows how state power and economic development were being rhetorically linked to gender during this period. Chapter 2 examines representations of sex work and land reform in Las Poquianchis (Dir. Felipe Cazals, 1976), Tívoli (Dir. Alberto Isaac, 1975), and El lugar sin límites (Dir. Arturo Ripstein, 1977), and Bellas de noche (Dir. Miguel M. Delgado, 1975). It suggests that films made during the Echeverría presidency (1970-1976) rework tropes and narratives from earlier periods to suggest that the state and economic elites were excluding segments of the population for their own political and financial gains. It draws on Giorgio Agamben’s concept to bare life, David Harvey’s accumulation by dispossession and Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar and Huáscar Salazar Lohman’s community weaving to suggest that these films highlight the failures of the Mexican state and call to think of new, non-state-based ways to organize the social sphere. Chapter three examines films made in the neoliberal present about violence in Mexico. I argue that Sin dejar huella (Dir. María Novaro, 2000), Traspatio (Dir. Carlos Carrera, 2009), Miss Bala (Dir. Gerardo Naranjo, 2011), and Las elegidas (Dir. David Pablos, 2016) represent a contemporary version of Achille Mbembe’s necropolitics that is a new, neoliberal form of sovereignty that it not limited to the state. I read these films’ refusal to prescribe a clear solution to the political violence they document as a demand to reprioritize social reproduction in public life in a way that is neither state-based nor organized around gender. My analysis revolves… Advisors/Committee Members: Williams, Gareth (committee member), Gunckel, Colin (committee member), La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence M (committee member), Nemser, Daniel J (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Mexican film; Social Reproduction; Biopolitics; Reproductive Labor; Feminism; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Herbert, L. (2017). Silver Screen Sovereignty: Mexican Film and the Intersections of Reproductive Labor and Biopolitics. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/140841

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Herbert, Laura. “Silver Screen Sovereignty: Mexican Film and the Intersections of Reproductive Labor and Biopolitics.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/140841.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Herbert, Laura. “Silver Screen Sovereignty: Mexican Film and the Intersections of Reproductive Labor and Biopolitics.” 2017. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Herbert L. Silver Screen Sovereignty: Mexican Film and the Intersections of Reproductive Labor and Biopolitics. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2017. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/140841.

Council of Science Editors:

Herbert L. Silver Screen Sovereignty: Mexican Film and the Intersections of Reproductive Labor and Biopolitics. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/140841

University of Michigan

14. Mosciatti, Roberto. Oneself as a Universe: Post-Humanism, Cosmopolitanism, and Contemporary Italian Thought.

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages & Literatures: Italian, 2018, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/146077

► This project originates from the necessity to explain an uncanny fusion detected between cosmopolitan characteristics which Antonio Gramsci ascribed to Italian intellectual culture and the… (more)

▼ This project originates from the necessity to explain an uncanny fusion detected between cosmopolitan characteristics which Antonio Gramsci ascribed to Italian intellectual culture and the anti-humanistic connotations displayed by Italian Thought. Traditional cosmopolitan discourses inheriting the legacy of the Enlightenment generally align with humanistic perspectives whereas, as Roberto Esposito observes, Italian Theory has endorsed anti-humanistic viewpoints ever since the age of the Renaissance. How does one explain such a connection? Also, how are we to justify the ascetic categories of mysticism, weakness, slowness, bareness, etc. which proliferated among Italian thinkers starting from the late 1970s? In response to these questions, this work attempts to define the position that contemporary Italian philosophy defends with respect to the current debate on cosmopolitan theory. Neo-Kantian solutions proposed by authors such as Jϋrgen Habermas, Daniele Archibugi and David Held, will certainly be given some consideration. Importantly, these discourses acknowledge the necessity to rethink the role of both the state and international relations in view of the brutalities perpetrated by 20th century totalitarianisms and the present globalized geopolitical scenario. Advocating a reinforcement of global powers and counting faithfully on the authority of law, these theories nonetheless elicit some perplexities. On one hand, they presuppose a disbelief within people’s self-emancipating capacities and, on the other, are not sufficiently critical of the neoliberal agenda. This is even more evident when considering that most of the said authors do not express skepticism with respect to the promotion of human rights. While human rights are certainly needed now more than ever, in several cases they align with both a profit-oriented and imperialistic mentality. It is relieving to discover that cosmopolitanism was initially founded by the Greek Cynics as a non-humanistic discourse and that several authors, including Peter Sloterdijck and William Desmond, highlighted similarities connecting Greek Cynicism with contemporary European modes of thinking. The Cynic perspective can help one solve many of the aforementioned doubts, because it rejects conventional societal values such as wealth, fame, and power, while promoting moral ideals of liberty, equality, self-sufficiency, and ascetic practices. In view of these premises, this study will pursue the hypothesis that, beginning with the publication of Massimo Cacciari’s Krisis (1976), Italian Philosophy and Literature have embraced a critical rhetoric which partially moves away from Marxian views and gradually retrieves cynic ideas. More specifically, the inquiry will unfold along two different paths: the historical-cultural analysis will be utilized as a material support for reaching theoretical-philosophical targets. Regarding the historical-cultural aspect, I will clarify to what extent contemporary Italian philosophy and literature retrieve Greek Cynic contents. This part of… Advisors/Committee Members: Binetti, Vincenzo A (committee member), Rensmann, Lars (committee member), LaVaque-Manty, Mika (committee member), Williams, Gareth (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Post-humanism; Cosmopolitanism; Contemporary Italian Philosophy; Contemporary Italian History, Literature, and Culture; Greek Cynicism; Critical Theory; History (General); Humanities (General); Philosophy; Romance Languages and Literature; Political Science; Sociology; Humanities; Social Sciences

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Mosciatti, R. (2018). Oneself as a Universe: Post-Humanism, Cosmopolitanism, and Contemporary Italian Thought. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/146077

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Mosciatti, Roberto. “Oneself as a Universe: Post-Humanism, Cosmopolitanism, and Contemporary Italian Thought.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/146077.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Mosciatti, Roberto. “Oneself as a Universe: Post-Humanism, Cosmopolitanism, and Contemporary Italian Thought.” 2018. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Mosciatti R. Oneself as a Universe: Post-Humanism, Cosmopolitanism, and Contemporary Italian Thought. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2018. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/146077.

Council of Science Editors:

Mosciatti R. Oneself as a Universe: Post-Humanism, Cosmopolitanism, and Contemporary Italian Thought. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/146077

University of Michigan

15. Leal Ugalde, Juan. The Enigma of Time and History: Images of Death in Revolutions and Armed Conflicts of the Twentieth Century in Mexico and Central America.

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages & Literatures: Spanish, 2018, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/146099

► My dissertation, El enigma del tiempo y de la historia: Imágenes de muerte en revoluciones y conflictos armados del siglo XX en México y Centroamérica,… (more)

▼ My dissertation, El enigma del tiempo y de la historia: Imágenes de muerte en revoluciones y conflictos armados del siglo XX en México y Centroamérica, examines photographic and literary images of crucial events in modern Latin-American political history: the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920), the Salvadorian Revolution of 1932, the Sandinista Insurgency in Nicaragua (1978-1979), and the Salvadorian Civil War (1980-1992). I consider how the photographs of these events tend to be grouped into epic-like tales of victory and placed at the service of nationalistic ideologies, which justify subsequent political orders by representing the violence as foundational, and also as safely contained in the past. State-supported photographic archives, such as the influential Archivo Casasola in Mexico, as well as literary and artistic works that support the perspectives housed by such hegemonic cultural apparatuses, define temporality under the homogenous concepts of progress and historicism. In my work, I criticize such a definition of temporality following the work of Walter Benjamin on photography and history and contemporary thinkers who work in his footsteps such as Eduardo Cadava, Georges Didi-Huberman, and Samuel Weber. I pursue a critique of this dominant interpretation of temporality considering how progress and historicism serve to monumentalize national history by allowing the continuous exercise of violent sovereign power and the forgetting of revolutionary violence when the revolutions are institutionalized in the State, and excluding from the main historical discourse many obscure episodes faced by subaltern or expropriated classes throughout modernity. Against progress, I argue that photography performs a fragmentary and heterogeneous relation with time capable of disrupting linear understanding of the past, opening the question of history and image to an irreducible and dynamic heterogeneity. I explore concepts such as the “dialectical image”, the “real state of emergency”, “interregnum”, “heterocronism”, among others, that seem to suspend and interrupt the traditional representation of historical time. Referring to these concepts, at the other extreme of official and linear narratives, I use photographic and literary images of death that introduce a radical heterogeneity that complicates and complements testimonial and fictional narratives beyond the nationalistic view of the revolutionary past. I analyze postcards showing gruesome images of the Mexican Revolution on the border between US-Mexico together with the fragmentary novels of Nellie Campobello; photographs of the Pipil-Mayan ethnocide of 1932 and of the El Mozote massacre in 1981 in El Salvador together with the poetry and testimonial narratives of Roque Dalton; and photographs by Koen Wessing and James Nachtwey during the revolutions of the eighties, along with contemporary novels by Horacio Castellanos Moya and Julian Herbert that return and resignify historical materials of the revolutions in Mexico and Central America. Advisors/Committee Members: Jenckes, Katharine Miller (committee member), Langland, Victoria Ann (committee member), Villalobos Ruminott, Sergio R (committee member), Williams, Gareth (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Photography in Mexico and Central America; Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Humanities

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Leal Ugalde, J. (2018). The Enigma of Time and History: Images of Death in Revolutions and Armed Conflicts of the Twentieth Century in Mexico and Central America. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/146099

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Leal Ugalde, Juan. “The Enigma of Time and History: Images of Death in Revolutions and Armed Conflicts of the Twentieth Century in Mexico and Central America.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/146099.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Leal Ugalde, Juan. “The Enigma of Time and History: Images of Death in Revolutions and Armed Conflicts of the Twentieth Century in Mexico and Central America.” 2018. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Leal Ugalde J. The Enigma of Time and History: Images of Death in Revolutions and Armed Conflicts of the Twentieth Century in Mexico and Central America. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2018. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/146099.

Council of Science Editors:

Leal Ugalde J. The Enigma of Time and History: Images of Death in Revolutions and Armed Conflicts of the Twentieth Century in Mexico and Central America. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/146099

University of Michigan

16. Robles Gila, Maria. Broken Filiations: Bodies, Language and Mourning in Twentieth-Century Mexico.

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages & Literatures: Spanish, 2019, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/150039

► This dissertation examines the limits of the patriarchal structure of the nation in the context of modern Mexico. Set against a background of violence, it… (more)

▼ This dissertation examines the limits of the patriarchal structure of the nation in the context of modern Mexico. Set against a background of violence, it considers the production of discourses of mourning through a series of cultural texts that that include literature and art. Through its examination of narrative, poetry, photography and art, it engages in a conversation with notions of filiation and crisis, sacrificial logics and the production of alternative discursivities. In engaging with the bodies that appear in these texts, and in dialogue with the psychoanalytic concepts of sexual difference, this dissertation points to the tensions and limits of filiative discourses of mourning that structure ideas about patriarchy and the state central to modern Mexican culture. The first chapter works out from the performance of mourning in the 2010 Celebrations commemorating the birth of the Mexican nation. It puts this event in dialogue with an image of Enrique Metinides in order to develop the conceptual architecture that informs the dissertation’s overarching argument. Chapter Two considers Juan Rulfos’s canonical novel Pedro Páramo, an essential literary work in the imagination of the Mexican nation. The chapter engages analyzes the filial politics that shape the novel’s narrative around mourning. Rulfo’s work illustrates a politics of filiation through the creation of masculine genealogies, but also exposes moments of break with these logics of patrilineal filiation. Chapter Three considers the work of Teresa Margolles (1969). This chapter describes recent intellectual debates regarding Margolles’s work, placing them in dialogue with the classical figure of Antigone to show that Margolles’s controversial art installations perform a gesture similar to Antigone’s insistence on death. I read Margolles, at the center of heated debates about the ethics of using human matter in art, as an artist who places her work within discourses of mourning. Chapter Four examines the writing of Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003). It pays particular attention to two of his novels: 2666 (2003) and Amuleto (1998). Both novels are analyzed as interrogations into the production of language around bodies/corpses of and in the aftermath of violence in relation to sexual difference. The chapter examines Bolaño’s creation of filitative links as crisis, opening the possibility of different modes of inheritance in relation to the production of language and the nation. The texts, images, and installations explored in these pages look beyond death as statistical fact and seek to interrogate moments where life (as natality), even in the visceral mourning of death, appears. Advisors/Committee Members: Jenckes, Katharine Miller (committee member), Leon, Ana Maria (committee member), Villalobos Ruminott, Sergio R (committee member), Williams, Gareth (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Mourning; Nation; Mexico; Sexual difference; Language and Discourse; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Robles Gila, M. (2019). Broken Filiations: Bodies, Language and Mourning in Twentieth-Century Mexico. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/150039

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Robles Gila, Maria. “Broken Filiations: Bodies, Language and Mourning in Twentieth-Century Mexico.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/150039.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Robles Gila, Maria. “Broken Filiations: Bodies, Language and Mourning in Twentieth-Century Mexico.” 2019. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Robles Gila M. Broken Filiations: Bodies, Language and Mourning in Twentieth-Century Mexico. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2019. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/150039.

Council of Science Editors:

Robles Gila M. Broken Filiations: Bodies, Language and Mourning in Twentieth-Century Mexico. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/150039

University of Michigan

17. Calatayud Fernandez, Priscila. Labor Exploitation and Resistance in Spain: Inoperative Figures of Work (1930- 2014).

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages & Literatures: Spanish, 2019, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/151671

► This dissertation traces the changing cultural representations of dispossessed and displaced workers in 20th and 21st-century Spanish society. I concentrate on the figures of the… (more)

▼ This dissertation traces the changing cultural representations of dispossessed and displaced workers in 20th and 21st-century Spanish society. I concentrate on the figures of the migrant worker, the unemployed laborer, and the striker, with a critical interest in how their discursive montages, both literary and filmic, are articulated. I orient my focus towards film montage and literary composition and examine how they juxtapose (select, join, and order) the different sections of the discourse that produce a specific temporal and spatial structure. I analyze the montages that explicitly make visible the discursive articulations of exploitation and resistance labor during the 30s, 60s/70s, and 2000s in Spain. Rates of migration, unemployment and social conflicts during these three periods rose dramatically in response to transformations in the labor paradigm of production (from Fordism to Post-Fordism) triggered partially by international economic crises. Cultural genres that mostly reflected these changes in Spanish society were documentaries and social realism narratives. These genres challenged traditional discourses in order to trace a social reality that was changing and required different categories of conceptualization. Through an analysis of works of these genres, I identify one main type of montage that characterizes discursivities of emancipation in each historical period studied: the pedagogical during the Second Republic, the militant during Francoist dictatorship, and the spectral in 2007/8 recession. I adopt the concept of inoperative or unworked (désoeuvrée) from the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and his essay The Inoperative Community (1986) in order to rethink how the logic of productivity and utility is denaturalized and disarticulated. These inoperative cultural representations juxtapose heterogeneous spaces and temporalities in their montages in order to interrupt a discursivity that reproduces the modern capitalist temporality of progress criticized by Walter Benjamin. Each chapter focuses on a specific figure of the inoperative worker as represented across these three periods. Chapter One, "The Migrant Laborer," explores the worker’s alienation resulting from the status of foreigner in an analysis of Imán (1930) by Ramón J. Sender, Galicia (1936) and Romancero marroquí (1939) by Carlos Velo, El largo viaje hacia la ira (1969) by Llorenç Soler, Vikingland (2011) by Xurxo Chirro, and Edificio España (2012) by Víctor Moreno. Chapter Two, "The Unemployed Laborer," examines how the subjectivity of debt/guilt is structured through the analysis of Las Hurdes (1933) and Viridiana (1961) by Luis Buñuel, No se admite personal (1968) by Antonio Luchetti, Queridísimos verdugos (1977) and Casas Viejas (1997) by Basilio Martín Patino, El taxista ful (2005), by Jordi Soler, and En la orilla (2013) by Rafael Chirbes. Chapter Three, "The Striking Worker," explores the interruptions of the capital cycle of economic retribution led by working class struggles in order to stop the temporality of progress which I… Advisors/Committee Members: Moreiras-Menor, Cristina (committee member), La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence M (committee member), Highfill, Juli A (committee member), Williams, Gareth (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Cultural representations of labor in 20th and 21st-century Spanish society; figures of the migrant worker, the unemployed laborer, and the striker; film montage and literary composition; exploitation and resistance labor in Spain; the concept of inoperative (désoeuvrée) from the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy; Interruption, denaturalization and disarticulation in narrative and film; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Calatayud Fernandez, P. (2019). Labor Exploitation and Resistance in Spain: Inoperative Figures of Work (1930- 2014). (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/151671

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Calatayud Fernandez, Priscila. “Labor Exploitation and Resistance in Spain: Inoperative Figures of Work (1930- 2014).” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/151671.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Calatayud Fernandez, Priscila. “Labor Exploitation and Resistance in Spain: Inoperative Figures of Work (1930- 2014).” 2019. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Calatayud Fernandez P. Labor Exploitation and Resistance in Spain: Inoperative Figures of Work (1930- 2014). [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2019. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/151671.

Council of Science Editors:

Calatayud Fernandez P. Labor Exploitation and Resistance in Spain: Inoperative Figures of Work (1930- 2014). [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/151671

University of Michigan

18. Almenara, Erika. The Language of Transvestism and the Political Limits of the National-Popular in 20th and 21st Century Latin American Cultural Production.

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages and Literatures: Spanish, 2015, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113548

► This dissertation examines the cultural production of seven contemporary Latin American artists that explicitly foreground non-normative genders and sexualities. It argues that they can be… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: non-normative sexualities; Latin American national-popular project; fictive ethnicity; hegemony; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Almenara, E. (2015). The Language of Transvestism and the Political Limits of the National-Popular in 20th and 21st Century Latin American Cultural Production. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113548

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Almenara, Erika. “The Language of Transvestism and the Political Limits of the National-Popular in 20th and 21st Century Latin American Cultural Production.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113548.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Almenara, Erika. “The Language of Transvestism and the Political Limits of the National-Popular in 20th and 21st Century Latin American Cultural Production.” 2015. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Almenara E. The Language of Transvestism and the Political Limits of the National-Popular in 20th and 21st Century Latin American Cultural Production. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2015. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113548.

Council of Science Editors:

Almenara E. The Language of Transvestism and the Political Limits of the National-Popular in 20th and 21st Century Latin American Cultural Production. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113548

19. Kroll, Christian. Writing beyond Reason: Literature, Counterinsurgency and Sovereignty in Contemporary Latin America.

Degree: PhD, Romance Language and Literature Spanish, 2012, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/96086

► In this dissertation, I examine the recent armed conflicts between three Latin American states and three insurgent movements: the Guatemalan guerrilla, the Peruvian Shining Path… (more)

▼ In this dissertation, I examine the recent armed conflicts between three Latin American states and three insurgent movements: the Guatemalan guerrilla, the Peruvian Shining Path and the Mexican Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). Drawing on close readings of literary texts (Castellanos Moya, Ortega, Payeras, Marcos, Taibo) and official documents (Ríos Montt, Belaúnde, Salinas), coupled with the exploration of the conceptual, historical and cultural relations between state formation and state violence, I analyze the languages of insurgency and coutnerinsurgency in contemporary Latin America. I suggest that the emergence in certain contemporary literary works of new insurgent subjectivities such as the mad, the ghost, the animal and the old both reveal and point to a shift in the locus of sovereignty, enabling thereby the possibility of thinking a space beyond sovereign reason. I first provide in Chapter 1 a critical, historical account of counterinsurgency measures in Peru, Guatemala and Mexico. Drawing from theoretical conceptualizations of sovereignty (Hobbes, Schmitt), friendship (Derrida) and emergency powers (Agamben), I then offer a critique of two main discourses the State relies upon to justify counterinsurgency, namely, the friend-enemy distinction (Chapter 1) and the discourse of sovereignty and emergency powers (Chapter 2). In the remaining chapters, I discuss literary works that explore ethical and political possibilities beyond sovereign reason. In Chapter 3, I read Julio Ortega’s novella Adios Ayacucho (1986) as a call to re-found the sovereign relation. In Chapter 4, I do a close reading of Horacio Castellanos Moya’s novel Senselessness (2005) and develop (via Foucault, de Certeau, Attali and Derrida) the conceptual categories of ‘noise’ and ‘reasonable senselessness’ as critiques of sovereign reason. Lastly, in Chapter 5, I examine Marcos’ and Taibo’s novel The Uncomfortable Dead (2005), as well as the former’s short stories about Don Durito de la Lacandona and El Viejo Antonio. I suggest that the EZLN recuperates certain practices and attitudes of ancient Cynicism and advances (via Badiou) the Idea of dignity as a possible path for producing a space beyond sovereignty. Advisors/Committee Members: Williams, Gareth (committee member), Alberto, Paulina Laura (committee member), Moreiras-Menor, Cristina (committee member), Noemi, Daniel (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Contemporary Latin American Literature (Central America, Mexico, Peru); Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Latin America of the Past Fifty Years; Sovereignty and Emergency Powers; Guatemalan Guerrillas; Zapatista Army of National Liberation; Shining Path; Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Kroll, C. (2012). Writing beyond Reason: Literature, Counterinsurgency and Sovereignty in Contemporary Latin America. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/96086

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Kroll, Christian. “Writing beyond Reason: Literature, Counterinsurgency and Sovereignty in Contemporary Latin America.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/96086.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Kroll, Christian. “Writing beyond Reason: Literature, Counterinsurgency and Sovereignty in Contemporary Latin America.” 2012. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Kroll C. Writing beyond Reason: Literature, Counterinsurgency and Sovereignty in Contemporary Latin America. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2012. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/96086.

Council of Science Editors:

Kroll C. Writing beyond Reason: Literature, Counterinsurgency and Sovereignty in Contemporary Latin America. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/96086

20. Horowitz, Gabriel A. Fantasies of Independence and Their Latin American Legacies.

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages & Literatures: Spanish, 2014, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/108963

► In my dissertation I investigate a claim of cultural autonomy at the heart of Latin American discourses of identity, and its relation to the concept… (more)

▼ In my dissertation I investigate a claim of cultural autonomy at the heart of Latin American discourses of identity, and its relation to the concept of nature. When transitioning to the modern political nomos of the nation-state, once political independence had already been attained, Latin American Creoles asserted their cultural autonomy from Spain, elaborating it as a total rupture with the past. The originality of their new national cultures was supposed to derive from America’s status as a romantic state of nature: a landscape set outside the flow of history, a tabula rasa onto which an entirely new history could be written. I argue that rather than being the true basis of historical rupture, the concept of nature acted as an ideology that veiled, and thus perpetuated the imperial logic that Creoles claimed to overcome. In this way, nature became a central tenet of modern Latin American political theology, a territorialized concept of divinity (for romantics) and truth (for scientific-positivism), which, during different periods and under various guises, has served as an ideological ground of the independent nation. From independence onward, Latin American identity would be asserted time and again through depictions of America as a state of nature, consecrating a desire to destroy and displace the past as an a cornerstone of its culture, and thus perpetuating its founding myths. My dissertation investigates the origins of this claim of natural cultural autonomy, its repetition throughout the history of Latin American discourse, and the way in which it has been critiqued. First I investigate the post-independence period by reading the work of José María Heredia, Andrés Bello, Esteban Echevarría, and Domingo F. Sarmiento, and showing how José Martí adopted their vision of American nature for his thinking of Pan-Latin Americanism and Cuban Independence at the turn of the century. In subsequent chapters I describing how the question of cultural autonomy and nature continues to evolve and investigate the legacy of independence thinking through readings of Latin American literary thinkers such as Jorge Luis Borges, José Eustasio Rivera, Alejo Carpentier, and Augusto Roa Bastos. Advisors/Committee Members: Williams, Gareth (committee member), Ekotto, Frieda (committee member), Jenckes, Katharine Miller (committee member), Noemi Voionmaa, Daniel (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Latin American Cultural Autonomy; Nature; Creole Identity; Political Theology; Romanticism; Nationalism; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Horowitz, G. A. (2014). Fantasies of Independence and Their Latin American Legacies. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/108963

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Horowitz, Gabriel A. “Fantasies of Independence and Their Latin American Legacies.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/108963.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Horowitz, Gabriel A. “Fantasies of Independence and Their Latin American Legacies.” 2014. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Horowitz GA. Fantasies of Independence and Their Latin American Legacies. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2014. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/108963.

Council of Science Editors:

Horowitz GA. Fantasies of Independence and Their Latin American Legacies. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/108963

21. Chinchilla, Manuel Alberto. In the Wake of '68: Literature and the Cultural Politics of Democracy in Contemporary Mexico.

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages & Literatures: Spanish, 2009, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/63830

► This is an interdisciplinary project which examines the relation between culture and the political sphere in Mexico through the study of literature, film, and photography… (more)

▼ This is an interdisciplinary project which examines the relation between culture and the political sphere in Mexico through the study of literature, film, and photography produced as a response to recent social movements. In this work I trace the birth of civil society as an oppositional force to State politics and as the producer of a new brand of grassroots democracy in the Student Movement of 1968. I then seek to link the political innovations performed by the students to the mobilizations that took place in the second half of the 80’s. The objective is to trace the development of autonomous political movements whose militancy stands against the State apparatus. My materials of study consist of testimonial writing, urban chronicles, political essays and novels. In the first chapter I discuss the political writings of José Revueltas, with the purpose of explaining the Student Movement’s effort to break away from the corporative system sponsored by the PRI. In my analysis I demonstrate how the ‘68 movement considered university autonomy a fundamental component in the conception of a political theory based on self-management (or ‘autogestión’) and the organization of civil society. The second chapter examines Luis González de Alba’s Los días y los años, a novel that narrates life in Lecumberri Prison. The novel depicts political prisoners’ efforts to reignite activism on the outside via a hunger strike, allowing a reading of ‘68 that does not identify it solely with the Tlatelolco massacre – which is often constructed as an economy of martyrdom that understands the students’ struggle only from the point of view of the State violence it suffered. The third chapter analyzes La noche de Tlatelolco by Elena Poniatowska and the documentary El grito by Leobardo López Arretche in order to assess how these testimonial works create a political language later used by other movements. A fourth and last chapter examines the detective fiction of Paco Taibo II as narratives in which the ghosts of ‘68 and the political activism of the late 80’s suggest a democratic turn that affected the 1988 elections and renewed popular politics. Advisors/Committee Members: Williams, Gareth (committee member), Alberto, Paulina Laura (committee member), Binetti, Vincenzo A. (committee member), Moreiras-Menor, Cristina (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Latin American Literature; 20th Century Mexican Literature; Contemporary Mexican Politics; Latin American History; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Chinchilla, M. A. (2009). In the Wake of '68: Literature and the Cultural Politics of Democracy in Contemporary Mexico. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/63830

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Chinchilla, Manuel Alberto. “In the Wake of '68: Literature and the Cultural Politics of Democracy in Contemporary Mexico.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/63830.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Chinchilla, Manuel Alberto. “In the Wake of '68: Literature and the Cultural Politics of Democracy in Contemporary Mexico.” 2009. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Chinchilla MA. In the Wake of '68: Literature and the Cultural Politics of Democracy in Contemporary Mexico. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2009. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/63830.

Council of Science Editors:

Chinchilla MA. In the Wake of '68: Literature and the Cultural Politics of Democracy in Contemporary Mexico. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2009. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/63830

22. Diaz, Sebastian J. Against Paraguay.19th Century Latin-American Visual Culture and Literature during the War against Paraguay (1864-1870).

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages & Literatures: Spanish, 2009, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/64684

► Contrary to the conventional hypothesis that war in the nineteenth century allowed nation-states to enforce their hegemony over different forms of social groups and communities… (more)

▼ Contrary to the conventional hypothesis that war in the nineteenth century allowed nation-states to enforce their hegemony over different forms of social groups and communities by crystallizing nationalism and homogenizing plurality, this dissertation argues that warfare imposes a technological velocity that frustrates the construction of epic narratives, disturbs any vision that tries to monumentalize the nation-state and destabilizes the lettered/visual culture, precisely by exposing the precarious nature of state sovereignty. The war between the Triple Alliance of Argentina, the Empire of Brazil and Uruguay against Paraguay lies at the juncture of two vectors: nation-building violence and technological changes in the means of representation and communication. It is a moment that reflects the nation-state’s appropriation and institutionalization of war as justified violence in the name of progress and civilization and one in which the production and reproduction of signifiers, through the linotype revolution and the photography proliferate. The first introductory chapter, then, aims to articulate a cultural critique of war as a fundamental condition in the production of representation in nineteenth-century Latin American literature and visual culture. The second chapter deals with the intersection of writing and wood engravings in the Paraguayan illustrated newspapers El Centinela and Cabichuí. These journals transformed the war chronicles into clusters of texts and engravings that fragmented the nation state’s rhythm of epic narration. In the third chapter, I analyze the range and influence of the massive photographic production contained in the Uruguayan Colonel Palleja’s Diario de la Campaña de las Fuerzas Armadas contra el Paraguay, in order to explore how the new medium of photography forced Palleja to renegotiate writing about both war and state violence. I use the Diario as a springboard to discuss how photography establishes a new balance of resemblances between writing and images and between the visible and the invisible in the discourse on war. In the fourth and final chapter, I explore the intersection of writing and painting in the work of the Argentinean lieutenant Cándido López and his Curupaytí series of chronicles and canvases that create a fragmented “negative epic” of the war. Advisors/Committee Members: Colas, Santiago (committee member), Williams, Gareth (committee member), Alberto, Paulina Laura (committee member), Noemi, Daniel (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Paraguayan War; Latin American Literature; Visual Cultrue; Nineteenth Century Literature; Paraguayan Literature and Visual Culture; Southern Cone Literature; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Diaz, S. J. (2009). Against Paraguay.19th Century Latin-American Visual Culture and Literature during the War against Paraguay (1864-1870). (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/64684

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Diaz, Sebastian J. “Against Paraguay.19th Century Latin-American Visual Culture and Literature during the War against Paraguay (1864-1870).” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/64684.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Diaz, Sebastian J. “Against Paraguay.19th Century Latin-American Visual Culture and Literature during the War against Paraguay (1864-1870).” 2009. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Diaz SJ. Against Paraguay.19th Century Latin-American Visual Culture and Literature during the War against Paraguay (1864-1870). [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2009. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/64684.

Council of Science Editors:

Diaz SJ. Against Paraguay.19th Century Latin-American Visual Culture and Literature during the War against Paraguay (1864-1870). [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2009. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/64684

23. Velasquez, Fernando. The Political Constitution of the Literary: Limits of Representation in Modern Peruvian Literature.

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages & Literatures: Spanish, 2009, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62296

► This dissertation analyzes the critical constitution of the literary in Peru during the twentieth century, and criticizes that same constitution through the analysis of unfinished… (more)

▼ This dissertation analyzes the critical constitution of the literary in Peru during the twentieth century, and criticizes that same constitution through the analysis of unfinished works by canonical authors that in their incompleteness show the profound limits of the aforementioned critical model. The introduction ties the concepts of state, nation and culture, and analyzes how they are interconnected as tools of power and domination. By defining and isolating these concepts, they become the embodiment of the tools they are defining and overdetermine concepts within their sphere. The fist chapter presents the two main definitions of a Peruvian literary tradition in the works of José de la Riva Agüero and José Carlos Mariátegui. Although standing in opposition, I argue that both represent an idea of identity that attempts to define Peruvianness through a single defining element. In the first case, this element is the Spanish heritage and in the second, the Indigenous legacy in Peruvian Culture. The second chapter analyzes the work of Antonio Cornejo Polar, which I read as an attempt to propose a “third way” of understanding the Peruvian literary tradition. I find this attempt marred by an idea about identity that prevents multiplicity from becoming the center of a new definition of literary practice. The third chapter examines Lázaro, an unfinished novel by Indigenist writer Ciro Alegría. In this reading, I demonstrate how its unfinished character responds to a structural impossibility of expressing multiplicity. The fourth chapter reads another unfinished novel, El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo, by Indigenist writer José María Arguedas. In this instance, the text embraces multiplicity, establishing a model of an insurmountable crisis of representation. Ultimately, Arguedas’ work constitutes a new way of reading more faithful to the practice of Literature and its attempt to create a social realm not subordinated by repressive notions of identity. Advisors/Committee Members: Williams, Gareth (committee member), Alberto, Paulina Laura (committee member), Jenckes, Katharine Miller (committee member), Verdesio, Gustavo (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Spanish; Hispanic American Literature; Peruvian Literature; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Velasquez, F. (2009). The Political Constitution of the Literary: Limits of Representation in Modern Peruvian Literature. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62296

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Velasquez, Fernando. “The Political Constitution of the Literary: Limits of Representation in Modern Peruvian Literature.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62296.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Velasquez, Fernando. “The Political Constitution of the Literary: Limits of Representation in Modern Peruvian Literature.” 2009. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Velasquez F. The Political Constitution of the Literary: Limits of Representation in Modern Peruvian Literature. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2009. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62296.

Council of Science Editors:

Velasquez F. The Political Constitution of the Literary: Limits of Representation in Modern Peruvian Literature. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2009. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62296

24. Entrambasaguas, Javier. The Social Movements in Contemporary Spanish Culture.

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages & Literatures: Spanish, 2011, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/86409

► This work analyzes the activity of social movements of the last thirty years in Spain through a cultural perspective that includes political cinema and literature… (more)

▼ This work analyzes the activity of social movements of the last thirty years in Spain through a cultural perspective that includes political cinema and literature of compromise. Anti-‐globalization, workers’ and migration movements are articulated through the disagreement of an active civil society that revitalizes the democracy. This dissertation attempts to address questions such as what is the political? What is subjectification? How does the political subject arise? What is emancipation? I use the readings of thinkers such as Ranciere, Laclau, Mouffe, Negri, Hardt, Virno, Badiou, Balibar, Foucault, Esposito, and Zizek to analyze novels such as Belén Gopegui’s El padre de Blancanieves and Juan Goytisolo’s Paisajes después de la batalla, fiction films as Chus Gutierrez’s Poniente, and the collective films Invisibles y En el mundo a cada rato, and finally documentary films like Voces contra la globalización by Carlos Estévez, Rosa de Foc by Unidad Documental Jorge Muller, Numax presenta, and Veinte años no es nada by Joaquim Jorda, Colectivo Discusión’s 14 200 Km, and Ana Torres’ Si nos dejan. In the first chapter, I maintain that the Anti-‐globalization movement represents the viii multitude or biopolitical monster that confronts the Leviathan State and the main international economic organizations, looking for new nodal points to articulate a contra-‐hegemonic power that recovers the common and the community. The second chapter attempts to recover the autonomous worker movement of the seventies in order to address the precarious situation of workers thirty years later, workers who manage to maintain a strong class-‐consciousness together with a general intellect. The last chapter shows the migration movement as the part with no part that may signal the new proletariat that reclaims democratizing borders and a transnational citizenship in a society of biopolitics. The multiplicity of groups, associations, and collectives which form these three social movements signal the reemergence of a socially active citizens, a different understanding of what the cosmopolitics means and a reformulation of the idea of a democracy. They represent civil disobedience, the resistance of multiple social actors, the necessity of the politicization of the economy and the inclusion of the marginalized subject. Advisors/Committee Members: Moreiras-Menor, Cristina (committee member), Bertellini, Giorgio (committee member), Sanjines, Javier C. (committee member), Williams, Gareth (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: The Social Movements in Spanish Cinema and Literature in the Last Thirty Years.; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Entrambasaguas, J. (2011). The Social Movements in Contemporary Spanish Culture. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/86409

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Entrambasaguas, Javier. “The Social Movements in Contemporary Spanish Culture.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/86409.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Entrambasaguas, Javier. “The Social Movements in Contemporary Spanish Culture.” 2011. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Entrambasaguas J. The Social Movements in Contemporary Spanish Culture. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2011. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/86409.

Council of Science Editors:

Entrambasaguas J. The Social Movements in Contemporary Spanish Culture. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/86409

25. Ros, Maria Ofelia. The Uncanny Laughs Once Again: Subjectivity and Structures of Ideological Domination in Late Twentieth-Century Argentinean Cultural Production.

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages & Literatures: Spanish, 2010, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/77678

► This thesis considers literary representations of the relationship between subjectivity and structures of ideological domination that were temporarily shattered in the wake of the Argentinean… (more)

▼ This thesis considers literary representations of the relationship between subjectivity and structures of ideological domination that were temporarily shattered in the wake of the Argentinean economic, social and political 2001collapse. In the central chapters I work with Argentinean writers who trace historical and cultural precedents to the 2001 collapse back through the late twentieth-century: Osvaldo Lamborghini, César Aira and Arturo Carrera. Their texts perform a critique of structures of ideological domination in Argentina’s history such as: the paternalism of Juan Domingo Perón, the repressive politics of the last dictatorship, the xenophobic and homophobic outbreaks following the Falkland/Malvinas war, and the paradox of a Peronist politics of globalization (developed under the leadership of Carlos Menem in the 1990s). In the final chapter, I examine Eloísa Cartonera: an alternative publishing house that arguably changes the role of literature in the scenario post-crisis 2001 by questioning the function of books as fetishes of culture. The literary texts as well as the cultural phenomena studied in this thesis work to undermine “ideological fantasies” of domination, relying primarily on parodic forms of defamiliarization that resemble Freud’s definition of the uncanny (Das Unheimliche), that is, stressing what is unknown and threatening at the very site of the familiar or “heimlich.” In sum, this dissertation works on three simultaneous levels: the conceptual, drawing on Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Karl Marx, Jacques Derrida, György Lukács, Jacques Rancière, and Slavoj Zizek; the literary, including Argentina’s literary tradition and its relation to, for example, the European avant-garde or debates on realism; and the cultural, including the history of Peronism, dictatorship and its relation to the economic realm. Advisors/Committee Members: Jenckes, Katharine Miller (committee member), Brown, Catherine (committee member), Moreiras-Menor, Cristina (committee member), Williams, Gareth (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Argentinean Literature; Osvaldo Lamborghini; CéSar Aira; Arturo Carrera; Lacanian Psychoanalysis; The Uncanny and Ideological Structures of Domination; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Ros, M. O. (2010). The Uncanny Laughs Once Again: Subjectivity and Structures of Ideological Domination in Late Twentieth-Century Argentinean Cultural Production. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/77678

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ros, Maria Ofelia. “The Uncanny Laughs Once Again: Subjectivity and Structures of Ideological Domination in Late Twentieth-Century Argentinean Cultural Production.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/77678.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ros, Maria Ofelia. “The Uncanny Laughs Once Again: Subjectivity and Structures of Ideological Domination in Late Twentieth-Century Argentinean Cultural Production.” 2010. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Ros MO. The Uncanny Laughs Once Again: Subjectivity and Structures of Ideological Domination in Late Twentieth-Century Argentinean Cultural Production. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2010. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/77678.

Council of Science Editors:

Ros MO. The Uncanny Laughs Once Again: Subjectivity and Structures of Ideological Domination in Late Twentieth-Century Argentinean Cultural Production. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/77678

26. Dowd, Shannon. Stasis: Border Wars in 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literature and Film.

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages & Literatures: Spanish, 2017, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138621

► This dissertation examines literature and cinema about 20th century border wars in Latin America, namely the Chaco, Soccer, and Falklands/Malvinas Wars. I present a paradigm… (more)

▼ This dissertation examines literature and cinema about 20th century border wars in Latin America, namely the Chaco, Soccer, and Falklands/Malvinas Wars. I present a paradigm for considering these wars that moves beyond the dichotomies of the border—in or out—and war—friend or enemy—in order to reflect the contemporary challenges of regional and global integration. Replacing the Greek term polemos, meaning war with an external enemy, with stasis, meaning stagnation and civil uprising, I show how textual, historical, and philosophical interpretations of the linked concepts of hypostasis, stasis, and ecstasy resonate with contemporary conflicts over sovereignty and borders. In particular, regarding the 1932-1935 Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay, I analyze works by Augusto Cespedes, Adolfo Costa du Rels, and Augusto Roa Bastos, arguing that borders present an incomplete enclosure of the national political body. I show how the Chaco border creates the conditions for contemporary siege, re-configuring the mouth as site of cannibalist consumption in a novel by Wilmer Urrelo and speech in a film directed by Paz Encina. Regarding the 1969 Soccer War between El Salvador and Honduras, I analyze the late poetry of Roque Dalton and a novel by Horacio Castellanos Moya, considering literary texts compared to documents of property and citizenship for migrants, citizens, landowners, and poets under stagnant regional integration. Finally, I consider the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War between Argentina and the United Kingdom through analysis of a poem by Susana Thenon and novels by Rodolfo Fogwill and Carlos Gamerro. I argue that Malvinas cultural production draws on repeated metaphors from the conquest and dictatorship, interrupted in ecstasy. Together, I show that cultural production about these three border wars contributes to the conceptual reconfiguration of Latin American and border studies when considered as part of the conflicting stagnation and uproar of stasis Advisors/Committee Members: Williams, Gareth (committee member), Langland, Victoria Ann (committee member), Jenckes, Katharine Miller (committee member), Rodriguez-Matos, Jaime (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: War and Culture; Chaco War, 1932-1935; Soccer War, 1969; Falklands/Malvinas War, 1982; Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Dowd, S. (2017). Stasis: Border Wars in 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literature and Film. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138621

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Dowd, Shannon. “Stasis: Border Wars in 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literature and Film.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138621.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Dowd, Shannon. “Stasis: Border Wars in 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literature and Film.” 2017. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Dowd S. Stasis: Border Wars in 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literature and Film. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2017. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138621.

Council of Science Editors:

Dowd S. Stasis: Border Wars in 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literature and Film. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138621

27. Beverinotti, Matias. On the Limits of Populism: New Historical Narrative and Infantile Political Subjectivity in “Pink Tide” Argentina.

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages and Literatures: Spanish, 2016, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/133302

► My dissertation explores the ways in which the hegemonic Left in Argentina, as part of a new 21st century wave of south American Leftist governments… (more)

▼ My dissertation explores the ways in which the hegemonic Left in Argentina, as part of a new 21st century wave of south American Leftist governments –also known as the pink tide–, legitimize their power on a new official historical discourse. By exploring a variety of cultural media about former leader Eva Peron, I argue that this new historical narrative justifies Cristina Kirchner’s presidency and its Peronismo, by revealing a hidden dynastic relation between the two leaders. This invocation, originally created during the 1990’s to delegitimize neoliberalism, is now being put into work to rebuild a new consensus and spiritual unity of populist politics after the 2001 economic crisis, producing a discursive strategy that recreates the same hierarchical and homogenizing structures, and its voiceless (infant) political subjectivity. In the first two chapters I examine Abel Posse’s novel La pasión según Eva and Carlos Desanzo’s film Eva Perón: la verdadera historia that challenge neoliberalism with a romantic writing of history, with the goal of re-constructing a new Peronism either by restoring the original Peronista welfare state from 1940s and 1950s as in Posse’s novel, or by accomplishing the Peronista socialist resistance agenda from the 1970s as in Desanzo’s movie. Then I analyze Tomás Eloy Martínez’s novel Santa Evita, claiming that it questions neoliberalism this symbol to approach to the past in a way that allows us to imagine the possibility of building an alternate political community beyond the affective bond that charismatic populism produces between its members. In the second part of the dissertation, I show how the figure of Eva was reused after the 2001 in order to legitimize a present populist leader as if she were the incarnation of the spirit of former. Here, I analyze museums such as Museo Evita and Museo del Bicentenario and María Seoane’s film Eva de la Argentina: de una bandera a la victoria, all produced in 2010 to celebrate the country’s Bicentennial anniversary. I argue that the historical discourse helps to reproduce a specific affective bond between leader and people, foreclosing the possibility of building a horizontal society. Advisors/Committee Members: Verdesio, Gustavo (committee member), Jenckes, Katharine Miller (committee member), La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence M (committee member), Williams, Gareth (committee member), Villalobos Ruminott, Sergio (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Populism; Peronism Kirchnerismo; Eva Perón; Pink Tide; South American Left Turn; Argentina Post 2001; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Beverinotti, M. (2016). On the Limits of Populism: New Historical Narrative and Infantile Political Subjectivity in “Pink Tide” Argentina. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/133302

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Beverinotti, Matias. “On the Limits of Populism: New Historical Narrative and Infantile Political Subjectivity in “Pink Tide” Argentina.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/133302.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Beverinotti, Matias. “On the Limits of Populism: New Historical Narrative and Infantile Political Subjectivity in “Pink Tide” Argentina.” 2016. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Beverinotti M. On the Limits of Populism: New Historical Narrative and Infantile Political Subjectivity in “Pink Tide” Argentina. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2016. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/133302.

Council of Science Editors:

Beverinotti M. On the Limits of Populism: New Historical Narrative and Infantile Political Subjectivity in “Pink Tide” Argentina. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/133302

28. Dewees, Andrea Leigh. Other Communions: Maya, Mulatto, Woman and God in Miguel Angel Asturias 1923-1974.

Degree: PhD, Romance Languages & Literatures: Spanish, 2010, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78885

► “Other Communions: Maya, Mulatto, Woman and God in Miguel Ángel Asturias 1923-1974” engages the Guatemalan Nobel Laureate’s literary production over five decades, beginning with his… (more)

▼ “Other Communions: Maya, Mulatto, Woman and God in Miguel Ángel Asturias 1923-1974” engages the Guatemalan Nobel Laureate’s literary production over five decades, beginning with his portrayals of the Maya and expanding to include his representations of the mulatto, female and God. I am primarily concerned with close readings of Los ojos de los enterrados (1960), Mulata de Tal (1963) and El árbol de la cruz (1997) but I draw also from others of Asturias’s novels, as well as historiography, postcolonial and feminist theory, to show how Asturias narrates the nation through literary figures of the Other. Chapter 2 begins with an intellectual history of Asturias as a “Maya” author, tracing the roots and permutations of this myth through biography, autobiography, and literary criticism. I then show how his appropriative creation of a Maya indigenismo is central to his political and aesthetic conception of Latin American literature. However, Asturias’s novels extend beyond this fictive Maya center. Chapter 3 analyzes a non-Maya, untranslated phrase associated with a mulatto character in Asturias’s Banana Trilogy. I analyze an emerging negrista aesthetic and argue that the interruptive repetition of the phrase structures the novel’s account of the recent history of revolution, land reform and democratic rupture in Guatemala, as well as the more distant legacies of the conquest, colonialism and slavery. Mulata de tal also features a mulatta character and in Chapter 4 I explain how Asturias connects land to the female body through a complex series of fragmentations, profanations and redemptions. In contrast to the more historical concerns of the Banana Trilogy, this novel is encased within an apocalyptic framework, marking a shift in Asturias’s attention from a Maya origin to the end of days. Finally, I examine a sketch published after Asturias’s death, El árbol de la cruz, calling attention to Asturias’s connection between the female Other and the cross in what amounts to a brief treatise on communion. I show how this text, read accumulatively through popular religiosity in others of Asturias’s novels, balances between definitive origin and conclusive end. Advisors/Committee Members: Williams, Gareth (committee member), Binetti, Vincenzo A. (committee member), Del Valle, Ivonne (committee member), La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence M. (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Miguel ÁNgel Asturias; Latin American Literary Movement Indigenismo; Latin American Literary Movement Negrismo; History of Guatemala: 1944 and 1954; Popular Religiosity; Orientalism; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Dewees, A. L. (2010). Other Communions: Maya, Mulatto, Woman and God in Miguel Angel Asturias 1923-1974. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78885

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Dewees, Andrea Leigh. “Other Communions: Maya, Mulatto, Woman and God in Miguel Angel Asturias 1923-1974.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78885.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Dewees, Andrea Leigh. “Other Communions: Maya, Mulatto, Woman and God in Miguel Angel Asturias 1923-1974.” 2010. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Dewees AL. Other Communions: Maya, Mulatto, Woman and God in Miguel Angel Asturias 1923-1974. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2010. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78885.

Council of Science Editors:

Dewees AL. Other Communions: Maya, Mulatto, Woman and God in Miguel Angel Asturias 1923-1974. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78885

29. Ferrari, Sebastian. Imagining the Inoperative Community: Documentary Aesthetic in Roberto Bolaño and Alfredo Jaar.

Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2012, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93868

► The literary and artistic works under review in this dissertation emerge from a background in which the circulation of documentation is immense and important: mass… (more)

▼ The literary and artistic works under review in this dissertation emerge from a background in which the circulation of documentation is immense and important: mass crimes committed by the state in the Southern Cone in the 70’s and 80’s must be documented and communicated by post-dictatorship governments. At the same time, the means through which such documentation is formulated and transmitted have become delegitimized or problematized in significant ways: traditional documentary work has undergone severe questioning in the last three decades; the value of a photograph has changed with the emergence of digital media; and the structures of the state which previously underwrote the cultural value and weight of documents have been corrupted by ties to previous orders (some of which committed the crimes in question) or weakened by the ascending power of the neoliberal market. And perhaps most importantly, there is the dilemma posed by having to document erasure and disappearance. Confronted with this problem, documentary work, I suggest, turns toward more literary or figurative forms of gesturing at what remains beyond and before the typical frame of documentary work. Using selected novels by the Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño and artworks by the Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar, I argue that their appropriation of documentary forms (such as testimonial discourse, encyclopedia, catalogues and lists, documentary film and photographs) develops into a documentary aesthetic, in which the process of documentation becomes blocked, seen as insufficient or otherwise rendered inoperative; this sense of inadequacy not only calls into question the stereotypical documentation of victims seen in “official reports” of state crimes, but also forms the ground of a different way of imagining community in the post-national, neoliberal era. This experience of incapacity and insufficiency, I contend, opens us up to an imagining of what Jean-Luc Nancy calls the inoperative community, which is at its heart the common sharing of finitude. Such finitude is however, itself the product of sharing. I argue that the documentary aesthetic produces a limit-experience that “exposes us to our finitude;” we confront our own exteriority to ourselves through the “unframing” of the other in the documentary aesthetic. Advisors/Committee Members: Jenckes, Katharine Miller (committee member), Williams, Gareth (committee member), Noemi, Daniel (committee member), Hannoosh, Michele A. (committee member), Colas, Santiago (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Roberto BolañO; Alfredo Jaar; Documentary aesthetic; Inoperative community, Jean-Luc Nancy; Jacques RancièRe; General and Comparative Literature; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Ferrari, S. (2012). Imagining the Inoperative Community: Documentary Aesthetic in Roberto Bolaño and Alfredo Jaar. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93868

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ferrari, Sebastian. “Imagining the Inoperative Community: Documentary Aesthetic in Roberto Bolaño and Alfredo Jaar.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93868.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ferrari, Sebastian. “Imagining the Inoperative Community: Documentary Aesthetic in Roberto Bolaño and Alfredo Jaar.” 2012. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Ferrari S. Imagining the Inoperative Community: Documentary Aesthetic in Roberto Bolaño and Alfredo Jaar. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2012. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93868.

Council of Science Editors:

Ferrari S. Imagining the Inoperative Community: Documentary Aesthetic in Roberto Bolaño and Alfredo Jaar. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93868

30. Viera, Marcelino Eloy. In the Shadow of Liberalism: Anarchist Reason in the Literature and Culture of the Rio de la Plata (1860-1940).

Degree: PhD, Romance Language and Literature Spanish, 2012, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/94065

► My dissertation examines literary and popular culture in its relation to anarchist ideology at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in Argentina, Uruguay… (more)

▼ My dissertation examines literary and popular culture in its relation to anarchist ideology at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. From a psychoanalytic frame, I analyze anarchist contextual meanings in order to shed light on the complex relationship between writing and the modern history of culture and nation-state formation. I approach this through the study of the works of Florencio Sánchez, Rafael Barrett and Roberto Arlt. I consider these writers’ works not only as part of the national pantheon of literature, but also as an assemblage of anarchist gestures grounded in the Freudian notion of unconscious. They provided anarchist ideology with a rationality that challenged its traditional association with delinquency, barbarism, and brutality. Their understanding of reason dislocated the modern nation-state’s interpretation and aims for it. In order to grasp its contextual meanings, I trace the history of anarchist ideology from its embryonic stage in the second half of the 19th century to its full development and decline during the first quarter of the 20th. Guided by local historians of organized labor (Abad de Santillán, Gaona, Suriano, and López D’Alesandro), I review the anarchist conceptions of Proudhon (mutualism/federalism), Bakunin (collectivism), Kropotkin and Malatesta (anarcho-communism), seeking to identify its particularity among social movements. By retrieving anarchist discourse in Sánchez, Barrett, and Arlt, I am not only showing the need for a new cultural genealogy in this region, I am also pointing out their use of aesthetics as a tool to achieve immediate access to the public as well as their attempt to fulfill the goals of anarchist propaganda (freedom, autonomy, solidarity, reason-science, humanity-nature). As a consequence, this use of aesthetics under anarchist rationality disputes the nation-state’s notion of order and law in its foundation of hegemonic representations of culture. I read Sarmiento’s idealized civilization, Rodó’s discussion of positivism and spiritualism, and Güiraldes’s novel Don Segundo Sombra as ambiguous texts that reveal a certain shared perspective with anarchism. Sánchez, Barrett and Arlt, however, challenge conceptual frames such as civilization-barbarism, rationalism-passion and fiction-reality via a disagreement over the use of reason. Advisors/Committee Members: Williams, Gareth (committee member), Alberto, Paulina Laura (committee member), Moreiras-Menor, Cristina (committee member), Noemi, Daniel (committee member), Verdesio, Gustavo (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Florencio SáNchez; Rafael Barrett; Roberto Arlt; Anarchism; Anarchist Reason; Latin American Literature and Culture; Romance Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Viera, M. E. (2012). In the Shadow of Liberalism: Anarchist Reason in the Literature and Culture of the Rio de la Plata (1860-1940). (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/94065

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Viera, Marcelino Eloy. “In the Shadow of Liberalism: Anarchist Reason in the Literature and Culture of the Rio de la Plata (1860-1940).” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 14, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/94065.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Viera, Marcelino Eloy. “In the Shadow of Liberalism: Anarchist Reason in the Literature and Culture of the Rio de la Plata (1860-1940).” 2012. Web. 14 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Viera ME. In the Shadow of Liberalism: Anarchist Reason in the Literature and Culture of the Rio de la Plata (1860-1940). [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2012. [cited 2019 Dec 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/94065.

Council of Science Editors:

Viera ME. In the Shadow of Liberalism: Anarchist Reason in the Literature and Culture of the Rio de la Plata (1860-1940). [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/94065

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