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Oleson, Megan Louise.
Enlightenment Implications, Bourbon Influence and Character Construction in <i>Comedia nueva del apostolado en las Indias martirio de un cacique</i>: An Alternative Approach to the Life, Works and Ideology of Eusebio Vela.
Degree: MA, Latin American Studies, 2014, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12633 
► A general disregard for literary works of eighteenth-century Latin America continues to characterize scholars’ attitudes towards the era. The prevailing past and current scholarly approaches…
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▼ A general disregard for literary works of eighteenth-century Latin America continues to characterize scholars’ attitudes towards the era. The prevailing past and current scholarly approaches to these works have portrayed them as second-rate, overly Baroque and valueless. I argue that these negative perceptions have remained stagnant not because of their innate inferiority, but rather because of many scholars’ inadequacies in correctly interpreting their intentionality. To further this assertion, I focus on the analysis of the famed eighteenth-century playwright Eusebio Vela and his play Comedia nueva del apostolado en las Indias martirio de un cacique (Comedia nueva del apostolado). I analyze the ways in which the intentionality within Comedia nueva del apostolado becomes more apparent when it is understood as a participant in the large-scale cultural indoctrination campaign promoted by the Bourbon monarchy and influenced by the Enlightenment. The primary sources I reference that allow for enlightenment-influenced elements to surface within the play include José Antonio Maravall’s Politica directiva en el teatro ilustrado and Ignacio de Luzán’s La Poética o reglas de la poesía en general y de sus principales especies. My textual analysis covers the ways in which Comedia nueva del apostolado indoctrinates Bourbon values through historical revisionism and character construction. By appropriating a foundational story and manipulating characters to reflect model subjects, Vela was able to promote an ideal Bourbon society where monarch-vassal relations were redefined, natives were given a societal role and traditionally powerful sectors of society were limited in their authoritative scope.
Advisors/Committee Members: José Cárdenas-Bunsen (committee member), Ruth Hill (Committee Chair).
Subjects/Keywords: Bourbon reforms; Enlightenment; Theater; eighteenth-century; Mexico; Bourbon; Habsburg
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Oleson, M. L. (2014). Enlightenment Implications, Bourbon Influence and Character Construction in <i>Comedia nueva del apostolado en las Indias martirio de un cacique</i>: An Alternative Approach to the Life, Works and Ideology of Eusebio Vela. (Thesis). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12633
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Oleson, Megan Louise. “Enlightenment Implications, Bourbon Influence and Character Construction in <i>Comedia nueva del apostolado en las Indias martirio de un cacique</i>: An Alternative Approach to the Life, Works and Ideology of Eusebio Vela.” 2014. Thesis, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 17, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12633.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Oleson, Megan Louise. “Enlightenment Implications, Bourbon Influence and Character Construction in <i>Comedia nueva del apostolado en las Indias martirio de un cacique</i>: An Alternative Approach to the Life, Works and Ideology of Eusebio Vela.” 2014. Web. 17 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Oleson ML. Enlightenment Implications, Bourbon Influence and Character Construction in <i>Comedia nueva del apostolado en las Indias martirio de un cacique</i>: An Alternative Approach to the Life, Works and Ideology of Eusebio Vela. [Internet] [Thesis]. Vanderbilt University; 2014. [cited 2021 Apr 17].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12633.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Oleson ML. Enlightenment Implications, Bourbon Influence and Character Construction in <i>Comedia nueva del apostolado en las Indias martirio de un cacique</i>: An Alternative Approach to the Life, Works and Ideology of Eusebio Vela. [Thesis]. Vanderbilt University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12633
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Vanderbilt University
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Wenz, Steven Benjamin.
Continuity and Change: National Identity in Twenty-First-Century Argentine Culture.
Degree: PhD, Spanish and Portuguese, 2016, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12749
► This dissertation studies the representation of national identity in twenty-first-century Argentine culture. I examine how and to what extent the 2001 economic and political crisis,…
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▼ This dissertation studies the representation of national identity in twenty-first-century Argentine culture. I examine how and to what extent the 2001 economic and political crisis, often understood as a turning point in the country’s history, has affected discussions of Argentina’s role in the world and of what it means to be Argentine. Through a study of texts produced during the period from 2003 to 2014, I argue that both change and continuity have characterized the representation of national identity over the last decade. New interpretations of the country’s identity, which flourished in the climate of self-reflection that followed the crisis, exist alongside conceptions of the nation that have their roots in the nineteenth century. My analysis centers on socioeconomic and “racial” identification. I contend that, although the 2001 collapse undermined the notion of Argentina as “Europe in South America,” highlighting the country’s structural and cultural connections with the rest of the subcontinent, the long-standing notion of a stable, middle-class Argentina retains its symbolic power. In similar fashion, I find that, although the events of 2001 opened up a space for historically marginalized groups, such as Afro-Argentines and indigenous peoples, to demand increased visibility in the national imagined community, the Eurocentric view of Argentina remains prevalent. I reach these conclusions by examining multiple forms of media and different spheres of society: novels and short stories by the contemporary authors Ariel Bermani, Patricio Pron, and Washington Cucurto; television commercials and promotional videos for the Argentine national soccer team; and tourist industry materials and a literary anthology from the Northwest region of Argentina, strongly associated with indigenous heritage.
Advisors/Committee Members: Ruth Hill (committee member), Jane Landers (committee member), Edward Friedman (committee member), Earl Fitz (Committee Chair).
Subjects/Keywords: Argentine novel; Argentine literature; Argentina
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Wenz, S. B. (2016). Continuity and Change: National Identity in Twenty-First-Century Argentine Culture. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12749
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Wenz, Steven Benjamin. “Continuity and Change: National Identity in Twenty-First-Century Argentine Culture.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 17, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12749.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Wenz, Steven Benjamin. “Continuity and Change: National Identity in Twenty-First-Century Argentine Culture.” 2016. Web. 17 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Wenz SB. Continuity and Change: National Identity in Twenty-First-Century Argentine Culture. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 17].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12749.
Council of Science Editors:
Wenz SB. Continuity and Change: National Identity in Twenty-First-Century Argentine Culture. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12749
Vanderbilt University
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Rodriguez Sabogal, Alexandra (Yudy).
El realismo mágico y la interseccionalidad de la representación de la prostitución
en Latinoamérica.
Degree: PhD, Spanish, 2017, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15504
► Magical Realism, an influential style of writing in Latin America, allows the writers that deploy it, a wide range of possibilities to transgress their political,…
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▼ Magical Realism, an influential style of writing in Latin America, allows the writers that deploy it, a wide range of possibilities to transgress their political, spatial and temporal boundaries. In my dissertation, I benefit from this important insight in order to explore how the character of the prostitute serves as an axis for magical-realist narratives where issues of race, gender and class intersect. I study the configuration of the prostitute identity in works of fiction from different countries in Latin America such as Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Cuba and Puerto Rico. These narratives also reveal not only that prostitution is configured out of an unequal relationship of power, but that it also preserves heteropatriarchal structures of power in Latin American societies. In these societies, underdevelopment, poverty and political crisis produce discourses on prostitution, which stigmatize and condemn racialized female bodies in order to control and to profit from them. These narratives also shed light on the double nature of Magical Realism as a literary style that simultaneously opens a space where the history of subaltern identities is told again, but also where their voices are ventriloquized. Magical-realist narratives about prostitution participate in national debates about female sexuality, and they reveal a general problematic about gender construction as well as prostitution as related transnational issues of importance for national economies. This literary style also allows the representation of different possibilities in human relations by putting into question the social order that creates and validates legal, religious, and institutional structures and discourses. These structures and their discourses in turn help to preserve prostitution in Latin America.
Advisors/Committee Members: Earl Fitz (committee member), Ruth Hill (committee member), Vanessa Valdés (committee member), Benigno Trigo (Committee Chair).
Subjects/Keywords: Latin America; Spanish; Gender Studies
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Rodriguez Sabogal, A. (. (2017). El realismo mágico y la interseccionalidad de la representación de la prostitución
en Latinoamérica. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15504
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Rodriguez Sabogal, Alexandra (Yudy). “El realismo mágico y la interseccionalidad de la representación de la prostitución
en Latinoamérica.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 17, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15504.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Rodriguez Sabogal, Alexandra (Yudy). “El realismo mágico y la interseccionalidad de la representación de la prostitución
en Latinoamérica.” 2017. Web. 17 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Rodriguez Sabogal A(. El realismo mágico y la interseccionalidad de la representación de la prostitución
en Latinoamérica. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2017. [cited 2021 Apr 17].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15504.
Council of Science Editors:
Rodriguez Sabogal A(. El realismo mágico y la interseccionalidad de la representación de la prostitución
en Latinoamérica. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15504
Vanderbilt University
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Woolfolk, Boston Jared.
Peru in Black and White: Racial Formations in the Twentieth-Century Peruvian Novel.
Degree: PhD, Spanish, 2019, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13156
► This study analyzes the ever-fluid role of race within the characterization and representation of Peruvians, particularly those of African descent, in twentieth-century Peruvian novels. Employing…
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▼ This study analyzes the ever-fluid role of race within the characterization and representation of Peruvians, particularly those of African descent, in twentieth-century Peruvian novels. Employing the theoretical framework of Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s conceptualization of racial formation, I argue that successive generations of Peruvian authors both perpetuate and interrogate socially-constructed notions of race and racialized ideologies through the destabilization of racialized roles, tropes, and imaginaries. This project dissects how novelists challenge socially-constructed identities that become inextricably entangled with race, including gender, sexuality, class, power, morality, and nationality. Texts by Enrique López Albújar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gregorio Martínez, and Lucía Charún-Illescas utilize historical and individual memory to “look back” into the past and create realities that, intentionally or not, bring race to the fore. Previously “invisibilized” Afro-descendant histories and protagonists are made visible, their literary presence disrupting the normalized associations between physical characteristics and hierarchical binaries such as superior/inferior, moral/immoral, and civilization/barbarism. In destabilizing the fixity of race, Peruvian novelists complicate social roles and ultimately reveal the existential proximity of peoples considered racially distinct. These authors confirm how those who construct and define the racialized boundaries that determine real-world consequences can experience an ideological backlash in which their own racial identities are contested, weakened, and ultimately exposed as constructs themselves.
Advisors/Committee Members: Celso T. Castilho (committee member), Edward H. Friedman (committee member), N. Michelle Murray (committee member), Ruth Hill (Committee Chair).
Subjects/Keywords: Peru; Race; Afro-Latin America; Afro-Peruvian
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Woolfolk, B. J. (2019). Peru in Black and White: Racial Formations in the Twentieth-Century Peruvian Novel. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13156
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Woolfolk, Boston Jared. “Peru in Black and White: Racial Formations in the Twentieth-Century Peruvian Novel.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 17, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13156.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Woolfolk, Boston Jared. “Peru in Black and White: Racial Formations in the Twentieth-Century Peruvian Novel.” 2019. Web. 17 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Woolfolk BJ. Peru in Black and White: Racial Formations in the Twentieth-Century Peruvian Novel. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2019. [cited 2021 Apr 17].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13156.
Council of Science Editors:
Woolfolk BJ. Peru in Black and White: Racial Formations in the Twentieth-Century Peruvian Novel. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13156
Vanderbilt University
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Myers, Megan Jeanette.
Re-Mapping Hispaniola: Haiti in Dominican and Dominican American Literature.
Degree: PhD, Spanish and Portuguese, 2016, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12212
► This dissertation illustrates how an understanding of Haiti in Dominican literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries beyond the negative, stereotypical literary conception linked to…
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▼ This dissertation illustrates how an understanding of Haiti in Dominican literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries beyond the negative, stereotypical literary conception linked to Dominican negrophobia and anti-Haitianism is key to understanding why Dominicans today are re-envisioning their complex racial and ethnic identities, built on centuries of politically disseminated myths. The work endeavors to uncover the literary evidence of Dominican and Dominican American writers such as Ramón Marrero Aristy, Freddy Prestol Castillo, Marcio Veloz Maggiolo, Julia Alvarez, and Junot Díaz positively representing Haiti and its people across time and geographic restraints. The project also takes into account how other Caribbean and Latin American authors, namely Alejo Carpentier, Manuel Zapata Olivella, and Mario Vargas Llosa, have represented Haiti and Hispaniola. The use of border theory is key to approaching the literary works alternatively representing the Haitian subject and my recognition of
the border as both cultural signifier and analytic tool reflects on the important work of Gloria Anzaldúa. The dissertation uses Anzaldúa’s border theory, centered on the ideological Border, to re-focus the Dominican Republic-Haiti argument by deciphering how literature re-writes Hispaniola’s history and resists the dominant, patriarchal discourse surrounding Dominican culture and identity.
Advisors/Committee Members: Dr. Lorraine Lopez (committee member), Dr. Benigno Trigo (committee member), Dr. Ruth Hill (committee member), Dr. William Luis (Committee Chair).
Subjects/Keywords: 1937 Haitian Massacre; Borders; Citizenship; Identity; Heterotopia; Gloria Anzaldúa; Race; Haiti; Dominican Republic; Hispaniola; Caribbean Literature; Latin American Literature; Latino/a Literature
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Myers, M. J. (2016). Re-Mapping Hispaniola: Haiti in Dominican and Dominican American Literature. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12212
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Myers, Megan Jeanette. “Re-Mapping Hispaniola: Haiti in Dominican and Dominican American Literature.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 17, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12212.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Myers, Megan Jeanette. “Re-Mapping Hispaniola: Haiti in Dominican and Dominican American Literature.” 2016. Web. 17 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Myers MJ. Re-Mapping Hispaniola: Haiti in Dominican and Dominican American Literature. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 17].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12212.
Council of Science Editors:
Myers MJ. Re-Mapping Hispaniola: Haiti in Dominican and Dominican American Literature. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12212
Vanderbilt University
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Boutelle, Russell Joseph.
The Race for America: Blackness, Belonging, and Empire in the Transamerican Nineteenth Century.
Degree: PhD, English, 2016, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13457
► Drawing on writings from the US, Cuba, Trinidad, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Liberia, my dissertation examines how ideas and experiences of racial categorization changed as Black…
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▼ Drawing on writings from the US, Cuba, Trinidad, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Liberia, my dissertation examines how ideas and experiences of racial categorization changed as Black individuals voluntarily crossed national borders in unprecedented numbers. I argue that race more broadly and Blackness in particular help chart the geopolitical formation of the Americas in two important ways. First, these terms index how fiction and nonfiction writings about Black migration normalized the exclusion of Black bodies from national geographies. Through narrative appeals to History (writ large), the texts I examine underwrote the idea that the Americas were destined to be the dominion of a transnational “white” race. Secondly, by reading racialized bodies through multiple, locally-defined definitions of Blackness, The Race for America illuminates how the collisions of contradictory racial epistemologies provided migratory people of color with opportunities to redefine their identities. Taking advantage of more slippery and capacious racial categories in the Caribbean or West Africa, many African Americans who left the USA secured political subjectivity for themselves where it was otherwise inaccessible. By shifting between local and transnational definitions of Blackness, The Race for America reveals how more flexible understandings of race can unravel the narratives of USAmerican exceptionalism, and provide critics with new tools for theorizing the hemisphere’s development.
Advisors/Committee Members: Ruth Hill (committee member), Ifeoma C.K. Nwankwo (committee member), Teresa Goddu (committee member), Vera M. Kutzinski (Committee Chair).
Subjects/Keywords: Race; American Literature; Cuba; Nicaragua; Trinidad; USA; Colonization; African American Literature; Empire; Imperialism; Abolition; Slavery
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Boutelle, R. J. (2016). The Race for America: Blackness, Belonging, and Empire in the Transamerican Nineteenth Century. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13457
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Boutelle, Russell Joseph. “The Race for America: Blackness, Belonging, and Empire in the Transamerican Nineteenth Century.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 17, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13457.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Boutelle, Russell Joseph. “The Race for America: Blackness, Belonging, and Empire in the Transamerican Nineteenth Century.” 2016. Web. 17 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Boutelle RJ. The Race for America: Blackness, Belonging, and Empire in the Transamerican Nineteenth Century. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 17].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13457.
Council of Science Editors:
Boutelle RJ. The Race for America: Blackness, Belonging, and Empire in the Transamerican Nineteenth Century. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13457
Vanderbilt University
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Alvarez, Alana.
The Whitening Project in Venezuela, ca. 1810-1950.
Degree: PhD, Spanish, 2016, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15208
► The Whitening Project in Venezuela, ca. 1810-1950 Alana Alvarez Dissertation under the direction of Professor Ruth Hill Simon Bolívar’s (1783-1830) still-popular and demagogical notion of…
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▼ The Whitening Project in Venezuela, ca. 1810-1950
Alana Alvarez
Dissertation under the direction of Professor
Ruth Hill
Simon Bolívar’s (1783-1830) still-popular and demagogical notion of the Venezuelan as a mixed-race individual whose supposedly unique racial fusion benefits the construction of the nation, has been a pivotal part of how the Venezuelan´s describe themselves racially through out the 19th and 20th centuries. I begin my investigation with Bolívar’s political speeches in which he depicts the prototypical Venezuelan as a mixture of European, Indian, and African bloodlines. By erasing ethnic, racial, and class distinctions that were still intact from the colonial period, Bolívar intentionally inaugurated a complex system of double discourses and codes to ultimately whiten the hidden colonial heritage of mestizaje.
I then trace Bolívar’s supposedly pro-mestizaje discourse through post independence writers Juan Vicente González and Eduardo Blanco. Adopting a material-culture perspective I turn to manifestations of whitening-through-mestizaje in the Venezuelan magazine El cojo ilustrado (1892–1915). Subsequently, I analyze the counter mestizaje discourse of Venezuelan elites Rufino Blanco Fombona and José Rafael Pocaterra. Separating themselves from Bolívar’s use of double discourses, they display their positivist racial ideologies in their literary representations of the lower economic strata and colored majorities.
Moving further into the twentieth century, my study exhaustively analyzes the continuing negative connotations of mestizaje and the presence of Bolívar’s double discourse in authors like Rómulo Gallegos (1884-1969) and Teresa de la Parra (1889-1936). I further dwell into Venezuela’s mixed racial reality and how it opposes any attempt of successful whitening. Gallego’s raza autóctona (“autochthonous race”) in Los inmigrantes (1922) and Doña Bárbara (1929) suggests a trope of an uncouth and physically inferior mixed race rooted in Venezuelan soil. Consequently, Gallegos forges a necessity and commodity of Whiteness. Finally, I examine Teresa de la Parra’s Ifigenia (1924) in order to debunk the critical portrait of this novelist as a protofeminist. Parra’s narrative renderings of Venezuelan women are racially, and economically, constrained. Using the scopic concept of the White Gaze, as the critical race theorist George Yancy frames it, my analysis illuminates whitening-through- mestizaje in its class and race dimensions in the 1920s and 1930s.
Advisors/Committee Members: Cathy L. Jrade (committee member), Emanuelle Oliveira-Monte (committee member), Jane Landers (committee member), Ruth Hill (Committee Chair).
Subjects/Keywords: Latin American Literature; race; mestizaje; national discourse; Rómulo Gallegos; Simón Bolívar
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Alvarez, A. (2016). The Whitening Project in Venezuela, ca. 1810-1950. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15208
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Alvarez, Alana. “The Whitening Project in Venezuela, ca. 1810-1950.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 17, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15208.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Alvarez, Alana. “The Whitening Project in Venezuela, ca. 1810-1950.” 2016. Web. 17 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Alvarez A. The Whitening Project in Venezuela, ca. 1810-1950. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 17].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15208.
Council of Science Editors:
Alvarez A. The Whitening Project in Venezuela, ca. 1810-1950. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15208
Vanderbilt University
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Foster, Timothy Michael.
Dissonant Conquests: Literature, Music,
and Empire in Early Modern Spain.
Degree: PhD, Spanish and Portuguese, 2017, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12905
► This dissertation investigates the representation of music in early modern Spanish and colonial Latin American literature. It takes a historicist approach, exploring the cultural connectedness…
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▼ This dissertation investigates the representation of music in early modern Spanish and colonial Latin American literature. It takes a historicist approach, exploring the cultural connectedness of two central concepts: musical humanism (the Renaissance rebirth of Neoplatonic theory, including the Harmony of the Spheres and the power of music to influence human emotions) and imperial providentialism (the belief that God favored the Spanish Empire with divine providence). Using these two ideologies as a basis for interpreting the literary depiction of music, the dissertation argues that the humanistic concept of the power of music becomes intertwined with the power of empire. The interaction of these ideas can be observed in 1) the sixteenth-century music books for the vihuela, 2) the early seventeenth-century chronicles of colonial history by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala and the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, and 3) the mid-seventeenth-century musical theater of the playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca. In these examples, the “true” music of Catholic Spain is imbued with the power to revive the glories of Rome in a Christian empire by erasing the presence of Jewish and Moorish music, to subjugate (or defend) indigenous peoples and their traditions in the New World conquest, and to promote harmony of the four continents under the guiding gaze of a powerful Baroque monarch. In each case, both Renaissance music and the Spanish Empire are portrayed as the heirs of the classical tradition, displaying an ideological view of the power of music.
Advisors/Committee Members: Dr. Ruth Hill (committee member), Dr. José A. Cárdenas-Bunsen (committee member), Dr. Jane Landers (committee member), Dr. Colleen Baade (committee member), Dr. Edward H. Friedman (Committee Chair).
Subjects/Keywords: New Historicism; Cultural History; Musicology; Interdisciplinary Literary Study; Early Modern Spain; Golden Age Literature; Spanish Literature; Latin American Studies
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Foster, T. M. (2017). Dissonant Conquests: Literature, Music,
and Empire in Early Modern Spain. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12905
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Foster, Timothy Michael. “Dissonant Conquests: Literature, Music,
and Empire in Early Modern Spain.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 17, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12905.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Foster, Timothy Michael. “Dissonant Conquests: Literature, Music,
and Empire in Early Modern Spain.” 2017. Web. 17 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Foster TM. Dissonant Conquests: Literature, Music,
and Empire in Early Modern Spain. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2017. [cited 2021 Apr 17].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12905.
Council of Science Editors:
Foster TM. Dissonant Conquests: Literature, Music,
and Empire in Early Modern Spain. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12905
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