2024-03-29T11:35:29Zhttps://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/oai/requestoai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/2202019-04-01T09:04:37Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/36372019-08-07T13:49:49Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
The political career and ideology of Mariano Otero, Mexican politician (1817-1850)
Boyd, Melissa
Fowler, Will
The traditionalist historiography of nineteenth-century Mexico produced a simplistic binary view of the period in which politics were characterised by a clear-cut liberal/conservative divide. According to this interpretation, the liberals were repeatedly depicted as the patriotic forefathers of the great reformist liberals of the mid-century Reforma period, whilst the conservatives were presented as the treacherous defenders of the dark forces of reaction. A revaluation of the fragmented politics of Mexican liberalism during the critical decade of the 1840s, focussing in particular on the actions and ideas of moderate political thinker and actor, Mariano Otero, provides a much needed nuanced understanding of the political issues, factions, and tendencies of the
time. It highlights for one, the nature of the divisions that prevented Mexican liberals
from presenting a united front, even during the traumatic Mexican-American War
(1846-48). It also forces us to revise the view that there were only two political factions or worldviews during this period.
This thesis examines, therefore, Mexican moderate liberalism in the 1840s
through the figure of Mariano Otero (Mexico, 1817-1850), never quite fully researched
in the historiography. A moderate liberal ideologue, politician, lawyer and essayist, he was politically active during the turbulent decade from 1841 until his death in 1850. He served as congressional deputy in 1842 and 1846, senator from 1847-1849, and
government minister in 1848. Author of the seminal Ensayo sobre el verdadero estado
de la cuestión social y política que se agita en la República Mexicana (1842), and
architect of the 1846 Acta de Reformas that reformed the 1824 constitution, he is lauded
as the father of the Juicio de Amparo a legal recourse which provided the individual
with a means of protection from the abuses of the state.
This thesis thus approaches the subject by offering an in-depth biographical
study of Otero and an analysis of the political ideology that informed his writings and actions. By contrasting Otero’s political ideas with those others that were in vogue and showing how these were, in turn, put into effect, bearing in mind a backcloth of political and military alliances that was constantly changing, the aim of this study is to allow the reader to understand the nature of Otero’s political standpoint as well as that of Mexico’s mid-century moderados in context. The Otero that emerges from this revision is a man of firm convictions, a committed constitutionalist, unwavering in his belief in federalism as the answer to Mexico’s ills but forced to compromise to achieve his aims. This was a man who in attempting to shape the time was himself shaped by it.
Certainly no such cut and dried portrait as that previously portrayed emerges.
2013-06-07T14:42:18Z
2013-06-07T14:42:18Z
2012
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3637
en
iv, 250 p.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/18862020-10-19T09:47:05Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
El exilio en la poesía de Tomás Segovia y Angelina Muñiz Huberman
Tasis Moratinos, Eduardo
Dennis, Nigel
University of St Andrews
Exile in poetry
Tomás Segovia
Angelina Muñiz Huberman
Tomás Segovia and Angelina Muñiz Huberman belong to a group of writers known as «Hispanomexicanos». Most approaches to this generation have been towards the role that exile plays in their early work, paying almost no attention to its role after that initial stage. These approaches have been limited to the first years of their work, in the belief that those writers subsequently moved on to deal with issues which are different from those in which their experience of exile is clearly the central topic. However, through an analysis of the poetry of Muñiz and Segovia, this thesis aims to show that exile continues to play a central role beyond that first stage. It argues that their exile is transformed into a series of symbols that come to constitute a shared style and, more importantly, it proposes that their experience of exile is transformed into a feeling of existential displacement which impels a search for meaning and belonging to the world. Consequently, the conclusion presented in this thesis is that exile plays a central role in their poetry, in the sense that it expresses the ways in which these two writers search and transmit meaning and attempt to feel part of the world. Ultimately, this thesis aims to set an example of approach which could be productively taken to study the work of other writers from this generation.
2011-06-22T11:11:31Z
2011-06-22T11:11:31Z
2011-05-23
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1886
es
2021-07-12
Thesis restricted in accordance with University regulations. Electronic copy restricted until 12th July 2021
192
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/19632020-10-19T09:51:02Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
Memory and self-representation in the works of Jorge Semprún
Omlor, Daniela
Dennis, Nigel
Fernández Romero, Ricardo
Memory
Semprún
Exile
Holocaust
Self
Jorge Semprún’s work is the fruit of an incarceration in the concentration camp of Buchenwald as a resistance fighter and his expulsion from the Partido Comunista Español in 1964. Due to these biographical circumstances, many critical literary studies to date limit the discussion of his works to the autobiographical and the realm of Holocaust studies. Together with the texts that do not fit adequately into this categories, his self-identification as a Spanish exile has up to now been neglected. The present thesis aims to provide a more global view of his oeuvre by extending the literary analyses to texts that have deserved little critical attention. In order to achieve this, it investigates the role played by memory and self-representation in a variety of works by Semprún. Aspects connected to memory such as exile and nostalgia, the Holocaust, the interplay between memory and writing, politics and collective memory, postmemory and identity are examined by means of a detailed analysis of the selected works and are discussed thematically. Differences in genre are discarded for the discussion and interconnections between the various narratives are highlighted. With the help of memory and trauma theories, we come to the conclusion that memory is the overarching principle of Semprún’s writing and that he invests it with an aesthetic and ethical value which is interpreted as the justification for his devotion to writing.
2011-08-10T15:08:46Z
2011-08-10T15:08:46Z
2011-06
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1963
en
2021-03-01
Thesis restricted in accordance with University regulations. Electronic version restricted until 1st March 2021
150
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/16932019-08-07T13:50:58Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
The 'pronunciamiento' in Yucatán : from independence to independence (1821-1840)
Ali, Shara
Fowler, Will
Pronunciamiento
Yucatan
Mexico
Political culture
Nineteenth century
Political history
Unique to nineteenth-century Spain and Central America, the pronunciamiento can be interpreted as an act of insubordination against ruling authorities, which included a written document with a list of complaints or demands. The practice was almost always carried out by members of the army, but usually involved heavy participation by political and civilian sectors of society as well. The pronunciamiento more often than not contained a threat of military violence if the grievances of the pronunciados were not listened to; as a result, it carried with it the implicit consequence of armed revolt.
The pronunciamiento was responsible for major political changes in early nineteenth-century Mexico and Yucatán, and was also one of the most powerful forces of political and societal destabilisation during this period. Indeed, the pronunciamiento was responsible for the establishment of federalist and centralist systems, changes of constitutions, and constant overthrows of presidents. This was also true on a smaller scale in Yucatán, as the pronunciamiento was not only used to depose governors and administrations, but was the key negotiatory mechanism between the Yucatecan and Mexican administrations; yucatecos resorted to the pronunciamiento to realise their secessions from and reunifications to Mexico throughout the early nineteenth century.
The aim of this thesis is to expose the dynamic of the Yucatecan pronunciamiento. It will challenge the present depiction of the pronunciamiento as military exercise of destabilization, and will instead concentrate on exposing it as a highly intricate process of political representation and negotiation, at both local and national levels. This will not only contribute toward a greater understanding of pronunciamiento culture on a local and more general scale, but will also reveal a more comprehensive analysis of the socio-political and economic circumstances of nineteenth-century Yucatán. This in turn will aid in re-defining early nineteenth-century Mexico, questioning its traditional depiction as an age of “chaos”, and instead exposing it as one dominated by political and ideological forces and factions, who used the pronunciamiento to express their beliefs and to negotiate for change.
2011-03-17T12:08:32Z
2011-03-17T12:08:32Z
2011-06-24
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1693
en
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/
Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
263 p.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/45932019-07-01T10:20:05Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
The political and military career of General Anastasio Bustamente (1780-1853)
Andrews, Catherine
Fowler, Will
Anastasio Bustamante was born in the modern day state of Michoacan in
1780. He served the Royalist Army during the insurgency (1810-1821). He was one
of the first officers to adhere to Agustin de Iturbide's Plan of Iguala in 1821, and a
signatory of the Act of Independence (28 September 1821). He was a member of
Mexico's first independent government, the Junta Provisional Gubernativa (1821-
1822) and served as the Captain General of the Eastern and Western Internal
Provinces during Iturbide's short-lived reign as Emperor (1822-1823). He served as
the Commander General of the Eastern Interior Provinces between 1826 and 1829. In
1829 he became Vice-President of the Republic. In December 1829 he led a
successful rebellion against the incumbent President, Vicente Guerrero. He served as
acting Head of the Executive between 1830 and 1832. In 1837 he was elected
President. He occupied this position until 1841. He commanded the troops of the
Western Division during the war with the United States (1846-1848). Between 1848
and 1849, he oversaw the pacification of one of the many rebellions of the Sierra
Gorda (now the Sierra de Queretaro). He died in Guanajuato in 1853, aged 73.
This study examines Bustamante's military and political career. It rejects the
traditional interpretation of the General, which portrays him as a weak and indecisive
man lacking in any real political principles. Instead, it argues that Bustamante was a
resolute and pragmatic leader, who supported the cause of moderate federalism for
most of his career.
2014-04-24T13:22:19Z
2014-04-24T13:22:19Z
2001-05
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4593
en
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
iii, 384 p.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/156922021-07-23T11:10:16Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
Identities beyond the canon: pluralism and women's writing in Galician fiction, 2000-2010
Barbour, Catherine Suzanne
San Roman, Gustavo
O'Leary, Catherine
University of St Andrews. School of Modern Languages
Santander UK
2018-07-24T14:15:50Z
2018-07-24T14:15:50Z
2016
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15692
en
2026-06-10
Thesis restricted in accordance with University regulations. Print and electronic copy restricted until 10th June 2026
324 p.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/274162024-01-22T11:01:00Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
The Black River Plate : race, history, and cultural memory in Uruguayan and Argentine fiction, 2001-2021
Sarasola Herrera, Jorge
San Roman, Gustavo
O'Leary, Catherine
Wolfson Foundation
Historical novel
Afro-Latin America
Uruguayan literature
Argentine literature
The aim of this thesis is to examine the contemporary rise in historical fiction about the Black past of the River Plate region. Unlike Latin American countries such as Mexico which envisioned racial mixture – mestizaje – as central to national identity, dominant discourses in Uruguay and Argentina fetichised European immigration and whiteness as the nations consolidated a version of national history and identity to present at the time of their Centenaries (Argentina 1910; Uruguay 1925 and 1930). Framed through the lens of memory studies, these contemporary novels are analysed against the backdrop of the Bicentenary celebrations in Argentina (2010) and Uruguay (2011), which acted as catalysts for a reconfiguration of this racial outlook through reinterpretations of the nations’ histories. The focus on the contemporary novel establishes the significance of a genre which has not yet received much attention within Afro-Platine literary studies. This dissertation also offers the first comparative exploration of Afro-centric fiction in these two republics. After a chapter devoted to theoretical and methodological issues, Chapter Two studies two novelists (de Mattos and Cucurto) who rewrite canonical works to subvert perceptions of the enslaved as passive and submissive, focusing instead on their agency to rebel. The texts selected in Chapter Three (Chagas and Moya) undermine a model of heroism characterised by unconditional loyalty to a white leader, presenting instead Afro-Platine heroes who question the national projects these leaders represent. In Chapter Four, Chagas and Platero contest a binary understanding of ethnicity by focusing on the often unclassifiable and fluid mixed-race heritage of these populations. Overall, these novels do not only write Afro-descendant characters into the histories of these nations. Instead, they posit a radical challenge to the ways inclusivity itself operates in Uruguayan and Argentine nationhood, redefining its parameters and demanding fresh frameworks to conceptualise race and ethnicity for the Bicentenary.
2023-04-18T10:40:07Z
2023-04-18T10:40:07Z
2022-11-30
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/27416
https://doi.org/10.17630/sta/405
PR/ylr/jw/21184
en
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
2027-06-08
Thesis restricted in accordance with University regulations. Restricted until 8th June 2027
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
301
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/9922019-07-01T10:06:11Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
Perspectives of the River Plate around the time of Rosas : an analysis based upon the personal correspondence, private memoirs and published accounts of British settlers, as well as works by creole authors
Stewart, Iain A D
San Román, Gustavo
This thesis draws inspiration from the emergence of cultural studies as an academic
pursuit, in addition to the current renewal of interest in the relationship between
literary works and their socio-cultural milieux, to bring together an assortment of
textual traces pertaining to the River Plate around the era of Juan Manuel de Rosas,
governor of Buenos Aires and de facto dictator of Argentina for most of the period
1829-1852. The main texts analysed range from private documents relating to two
Scottish settler families, through accounts published by British citizens with first-hand
knowledge of the region (Un inglés, Cinco años en Buenos Aires and
Beaumont, Travels in Buenos Ayres and the Adjacent Provinces), to three influential
pieces of early Argentinian literature (Echeverria's El matadero, Mármol's Amalia
and Sarmiento's Facundo). One justification of this apparently eclectic approach lies
in the prominence accorded to the incomer in the thought of liberal Platine
intellectuals, a concern evinced in their literary production.
The methodology involves examining the representation of certain
fundamental topics across this range of written artefacts, observing frequent points of
thematic convergence amongst the various texts. In this fashion, I construct an image
of the River Plate region around the Rosas period, whilst also appraising the degree
to which early British settlers matched the idealized notion of the immigrant present
in liberal creole writings.
The study is divided into four main chapters, supplemented by an
introduction, conclusion and appendix. The first chapter summarizes the historical
context of the young Platine republics; the second deals with the themes of society,
community and family, the third focuses upon religion; the fourth considers
perspectives of politics, dictatorship and civil war. The appendix consists of an
unpublished settler autobiography, a remarkable account of the tribulations faced on
a daily basis in the developing Argentina.
2010-09-15T11:56:20Z
2010-09-15T11:56:20Z
1996
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/992
en
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
v, 283 p.
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/183902019-08-30T02:05:59Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
Metaphors of suffering : the representation of the homosexual and the lesbian as social and discursive constructs in Spanish peninsular narrative texts, 1970-2000
Wilyman, Sheila M.
Dennis, Nigel
Studies of the homosexual and lesbian as he/she is represented in Spanish peninsular
narrative texts of the twentieth century have spoken mainly of the silence that surrounds
these
particular identities and space and of their pathologisation by psychiatry and
medicine.
Although this thesis engages with both these problematic issues, its main
purpose is to study the representation of the homosexual and the lesbian as social and
discursive constructs in a selection of Spanish peninsular narrative texts published
between 1970 and 2000. Relevant to this constructionist scenario are the ways in which
the various authors represent the determining effect of discursive practices and codes, and
particularly those of religion, medicine and the State, on the subject's self-determination
as homosexual or lesbian. Equally significant is the representation of homosexual and
lesbian identities as
contingent upon the social, political, and historical moment in which
the male/female is
placed.
The selected texts include Eduardo Mendicutti's ‘El
palomo cojo’, Ana María
Moix's ‘Julia’, Jesús Alviz's ‘Calle Urano’, Miguel Espinosa's ‘La tríbada falsaria’ and
Carme Riera's "Te
dejo, amor, en prenda el mar" and Eduardo Mendicutti's "El milagro".
In these texts characters are
represented taking up either a homosexual or lesbian identity
as the result of the discursive
practices and codes of the surrounding social/sexual scene.
Also represented are the suffering, pain and alienation that accrue to those categorised as
sexually perverse, as well as the silence that surrounds closeted positionalities and space.
In consonance with the liberal mood of
Spain's "destape", the various texts also
demonstrate the
possibility of characters answering back and challenging the credibility
of the status
quo that labelled him/her as homosexual/lesbian in the first place.
The
analysis of the selected texts is based on a variety of theoretical and
philosophical observations relating to sexuality, language, identity, gender and desire.
Particularly useful have been Michel Foucault's ‘History of Sexuality’ Vol. 1, J. L. Austin's
‘How to Do Things with Words’ and Judith Butler's ‘Gender Trouble’. Raymond Williams's
vignette entitled "Dominant, Residual, and Emergent" in ‘Marxism and Literature’ has also
proved illuminating and pertinent.
2019-08-29T11:17:34Z
2019-08-29T11:17:34Z
2006-06-23
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/18390
en
ii, 185 p.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/19652019-08-07T13:48:24Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
The experience of the pronunciamiento in San Luis Potosí, 1821-1849
McDonald, Kerry
Fowler, Will
The Hispanic phenomenon of the pronunciamiento, particularly prominent in
nineteenth-century Mexico, is just one example of an insurrectionary political act that
has contributed to the traditional portrait of chaos and disorder that has tainted much
of our interpretation of the country‟s socio-political history. Once considered to be a
violent, non-ideological, praetorian military act, recent studies reveal that the
pronunciamiento was primarily a written petition that sought to further political
proposals or address particular grievances through negotiation (albeit often backed by
the threat of force). Although the military were largely the most visible leaders of the
pronunciamiento, a plethora of political and civilian actors and interest groups partook
in the practice with the intention of having their grievances/demands attended to by
the national government.
As well as being viewed as one of the causes of chronic instability, the
pronunciamiento was also the primary mechanism employed to bring about tangible
political changes throughout the country. At the local level of San Luis Potosí, the
pronunciamiento seed also germinated and was used by all political groups and
factions in their negotiations with local and national authorities alike. Local interests
were often at the heart of these negotiations and so dictated the nature of the
pronunciamiento in San Luis Potosí.
This dissertation will explore and analyse the pronunciamiento practice, its
origins, dynamics and nature, from the regional perspective of San Luis Potosí.
Bearing in mind that the pronunciamiento was borne out of, and operated in a specific
socio-political-economic context of constitutional disarray and transition, its analysis
will also further our understanding of the broader socio-political culture not only of
San Luis Potosí, but of Mexico in general. This in turn will contribute to the
acknowledged need for reinterpretation and revaluation of the tumultuous period of
early nineteenth-century Mexico. It will expose the period as an age of democratic
revolutions; of intense political debate between emergent political groups and
factions, who increasingly used the pronunciamiento to further an ideological stance,
represent a spectrum of interests and force some kind of political change both at a
national and regional level when all other constitutional options had been exhausted.
2011-08-11T10:57:33Z
2011-08-11T10:57:33Z
2011
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1965
en
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
2021-03-16
Thesis restricted in accordance with University regulations. Electronic version restricted until 16th March 2021.
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
276 p.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/25572019-07-01T10:18:12Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
Sites of struggle: representations of family in Spanish film (1996-2004)
Rutherford, Jennifer R.
Bentley, Bernard Pierre Emile
Vidal, Belen
Spanish film
Family
Postmodern family
Cine social
Melodrama
Affective mode of address
Familia
Solas
Te doy mis ojos
Cachorro
Flores de otro mundo
Poniente
Electronic version excludes material for which permission has not been granted by the rights holder
This thesis analyses how ways of thinking about and meanings of family are (re)negotiated and (re)presented in six films that, to varying degrees, are categorised as cine social. The group of films consists of Familia (León de Aranoa, 1996), Solas (Zambrano, 1999), Flores de otro mundo (Bollaín, 1999), Poniente (Gutiérrez, 2002), Te doy mis ojos (Bollaín, 2003) and Cachorro (Albaladejo, 2004). Despite the growing body of critical work on the wide-ranging social themes they deal with, little sustained attention has been given to their representations of family. Scholars tend to mention it only in passing, or refer back to the allegorical/mediating function that family has often played in Spanish cinema. The objective of this thesis is to place the emphasis, as the films do themselves, on the family per se. Insights into family from a range of academic fields including philosophy, sociology, feminist and queer theories and cultural, race and gender studies are combined with close textual readings and a consideration of the modes of representation and address employed in the films to analyse how they function as sites of ideological struggle. The thesis begins by sketching out historically and culturally situated definitions of family and providing an overview of some of its most iconic representations in Spanish cinema. Establishing many of the aspects developed in the main body of the thesis the first chapter concentrates on Familia, which denaturalises the hegemonic family by presenting it as a self-conscious performance. The subsequent four chapters focus on family forms, roles, practices, commitment, power dynamics and domestic space. They explore how the films’ affective and informed modes of address position the spectator in relation to criticisms of the traditional family and evaluations of emerging family ideologies, finally proposing that they could usefully be viewed as a cycle of postmodern family melodramas.
2012-04-16T11:22:24Z
2012-04-16T11:22:24Z
2010-06-24
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2557
en
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
359
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/19052019-08-07T13:49:18Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
La coalición pedracista : elecciones y rebeliones para una re-definición de la participación política en México (1826-1828)
Romero-Valderrama, Ana
Fowler, Will
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT) (Mexico)
Elections
Imparciales
The pedracista electoral coalition that was formed in Mexico during the 1828 presidential elections was deliberately ignored by the traditional historiography of the early national period. Instead it concentrated on the leaders of the liberal struggle, deeming this alliance unworthy of study. There were essentially two key reasons why this happened. On the one hand, General Manuel Gómez Pedraza (1789-1851) was not an archetypal liberal patriot in the mould of those heroes that were exalted and written about by Mexico’s Porfirian and PRIísta historians. His politics were associated with a certain ideological indeterminateness as a result of his moderate stance, proving problematic to historians who were intent on developing a liberal and subsequently post-revolutionary historia patria. On the other hand, the official historiography accepted, unquestioningly, the critical version of his actions that his opponents circulated at the time. As a result of this, the yorkino version of the events is the one that prevailed, casting Pedraza in the role of staunch anti-yorkino in a simplistic bipartisan vision of Mexican politics that depicted the political tensions of the time as a clear-cut confrontation between the pedracista aristocrats and the democratic yorkino followers of mulatto hero of the War of Independence, General Vicente Guerrero (1783-1831).
This two-dimensional dichotomy has only recently started to be nuanced by the revisionist historiography of the last thirty years. This has been due, in great measure, to the fact that the traditional interpretation of the pedracista coalition posed a number of significant problems when attempting to understand the political behaviour of the people involved. Above all, it was an interpretation that proved incapable of explaining how such a variety of political tendencies, represented by those individuals who joined the alliance that backed Pedraza’s presidential candidacy, could have come together; i.e., anti-masonic groups, the imparciales, certain yorkinos and former escoceses. This thesis aims to explain what brought these individuals, whose political ideas were ostensibly incompatible, together, in what resulted in a particularly resourceful and successful electoral force.
The pedracista coalition represented the first political formation in Mexico that came together specifically to win a presidential election. It was one which set out to bring an end to the political interference of Masonic societies in Mexico, and in particular, that of the Rite of York lodges. It also challenged the yorkinos’ electoral campaign by criticising their leader, Guerrero, and, by highlighting the negative aspects of their Masonic faction. It pointed out, moreover, the dangers inherent in a central administration led by guerrerista yorkinos and, in so doing, made clear the problems that were to be found in the political ideas these individuals stood for, depicting them as partisan, ignorant, and representative of the popular classes. The pedracista coalition argued that the presidency needed to go to someone who did not belong to any particular party, who was virtuous, who was renowned for being hard-working and energetic in government, and who belonged to the exclusive circles frequented by the “hombres de bien”. Given that Pedraza won the elections, it is evident that his coalition benefited from a constitutional structure that favoured his candidacy, gaining, at the same time, the public validation of the governmental authorities in place at the time. However, Pedraza’s candidacy was defeated by the armed mobilizations that ensued in the pronunciamientos pro-yorkino followers launched from October to November 1828, and was consequently eliminated from the political scene until late 1832 given that the leaders of the imparciales as well as Pedraza himself chose not to fight back or support a counter-revolution.
During the electoral campaign, the pedracista coalition displayed, with astounding clarity, what it thought were the essential qualities a president needed to possess and, likewise presented a distinctive appreciation of how it thought the Mexican political class should behave. In this sense, the coalition’s views, captured in its votes, networks and press articles, offer a fascinating snapshot of what were the fundamental themes of the Mexican republic during its formative years as a nation-state, and how this ignored political grouping interpreted them. Of particular interest is the manner in which the pedracista coalition explored the ways in which political legitimacy, participation and representation were to be understood, defended, and systematised. By studying the pedracista coalition this thesis offers, for the first time, a detailed analysis of the nature and dynamics of Mexican politics in the mid-late 1820s, as experienced, discussed, and represented by the short-lasting yet effective alliance that was forged around the candidacy of Manuel Gómez Pedraza.
2011-06-24T09:41:53Z
2011-06-24T09:41:53Z
2011-03-24
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1905
es
269 p.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/26142019-10-17T02:04:11Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
The expression of identity in Equatorial Guinean narratives (1994 - 2007)
McLeod, Naomi
Dennis, Nigel
Equatorial Guinea
Literature
Identity
Symbolic interactionism
José Fernando Siale Djangany
Maximiliano Nkogo Esono
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
Joaquín Mbomio Bacheng
Equatorial Guinea is the only former Spanish colony in Africa south of the Sahara. Consequently, the Spanish-language literature produced by its authors has been resistant to classification in both the fields of Hispanic and African literary studies. This thesis examines a selection of contemporary narratives written between 1994 and 2007 by the following authors: José Fernando Siale Djangany, Maximiliano Nkogo Esono, Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel and Joaquín Mbomio Bacheng. My main objective in this dissertation is to identify, explain and relate the ways in which post-independence authors express identity in their respective texts. In order to accomplish this task, this thesis posits situational interactions as the key sites for identity expression. Developed from the tenets of symbolic interactionism, the syncretic theoretical model of identity views it as telescopic. It is expected that, through the examination of the chosen texts, a contribution can be made to the understanding of the way in which each author expresses identity and can therefore feed into the larger discussion of identity in Equatorial Guinean narrative.
2012-05-23T09:43:12Z
2012-05-23T09:43:12Z
2012-06-21
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2614
en
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
203
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/220292022-04-14T08:36:45Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
El dialecto Aranes : a study of the speech and way of life of the inhabitants of the central reach of the Val d'Aran in the province of Lerida, taking as its limits the towns of Viella and Bosost and incorporating the villages of Casau, Gausach, Vilach, Mont, Montcorbau, Betlan, Aubert, Vila, Arros, Vilamos, Arres, Begos, Benos, Arru, Las Bordas and La Bordeta
Bamford, David
2021-04-08T09:04:23Z
2021-04-08T09:04:23Z
1973
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/22029
en
v, 105 p
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/153242019-04-01T09:04:45Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
Aspects of the production and use of slang in the Spanish of Barranquilla, Colombia
Moss, Margaret Gillian
Gifford, Douglas
The thesis presents a general analysis of the semantic processes involved in the production of slang in Barranquilla and of its use, particularly in relation to popular culture, socio-economic class and education. The relationship between slang and other areas of language is studied and the corpus presents 282 words and phrases accompanied by a detailed analysis of each item. Slang is a part of the vernacular, which is the most systematic area of language (cf, Labov) and due to its rapidly-changing nature, processes of semantic change which occur throughout the language can be seen in action in slang (cf, Bendezi Neyra, Guamieri, Hildebrandt, Jespersen, Niceforo, Trejo, etc.). The most important mechanism of slang production (66%) is found to be metaphor, which is analysed in detail as a dynamic process, and it is suggested that literal language and metaphor are two extremes of the same continuous process. Within metaphor, function is seen to be the most frequent motivation (64%), the expression of relations, activities and abstract concepts in concrete terms being one of the major uses of slang. Examination of this phenomenon shows the deficit theory (cf. Bernstein and, for general resumé, Dittmar) to be probably unjustified, Notwithstanding, a relationship between slang, socio-economic class and education is established in that working class people, with least formal education, are found to be the greatest producers and users of slang. As specifically vernacular lexicon, slang is an expression of the vernacular culture and its value systems. Relations between slang and culture are analysed on the level of individual items in the corpus and also in a more general and abstract sense in the way in which slang is seen to fulfil in urban society some of the functions of myth (cf. Levi-Strauss, Rosaldo). At the other end of the linguistic scale, comparison and contrast are also drawn between slang and poetry. Throughout the first nine chapters, detailed and numerical evidence is drawn from corpus. The corpus itself presents the meaning of each item, an example of its use, cross-references to many dictionaries in order to provide comparison with the standard and with other regional and non-standard varieties of Spanish, and analysis of the semantic process involved, its motivation, its effects, the reference of tenor and vehicle where applicable and the social distribution of the item. The appendix provides brief discussion of the influence of the mass media.
2018-07-12T15:24:20Z
2018-07-12T15:24:20Z
1980
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15324
en
484 p.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/35542019-04-01T09:04:45Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
The displaced I : a poetics of exile in Spanish autobiographical writing by women
Cadman, Jennifer
Dennis, Nigel
Fernández Romero, Ricardo
Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
Exile
Autobiographical writing
Spanish Republican exile
Literary responses to Republican exile are diverse and autobiographical works have emerged as a significant modality of this exilic literature. Utilising poetics as a mode of inquiry, this thesis aims to examine some of the complex and nuanced ways in which exile has shaped autobiographical writing by both first and second-generation female exiles. To this end, I trace a poetics of exile in a selected corpus of nineteen autobiographical works by twelve authors: Constancia de la Mora, Isabel Oyarzábal de Palencia, Silvia Mistral, Clara Campoamor, Victoria Kent, Luisa Carnés, Remedios Oliva Berenguer, Francisca Muñoz Alday, Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, María Rosa Lojo, María Luisa Elío and Arantzazu Amezaga Iribarren. These texts were published across a seventy year period (1939 – 2009) in a number of geographical locations and written in a variety of circumstances. Exilic autobiographical texts are not homogeneous and relatively few have adhered to traditional models of autobiography. As such, the works examined are drawn from a variety of autobiographical sub-genres including propagandistic autobiographies, diaries, political essays, hybrid texts, autofiction, memoirs, childhood autobiographies, more experimental semi-autobiographical texts and a film. The main body of this thesis presents six aspects of a poetics of exile — the notion of the addressee, generic hybridization, polyphony, the propagation of collective memory, postmemory, and retroprogressive representations of childhood — and adopts a multi-disciplinary approach that draws upon a number of fields. This thesis aims to offer an illumination of the breadth and difference of women’s exilic autobiographical writing as highlighted in the identification of six very different aspects of a poetics of exile.
2013-05-27T11:07:59Z
2013-05-27T11:07:59Z
2013-06-27
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3554
en
288
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/146562023-10-24T08:13:08Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
Fact and fiction : representations of the Asturian Revolution (1934-1938)
Sanchez, Sarah
Dennis, Nigel
University of St Andrews. School of Modern Languages
The purpose of this thesis is to study the literary response to the Asturian Revolution of October 1934. It will be shown that a distinct type of literature emerged reflecting the increasing political and social polarisation of Spanish society during the first decades of the twentieth century. Through a careful analysis of the texts published within four years of the Revolution, I will demonstrate how a set of writers, whether authors by profession, politicians, intellectuals, or workers, responded to the most important episode of working- class revolutionary action in Asturias before the Civil War. I will show that their aim was to not only record their experiences and thoughts on the events but also to guide and persuade their readers to adopt a particular political stand, often advocating revolutionary or counter-revolutionary action. These texts are examples of a trend set by intellectuals influenced by national and international political developments who sympathised with (and often openly militated in favour of) a political party line. This politically committed social literature displays a set of common features largely determined by the fact that the time span between the October Revolution and the writing of the works is short. The written responses are spontaneous as they were composed in the heat of the moment against a dramatic backdrop of revolutionary defeat and governmental repression. The texts in question are essentially documentary prose works in which the causes, course and outcome of the Revolution are narrated. By analysing the prose narrative works I will demonstrate that there is a gradual development in the literary characteristics of the texts, and that one group in particular deserves to be classified as 'non-fictional novels'. This term highlights the contrasting documentary and fictional nature of these novels, conditioned by a change in the concept of literature and its purpose, which was in turn prompted by the political and social situation facing Spanish society at the time.
2018-06-27T12:31:45Z
2018-06-27T12:31:45Z
2002
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14656
en
475 p.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/183182021-03-29T14:28:19Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
Opening up the archive : memory, identity and historical fiction in Uruguay (1988-2011)
Kardak, Karunika
San Roman, Gustavo
O'Leary, Catherine
University of St Andrews. 7th century Scholarship
University of St Andrews. School of Modern Languages. L. J. Woodward Memorial Scholarship
Maharashtra (India). Department of Social Welfare
Uruguayan literature
Latin American cultural studies
Historical novels
Cultural memory
Identity studies
This thesis examines the representation of key events from the nineteenth century in five Uruguayan historical novels published in the aftermath of the country’s recent dictatorship (1973-85). It answers the following research questions: how does historical fiction utilise the past in order to address concerns of national identity and cultural memory in the present? And how does it reassess the country’s foundational myths by portraying both national heroes and historically marginalised figures? Using the methodological and theoretical tools of memory and identity studies, it analyses how the selected authors engage with archival sources, school textbooks and other received historical sources, as well as forms of material culture such as monuments, to enhance their interpretations of the past. In doing so, this study also aims to trace the development of the historical novel genre in this key period of post-dictatorship Uruguay. The selected novels, published over the course of twenty-four years (1988-2011), fictionalise both well-known and relatively unnoticed incidents from the country’s past. They include Tomás de Mattos’s ¡Bernabé, Bernabé! (1988), based on the massacre of the indigenous Charrúas (1831) and its aftermath; Amir Hamed’s Artigas Blues Band (1994), which subverts the myths surrounding the national hero José Artigas (1764-1850); Susana Cabrera’s Las esclavas del Rincón (2001), which unearths the historical murder of an elite Montevidean woman by her slaves in 1821; Mario Delgado Aparaín’s No robarás las botas de los muertos (2002), on the Siege of Paysandú in 1864-65; and lastly, Amores cimarrones. Las mujeres de Artigas (2011) by Marcia Collazo Ibáñez, which portrays the lives of six women related to Artigas. The thesis concludes that these works reflect upon issues of identity and memory to propose more egalitarian and pluralistic versions of them for Uruguay’s post-dictatorship present.
2019-08-15T13:35:03Z
2019-08-15T13:35:03Z
2019-12-04
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/18318
https://doi.org/10.17630/10023-18318
en
2024-08-01
Thesis restricted in accordance with University regulations. Print and electronic copy restricted until 1st August 2024
283 p.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/152562019-04-01T09:04:51Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
Calderón's 'Arte nuevo' in the first act of 'El médico de su honra'
Clifford, John
El Medico de su Honra is one of Calderón's most controversial plays. Criticism in the past has largely concentrated on its imagery, its treatment of the honour theme, its portrayal of the King and its relationship to wider theories of tragedy. But very little work has "been done on the play as a piece of theatre; and this work is a preliminary attempt to redress the balance. Calderón was a working dramatist, one skilled and successful in his craft, writing plays that could be successfully staged, and so writing with the resources of his actors, the reactions and expectations of his audience very much in mind. This, too, is the basis of my approach. The complexity of the subject has led me to focus in my enquiries on the first act of the play; hut even so, the extraordinary richness of Calderón's dramatic gifts has meant that much has had to be left unsaid. The study begins with an examination of the way a play should begin. To get a play started is not as simple as it might appear; certain technical problems have to be solved, and the way in which the dramatist tackles them can give useful clues as to what he is trying to express. The opening scenes of this play - Enrique's fall from his horse, Mencía's dismay at his re-appearance in her life, Leonor's reception in audience with the King - on the one hand are simply devices for securing the audience's sympathy and attention, and for supplying the necessary information for comprehension of the play's plot. So they are studied as such; but at the same time they are considered as the means used by Calderón to examine issues such as the status of women, the dispensation of justice in ways that are relevant both to his time and to our own. By the end of the act it has become very clear that the methods used by Calderón to meet the elementary needs of his craft are also the ways that lead to the creation of a profound work of art.
2018-07-11T13:44:58Z
2018-07-11T13:44:58Z
1983-07
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15256
en
295 p.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/30982017-07-14T16:19:11Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
Creation and marginalisation in women’s writing in mid-twentieth-century Uruguay : the case of Concepción Silva Bélinzon’s poetry
Montañez Morillo, María Soledad
San Román, Gustavo
Latin American women's poetry
Literary canon
National identity
Time
Memory
This thesis explores how women’s writing in mid-twentieth century Uruguay enables a reconsideration of the intertwined hegemonic practices of literary canon formation and national identity in this seminal period. Within a national history and a cultural tradition conceived of as patriarchal, progressive and homogeneous, in correspondence to a European/Eurocentric concept of time and historicism, women writers struggled to find a recognised position from which to speak. Nevertheless, like other marginal groups, women writers have challenged the hegemonic discourses of modernity in Uruguay, as elsewhere in Latin America, producing what can be described, following Elaine Showalter, as a double-voiced textual strategy that replicates as well as subverts the dominant order.
In this respect, Concepción Silva Bélinzon (Montevideo, 1900-1987) offers a remarkable case study to show how women’s poetry destabilises and renegotiates the great discourses of modernity. Socially and culturally marginalised, Silva Bélinzon’s life demonstrates the failures and limitations of a patriarchal/paternalistic society, while her poetry problematises the homogeneous national discourses of modern Uruguay, exposing the discontinuity inherent to a national history conceived of as masculine, linear and teleological.
Silva Bélinzon’s poetry has been defined as a synthesis of Modernismo and Surrealism, and described as a combination of free associations, biblical references and metaphysical concerns, all expressed within conventional metric forms, notably, the sonnet. Her poetry has been considered incoherent and bizarre, and has thus received little critical attention. However, one of the most interesting characteristics of her poetry has been overlooked. That is, the juxtaposition of different artistic trends and the dialectical tension that exists between the use of random, discontinuous and disconnected images within strict traditional poetic forms.
The theoretical approach of this thesis is predominantly framed by postcolonial, feminist and gender theories, including those of Homi K. Bhabha and Judith Butler. In addition, drawing on Henri Bergson’s work, Matière et mémoire (1896) and Marcel Proust’s well-known idea of mémoire involontaire, I interpret Silva Bélinzon’s elliptical poetry as a virtual journey through layers of the personal and national pasts that thereby deterritorialises the national, hegemonic discourses of the modern nation. Thus, using Silva Bélinzon’s poetry as a case study, the thesis aims to demonstrate how women writers ‘overlap in the act of writing the nation’ (Bhabha 2003: 292).
2012-09-20T20:32:20Z
2012-09-20T20:32:20Z
2012-01-20
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3098
en
2022-03-09
Thesis restricted in accordance with University regulations. Electronic copy restricted until 9th March 2022, pending formal approval
214
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/30992019-08-07T13:50:35Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
The pronunciamiento in nineteenth-century Mexico : the case of Jalisco (1821-1852)
Doyle, Rosie
Fowler, Will
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Pronunciamiento
Jalisco
Mexico
Legitimacy
Insurrection
Political action
The pronunciamiento was a political practice with its origins in early nineteenth-century Spain. It was a form of political petitioning usually undertaken by coalitions of military and civilian actors to make demands against regional and national governments and negotiate political change. The petitions were generally accompanied with the threat of the use of military force should the demands not be met. As such, pronunciamientos have been defined by Will Fowler as “forceful negotiations.” The pronunciamiento developed as a political practice in a context of institutional disarray and contested legitimacy as a response to the constitutional crisis in Spain (1812-1820), and it became a particularly popular political tool in early independent Mexico (1821-1876) in a context in which successive governments experimented with new political systems. The fact that the institutions these governments created needed to acquire a political legitimacy that was stable enough to replace that of the Ancien Regime would prove problematic. It would be this context of uncertain legitimacies that would allow the pronunciamiento to develop a legitimacy of its own.
It was an extra-constitutional, subversive form of political participation. It was used as a last resort by political actors who believed that, in the particular circumstance of having constitutional routes closed to them or of the government having broken the social pact, they had a right to insurrection to protect the people from the abuses of unjust or tyrannical government. As it developed in early independent Mexico, the pronuciamiento became one of the most used practices for effecting political change. Pronunciamientos were used at one time or another by political actors of all social classes and political persuasions. They preceded most of the major political changes of the period on both a regional and national scale, be they changes in government, the introduction of new laws or a change of political system.
Pronunciamientos have often been referred to in the historiography of early independent Mexico as military revolts or coups. The pronunciamiento has thus been seen as a cause of instability and evidence of praetorianism in the political life of nineteenth-century Spain and independent Mexico. However, recent and current research on the subject, including the project at the University of St Andrews “The Pronunciamiento in Independent Mexico 1821 – 1876” of which this PhD is a part, has resulted in a revision of this narrow view of pronunciamientos as revolts and coups. The project and its affiliated researchers have developed a picture of the pronunciamiento as a political practice which was much more intimately involved with the newly developing constitutional institutions than previously thought. This PhD is a contribution to that revision which uses regional history to analyse the nature and evolution of the pronunciamiento. It is a study of the dynamics of and political actors involved in pronunciamientos in the state of Jalisco in western Mexico between 1821 and 1852.
Jalisco in the early national period was a geopolitically important state and a popular place from which to launch pronunciamientos. Many political actors from within and without the state chose to launch pronunciamientos from Jalisco some of which had a significant impact on regional and national politics. To date there has been no thoroughgoing study of the phenomenon of the pronunciamiento as it developed in Jalisco. This analysis of the pronunciamientos which took place in Jalisco shows that pronunciamientos were used by all political actors to effect political change and had a very real effect on the lives of those directly involved as well as those of the general public who witnessed pronunciamientos on the streets of their towns and cities. It shows how pronunciamientos became closely interconnected with the newly developing constitutional institutions and how, while most pronunciamientos were recognized by all political actors as potential bearers of instability, the pronunciamiento was also considered to be a legitimate form of political participation given the extraordinary circumstance of a lack of recognised or legitimate government. The research demonstrates that pronunciamientos launched in Jalisco had a central part to play in the development of the new political order in the “age of democratic revolutions” and during the transition Mexico underwent from having a traditional corporate society and polity to acquiring a modern liberal one.
The findings of this study provide an insight into the way in which political culture developed in Jalisco in the early national period. Alongside regional studies into the pronunciamientos launched in the San Luis Potosí and Yucatán in a similar period carried out by Kerry McDonald and Shara Ali, this research helps to develop a picture of how Mexican pronunciamientos worked at a local level allowing for more accurate generalisations to be made regarding the pronunciamiento as a practice on a national scale. The study also contributes to an understanding of how politics worked in Mexico in periods of institutional disarray, uncertain legitimacy and political transition and how insurrectionary political forms became legitimised.
2012-09-20T20:33:07Z
2012-09-20T20:33:07Z
2012-06-21
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3099
en
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/
Thesis restricted in accordance with University regulations. Electronic copy restricted until 15th May 2020
Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
300 p.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/3232019-08-07T13:51:26Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
The role of history in the recent Mexican novel: a study of five historical novels by Elena Garro, Carlos Fuentes, Fernando del Paso, Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Rosa Beltran
Rafael, Laura
Fowler, Will
Carlos Fuentes
Historical novel
Fernando del Paso
Rosa Beltran
Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Elena Garro
Mexico
This thesis sets out to investigate the development of the recent historical novel in Mexico by examining a corpus of five novels. Elena Garro’s 'Los recuerdos del porvenir' (1963) represents the final point of the novel of the Revolution and it is the link with the recent historical novel. Carlos Fuentes’ 'Terra Nostra' (1975) and Fernando del Paso’s 'Noticias del Imperio' (1978) belong to the group containing the postmodern historical novel. 'Terra Nostra' summarizes all the concerns of postmodernism and can be considered as a paradigm of this current of thought. 'Noticias del Imperio' seeks a reconciliation between history and literature in an attempt to get closer to the historical truth. Paco Ignacio Taibo II’s 'La lejanía del Tesoro' (1992) is a representative novel in the way it melds history with the mystery novel, developing the genre of the historical thriller. Lastly, Rosa Beltrán’s 'La corte de los ilusos' (1995), and in particular its treatment of history is pertinent to this thesis due to the fact that women have been traditionally silenced by official history. This novel gives them a voice.
From its beginnings, the historical novel confronted the problem of being questioned for its lack of accuracy when dealing with the past. This skepticism sparked a long lasting debate that initially degraded the historical novel as secondary genre that could never contribute to historical knowledge. However, as a result of recent theories that seek to defend the poetic nature of history, a theory developed initially by Hayden White, the recent historical novel has sought to debunk historiography’s claim to be the only possible way to recount the past. This thesis advances the theory that the recent historical novel in Mexico is the result of a search for a genuine identity, as well as a quest to develop an alternative, yet truthful, interpretation of a past whose true nature has been distorted by decades of historical officialdom. This process is seen in a context of increasing democratisation and globalisation.
2007-05-02T10:42:50Z
2007-05-02T10:42:50Z
2007-06-22
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/323
en
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
291 p.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/3432019-07-01T10:12:17Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
Memory and exile in the poetry of Luis Cernuda
Logan, Aileen A.
Dennis, Nigel
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Memory
Identity
Exile
Spanish poetry
Luis Cernuda (1902-1963) was exiled from Spain in 1938 due to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. He lived in Great Britain, America and Mexico and he never returned to his homeland. Until the mid-1960s, he was considered by the Spanish literary establishment to be an evasive and astringent poet. Since then, critics have recognised and praised the ethical quality and nature of his work and he is now considered to be one of the most profound and influential Spanish poets of the twentieth century. Despite the growing body of critical work on Cernuda, the salient role played by memory in his poetry has received little sustained critical attention. Critics have tended to stress the nostalgic and the evasive rather than the ethical and contemplative role played by memory in his work both before and after his departure from Spain. The objective of this thesis is to provide a more balanced view of the poet’s use of memory in his early and mature poetry. Rather than limiting his concept of memory to nostalgia for his youth or his homeland, it argues that he deploys memory as an instrument of self-analysis, self-discovery and self-criticism. The first chapter concentrates on his pre-exilic poetry in order to show that memory plays a fundamental role in his poetics prior to the experience of physical exile. The central body of the thesis examines the increasingly analytical and philosophical role played by memory in a selection of his mature prose and verse texts written outwith Spain.
2007-06-01T12:04:12Z
2007-06-01T12:04:12Z
2007-06-22
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/343
en
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
184
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/177902019-05-31T13:34:24Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
Dialogues of historicity and horizontalism in post-Crisis Argentine narratives
Lynch, Brigid Catherine
Kefala, Eleni
Santander UK
Historicity
Horizontalism
Argentina
Crisis
Cultural studies
This doctoral thesis examines how historicity and horizontalidad emerged as the pre-eminent cultural discourses in the period following the 2001 economic crisis in Argentina, reflecting a sea-change in individual and collective attitudes to the past, present and future. It analyses the dialogic relation between these two discourses through their cultural articulations in a range of texts, from literary fiction, journalism, documentary and feature films to television drama.
The thesis begins with an exploration of the crisis itself and the denaturalizing effect it wrought upon Argentine society, rupturing the boundaries of the possible in both socio-political and cultural terms. Chapter One explores the theoretical specificities of historicity and horizontalidad within the Argentine context. It also analyses a selection of journalistic narratives from Mu, a monthly magazine produced by the autonomous media collective lavaca.
Chapter Two explores hauntology as the dominant mode of historicity in the 2004 novel El cantor de tango and interrogates the limits of any historicist endeavour that does not encode the potential for radical change in the future. Chapter Three examines spatial iterations of historicity and horizontalidad in the suburban hinterland of greater Buenos Aires, in the 2011 documentary La multitud and the 2012 feature film Elefante blanco. Chapter Four focuses upon the haptic materiality of the historicist narratives which feature in the 2010 television mini-series Lo que el tiempo nos dejó, a drama that privileges the everyday people and places of the past. In Chapter Five, the ludic historicity of Las aventuras de los bustos de Eva Peron and the horizontalist impulse of its grotesque narrative modality is investigated. Finally, the Epilogue reflects upon the evolving relationship between historicity and horizontalidad in the years since the 2001 Crisis and posits the findings of this thesis alongside some suggestions for their implementation in future analysis of contemporary Argentine culture.
2019-05-31T13:30:07Z
2019-05-31T13:30:07Z
2018-12-07
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/17790
en
2023-10-31
Thesis restricted in accordance with University regulations. Print and electronic copy restricted until 31st October 2023
162, xxii p.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/182622024-02-21T03:12:07Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
The Zapatista discursive war : literary subversion in Subcomandante Marcos' writings (1994-2017)
Gribomont, Isabelle
Fowler, Will
Kefala, Eleni
This doctoral thesis argues that Subcomandante Marcos’ appropriations of existing
textual material, whether they take the form of quotations, allusions, parodies or remixes,
are key to the discursive war waged in the communiqués. Through these textual
manipulations, Marcos simultaneously promotes inter-epistemic dialogues and questions
colonial knowledge to favour the Zapatistas’ anti-neoliberal and decolonial political
agenda.
The thesis begins by contextualising the emergence of the EZLN within the
history of Chiapas since the nineteenth century, providing background information on
Marcos’ communiqués, and engaging with relevant scholarship. The subsequent literary
analyses uncover some of the textual strategies which contribute to the Zapatistas’
transcultural communication on the one hand, and their subversive political message on
the other. It argues that Marcos recuperates Jorge Luis Borges’ translation strategies and
his irreverent approach towards authorship to challenge the Mexican political class and
colonial cultural hierarchies through intertextual allusions to the Western literary
tradition. Simultaneously, Marcos creates bridges between Maya and Western
epistemological systems. To do so, he relies on certain motifs prevalent in both Maya
culture and idealist philosophy. In addition to being deployed as a bridging element,
idealist philosophy, alongside postmodernity, is recuperated by Marcos for its inherent
scepticism, which is redirected towards the narratives supporting the Mexican
government and its neoliberal policies. Moreover, the staging of cynical voices in
Marcos’ writings is understood as a rhetorical device which places the Zapatistas in moral
opposition to the Mexican government. Finally, it is argued that Marcos’ recent digital
turn mirrors the Zapatistas’ interest for digital activism and their ambiguous appropriation
of Western technology, simultaneously perceived as a site of colonial oppression and a
subversive space. These findings highlight Marcos’ discursive intervention in the global
cultural fabric, afforded by his deliberate displacement of specific texts and the cultural
contexts they embody.
2019-08-07T13:57:57Z
2019-08-07T13:57:57Z
2019-06-27
Thesis
https://hdl.handle.net/10023/18262
https://doi.org/10.17630/10023-18262
en
2029-02-20
Thesis restricted in accordance with University regulations. Print and electronic copy restricted until 20 February 2029
xii, 440 p.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/25512019-07-01T10:18:37Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
Les philosophes de l'exil républicain espagnol de 1939 : autour de José Bergamín, Juan David García Bacca et María Zambrano (1939-1965)
Foehn, Salomé
Dennis, Nigel
Salaün, Serge
Spanish Republican exile
Contemporary Spanish philosophy
Peninsular Spanish literature and poetry
Spanish Republican philosophers in exile defended the Second Republic, legally proclaimed on April 14, 1931. They embraced the anti-fascist cause rising in the 1920s and the 1930s in Europe. During the Civil War, which lasted three years, they stood among the people. 1939 saw the victory of General Francisco Franco, supported by Nazi Germany and the Italy of Mussolini. Threatened with death, they had no choice but to escape from Spain. Some intellectuals experienced French concentration camps but, for the most part, they found refuge in Latin America, especially in Mexico and Venezuela. In exile, they swore to remain loyal to the Second Republic and to the spirit of the Spanish people.
Moved by liberal views and humane ideals, these philosophers belonged to the vanquished, as those everywhere in Europe who rose against Fascist barbarity. As a result, their respective works are still widely unknown today – despite relentless efforts made to promote their thought to a larger audience for over half a century.
In addition to the historical context of crisis during the interwar period, the situation of Spanish philosophy itself is suggestive. Indeed, Spanish philosophy was institutionalised at the beginning of the twentieth century only: the Schools of Madrid and Barcelona were created. These politics of cultural and intellectual renovation are first bestowed upon the generation of philosophers I study, born in the 1900s. When the Spanish War erupts, they had become professionals of international recognition. This shows the actual limits of academic philosophy, incapable of acknowledging unorthodox ways of philosophising.
The experience of exile itself serves in my opinion as a catalyst: Spanish Republican philosophers in exile seek emancipation from academic conventions to philosophise freely; that is, in Spanish and according to the spirit of the people. No doubt “poetic reason” – the true invention of Spanish Republican exile – stems from this ideal of autonomous thinking.
2012-04-10T14:36:37Z
2012-04-10T14:36:37Z
2012-06
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2551
fr
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
543
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/61142019-07-01T10:09:55Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
Man and society : the notion of responsibility in the novels of Alejo Carpentier
McGregor, Jennifer W.
Bacarisse, Salvador
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the highly moral ethic of social duty and responsibility which animates the work of Alejo Carpentier. In order to examine this theme, I have studied, in particular, the following six novels: ‘El reino de este mundo’, Los pasos perdidos’, ‘El acoso’, El siglo de las luces’, ‘El recurso del método’, and ‘La consagración de la primavera’. In the Introduction, I have investigated the various philosophical questions raised by the concept of responsibility : the debate about freewill and determinism has been examined, and the Existentialist philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre has been chosen as the most helpful in an investigation of Carpentier’s theory of responsibility, due to a great coincidence of thought between the two writers.
The protagonists of the novels in question have been grouped according to various distinguishing tendencies or characteristics, and have been analysed in the light of the Sartrian concepts of good and bad faith. These groupings are as follows: “the deluded intellectual”, “two tyrants”, “the lesson of experience”, and “the committed individual”. The success, or failure, of these characters, in matching up to the goals of self-transcendence and responsible commitment posed by Carpentier has been charted throughout Chapters One to Four, and deductions have been made about the various forms of bad faith in which the characters indulge.
The conclusions that I have drawn from this detailed investigation of characters in good and bad faith are, firstly, that Carpentier sees man’s goal in life as the attainment of self-knowledge and the honest acceptance of responsibility for the self : once this state of good faith has been achieved, man is able to commit himself to the never-ending struggle for the improvement of the social situation. Acceptance of responsibility for the self is vital, in Carpentier’s canon, for without such acceptance, positive commitment is impossible. Secondly, I have concluded that, according to Carpentier, commitment is an inevitable part of life, and that Carpentier’s goal, then, is that we should actively commit ourselves to a positive cause through recognition of our responsibility for ourselves and our society, rather than tacitly accept the status quo through a passive or deterministic attitude.
2015-02-17T11:26:16Z
2015-02-17T11:26:16Z
1982
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6114
en
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
371
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/153502019-04-01T09:04:04Zcom_10023_108com_10023_29com_10023_114col_10023_110col_10023_116
Melancholy imagination in Ausias March and the Florentine Neoplatonists
Maingon, Louis Patrick A.
This thesis focuses primarily on the work of the Valencian poet, Ausias March (1398 - 1459), who was revered by the first two generations of Petrarquistas in Golden Age Spain, and in particular by Juan Boscán and Garcilaso de la Vega. It has long been contended that the introduction of Ficinian Neoplatonism in Spain by Boscán's translation of Il Cortegiano, and Garcilaso's assimilation of Bembo's Petrarchism, represents a radical shift in sensibility, unprecedented in the Iberian peninsula. The object of this thesis is to demonstrate that because Ausias March is a Lullian poet who manifests an evangelical-Platonic sensibility, and is not a "troubadour attardé" as Amédée Pagès thought, the introduction of the Italianate fashion by Boscán and Garcilaso is not a radical departure from their earlier allegiance, but a development. The poetry of Ausias March is remarkable for its introspection. Consequently, the interpretation of his work must begin with an analysis of his use of the theory of imagination, which he inherited through the literary influence of the Chartrians and Victorines of the twelfth century, and, in particular, from Hughes de Saint Victor. The importance of introspection and imagination naturally entails the question of the extremes of melancholy, as it is understood in the mediaeval tradition of Aristotle's Problem XXX, i. After a survey of the role of melancholy imagination in Ausias March's poetry, the function of these two closely related concepts is analysed in Ficino's Commentarium in Convivium , Hebreo's Dialoghi, Bembo's Gli Asolani, and Castiglione's Il Cortegiano. This enables one to determine that the Florentine theory of love is not insulated from passion, as many literary critics imply. The dialectical relation of natural reason to Augustinian right reason evinces the extremes of imagination and melancholy, as either lunacy or divine rapture. These elements of Florentine Neoplatonism reveal a deep concern for the difficult relation of the body to the soul, and, ultimately, a conscious search for ascesis. These elements, which are common to Ausias March and the Florentine Neoplatonists, are an expression of the Augustinian doctrine of Charity. The common factor between Ausias March and the Florentines is the pseudo-Dionysian - Erigenian concept of beauty. The latter is fundamental to what M. D. Chenu has defined as the secular evangelical current in Europe. It is a sensibility based on a consciousness of the all-pervasive presence of grace in nature, which is articulated in the symbolic mentality of Christian Platonists. This aspect of Ausias March' Work is central to Chapter V. In order to avoid creating the impression that this interpretation of Ausias March's poetry is anachronical this chapter studies the significance of an important segment of this poet's imagery. This serves to contrast Ausias March's use of the pseudo- Dionysian - Erigenian concept of beauty and his consequent handling of the concepts of melancholy and imagination to that used by Andreas Capellanus. Finally, this analysis illustrates Ausias March's predominantly symbolic mentality, as well as his exceptional use of medical theory which distinguishes him from the vast majority of Spanish cancionero poets, and emphasizes his many points of affinity with the Florentine Neoplatonists.
2018-07-13T09:24:41Z
2018-07-13T09:24:41Z
1982
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15350
en
2 v. (436, 656 p.)
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/152502019-04-01T09:04:56Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
A study of the use of colour terms in the six major collections of short stories by Horacio Quiroga
Claraso, Mercedes
The thesis examines the use Horacio Quiroga makes of colour and pattern related to colour in the six main collections of his short stories. As no previous systematic study of any aspect of Quiroga's style appears to have been made, it was decided to list and examine in their context all references to colour (including objects and substance of a characteristic colour, as also references to light and dark). A spot check was made on five contemporary Latin American authors in order to ascertain whether the findings were in any way unusual, and it was found: 1. That colour and pattern are closely interconnected, and 2. that black and white play an overwhelmingly large part in Quiroga's use of colour. In Part III the findings are discussed, and reasons for the unusual features sought. Biophysicological factors may be involved in his black and white view of the world, and the very large number of references to glaring light can perhaps be explained along these lines. Quiroga's tendency to polarize, seen also in other aspects of his writing, is considered to be one of the reasons for the predominance of black and white in his colour references, while at the same time it seems clear from what Quiroga has written on the art of writing that he deliberately restricted his colour range for artistic reasons. This capacity to work within the limitations of monochrome links his work (as do other aspects) to the cinema of his day, in which he was intensely interested. Finally, in addition to yielding the above statistical information which throws new light on Quiroga the man and the artist, the study makes it abundantly clear that Quiroga was not, as is so frequently claimed, indifferent to matters of style, but rather that both in theory and in practice he gave much thought to this aspect of his craft.
2018-07-11T13:16:02Z
2018-07-11T13:16:02Z
1977
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15250
en
363 p.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/207462021-08-06T15:17:11Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
La dimensión ética en la obra narrativa de ficción de Antonio Muñoz Molina
Mosquera Ramallo, Juan José
Letrán, Javier
Fernández Romero, Ricardo
Ethics
Levinas
Other - alterity
Intellectual
Moral - moralism
Identity
Muñoz Molina
El jinete polaco
Representation of violence
Plenilunio
Voices
Exile
Alienation
Sefarad
Empathy
La noche de los tiempos
Cainism
This doctoral thesis examines how the Spanish author Antonio Muñoz Molina addresses the ethical dimension in his fictional narrative work, in particular, the relationship between us, as individual and humans, with the Other, who is not us. Questions such as identity, violence, dehumanisation, and empathy, dealt with in the novels included in this study, transcend Spanish reality, and become universal issues. Diverse theoretical approaches will be used in this study to analyse and elucidate the ethical content of his work, with a particular focus on Emmanuel Levinas’ ethical theory.
After emphasising in the introduction the relevance of Muñoz Molina´s work in the contemporary Spanish literary scene, Chapter One sets out the main concepts to be used in this research: Muñoz Molina’s views on literature, Ethics as a notion and how it differs from moral and moralism, and the concept of ‘intellectuals’ and their role in society. The importance of the author’s works as a columnist will be emphasized, as they are key to interpreting the fictional narrative works he was writing at the same time. Chapter Two explores the configuration of identities by confrontation with the Other, as it is exposed in El jinete polaco (1991). Chapter Three focuses on the representation of violence and how the author reacts to it. Plenilunio (1997) is his response to this challenge, a novel in which violence is represented with particular attention to the voice of the victims, the Others. Chapter Four examines exile and its consequences, alienation and dehumanisation, as a result of the rejection of and by the Other, addressed in Sefarad (2001). Chapter Five analyses La noche de los tiempos (2009) and the importance of empathy as a tool to understand the Other. One should not condemn another person´s behaviour, under the same circumstances one might have behaved the same way.
2020-10-08T11:41:40Z
2020-10-08T11:41:40Z
2020-12-02
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/20746
https://doi.org/10.17630/10023-20746
es
2025-07-17
Thesis restricted in accordance with University regulations. Print and electronic copy restricted until 17th July 2025
vii, [5], 224 p.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/4212019-04-01T09:04:56Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
Self-definition through poetry in the work of Gloria Fuertes and Pilar Paz Pasamar in the period 1950-1970
Ten Hacken, Hilde
Dennis, Nigel
Gloria Fuertes
Pilar Paz Pasamar
Spanish post-war poetry
Women's writing
Based on a comparative method of enquiry, this thesis analyses the process of self-definition expressed in the work of Gloria Fuertes (Madrid, 1917-1998) and Pilar Paz Pasamar (Jerez de la Frontera, 1933) as individual alternatives to the collective ethos and literary practices promoted within the patriarchal society of Franco’s Spain. Recognizing the poets’ cultural and socio-political context as determining factors in their experiences as women and poets, and therefore in their outlook and poetics, this context and how it is reflected in their poetry provides the starting point (Chapter 1). Both poets acknowledge that writing poetry can provide them with a metaphorical space of freedom that enables them to develop their identity and explore their preoccupations. Therefore, their thoughts about poetry provide an important theme that occurs in the poetry of both (Chapter 2). Closely related to this is the link they establish between poetic inspiration and the divine, which in the case of Pilar Paz Pasamar leads to the attempt to use the special qualities of poetic language to refer to a universal truth that she is aware of and which transcends the capabilities of language, while Gloria Fuertes regards poetry as a divine gift that can provide solace and is ultimately able to improve the world (Chapter 3). The fourth chapter focuses on specific elements of the two poets’ work that reveal the distinctive mechanisms of self-construction they develop. The section on Fuertes considers humour as a survival strategy that enables the poet to reach out to her readership and emphasize her focus on the here and now, while the discussion on Paz’s work looks at how the use of sea imagery allows her to convey abstract experiences based on introspection. Thus, it is argued that their poetry reflects the different strategies the two women develop – based on integration in the case of Fuertes and a more separate position in the case of Paz – to define themselves in relation to their world.
2008-02-18T15:31:03Z
2008-02-18T15:31:03Z
2007-11-30
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/421
en
vi, 279
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/189952021-04-14T07:58:08Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
Mexican women writers 1900-1950
Elías Arriaga, María Guadalupe
O'Leary, Catherine
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT) (Mexico)
Santander UK. Santander Universities. Research and Travel Fund
University of St Andrews. International Student Hardship Fund
Women's writing
Mexican literature
20th century literature
Feminist literary criticism
The early decades of the twentieth century were a crucial period in the consolidation of Mexican identity, and the literature produced at this time has been widely researched, although mostly the work by male canonical authors. It has only been in the last few decades that notable scholars have unearthed and studied the work of Mexican women writers. Such studies have mainly focused on the late nineteenth century or the second half of the twentieth century. This dissertation aims to bridge these two periods to understand how women emerged as professional authors from the 1960s.
Chapter One, after establishing the theoretical framework, presents women writers in their context by discussing the impact of the socio-political events of these five decades, particularly the Revolution, on their status, roles and rights. It also explores the emergence of women writers in this period, highlighting their differences from previous generations, and considers their reception and relation to literary trends. The following four chapters focus on one case study each: Rosa de Castaño (1910-?) for novels, María Enriqueta Camarillo (1872-1968) for children’s literature, María Luisa Ocampo (1899-1974) for drama and Margarita Urueta (1915-2004) for short stories. The chapters carefully consider each of these authors’ individual circumstances and analyse their work, with a focus on how they approached the question of Mexican identity and the political events of the time, and how they represented gender and other issues pertaining to feminism.
To conclude, the thesis discusses the legacy of these writers and the importance of the study of their long-forgotten works to our understanding of literary and cultural history. The appendix, which will potentially be used for further research, is a list of authors, works (by genre) and, when possible, an indication as to in what library or archive they can be found.
2019-11-25T10:52:38Z
2019-11-25T10:52:38Z
2019-12-04
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/18995
https://doi.org/10.17630/10023-18995
en
2024-10-31
Thesis restricted in accordance with University regulations. Print and electronic copy restricted until 31st October 2024
218 p.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/145202019-04-01T09:04:57Zcom_10023_114com_10023_29col_10023_116
Language policy in education and ethnic relations in Catalonia, (1993-96)
Miller, Kate
Fowler, Will
This thesis is the result of research into the impact on the population of Catalonia of Catalan normalisation policies ('normalisation' in this context refers to the Catalan Government's intention to return Catalan to its rightful place as Catalonia's own language) in education in terms of language behaviour and ethnic relations. Chapter one focuses on the concepts of Bilingualism and Diglossia and how they have been employed in the Catalan context. Chapter two is a review of the relevant literature related to the Catalan situation. Chapter three is a narrative account of the political context of the period under study. Chapter four describes the methodologies and the results obtained from the fieldwork. Chapter five summarises the contributions of the preceding chapters, clarifies the grounded theory generated by this research project and draws conclusions. The theory and methods used to investigate this topic are drawn from sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics, sociology and social anthropology, resulting in a multidisciplinary approach to the material. The wider political context of the Spanish state as a whole is thought to be a crucial factor to be considered in the investigation of ethnic relations within the autonomous region of Catalonia. The relationship between the central state and the region of Catalonia as history has unfolded has had its impact on the modern context of democracy and autonomy. The language attitudes and relations between members of the ethnolinguistic groups in Catalonia are a product of struggles and experiences that have been shared over generations. The fieldwork for this thesis was carried out primarily in Igualada at the beginning of 1993, shortly after the general election when the Socialists lost their overall majority. The research methodologies were qualitative in nature and consisted of: a report on newspaper debates and public discourse concerning the political context of the implementation of language policy. Private discourses were researched by interviews with teachers, pupils and parents associated with the three secondary schools in Igualada, observation of linguistic interaction both in the school environment and in a variety of social contexts, and participation observation of everyday life. The results and conclusions include a discussion of the evidence that the power relationship between the Castilian and Catalan ethnolinguistic groups is of importance to the success enjoyed by policies aimed at the 'normalisation' of the Catalan language. However, it is pointed out that, far from being stable or predictable, the situation of language and ethnic competition is changing and dynamic.
2018-06-25T10:10:17Z
2018-06-25T10:10:17Z
2001
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14520
en
238 p.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews