Spanish: Recent submissions
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Violets and abolition : The discourse on slavery in Faustina Saez de Melgar's magazine La Violeta (1862-1866)
(2012-09) - Journal articleAlthough the commitment of several nineteenth-century Spanish women writers to abolitionism is a well-established fact, not much is known about the concrete forms their engagement took in a society in which the bourgeois ... -
The pronunciamiento in nineteenth-century Mexico : the case of Jalisco (1821-1852)
(University of St Andrews, 2012-06-21) - ThesisThe 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 ... -
Creation and marginalisation in women’s writing in mid-twentieth-century Uruguay : the case of Concepción Silva Bélinzon’s poetry
(University of St Andrews, 2012-01-20) - ThesisThis 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 ... -
The expression of identity in Equatorial Guinean narratives (1994 - 2007)
(University of St Andrews, 2012-06-21) - ThesisEquatorial 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 ... -
Sites of struggle: representations of family in Spanish film (1996-2004)
(University of St Andrews, 2010-06-24) - ThesisThis 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 ...