Spanish Theses: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Les philosophes de l'exil républicain espagnol de 1939 : autour de José Bergamín, Juan David García Bacca et María Zambrano (1939-1965)
(University of St Andrews, 2012-06) - ThesisSpanish 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 ... -
The experience of the pronunciamiento in San Luis Potosí, 1821-1849
(University of St Andrews, 2011) - ThesisThe 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 ...