Romance Languages Theses and Dissertations

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    Duelos disidentes: voces de mujeres españolas y vascas exiliadas en Latinoamérica
    (University of Oregon, 2019-09-18) Sedano Naviera, Nagore; Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia
    Since the 1980s, Spain has attempted to recuperate the intellectual legacy of the republican exiles who fled the country after losing the Civil War (1936-1939). However, in doing so, it has produced the recuperation-integration paradigm that governs contemporary memory politics. The problem with this model is that it naturalizes an illusory, teleological line of continuity between the democratic principles of post-Francoist Spain and the Second Republic. Duelos disidentes contributes to the critique of this recuperation-integration paradigm by examining the political projects delineated in the memoirs of Spanish, Basque republican, and Basque nationalist women-in-exile. Published between 1970 and 2011, what unites the memoirs of these three women—María Teresa León (1903-1988), Aurora Arnáiz (1913-2009), and Arantza Cazalis (1929)—is the defense of the Second Republic (1931-1936) as an alternative to the capitalist liberalism that started to develop under Franco’s dictatorship (1939-1975). I argue that the autobiographical works of León, Arnáiz, and Cazalis politicize emotion to articulate an aesthetics of female mourning that disrupts the continuity between the Second Republic and post-Francoist, neoliberal Spain. This aesthetics advances a double critique: on the one hand, it condemns the exclusion of women from the official history of the Spanish Civil War; on the other, it formulates an alternative to the temporality of the patriarchal capitalist nation (León, chapter 2), the legal person of the liberal political tradition (Arnáiz, chapter 3), and the elitism and colonial imaginary of the literary canon of the exile of 1939 (Cazalis, chapter 4). But as I defend in Duelos disidentes, the misencounter of these women-in-exile with Latin America reveals the limits that arise from the nationalist ideologies camouflaged in their (anti)colonial transatlantic rhetoric. This study elucidates how an aesthetics of mourning can serve as an alternative paradigm of historical memory that does not neutralize its political component. In the process, it sheds light on the colonial imaginary that troubled the relationship of progressive, European exiles with Latin America, contributing to current debates about the memory of colonialism, anti-capitalist struggles, and women in politics. This dissertation builds on previously published material.
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    En Clave de Mujer:La construcción de la Subjetividad femenina en el Caribe
    (University of Oregon, 2019-09-18) Pérez Ibáñez, Doralba; Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia
    This dissertation proposes a study of female Caribbean subjectivity based on corporeality. By establishing relationships that break racial, geopolitical, linguistic and cultural barriers that have historically separated the subjects from the region, this methodology allows for the construction of the subject from a less limiting spectrum. This study explores the construction of female subjectivity—and the mechanisms women use to subvert structures of power—through the analysis of the images and voices of girls and women represented in five novels and a short story written by six Caribbean female authors. My dissertation takes as its point of departure the hypothesis that female subjectivity emerges from the tension between the “lived body” and the “objectified body,” which is produced socially by the inscription of its materiality through relationships of power. For this reason, I analyze the place of bodies in society and the inscription of what is social in them, since bodies are a vehicle for social discipline par excellence. At the same time, they are the locus where the reinvention of identities becomes possible. What more, bodies are spaces or places where society can see its starkest reflection. In other words, bodies constitute social canvasses with agency for change. This dissertation argues that the symbolic appropriation of bodies by means of religious, political, legal, and medical discourses is the thread that holds together the patchwork quilt that constitutes the Caribbean region. Female authors such as Maryse Condé and Mayra Santos Febres are important for this study because of their approach to history, their re-writing of the black body in official history, and their attention to the racialization of the Caribbean woman. Rosario Ferré and Marvel Moreno exemplify in their fictional worlds the ways in which the female body is harmed through medical and religious discourses, and Rita Indiana Hernández and Zoé Valdés illustrate the ravages that ideologies and political discourses infringe on the bodies and the capital cities of the Dominican Republic and Cuba.
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    Interliminal Tongues: Self-Translation in Contemporary Transatlantic Bilingual Poetry
    (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06) Rigby, Michael; Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia
    In this dissertation, I argue that self-translators embody a borderline sense of hybridity, both linguistically and culturally, and that the act of translation, along with its innate in-betweenness, is the context in which self-translators negotiate their fragmented identities and cultures. I use the poetry of Urayoán Noel, Juan Gelman, and Yolanda Castaño to demonstrate that they each uniquely use the process of self-translation, in conjunction with a bilingual presentation, to articulate their modern, hybrid identities. In addition, I argue that as a result, the act of self-translation establishes an interliminal space of enunciation that not only reflects an intercultural exchange consistent with hybridity, but fosters further cultural and linguistic interaction. As a manifestation of their hybrid sensibilities, each of these three poets employs the process of self-translation as an extension of their poetic themes, including a critique and parody of postmodern globalization, reappropriation of language to combat forces of oppression and deterritorialization, or a socio-linguistic representation of bilingual life in a stateless nation from the perspective of a minority language. Self-translation highlights the interliminality between languages, establishing a “third space” of communication that transcends the incomplete communicative ability of each of the two languages. When presented bilingually, self-translation foregrounds the act of translation; the presence of both languages not only encourages interaction between the two languages, but also draws attention to the act of translation, instead of obscuring it in a layer of transparency. This brings the reader to ponder the act of translation and the relationship between languages, ultimately enabling the reader to more fully appreciate the generative qualities of translation.
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    Memorias de la traición y la traición de la memoria: narrativas de la traición en Chile y Argentina
    (University of Oregon, 2024-01-09) Vidal, Yosa; Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia
    My dissertation questions the current cultural boom of fictional and non-fictional works on the politics of memory, characterized by a Manichaean rhetoric of heroes versus enemies, heroes versus traitors. I argue that representations of betrayal, often evoking terrible forms of torture and suffering, allow us to critique a patriarchal and epic vision of the traumatic past in the Global South. In dialogue with literary theorists (Longoni, Ruiz, Sarlo, Avelar) and philosophers (Adorno, Benjamin, JM Bernstein, Derrida), my dissertation opens a conceptual space to imagine what it means to be a political actor in a political and economic system that benefits from such violence. My project contributes to the field of Latin American Memory Studies by analyzing three texts which have been overlooked by scholars: Marcia Merino’s autobiographical testimony (Chile, 1993); the graphic novel Perramus by Juan Sasturain and Alberto Breccia (Argentina, 1985); and Enrique Lihn’s play, Dialogues of the Disappeared (Chile, 2018). The Ontology of the Traitor (first chapter) studies the specificity and the effects of incarnating the body of a traitor. The Epistemology of Betrayal (second chapter) explores how betrayal is the spark of a journey that produces (or fails to produce) knowledge, and The Dialectic of Betrayal (third chapter) examines how a conversation about treason exposes both sides of an opposition that does not end in a conciliatory conclusion. These are paths to illuminate three disturbing and controversial texts, that raise uncanny questions about state sponsored violence, and challenge consensus politics of neoliberal democracies of the Southern Cone. 
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    Time, Memory, and Justice in Chilean and Ecuadorian Documentary Film
    (University of Oregon, 2021-09-13) Plescia, Mariko; Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia
    Time, Memory, and Justice in Chilean and Ecuadorian Documentary Film studies the relationship between a shift in temporality and emerging forms of political agency in Latin American documentary film. What became of the leftist New Latin American Cinema (1950s-80s) when repressive dictatorships, and then neoliberal politics, foreclosed the path to their alternative visions of the future? In this dissertation, I argue that for the generations of filmmakers working over the last 20 years, reassessment of the past—and the telling of the past—has become strategic ground to reclaim a sense of identity and the possibility of a future not over determined by earlier philosophical questions. While institutional measures paint the dictatorial past as distant, as if it had been replaced by neoliberal governments, documentary films Nostalgia de la luz (2010), Abuelos (2010), La muerte de Jaime Roldós (2013) and Con mi corazón en Yambo (2011) invite the spectator to see the disappeared, and the legacy of the dictatorships, as still very much present on ethical, emotional and material levels. Through cinematic reflexivity, archival remediation, embodied aesthetics, a focus on the material world, an appeal to affect, non-linear montage, and the incorporation of intimate family archives, these historical memory films move beyond the desire to prove the human rights violations. Instead, they question a concept of history based on the event and offer a subjective perspective that engages the spectator in an ethical relationship with collective history. By bringing into conversation the Pinochet Dictatorship in Chile and the Cold War period in Ecuador, and by focusing on alternative constructions of time (cosmic, geologic and biological), this research provokes a rereading of the shift toward neoliberalism through repressive governments. In addition to contributing to an emerging environmental humanities discourse, engaging these narratives of time destabilizes the Cold War narratives of democracy as synonymous with justice, and dictatorship as justified by the threat of communism. In their place, these films, and my analysis of them, foregrounds the push for market society as a historic impetus for violence in the region.