Revision y transgresion del canon literario puertorriqueno: La obra de Manuel Ramos Otero
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Title
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Revision y transgresion del canon literario puertorriqueno: La obra de Manuel Ramos Otero
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:fbcf70ab55bd:11450
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identifier
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11894
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Creator
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Perez, Marta Isabel,
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Contributor
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Elena M. Martinez
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Date
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2012
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Language
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Spanish
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Latin American literature | Modern literature
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Abstract
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In this dissertation, I study Ramos Otero's writing strategies and transgressive themes that function to revise and challenge traditional and fixed ideas. These anti-canonical themes are expressed by including the experiences of a variety of subjects who live in the margins of society. These abject subjects are often homosexuals. The first chapter discusses the writing strategies that Ramos Otero uses in order to confront and question the Puerto Rican literary canon. Some of these methods include metafiction, which creates a narrative that is self-reflective of the act of writing itself, the use of a non-traditional syntax and the hybridization of genres. In the second chapter, I study the development of a collective voice, which begins from a place of isolation and loneliness, often experienced by emigrants. Additionally, I study the idea of nation in concert with some of the ideas posited by Homi Bhabha. The third chapter is an analysis of Manuel Ramos Otero's two poetry collections titled, El libro de la muerte and Invitacion al polvo. In this chapter, I concentrate on the theme of death and its relevance to the time period in which the author composes the poems. In particular, in the second collection titled Invitacion al polvo, the biographical component serves to develop a sense of criticism of a society who rejected those suffering from AIDS. The influence of Manuel Ramos Otero is manifold. Some of the themes he developed include: the humanization of the abject subject and the denunciation of the indifference of society towards the AIDS epidemic. All of these strategies have served as a bridge between the preceding and younger generations of writers in Puerto Rico.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Hispanic & Luso Brazilian Literatures & Languages
