Autobiographical reason in "Habitacion para hombre solo" by Segundo Serrano -Poncela.
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Title
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Autobiographical reason in "Habitacion para hombre solo" by Segundo Serrano -Poncela.
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Identifier
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AAI3037397
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identifier
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3037397
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Creator
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Franco Steeves, Marisa C.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Gerardo Pina Rosales
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Date
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2002
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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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Literature, Modern | Literature, Latin American | Biography | Literature, Caribbean
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Abstract
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Spanish writer Segundo Serrano-Poncela's first novel, Habitacion para hombre solo, published in 1963 in Barcelona, came after many fruitful years in exile teaching Spanish Literature at the Universities of Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico and Venezuela. Best known as an essayist for his books on Unamuno and Machado, Habitacion was his first long fiction after publishing several collections of short stories ( La Venda, 1956; La raya oscura, 1959). Almost all of Poncela's literary works explore the experience of war, exile and its consequences. But it is in Habitacion para hombre solo that he offers his most personal account of life in exile. The principal focus of this study then, is the relationship between writing in exile and writing autobiography. Poncela's text departs from the traditional model of (self) representation to offer the reader a more complex and challenging autobiographical subject. Ortega y Gasset's ontological perspective is the basis for me to show how Poncela's text traces his transformation from a fixed self to a changing living self. Furthermore, I demonstrate how the author's discourse seeks not (self) restoration but (self) liberation. As I examine this novel, it becomes increasingly evident that Poncela's narrative challenges the current autobiography's theoretical premises in search of answers for his own personal existential imperative.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
