Fuentes de la imaginacion historica en la narrativa de Marcio Veloz Maggiolo.
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Title
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Fuentes de la imaginacion historica en la narrativa de Marcio Veloz Maggiolo.
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Identifier
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AAI3325375
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identifier
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3325375
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Creator
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Rodriguez, Rafael.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Malva E. Filer
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Date
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2008
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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, Latin American | Literature, Caribbean
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Abstract
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This dissertation analyzes four novels by Marcio Veloz Maggiolo (1936-), a well-known anthropologist and archaeologist and one of the most respected and prolific writers in the Dominican Republic. The analysis, which focuses on Materia prima, Una y carne, El hombre del acordeon and La mosca soldado, reveals the fundamental sources used in these novels in constructing the concept of the "historical imagination". It's shown that the traditional concept of "official history" in these novels is rejected to give rise to an eclectic view of the past that embraces scientific and philosophical knowledge, as well as the voices of the marginalized "other", folkloric manifestations, and the imaginative reflections of the characters and narrators. This idea about history is generally expressed in the texts in an archaeological language that stresses the author's originality as a narrator. Our study treats the "historical imagination" through the analysis of several topics.;First, memory is treated as a means to approach the past and/or as a rhetoric that is connected to both the imagination and literary conventions. Music is a catalyst for historical memories that exceed local references; remembering causes narrative digressions that are interpreted as manifestations of the functioning of memory itself, or as an aesthetical tool existing in universal literature. Second, the analysis of the anthropological/historical imagination shows that Veloz Maggiolo's treatment of the human condition, identity, the magical and myth differentiates it from that of other Latin American novelists, such as Carpentier and Arguedas, because the narrative discourses of his novels show that they are conceived with archaeological techniques. Third, the phenomenological rhetoric, a discourse similar to archaeological narrative, is used in three of these novels to explore (historical) objects on a conscious level. The present study finally shows that the historical concept sustained in the above works stems from complex systems that include cultural, ideological, and literary sources, as well as "illogical" convictions about time. Considering these factors, the analysis determines which historical references are real, imagined, and which ones contain a combination of both categories. All the mentioned sources create an elastic concept of history supported by the structure of the Novel.
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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.
