LA NARRATIVA DE LUIS RAFAEL SANCHEZ: TEXTO Y CONTEXTO. (SPANISH TEXT) (PUERTO RICO).
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Title
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LA NARRATIVA DE LUIS RAFAEL SANCHEZ: TEXTO Y CONTEXTO. (SPANISH TEXT) (PUERTO RICO).
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Identifier
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AAI8614672
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identifier
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8614672
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Creator
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FIGUEROA, ALVIN JOAQUIN.
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Date
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1986
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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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The narrative work of Luis Rafael Sanchez is a subject that justifies a pragmatic approach. The literary text, as a social reality, establishes a direct link with history, since the fictional language offers a referential space and not just a "poetical" one. The ideological analysis of the text traces coordinates of the sociological reality that produces it: the author and his world.;Since "Diario de una ciudad", the first Sanchez short story that offers an instance of ideological and aesthetical rupture, his narrative work, through a baroque language that is significantly related to the tradition of the carnival (Bakhtin), describes the Puerto Rican reality and constitutes a metaphor for the political and social chaos of the so-called "Free Associate State" of Puerto Rico.;En cuerpo de camisa and Macho Camacho's Beat are the main works of Sanchez. In these, the linguistical degradation presents a new and fresh style that opposes the euphemism and "purism" of the leading figure of the fifties: Rene Marques. Once the mimetical stage of the author is overcome, Sanchez' discourse uses exaggeration, hyperbolism and excessiveness to offer a grotesque style that forms the satire of the Island's political system. Through the alteration of "body images", Sanchez "degrades" literature with the use of motifs of the carnival tradition: the mask, the mouth, the nose, the banquet imagery and acts that describe biological and sexual needs.;Sanchez' narrative does not link with the social realism or the existentialism of earlier generations of Puerto Rican literature, but with the grotesque realism of the Middle Ages and Rennaisance. In the same manner that Rabelais confronted la Sorbonne, Sanchez gives a new voice to Puerto Rican literature. For him, however, the carnival does not mean "celebration of life", but a farsical way to confront the exaggeration, hyperbolism and excessiveness of political colonialism.
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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.
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Program
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Spanish
