El pacto autobiografico en la obra de Rafael Arevalo Martinez. (Volumes I and II). [Spanish text].
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Title
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El pacto autobiografico en la obra de Rafael Arevalo Martinez. (Volumes I and II). [Spanish text].
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Identifier
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AAI9119661
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identifier
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9119661
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Creator
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Najera, Francisco.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Angela Dellepiane
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Date
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1991
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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, Modern
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Abstract
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The work of Rafael Arevalo Martinez represents the most drastic attempt in Hispanic literatures to transform life into writing. This study establishes the strategies used by this writer to impose a self-referential reading to his literary production. Three strategies are paramount for his purpose: (1) The elaboration of a textual subject who, under different names, not only narrates the stories published under the authorship of Rafael Arevalo Martinez but who, at the same time, is their protagonist. Furthermore, this "autobiographical subject" is the transcriber of the poems and essays published by the writer; (2) The complex intertextualization of all his texts and those of other writers such as Santa Teresa, Carlyle, Blavatsy, and Dario, which permits him to foreground the "patchwork" aspect of the autobiographical subject and to suggest that, through literature, the poet recreates God's role as creator of the world; and (3) The elaboration of a poetics of reading by means of which he suggests that any text--narrative, poem or essay--is to be read as an "autobiography", that is, as a reflection of the subject that in writing the text constructs himself/herself through it.;Insisting that the biographer's task is artistic and creative rather than scientific and objective, Arevalo Martinez constructs his work as a metaphor for his total self. This textual elaboration becomes, therefore, the only possible representation of the writer's story and the only possible embodiment of the writer himself.
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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.
