"Balun Canan" como documento historico y novela testimonial.
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Title
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"Balun Canan" como documento historico y novela testimonial.
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Identifier
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AAI3115283
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identifier
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3115283
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Creator
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Rada, Walter.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Susana Reisz
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Date
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2004
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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
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Abstract
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One of the most important structuring elements of Balun Canan is the social-political context of Mexican society, which Rosario Castellanos artistically incorporates into her novel. In this dissertation, the author seeks to elucidate the conflict between the indigenous and white worlds that Castellanos' prose portrays as divided and opposed. The novel shows how the pain, the suffering and the solitude---the main themes of this work---not only have their genesis in the peculiar sensibility of the writer, but emerge from the same reality of Mexican society.;The Introduction of this dissertation examines the many concepts of intertextuality, and presents the methodology used in the analysis of each chapter of this study. The First Chapter presents Rosario Castellanos' biography, and the relationship between her life and her fiction.;The Second Chapter focuses on Mexico's socio-historical problems. Through intertextuality, the author carries out an analysis of the historic problems of tenancy of the land: starting with the Formative Period, continuing with the Colonial and the Independence, until the arrival of the Mexican Revolution and the Agrarian Reform.;The Third Chapter centers on the socio-historic context of Balun Canan; it presents an historic view of how the socio-historic conflict explained in Chapter II is portrayed in Castellanos' prose fiction.;The Fourth Chapter presents a detailed intertextual analysis of Balun Canan and other "indigenista" works of Rosario Castellanos, Ciudad Real and Oficio de tinieblas. Emphasis will be made on those themes of the novels that arise from the first encounter between Indians and whites: marginality, discrimination, violation, solitude, etc., that constitute the dominating themes of the three novels.;The Fifth Chapter shows a profound intertextual relationship between Balun Canan and the "indigenista" works of Jose Maria Arguedas. Taking into consideration the structure, the deep-felt emotions of the writers, the dynamic of the general process of each narration, the author shows the similarities between the two narrative worlds of these two writers, and how both writers are witnesses and victims of the historic problems of their respective countries.;Finally, the Conclusion centers on the universal relevance of Rosario Castellanos' "indigenista" fiction. The author demonstrates, through intertextuality, that Castellanos' novel not only elucidates her own experiences and the events of an important historical period in Mexico---the Cardenas' agrarian reforms from 1934 to 1940---but shows the transcendence of the text itself, which encompasses a universal view of the world.
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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.
