Refiguracion e interpretacion de la identidad nacional en la narrativa de Edgardo Rodriguez Julia
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Title
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Refiguracion e interpretacion de la identidad nacional en la narrativa de Edgardo Rodriguez Julia
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Identifier
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AAI9959206
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identifier
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9959206
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Creator
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Maduro, Grisel.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Oscar Montero
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Date
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2000
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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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This dissertation focuses on the topics of nation and identity in the Puerto Rican and Latin American literary production. It analyzes and compares the different discourses about identity and nation that have their origins in the nineteenth century, and in Puerto Rico are renewed by the sociopolitical crisis of the twentieth century. The novels by Edgardo Rodriguez Julia, particularly La renuncia del heroe Baltasar (1974), La noche oscura del nino Aviles (1984), and El camino de Yyaloide (1994), are fundamental in the development of an specific stage in Puerto Rican literature. These novels represent and interpret Puerto Rico's contemporary reality through a rereading of the eighteenth century, a key element in the reconstruction of the cultural genesis, the nation, and the idiosyncracy of the Puerto Rican. Through his novels, Rodriguez Julia creates an imaginary universe of an epic nature based on the altered history of the eighteenth century, in order to define and redefine the national identity, and elaborate the epic story desired for the nation.;In effect, one of the outstanding thematic elements in his literary production is the topic of national identity. In his works, Rodriguez Julia produces new knowledge about Puerto Rico and introduces a different perspective of the truly Puerto Rican and its national history. His conception of identity and cultural formation responds to a dynamic, ethnically heterogenous, and hybrid vision, characterized by encounters and interrelations. As a result, Rodriguez Julia's narrative is significantly linked to the tradition of the national identity topics, due to its affiliation with the imperative ethic regarding the search for the cultural, ethnological, and political origins of the nation and the Puerto Rican. The fundamental aspect of his work is that he proposes a cultural and national development model characterized by transformations, hybridity, the profane, the libidinous, marginality, marronage, contraband, pilgrimage, and specially mutilation, as central elements of our history, formation, and national identity.
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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.
