Research master thesis | Literary Studies (research) (MA)
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The text seek to define Queerfuturism as an extrapolation of Afrofuturism, investigating a series of case studies based on their engagement with contemporary Queer discourse.
French erotic colonial postcards depicting Algerian women are seldom but a yellowed reminder of a painful past - they encapsulate a constellation of signifiers, histories, and mythical identities...Show moreFrench erotic colonial postcards depicting Algerian women are seldom but a yellowed reminder of a painful past - they encapsulate a constellation of signifiers, histories, and mythical identities.The thesis explores the many fantasies and phantasms of the colonial postcards, not merely for analytical purposes, but rather with the quest of redefining identity for the depicted women as subjects, rather than objects.Show less
This thesis has investigated what the effect of the digital revolution on Cuba was on Cuban journalism. It has been proved that there is more space for different political voices, but that this...Show moreThis thesis has investigated what the effect of the digital revolution on Cuba was on Cuban journalism. It has been proved that there is more space for different political voices, but that this space is relatively small.Show less
This work investigates an unexplored topic, that of the Latin American imaginary of students (Colombians and Mexicans) who follow postgraduate studies in Holland. Analyzing the stories requested of...Show moreThis work investigates an unexplored topic, that of the Latin American imaginary of students (Colombians and Mexicans) who follow postgraduate studies in Holland. Analyzing the stories requested of the students, the author evidences the components of the dynamics of self-representation, while describing essential elements of the context in which this phenomenon occurs: center-periphery, inclusion-exclusion, Latin America as Edenic vision and Holland as a Desired destination. In this sense, an important contribution is the description of the Netherlands and its functioning as a recipient country based on a critical interpretation of the stories of the interviewees. The image that emerges reveals the Dutch Academy as a space different from the one originally destined from the migrant imaginary. In the work on the dynamics of adaptation, it has also investigated the role played by the social spaces (e.g. student associations) of whose role and contribution in the construction of the feeling of community this work leaves record. Important is the fact that the student's reflection combines a topic of current debate -as the presence of international students- and a little-studied area: that of their cultural practices and their peculiar dynamics in the course of their adaptation process. At the same time, it records the way in which these processes, which take place in the West, generate modifications in the way of conceiving, seeing or projecting for the future of the students upon their return to Latin America. An innovative thesis not only in the subject but in the original application of the theoretical body and above all in the declared intention to participate, from the Academy, in the social debate.Show less
Este trabajo presenta el contexto local en el que nace el hip-hop afrocolombiano de ChocQuibTown como un medio apto con que superar y resistir el racismo colombiano. La vinculación entre el...Show moreEste trabajo presenta el contexto local en el que nace el hip-hop afrocolombiano de ChocQuibTown como un medio apto con que superar y resistir el racismo colombiano. La vinculación entre el negrismo y el hip-hop afrocolombiano forma la base para entender la postura anti-racista de esta agrupación musical y sus estrategias utilizadas en Somos Pacífico, De donde vengo yo, Oro y El mismo. El análisis hace hincapié en tres estrategias principales que apoyan la potencialidad de la producción de este grupo de hip-hop como motivador social: desmantelamiento, edutainment y valoración. En suma, el objetivo de este estudio es investigar de qué modo las canciones de ChocQuibTown incitan a un cambio social integral y asumen el rol de agentes catalizadores en cuanto a las circunstancias del pueblo afrocolombiano.Show less
This tesis studies the way the narrator in El olvido que seremos of the Colombian writer Héctor Abad Faciolince, appeals to the memories of his youth and his memory before the death of his father...Show moreThis tesis studies the way the narrator in El olvido que seremos of the Colombian writer Héctor Abad Faciolince, appeals to the memories of his youth and his memory before the death of his father within the historical political context of the 70s and 80s (During the period of what is named as ‘La Guerra Sucia’). It is investigated what meanings these memories,described by the narrator in the novel, have within a collective memory. The first chapter focuses on the contextualization of the period of the dirty war and the cases of impunity and atrocities. In this tesis El olvido que seremos is studied as an example of a testimony denouncing impunity and the crimes committed during the 70s and 80s. It also makes a suggestion towards the comparison between the novel as a Testimonio for denouncing atrocities and impunity in the Colombian society and today’s Colombian journalism.Show less
Research master thesis | Latin American Studies (research) (MA)
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This work aims to investigate the intricate relationship between landscape and mobility in three Brazilian road movies - Bye bye Brasil, Andarilho and Viajo porque preciso, volto porque te amo. A...Show moreThis work aims to investigate the intricate relationship between landscape and mobility in three Brazilian road movies - Bye bye Brasil, Andarilho and Viajo porque preciso, volto porque te amo. A new conceptual framework is elaborated to brings together landscape and mobility as perspectives that are able to engage in a reciprocal relationship; this framework is called the dialectics of the road. The three films occupy different locations in the landscape and mobility spectrum. By using the dialectics of the road as an instrument for cultural analysis, they can be considered in the same analysis, and the relationship between the journey and the spaces through which is travelled can be studied comparatively. When driving a car it is impossible to simultaneously look ahead, watch the scenery and occasionally check the rear-view mirror; in a similar way the landscape and mobility perspective are in a constant state of alternation during the road movie journey. The framework that has been elaborated in this thesis gives the viewer the ability to focus on the road ahead while keeping track of their position on the road and their relationship to the surroundings. This way the stereotypical forward orientation of the road movie can be complemented by different contexts and other logics, opening up the road for new interpretations and establishing the travelled space as a crossroads of perspectives.Show less
La protesta social contra el poder gobernante ocupa un papel imprescindible en la sociedad argentina a lo largo de la historia. La dinámica constante entre la esfera política y la esfera social se...Show moreLa protesta social contra el poder gobernante ocupa un papel imprescindible en la sociedad argentina a lo largo de la historia. La dinámica constante entre la esfera política y la esfera social se sitúa en discursos públicos que se concretizan en diferentes formas. Una de estas formas es el discurso mediático. Investigando el posicionamiento político de la marcha #ParaQueNoTePase y su cobertura periodística pretendo ilustrar cómo se interrelacionan las protestas sociales, la política y los medios de comunicación en la Argentina actual.Show less
Analysis of the Bolivian film Yvy Maraey and the representation of the contemporary mestizo in Bolivia and Latin America. Approaching to the guarani culture and its historical struggle within the...Show moreAnalysis of the Bolivian film Yvy Maraey and the representation of the contemporary mestizo in Bolivia and Latin America. Approaching to the guarani culture and its historical struggle within the modern state, and the resulting mestizo ch'ixi, as a theoretical response to the Bolivian reality today.Show less
Esta tesina buscará investigar el valor metafórico del topos de la ruina en la época postsoviética en Cuba por medio del texto Un Arte de Hacer Ruinas, del escritor cubano Antonio José Ponte. La...Show moreEsta tesina buscará investigar el valor metafórico del topos de la ruina en la época postsoviética en Cuba por medio del texto Un Arte de Hacer Ruinas, del escritor cubano Antonio José Ponte. La ruina es lo que queda de la imagen de un pasado idealizado y la abundancia de las ruinas en el texto de Ponte hace visible la omnipresencia de la memoria en la ciudad. En esta tesina se explorará qué significa vivir entre tantas memorias y cómo afecta la imagen actual de la ciudad.Show less
