| dc.contributor.advisor |
Arroyo -Martínez , Jossianna |
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| dc.contributor.advisor |
Salgado , César Augusto |
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| dc.contributor.committeeMember |
Nicolopolus , James R . |
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| dc.contributor.committeeMember |
Harney , Michael P . |
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| dc.contributor.committeeMember |
Sidbury , James |
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| dc.contributor.committeeMember |
Bernucci , Leopoldo |
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| dc.creator |
Oleen , Garrett Alan |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2011 -02 -10T18 :30 :00Z |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2011 -02 -10T18 :30 :16Z |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2011 -08 -16T15 :52 :07Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2011 -02 -10T18 :30 :00Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2011 -02 -10T18 :30 :16Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2011 -08 -16T15 :52 :07Z |
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| dc.date.created |
2010 -12 |
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| dc.date.issued |
2011 -02 -10 |
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| dc.date.submitted |
December 2010 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http : / /hdl .handle .net /2152 /ETD -UT -2010 -12 -2429 |
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| dc.description.abstract |
My purpose in writing this dissertation is to re -evaluate the works of three influential Spanish -Caribbean authors who seem to be remembered more as exceptional historical characters rather than for their literature itself . Although often considered to be important contributors to the Spanish -Caribbean literary canon , these writers have also suffered a measure of marginalization as scholars have relegated them to the status of discursive subjects rather than evaluate them as authorial agents . As a consequence , the majority of their works have not been fully recognized as important factors in nineteenth , twentieth , and twenty first century literary production . I show how in their writings – many of which have been misunderstood , under -evaluated , and /or forgotten altogether – these writers narrated their own precarious situations and lifted their voice in protest against slavery , racism and economic oppression at a time when the dominant discourses and heavy -handed controls of the Spanish colonial government strictly forbid them to do so .
These authors are Juan Francisco Manzano , Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés (Plácido ) and Eleuterio Derkes . Because these authors lived in Cuba (Manzano and Plácido ) and Puerto Rico (Derkes ) as colonial subjects underneath the oppressive structures of their respective plantation and hacienda economies based on sugar production and slave labor , they experienced difficult colonial conditions and as such are able to narrate this life through a unique perspective that other writers associated with the dominant discourses of the time could not . While these brands of hegemony were indeed forced upon them as writers and artists , it did not stop them from narrating and communicating their unique Spanish Caribbean perspective . I show how these authors , as marginalized figures of nineteenth century plantation society , engineered their own discourses around these hegemonic institutions – writing between the lines of hegemony and concurrent with it at the same time – in order to create an alternative image of nineteenth century Spanish Caribbean society that requires further critical consideration and perspective . |
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| dc.format.mimetype |
application /pdf |
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| dc.language.iso |
eng |
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| dc.subject |
Caribbean literature |
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| dc.subject |
Spanish literature |
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| dc.subject |
Hispanic literature |
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| dc.subject |
Juan Francisco Manzano |
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| dc.subject |
Plácido |
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| dc.subject |
Eleuterio Derkes |
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| dc.subject |
Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés |
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| dc.subject |
Cuban literature |
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| dc.subject |
Puerto Rican literature |
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| dc.title |
19th century plantation counter -discourses in Juan Francisco Manzano , Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés (Plácido ) , and Eleuterio Derkes |
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| dc.description.department |
Spanish and Portuguese |
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| dc.type.genre |
thesis |
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| dc.type.material |
text |
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| thesis.degree.name |
Doctor of Philosophy |
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| thesis.degree.level |
Doctoral |
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| thesis.degree.discipline |
Spanish -Portuguese |
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| thesis.degree.grantor |
University of Texas at Austin |
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| thesis.degree.department |
Spanish and Portuguese |
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| dc.date.updated |
2011 -02 -10T18 :30 :16Z |
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