UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE of Virtuoso Cynics: Plays on Language, Sleights of Hand, and Moving with Music a Dissertation
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE Of Virtuoso Cynics: Plays on Language, Sleights of Hand, and Moving with Music A Dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Spanish by Óscar Alain Ulloa December 2019 Dissertation Committee: Dr. Alessandro Fornazzari, Chairperson Dr. Marta Hernández Salván Dr. Jonathan Ritter Copyright by Óscar Alain Ulloa 2019 The Dissertation of Óscar Alain Ulloa is approved: Committee Chairperson University of California, Riverside ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS More than acknowledging, I’ll start by saying thanks: to mi amá, my abuelita María, and my carnala Almita, for being forever strong, beautiful, and kind; and the fam that went to cumplir la manda- life lifting pillars (Ariel, Nidia, tía Gela, tía Juanita y todos), I will ever always be grateful. To my committee: Alessandro, whom I took my first literary and cultural analysis class with as an undergrad, and he still agreed to be my advisor. As uncommunicative, insubordinate, and desubicado as I am, he managed to point me in a few good directions in spite of myself and got me here. Marta, for being exacting and incisive, and having faith in me when all of mine in myself was gone, and I thought it would never be seen again. Freya, who is always so welcoming and brutally honest, and whose counsel I’m sure she doesn’t even know she gave has let me lose alotta my fears. Jonathan, who through playing music with and two-three talks helped me go from thinking of illiterate musicianship, to theorizing about illicit inscriptions. To the presence they’ve been in my life; Emily, Jennifer, Jorge, Judith, Rivera, Ronika, Roxana, and Seher- making the days more worth the while.
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