Construction of Authorial Figures and Critique of Commodification in Colombia, Brazil, and Peru
i THE AUTHOR AS A PRODUCER: CONSTRUCTION OF AUTHORIAL FIGURES AND CRITIQUE OF COMMODIFICATION IN COLOMBIA, BRAZIL, AND PERU (1924-1977) by JAVIER MUÑOZ B.A., Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2009 M.A., University of Colorado Boulder, 2014 A thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Colorado in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Spanish and Portuguese 2019 ii This thesis entitled: The Author as a Producer: Construction of Authorial Figures and Critique of Commodification in Colombia, Brazil, and Peru (1924-1977) written by Javier Muñoz has been approved for the Department of Spanish and Portugese Professor Peter Elmore Professor Juan Pablo Dabove Professor Leila Gómez Professor Andrés Prieto Professor Juan Carlos Galdo Date The final copy of this thesis has been examined by the signatories, and we find that both the content and the form meet acceptable presentation standards of scholarly work in the above mentioned discipline. iii Abstract Muñoz, Javier (Ph.D., Department of Spanish and Portuguese]) The Author as a Producer: Construction of Authorial Figures and Critique of Commodification in Colombia, Brazil, and Peru (1924-1977) Thesis directed by Professor Peter Elmore I analyze the self-reflective dimension in three novels and one novella by Latin American writers from the twentieth century: La Vorágine (1924), by the Colombian, José Eustasio Rivera; Macunaíma. O herói sem nenhum caráter. (1928), by the Brazilian, Mário de Andrade; El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo (1971), by the Peruvian, José María Arguedas; and A hora da estrela (1977), by the Brazilian, Clarice Lispector.
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