Lecciones De Esclavos Y Animales Fabulosos: Literatura Y Crítica Moral En La América Latina Del Siglo Xix
LECCIONES DE ESCLAVOS Y ANIMALES FABULOSOS: LITERATURA Y CRÍTICA MORAL EN LA AMÉRICA LATINA DEL SIGLO XIX by Betina González B.A. in Communication Sciences, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2000 M.F.A., University of Texas at El Paso, 2006 Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the School of Arts and Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of Pittsburgh 2011 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES This dissertation was presented by Betina González It was defended on April 12th, 2011 and approved by George Reid Andrews, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Department of History John Beverley, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures Juan Duchesne-Winter, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures Dissertation Director: Joshua K. Lund, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures ii Copyright © by Betina González 2011 iii PLOTTING SLAVES, TALKING ANIMALS: THE POLITICS OF MORALS IN NINETEENTH CENTURY LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE Betina González, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 2011 This work is a study of the relationship between literature and social criticism in nineteenth century Latin America. More specifically, it is an analysis of the critique of power as it was conveyed by authors from Mexico, Brazil and Argentina through literary genres such as the drama, the short story, the chronicle, and the political satire. It argues that through an aesthetic correlation between certain literary forms (mainly, the tragedy and the animal fable) and morality, these authors exercised a critique of the hegemonic discourse on social and racial domination in their societies.
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