Nicaragua, Guatemala Y Costa Rica
DESENCUENTROS EN LA VANGUARDIA LITERARIA: NICARAGUA, GUATEMALA Y COSTA RICA CONTENTIONS IN THE LITERARY AVANT-GARDE: NICARAGUA, GUATEMALA AND COSTA RICA by Alessandra Chiriboga Holzheu B.A., Universidad Rafael Landivar, 2005 M.A., University of Pittsburgh, 2009 Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Kenneth P. Dietrich Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of Pittsburgh 2014 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH DIETRICH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES This dissertation was presented by Alessandra Chiriboga Holzheu It was defended on April 7, 2014 and approved by Dr. Lara Putnam, Associate Professor, Department of History Dr. Gayle Rogers, Assistant Professor, Department of English Dr. Bobby Chamberlain, Associate Professor of Brazilian Culture and Literature, Hispanic Languages and Literatures Dr. Joshua Lund, Associate Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literatures Dissertation Director: Dr. Juan Duchesne-Winter, Associate Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literatures ii DESENCUENTROS EN LA VANGUARDIA LITERARIA: NICARAGUA, GUATEMALA Y COSTA RICA Alessandra Chiriboga Holzheu, PhD University of Pittsburgh, 2014 This dissertation explores how historical Avant-Garde production in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Guatemala constructed and performed different, divergent anti-imperialist, and mestizo nationalist discourses in Central America. Serving as critical rearticulations and critiques of Nineteenth-Century nationalist models, these experimental works redefine modern national subjectivities and cultural expression and position Central American cultural production in the international literary sphere. These works alternately silence divergent expressions of national cultural production and reproduce previous hegemonic discourses of power. The manuscript is divided into three parts that correspond to diverse literary genres: the manifesto, experimental theatre, and prose.
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