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Title: “Seeking a New Path”: Pasacalle Activists Practicing Culture in Villa El Salvador, Peru.
Creator: Odria, Carlos, Bakan, Michael B., Uzendoski, Michael, Gunderson, Frank D., Von Glahn, Denise, Florida State University, College of Music, College of Music
Abstract/Description: This dissertation investigates the origins and development of a novel communal art form called pasacalle that is associated with the district of Villa El Salvador on the outskirts of Peru's coastal capital city, Lima. The main performers of pasacalle in Villa El Salvador (VES) are youth of rural Andean descent. Most are second generation Limeños whose parents immigrated to the city from the Andean highlands. They belong to a community that has always existed on the lower rungs of Limeño...
Show moreThis dissertation investigates the origins and development of a novel communal art form called pasacalle that is associated with the district of Villa El Salvador on the outskirts of Peru's coastal capital city, Lima. The main performers of pasacalle in Villa El Salvador (VES) are youth of rural Andean descent. Most are second generation Limeños whose parents immigrated to the city from the Andean highlands. They belong to a community that has always existed on the lower rungs of Limeño society in terms of socioeconomic status and political agency. The genre of pasacalle, driven by a novel Afro-Brazilian-derived drum music, batucada, has become central to their expressive culture. Pasacalle drumming is not just a form of performance art and entertainment, but also a vehicle for solidifying communal bonds, resisting hegemony and marginalization, asserting rights and power, fighting racism, and mediating the complex sociocultural admixture of localized identity, pride in Andean heritage, aspirations for upward mobility within Limeño society, and expressions of a particular brand of cosmopolitan internationalism that defines contemporary life in Villa El Salvador. It is to the exploration of such issues that this dissertation is addressed.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-9223
Format: Thesis

Title: Carte des isles de l'Amérique et de plusieurs pays de terre ferme situés au devant de ces isles & autour du Golfe de Mexique.
Creator: Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'
Date Issued: 1731
Identifier: 10299308, FSU_G43901731A6, fsu:163681
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Constructing a Historiography of Mexican Women and Gender.
Creator: Buck Kachaluba, Sarah A.
Abstract/Description: This article outlines the historiographical importance of the International Colloquium of Women's and Gender History in Mexico, particularly in the context of the author's own scholarship, especially her dissertation. It argues for the need for women's and gender history, and for a dialogue, by means of which these separate but related bodies of scholarship can inform the other. It includes a summary of the author's dissertation and its theoretical influences, a review of historical topics...
Show moreThis article outlines the historiographical importance of the International Colloquium of Women's and Gender History in Mexico, particularly in the context of the author's own scholarship, especially her dissertation. It argues for the need for women's and gender history, and for a dialogue, by means of which these separate but related bodies of scholarship can inform the other. It includes a summary of the author's dissertation and its theoretical influences, a review of historical topics discussed at the first two conferences of the International Colloquium of Women's and Gender History, and a discussion of the historiographical implications of such developments.
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Date Issued: 2008
Identifier: FSU_migr_library_faculty_publications-0001, 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2007.00508.x
Format: Citation

Title: Cool but Correct: Humanitarian Discourse and the US Justification for Intervention in Chile.
Creator: Forehand, Kristen D., Department of History
Abstract/Description: Intervening to supposedly protect human rights constitutes a potent justification for foreign involvement, but how humanitarian discourse became critical to the United States' (US) foreign policy remains poorly studied. I argue that humanitarian discourse, while present in the Spanish-American War of 1898, became essential to the US during the Cold War. Rationalizing the 1973 overthrow of the democratically elected socialist Chilean President Salvador Allende, the US relied on anticommunist...
Show moreIntervening to supposedly protect human rights constitutes a potent justification for foreign involvement, but how humanitarian discourse became critical to the United States' (US) foreign policy remains poorly studied. I argue that humanitarian discourse, while present in the Spanish-American War of 1898, became essential to the US during the Cold War. Rationalizing the 1973 overthrow of the democratically elected socialist Chilean President Salvador Allende, the US relied on anticommunist rhetoric joined with accusations that Allende violated Chileans' rights. However, the overthrow led to a brutal dictatorship. Thus, the thesis interrogates primary sources such as declassified government documents, speeches, memoirs, films, murals and music to discover hidden meanings. It employs the methodology of subaltern history as articulated by Ranajit Guha to investigate sources contrapuntally. Therefore, the thesis sheds light on the vaguely understood connection between imperialism and humanitarian intervention. The thesis utilizes a theoretical prism informed by Walter Benjamin, Slavoj Žižek and David Smith to understand how language can justify humanitarian intervention. Finally, the thesis adds to Latin American history and the history humanitarian intervention, specifically the scholarly works of Peter Kornbluh, Steve J. Stern and James Peck. I argue that the US manufactured rhetoric to gain approval for policies that would have otherwise been opposed. Following the Cold War, anticommunist justifications for intervention became less prevalent. However, humanitarian discourse continues. In many cases, the language becomes a façade for less noble reasons to intervene. Thus, Chile continues to provide a model for intervention in the name of protecting human rights.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0556
Format: Thesis

Title: Culture, Healing, and Medicine in Amazonian Ecuador.
Creator: Gopal, Punam, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: The intention of this paper is to shed light on the cultural practices utilized by Napo Kichwa people of Amazonian Ecuador, and how these practices contribute to their overall views of health. As I will show, Kichwa speakers view their cultural practices as integral to leading a healthy life that is achieved by combining Western medicine, Kichwa values and healing practices. Napo Kichwa people, as I will show, follow a pragmatic approach to maintaining health and well-being.
Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0406
Format: Thesis

Title: El control de la natalidad y el día de la madre: política feminista y reaccionaria en México, 1922- 1923.
Creator: Buck Kachaluba, Sarah A.
Abstract/Description: El artículo la política feminista mexicana durante el periodo de 1922-1923. Feministas como Margaret Sanger y Esperanza Velázquez Bringas expusieron que el país necesitaba una política acerca del control de la natalidad. Ellas argumentaban que los programas patrocinados del Estado para este control podrían liberar las mujeres y proporcionar los medios para la modernización y desarrollo.
Date Issued: 2001
Identifier: FSU_migr_library_faculty_publications-0008
Format: Citation

Title: Ella Creyó Que Podía, Así Que Lo Hizo: Exploring Latina Leader Identity Development through Testimonio.
Creator: Torres, Maritza, Guthrie, Kathy L., Poey, Delia, Jones, Tamara Bertrand, Perez-Felkner, Lara, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational...
Show moreTorres, Maritza, Guthrie, Kathy L., Poey, Delia, Jones, Tamara Bertrand, Perez-Felkner, Lara, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
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Abstract/Description: In teaching leadership and leader identity development to Latina undergraduate women, it is imperative their salient identities are addressed and acknowledged. The teaching of standardized forms of leadership and the deconstruction of established leadership principles and paradigms also need to be taken into consideration. Leadership educators need to create spaces in which Latina undergraduate students can thrive in classroom environments, student organizations, and programs. Because...
Show moreIn teaching leadership and leader identity development to Latina undergraduate women, it is imperative their salient identities are addressed and acknowledged. The teaching of standardized forms of leadership and the deconstruction of established leadership principles and paradigms also need to be taken into consideration. Leadership educators need to create spaces in which Latina undergraduate students can thrive in classroom environments, student organizations, and programs. Because leadership is understood through an American cultural lens, reflection and meaning-making should be encouraged to integrate identity and culture within the realm of leader identity development. Through these experiences, the Latina leader identity development can be further reinforced. This study explored the leader identity development of Latina undergraduate women via testimonio as methodology (Huber, 2009; Reyes & Rodríguez, 2012). The culturally relevant leadership learning model (CRLL) (Bertrand Jones, Guthrie, & Osteen, 2016) and the women's leader identity development model (WLID) (Le Ber, LaValley, Devnew, Berghout Austin, Elbert, Sulpizio, & Tremaine, 2017) were used as conceptual frameworks. A sample of 12 self-identified Latina undergraduate women who were also involved in a student organization in any capacity and/or had taken a leadership class participated in the study. Participants were asked to write a testimonio regarding their leadership journey in college, and a follow up interview took place discussing their testimonio and their leader identity development. Based on the themes that emerged in the study, Latina undergraduate women developed their leader identity through leadership experiences, leadership courses, and various involvements on campuses. Participants indicated the importance of a culturally relevant campus climate and support from faculty, staff, and peers in their leader identity development. Aspects of the CRLL and WLID models were applicable to their experiences, and participants were able to provide recommendations to faculty and staff on how to help Latina undergraduate women develop their leader identity in college.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Summer_Torres_fsu_0071E_15207
Format: Thesis

Title: Embodied Scholar-Activism: Testimonios from Chicana Doctoral Students.
Creator: Hernandez, Esteebaliz, Jones, Tamara Bertrand, Dennen, Vanessa P., Guthrie, Kathy L., Perez-Felkner, Lara, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of...
Show moreHernandez, Esteebaliz, Jones, Tamara Bertrand, Dennen, Vanessa P., Guthrie, Kathy L., Perez-Felkner, Lara, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
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Abstract/Description: Understanding the experiences of Chicanas in doctoral study remains salient because of pervasive doctoral program attrition rates and severe underrepresentation in the professoriate. Chicanas doctoral students engage in these unfamiliar and isolating academic environments with few Chicana faculty or peer mentors to help socialize us. Without such mentors, it is difficult for Chicana doctoral students to develop a scholarly identity. The purpose of this study is to better understand the...
Show moreUnderstanding the experiences of Chicanas in doctoral study remains salient because of pervasive doctoral program attrition rates and severe underrepresentation in the professoriate. Chicanas doctoral students engage in these unfamiliar and isolating academic environments with few Chicana faculty or peer mentors to help socialize us. Without such mentors, it is difficult for Chicana doctoral students to develop a scholarly identity. The purpose of this study is to better understand the scholarly identification processes among Chicana doctoral students aspiring to the professoriate. This study adds activism to the scholarly identification process, aiming to understand how Chicana doctoral students become scholar-activists and the ways in which they embody a scholar-activist identity on social media.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Summer_Hernandez_fsu_0071E_15183
Format: Thesis

Title: Freestyling: The Case of Classically Trained Musicians in La Paz, Bolivia.
Creator: Asturizaga Hurtado De Mendoza, Vivianne Ines, Gunderson, Frank D., Bakan, Michael B., Kelly, Steven N., Florida State University, College of Music, College of Music
Abstract/Description: This thesis is about musicians in the city of La Paz, Bolivia, and how they pursue professional careers through the performance of a diverse range of musics in a wide range of settings. The subjects of this research are mostly classically trained, highly accomplished performers, and many hold positions in Bolivia’s National Symphony Orchestra or at the National Conservatory. Many if not all of them also perform in a wide variety of other musical contexts, including as members of jazz, cumbia,...
Show moreThis thesis is about musicians in the city of La Paz, Bolivia, and how they pursue professional careers through the performance of a diverse range of musics in a wide range of settings. The subjects of this research are mostly classically trained, highly accomplished performers, and many hold positions in Bolivia’s National Symphony Orchestra or at the National Conservatory. Many if not all of them also perform in a wide variety of other musical contexts, including as members of jazz, cumbia, folkloric, and popular music groups. Additionally, many also perform other jobs to make a living. My primary research question was to ask why classical musicians in La Paz perform such a wide diversity of musical genres and styles compared to their counterparts in, for example, the United States, and why they also situate themselves in multiple roles within the local music industry and other industries. I hypothesize that the answer to this question has different scenarios: first, that their career choices are also primarily driven by necessity, since it is virtually impossible to make one’s livelihood in Bolivia by playing classical music exclusively; second, that their musical plurality is in part a product of the fact that these musicians also enjoy performing in many different styles, settings, and roles; third, that the musicians’ lifestyle is a product of a system that has long been in place and is now ingrained and coherent as a modus operandi of musicians in La Paz; and fourth and finally, that through acting in different musical roles and contexts, musicians in La Paz intentionally embody and perform a type of musical identity that is uniquely syncretic, neither Western nor Andean but rather a product of encounter and dialogue between these and the other nodes of musical personhood of which they are comprised. Keywords: classically trained musician, artistry, identity, work, education
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Sp_Asturizaga_fsu_0071N_14562
Format: Thesis

Title: Joyfull newes out of the new found world: wherein are declared the rare and singular vertues of divers and sundrie herbs, trees, oyles, plants & stones, with their applications as well to the use of phisicke, as chirurgery ... Also the portrature of the sayde herbes, very aptly described.
Creator: Monardes, Nicolás, Frampton, John
Date Issued: 1580
Identifier: 03905039, FSU_QK99A1M651580, fsu:213358
Format: E-book

Title: La Danza Bugabita: The History and Performance of Los Moros y Cristianos from Spain to the Municipality of Bugaba, Panamá.
Creator: Paudler, Heather Jean, Gunderson, Frank D., Uzendoski, Michael, Seaton, Douglass, Brewer, Charles E. (Charles Everett), Von Glahn, Denise, Florida State University, College of...
Show morePaudler, Heather Jean, Gunderson, Frank D., Uzendoski, Michael, Seaton, Douglass, Brewer, Charles E. (Charles Everett), Von Glahn, Denise, Florida State University, College of Music
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Abstract/Description: This dissertation centers on la danza Bugabita, a rural Panamanian dance-drama expression of los moros y cristianos. It documents, analyzes, and contextualizes the music, text, choreography, and history of the festival, bringing together various types of investigation in an attempt to unpack the complex, dynamic meanings intertwined in its performance. In order to facilitate a theoretical and methodological approach that accounts for the multifaceted avenues of inquiry undertaken in the...
Show moreThis dissertation centers on la danza Bugabita, a rural Panamanian dance-drama expression of los moros y cristianos. It documents, analyzes, and contextualizes the music, text, choreography, and history of the festival, bringing together various types of investigation in an attempt to unpack the complex, dynamic meanings intertwined in its performance. In order to facilitate a theoretical and methodological approach that accounts for the multifaceted avenues of inquiry undertaken in the investigation of this dance-drama, I apply Renée Jacqueline Alexander's concept of "prism." In her study, Alexander applies the trope of prism to the polyvalent Panamanian identity formation that allows for the "malleability, hybridity and fluidity within their plural identities." Her model can be applied to la danza Bugabita, as it is a protean tradition that is in flux and can also be described as hybrid and malleable, both historically and contemporarily. To view la danza Bugabita through a prism, each chapter is positioned to function as a distinct refraction of the transmedial dance-drama, marking a specific framework that has impacted the tradition as it currently exists. All chapters refract each other and the overall topic, individually bringing into focus different facets and angles that allow for interplay among its themes through time and space. This approach brings the past into the present and builds connections between the diversity of perspectives as they reveal the history and performance of la danza Bugabita. As such, there is necessarily a lot of movement of chronological timeframe, geographical place, and themes between the chapters. The movements and intersections of these concepts throughout this study are organized in such a way as to ease the tension between chronology and theme, and, in many ways, reflect the way in which I became familiar with the material. In observance of the trope of prism, each chapter has a sharply focused perspective with defined frameworks to address the questions and issues that it explores. The opening chapter establishes a historical precedent and foundation of los moros y cristianos and its study, further explaining the various contemporary critical theory frameworks and diverse methodologies used in each facet of the "Bugabita prism." The second chapter reframes the historiography of the "New World" and its use of this dance-drama, which confounds the distinction between center and periphery, as I contend that peripheral areas are not marginal to the stories that matter in the larger global projections of history. The third chapter presents an ethnographic exploration of the festival that weaves together various source materials to build an integrated narrative of the dialogue, music, and choreography that is attentive to long-term processes of change. The fourth chapter corrects a misconception that conflates the local version with the Chanson de Roland. I place it in a new literary framework by tracing its textual source, and then illuminating the cultural implications that arise from this literature chain that deal with emergent ideas of race, ethnicity, religion, and identity, and its dissemination and propagation throughout the Iberian colonies. The fifth chapter brings together themes from the preceding chapters in a case study of one particular piece of material culture, la pollera, in order to contribute to the understanding of the place of la danza Bugabita within its specific historical conjecture. I disentangle themes of gender, sexuality, and race found within the tension between representations of the body and the live body in performance to demonstrate how music, dancing, and performance bring prior constructions of race and gender roles into question. The final chapter synthesizes conclusions about the history and performance of los moros y cristianos and traces its trajectory from Spain to the municipality of Bugaba, Panamá.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-9424
Format: Thesis

Title: Making Development Discourse Work in Latin American Indigenous Communities.
Creator: Meyer, Dominique, Program in International Affairs
Abstract/Description: This paper examines the discourse of development from the perspective of indigenous communities, and discusses the challenges related to achieving development goals within indigenous communities. This paper provides a critique and background on development discourse, an analysis on the indigenous experience, and discusses ways to implement alternative development strategies in indigenous communities.
Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0074
Format: Thesis

Title: Music Therapy with Immigrants from Spanish Speaking Countries: A Survey of Families' Perspectives and Experiences of Music Therapy for Their Loved Ones in Hospice Care.
Creator: McQueen, Akiya Imani, Standley, Jayne M., Gregory, Sarah Dianne, Madsen, Clifford K., Florida State University, College of Music
Abstract/Description: As the need for multicultural awareness continues to grow, it becomes prevalent in a music therapist career to incorporate music interventions that address diverse culturally based populations. This research paper investigates music therapy with Hispanic immigrants within the United States. It gives information on the culture of this population, their experiences and perspectives of the health care profession, including music therapy, and genres of music that have originated from them.
Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: FSU_2017SP_McQueen_fsu_0071N_13654
Format: Thesis

Title: Reasons for the Dark to Be Afraid.
Creator: Ruiz, Daniel, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The poems and translations in this thesis explore the "three strong voices" that poet Federico García Lorca believes the artist should heed: "the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art." The sequence of these poems is meant to reflect the poetic speaker's interactions with these voices. Three of the four sections are named after iconic paintings by Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso, and the poems in each of these sections indirectly reflect the concepts...
Show moreThe poems and translations in this thesis explore the "three strong voices" that poet Federico García Lorca believes the artist should heed: "the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art." The sequence of these poems is meant to reflect the poetic speaker's interactions with these voices. Three of the four sections are named after iconic paintings by Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso, and the poems in each of these sections indirectly reflect the concepts these works present in an attempt to create a dialogue between the written and visual arts. The two works by Dali are The Persistence of Memory and The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, and the development from the former, which is the second section, to the latter, which is the fourth, is supposed to suggest the interaction between a poet and his or her influences as they work to develop their own unique style, playing at the binary between originality and influence. The title section of the collection is an exploration into the search for truth and originality within this binary—the "irreconcilable feud" between a young artist and a poetic tradition that began thousands of years ago.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0332
Format: Thesis

Title: Recovering Narratives: Issues of Gender Violence, Trauma, and Shame in Contemporary Latin American Texts.
Creator: Wilson, Christine Michelle, Poey, Delia, Herrera, Robinson A., Gomariz, José, Galeano, Juan Carlos, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Modern...
Show moreWilson, Christine Michelle, Poey, Delia, Herrera, Robinson A., Gomariz, José, Galeano, Juan Carlos, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
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Abstract/Description: Latin America has historically sustained political, economic, and social upheaval, creating a vacuum of patriarchal power dynamics indicative of gender violence. These dynamics are reflected in personal and political trauma narratives. The connection between trauma, language, and narrative is complex; however, psychological research demonstrates that narrative memory helps heal and process grief and trauma. The non-verbal expression of affect often manifests in physiological expressions,...
Show moreLatin America has historically sustained political, economic, and social upheaval, creating a vacuum of patriarchal power dynamics indicative of gender violence. These dynamics are reflected in personal and political trauma narratives. The connection between trauma, language, and narrative is complex; however, psychological research demonstrates that narrative memory helps heal and process grief and trauma. The non-verbal expression of affect often manifests in physiological expressions, reflecting one's psychological and emotional status. In conjunction with affect theory and trauma theory, narratives provide additional insight to human experiences and processes when placed within their cultural context and history. In this dissertation, analysis of Pedro Páramo and "I'm your horse in the night" focuses on the role of memory and imagination in surviving circumstances of oppressive gender violence. Additionally, issues represented in The Boy Kings of Texas further the discussion of gender violence directed not only towards women and girls, but also men and boys. The themes of Camila, The Official Story and In the Time of the Butterflies offer additional perspective to trauma as they address the consequences of analyzed and expressed trauma and the necessary element of truth-telling to not only individual but collective trauma narratives. The discussion of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents address repercussions of suppressed traumatic memories within the context of buildingsroman taking into consideration both the physiological and psychological effects of gender violence. Finally, Backyard and The Secret in Their Eyes are texts that further explore the detrimental consequences of extreme gender violence, such as femicide, and the necessary element of truth-telling in trauma narratives not only for purposes of justice and grieving but as the starting point of surviving, coping, and healing from trauma both in the individual and collective sense. Analyzing the characters and themes within these texts of various genres through psychological, sociological, and historical lenses allows for a more complete understanding of how trauma narratives function as agents of change concerning trauma and shame and its relationship with gender violence in the context of Latin American cultures.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: FSU_2017SP_Wilson_fsu_0071E_13695
Format: Thesis

Title: Regional Integration in South America: A Comprehensive Analysis Towards a New Wave of Integration.
Creator: Acosta, Jesid, Program in International Affairs
Abstract/Description: This thesis deals with regional integration in South America. The intent of this thesis is to help explain the new wave of integration in the region through an internal perspective of its particular circumstances. Utilizing integration theories, historical analyses and institutional comparisons through the use of standardized methods of fair evaluation we investigate the important characteristics of South American regionalism. To give the reader a greater understanding of the complexity of...
Show moreThis thesis deals with regional integration in South America. The intent of this thesis is to help explain the new wave of integration in the region through an internal perspective of its particular circumstances. Utilizing integration theories, historical analyses and institutional comparisons through the use of standardized methods of fair evaluation we investigate the important characteristics of South American regionalism. To give the reader a greater understanding of the complexity of regional integration attempts in the region we take a comprehensive approach to the many sub-regional attempts in the past: how they started, their goals and their current status. From this approach we draw some lessons for the future of regional integration in South America.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0156
Format: Thesis

Title: Reyita, Sencillamente and Canción De Rachel: Representations of Cuban Women in Testimonial Literature.
Creator: Contreras, Stephanie Lynn, Gomariz, José, Fernández, Roberto G., Munro, Martin, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Modern Languages and...
Show moreContreras, Stephanie Lynn, Gomariz, José, Fernández, Roberto G., Munro, Martin, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
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Abstract/Description: Testimonial literature is essential in order to understand the development of a Latin American Identity --it captures and manifests the epistemological and metaphysical difficulties that challenge the notion of identity and have complicated its development. It presents the perpetual debate between allowing the Other to speak and not to speak. Compelled to understand the densities of this debate, I analyze the testomonies of two women who struggle to define their beliefs and live according to...
Show moreTestimonial literature is essential in order to understand the development of a Latin American Identity --it captures and manifests the epistemological and metaphysical difficulties that challenge the notion of identity and have complicated its development. It presents the perpetual debate between allowing the Other to speak and not to speak. Compelled to understand the densities of this debate, I analyze the testomonies of two women who struggle to define their beliefs and live according to their cultural values in twentieth century Cuba --as it proves difficult to escape the constraints constructed and imposed by patriarchal society. I study the strategies they adopt to resist the hegemonic order of their society; and intend to demonstrate how they construct their gender identity and assert their agency throughout the course of their testimonies. The texts used throughout my analysis are Daisy Rubiera Castillo's Reyita, sencillamente and Miguel Barnet's Canción de Rachel. Reyita, was an Afro-Cuban woman living an impoverished life in Cuba; and Rachel, was a vedette who performed in the renowned stage of Havana's Alhambra. Both narratives prove to be essential for their economic, cultural, historical, political and literary relevance. And, as argued by Raphael Dalleo in Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere, these narratives can be used as true gauges of the country's social and political activities of the time (186).
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-9312
Format: Thesis

Title: Sojourn to the Sun God: Places of Emergence and Movement in Mixtec Codices.
Creator: Schaeffer, D. Douglas Bryan, Carrasco, Michael, Frank, Andrew, Niell, Paul B., Leitch, Stephanie, Florida State University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Art History
Abstract/Description: Mixtec codices are sacred books folded like accordions and composed of strips of deer hide or fig-tree bark that visually narrate activities of deities, supernatural culture heroes, and the actions and genealogies of historical Mixtec kings and queens who wanted to emulate them. Recorded in a pictographic writing system, Mixtec codices are cultural artifacts that offer the viewer glimpses of the complex and layered representations of a specific people from particular places during the...
Show moreMixtec codices are sacred books folded like accordions and composed of strips of deer hide or fig-tree bark that visually narrate activities of deities, supernatural culture heroes, and the actions and genealogies of historical Mixtec kings and queens who wanted to emulate them. Recorded in a pictographic writing system, Mixtec codices are cultural artifacts that offer the viewer glimpses of the complex and layered representations of a specific people from particular places during the Postclassic epoch of Mesoamerica. A salient part of these visualized narratives is the act of travel. In Mixtec codices, travel typically begins with the physical act of emergence of a substance, being, or historical figure. Emergence is a visual point of departure for various narratives that pulsate with ongoing movement that we are here defining as travel itself, as the itinerant traversing of place, as the formation of visual trails in the landscape and in the narrative display and reading of the pages in Mixtec codices. Travel is repeated as a conceptual, visual, and performative trope throughout Mesoamerica in various media produced by distinct ethnic groups and communities with various levels of power in the wider webs of Mesoamerican praxis. Travel in the Mixtec codices connects to the incipient founding of community, to the contemporary people, place, and cultural rhythms of communal, ritual life. Through the visual narratives recorded in the codices, an understanding of Mixtec identity, memory, and therefore history is linked to specific places through specific actions such as emergence from and travel to points of origin. By examining such visually codified narratives, this dissertation posits that Mixtec ethnogeographies of travel form part of recording a community’s identity and its connection to place.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: FSU_FALL2017_Schaeffer_fsu_0071E_14163
Format: Thesis

Title: ¡Guerra Al Metate!: The Visuality of Foodways in Postrevolutionary Mexico City (1920 1960).
Creator: Wolff, Lesley Anne, Carrasco, Michael, Herrera, Robinson A., Niell, Paul B., Bearor, Karen A., Florida State University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Art History
Abstract/Description: This dissertation considers foodways as a vital symbolic and material force in the arts of Mexico’s volatile postrevolutionary reconstruction (1920 – 1960). Although Mexican food history has stood at the forefront of a growing food studies movement, the field has been slow to appropriate image-based methodologies. Likewise, art history has been hesitant to embrace the historical performativity and materiality of foodways. This project thus seeks to fill a gap at the margins of food studies...
Show moreThis dissertation considers foodways as a vital symbolic and material force in the arts of Mexico’s volatile postrevolutionary reconstruction (1920 – 1960). Although Mexican food history has stood at the forefront of a growing food studies movement, the field has been slow to appropriate image-based methodologies. Likewise, art history has been hesitant to embrace the historical performativity and materiality of foodways. This project thus seeks to fill a gap at the margins of food studies and art history, particularly at the nexus of indigeneity and urbanization. The dissertation traces the shifting relationships between art and food during a period of rampant modernization, in which the rise of modern cookery through electrical appliances and industrial foodstuffs converged and clashed with the nation’s growing nostalgia for its pre-Columbian heritage. The book focuses on three case studies of artistic production and alimentary consumption—Tina Modotti and pulque, Carlos E. González and mole poblano, and Rufino Tamayo and watermelon—that highlight the various ways in which visual renderings of food were used to frame indigenous culture as both the foundation of and a threat to the modern state. Each case study engages the convergence of racial imaginaries, artistic production, and foodways to show how conflictive attitudes toward indigenous heritage and bodies were made manifest through images of food and foodways. Therefore, this project demonstrates how seemingly innocuous images of foodstuffs and consumption became implicated in a broader visual, experiential, and commercial battle over the definition of nationalist attitudes toward indigeneity. The manuscript consists of five chapters and an appendix. Chapter 1, “Introduction,” surveys Mexican food and art histories and establishes my intersectional framework. Chapter 2, “Nursing the Nation: Pulque and the Indigenous Body in Tina Modotti’s Baby Nursing,” argues that Tina Modotti’s celebrated photograph Baby Nursing (1926) invokes the problematic consumption of pulque, an indigenous fermented beverage, as a metonym for nationalist ideologies that simultaneously celebrate and rebuke indigenous lifeways. Chapter 3, “The ‘Spirit of Mexico’: Consuming Heritage in Café de Tacuba,” demonstrates how an iconic but previously unstudied painting depicting the mythic invention of mole poblano, commissioned for Mexico City’s famous Café de Tacuba (1946), negotiates modern consumption by evoking colonial production. Chapter 4, “Mister Watermelon/Señor Sandía: Fruitful Anxieties in the Work of Rufino Tamayo,” argues that Rufino Tamayo’s still life mural Naturaleza muerta (1954), commissioned for the Sanborns department store café, mediated the state’s aggressive removal of fruteros [informal fruit vendors] by acting as both an icon of Anglophone modernity and a visual celebration of Mexican tropicalia. Chapter 5, “The Colonial in the Contemporary: On the State of Mexican Gastronomy,” presents the book’s conclusions while engaging in a critique of Mexico’s contemporary gastronomic movement and its reliance upon colonial aesthetics to veil Mexico City’s socio-economic fragmentation. The Appendix catalogues recipes for pulque, mole poblano, and watermelon-based dishes, all of which have been compiled from nineteenth- and twentieth-century cookbooks and manuscripts.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Su_Wolff_fsu_0071E_14737
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