Guatemala

This dissertation analyzes the construction of the subaltern subject as an agent of cultural, social and political change based on the testimonies of Saturnino Huillca (Peru), Domitila Barrios de Chungara (Bolivia), and Rigoberta Menchu (Guatemala). Testimonial literature is pro…

This study identifies a series of points of convergence between literature and technology as a step toward studying and developing the relationship which has always existed, but has not often been given critical attention. Preliminary in nature, this work serves to begin to addr…

Enrique Gomez Carrillo (1873-1927) spent most of his adult life in Paris; he adored the French capital and the excitement, the extravagance, the lingering Bohemianism, the brilliant eclecticism of Paris's artistic milieu. Gomez Carrillo felt his Spanish-speaking readers could le…

This dissertation is an analysis of the role of the intelligence community in presidential decisions to use the CIA to intervene covertly. Specifically to what extent did CIA officials use their positions as heads of the intelligence community to push covert action. When this pr…