This dissertation studies the work of artist Margarita Paksa (1933-2020) during Argentina’s military dictatorship. Unlike other Argentinian artists who left the country and enjoyed commercial success or security in the postwar art world, Paksa never left Buenos Aires. While livi…
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An opposition on two-way basis replied to General Primo de Rivera's Dictatorship: the peaceful one and the violent one. The first one manifested its disagreement through ways controlled by the new regime; the second one, on the contrary, appealed to different methods and tactics…
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Truman administration officials were presented with a unique “window of opportunity” in that the absence of an external geopolitical threat to U.S. interests in Latin America allowed the State Department to pursue policies aimed at pro…
In June 1992, when Yitzhak Rabin was elected to head Israel's government, a window of opportunity was opened for establishing a self-rule regime in the West Bank and Gaza that would incorporate substantial elements of pluralism. The key to building such a regime was local elites…
Monetary prices provide buyers and sellers with the information they need for economic calculation and direct their resource allocation decisions. However, in some situations these decisions are made in the absence of prices and alternative guides must be used. Decisions may be …
This dissertation examines the process of foreign policymaking in dictatorial regimes, using historical examples to illustrate contemporary implications for American foreign policy. I introduce a sub-category of regimes called "revolutionist dictatorships" that highlights the re…
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary analysis of the recurring motif of play in post-dictatorship narratives in Argentina. I analyze play, including game-playing, along with other motifs and practices associated with childhood such as rhymes and singing games, in the constr…
This dissertation examines, through a historical, literary and theological framework, the representation of the apocalypse and end of times in Francophone sub-Saharan African and Caribbean fictional narratives published between 1968 and 1990. While using as a starting point Géra…
Human Bodies, Urban Bodies: Contemporary Representations of Violence in Literature and Cinema from Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Guatemala , analyzes three literary and one cinematographic depiction of four violent events: Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990), the…
Esta tesis examina el papel fundamental que juegan los afectos y las pasiones en los mundos literarios de las novelas políticas de Mario Vargas Llosa y Alonso Cueto, y en particular la ira, la humillación, el deseo de venganza y las luchas de prestigio. Según una tradición filos…
The following research focuses on lesbian intimacy in Argentina between 1966–1988, with particular focus on the dictatorship of 1976–1983. I argue that queer women during this era used constructions of lesbian eroticism, pleasure, and friendship as ways to counter authoritariani…
The desert serves as a crucible for processing and creating truth in the novels, novellas, and short stories by Argentine writer María Teresa Andruetto (b. 1954). Simultaneously a literal and figurative space, the desert embodies Argentine history and economic development with p…