Thesiss

My dissertation analyzes the Spanish Nobel Laureate poet’s transatlantic path and his relationship to Spain, the United States and Puerto Rico as expressed in his archival practices from 1916 (his first trip to the U.S.) until his death in 1958. Jiménez went into permanent exile…

Hyperbolic Hybridities: Habla de negros and the Economies of Race and Language in Early Modern Spanish Poetry and Theater explores literary representations of Africanized Spanish found in Peninsular Spanish poetry and theater written between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuri…

My dissertation brings together a vast range of texts from the notarial and historiographical genres in the exploration of colonial subjectivities, political agencies, and discourses that were constructed in the negotiation of powers undertaken by Mestizos (the offspring of Span…