https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/70280 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:55:46 GMT 2026-04-06T19:55:46Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/71972 Title: Feminidad y vanguardia en dos de las artistas Españolas del grupo de las Sinsombrero : Rosa Chacel y María Zambrano Abstract: This work aims to demonstrate the concerns on the issue of gender and femininity, in two works of two authors who were part of the group las Sinsombrero: Barrio de Maravillas (1976) by Rosa Chacel and Las palabras del regreso (1995) by María Zambrano. The objective of this investigation is none other than to study how the authors reflect in both of their works the social state of women in the majority of the 20th century and their progressive path towards emancipation. It will be studied how techniques and thoughts of the avant-garde iconography are inserted in both works and also how the avant-garde culture itself affected the artistic creation of the two authors in question. It will be studied how some of the characters in Chacel’s Barrio de Maravillas represent the new emancipated women and how art affected their personal growth. Likewise, we will study how María Zambrano’s thought, approached and solved problems about gender and identity through concepts such as the liberated word of language, existentialist philosophy and the concern of the human being in the 20th century. This dissertation begins with the study of the political, economic, social and cultural reality of Spain of the early 20th century, to study the links between society and the works of the two authors. The biographical data of Zambrano and Chacel is also analysed since their personal life is linked to their work. Followed by a detailed analysis of the two books in question based on the objectives outlines above. It is through this detailed analysis of both books that the researcher wants to show how their personal experience and society affected these author’s works. Description: B.A.(HONS)SPANISH&LATIN AMERICAN STUD. Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/71972 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/71830 Title: México : la revolución, los discursos políticos y la idiosincracia de las clases dirigentes vistas a través de la novela La muerte de Artemio Cruz (1962) de Carlos Fuentes Abstract: The Mexican Revolution, which has always been considered one of the most important events that took place in the post-independence period throughout Latin America, promised much but achieved very little. The objective of this report is to participate in a very extensive debate caused by this historical process. This is done in a somewhat original way; the image of the revolution represented in literature and that of the speeches delivered by the triumphant politicians of the revolution will be compared. This will be done through a detailed analysis of the novel The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962) by Carlos Fuentes, which besides being a synthesis of the main events in the history of Mexico since its Independence represents, also, the closing of the cycle of the narrative of the revolution. The next step is the comparison between the vision configured by Fuentes and that offered by two foundational speeches from two different and crucial periods in the political history of post-revolutionary Mexico: the one delivered by Venustiano Carranza at the inaugural session of the Constituent Congress of the States Unidos Mexicanos (1916), in which Carranza presents the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States of 1917, and the other of Plutarco Elías Calles at the opening of the ordinary sessions of the Congress in 1928 in the aftermath of the murder of Álvaro Obregón, assassinated after being re-elected for a second term. Crucial issues in the history of the Mexican Revolution will be addressed, such as the distribution of land, political corruption and the forging of a hero who looks more like an antihero, and the different stances in relation to the topics raised in this research will be contrasted. Description: B.A.(HONS)SPANISH&LATIN AMERICAN STUD. Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/71830 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z