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Item Rondônia, Brazil to New Orleans, USA: Post-Katrina New Orleans as a Brazilian "el dorado"(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2012-07-31) Gibson, Annie McNeillItem The Re-Generation of '98(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2012-07-31) Gunn, ElizabethIf the so-called Generation of 1898 reacts to an industrializing, dehumanizing occidental world, it will reportedly turn inward into Spain to regenerate a nation suffering from “abulia” after the loss of the country’s last colonies and in the wake of domestic turmoil. Many of the Generation of ‘98’s traditionally accepted members employ innovative literary forms to position themselves as artists and intellectuals who shall guide Spain on its spiritual journey. While each author approaches regeneration differently, they converge in their belief of salvation by way of an individualistic, spiritual journey meant to question the current political and social state. It is a progressive journey. Among this generation’s traditionally accepted members, Miguel de Unamuno and Pío Baroja offer male protagonists on such an individual, spiritual journey; Ramón del Valle-Inclán depicts the impossible success of such a journey in his experimental esperpentos. In each instance, the authors’ work exposes a traditional stance vis-à-vis females and marriage. Additionally, they either explicitly denounce sexual otherness as counterproductive--as is the case with Baroja’s Camino de perfección--or they denounce it implicitly by perpetuating heterosexual normativity as also with Baroja’s novel, Unamuno’s Niebla and Valle-Inclán’s Luces de bohemia Carmen de Burgos offers a somewhat different perspective in her short novel, El veneno del arte. The group of authors, sharing a fin de siècle concern for Spain, experiments with form, often with nationalistic, propagandizing ends. The Generation of ’98 systematically reinforces heterosexual normativity and marriage for nationalistic purposes, thereby banishing, punishing, or disallowing promiscuity, homosexuality and incest, among others. By addressing instances of such otherness, though, the works in question already point to their own instability and reliance on difference for their own constitution. Therefore, though history is portrayed as progress, it is better understood as a process of difference.Item On "Interculturalidad y educación. Interculturalidad en México: Un análisis de los discursos nacionales e internacionales en su impacto en los modelos educativos mexicanos" por Gunther Dietz y Laura Selene Mateos Cortés(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2012-07-31) Ilarregui, GladysItem Globalisation and Unemployment: Panel Data Evidence from South American Republics(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2012-07-31) Posso, AlbertoSouth American republics have taken substantial steps towards liberalising trade and capital flows since the late-1980s. Coincidentally, the unemployment rate in this region has increased during this period. This phenomenon has led many researchers to conclude that globalisation failed to deliver higher employment in these countries. This article examines whether this is true by focusing on a panel of nine South American republics. The evidence presented suggests that rising imports are behind some of the increment in the unemployment rate in these nations. However, other variables associated with globalisation (exports, FDI, and other capital inflows) are found to have an insignificant effect on the unemployment rate.Item Personal and National Memory of Dictatorship in La buena educación by Liria Evangelista(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2012-07-31) Murphy, JeanieAll cultural production, literature in particular, has the potential to create spaces in which the past can be re-envisioned and re-examined. In post-dictatorship Argentina there continues to be a great amount of diversity and dynamism with regard to writing on the nation’s last experience with military rule. In La buena educación, Liria Evangelista makes use of a compelling and complicated web of memories in order to explore the psychological impact of growing up under an authoritarian regime. The feelings of fear and impotence that mark the experiences of the young protagonist become the foundation of her search for self-identity.Item La Línea en la frontera intercaliforniana, México-Estados Unidos: la mojonera 258, punto inicial(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2012-07-31) Robles Cairo, CuauhtémocEl presente trabajo aborda el tema de la demarcación fronteriza entre México y los Estados Unidos de América, desde una perspectiva descriptiva de carácter histórico, enfocado primordialmente en el territorio que fue delimitado por una línea terrestre imaginaria, trazada en la parte occidental de la frontera binacional, entre el río Bravo y la costa del Océano Pacífico. En esta labor, seguramente ardua, fue necesario colocar una serie de monumentos o mojoneras1 que indicaran la línea de frontera a partir del siglo XIX. Hoy éstas deben ser revaloradas--como los hitos históricos que son al constituir el primer hecho histórico-físico de una nueva realidad fronteriza--ya que la mayoría de ellas antecedieron la fundación de importantes ciudades y se encuentran abandonadas y mutiladas. La reciente colocación de bardas y cercos metálicos ha segregado la vista y acceso a los monumentos sólo desde el lado mexicano aunque su propiedad es binacional. La tesis que guía el presente trabajo se sustenta en la necesidad de dar a conocer el valor histórico de los monumentos limítrofes entre los dos países, como una primera acción que pueda inducir a su protección, conservación e incluso restauración. El presente artículo se divide en cinco cuerpos de información: (1) Introducción; (2) La frontera entre México y Estados Unidos; (3) La Línea; (4) La frontera Intercaliforniana; (5) La Mojonera 258. Los tres primeros subtemas son de carácter general; el cuarto específicamente trata sobre la frontera que divide a las californias y que además fue el primer segmento de trabajo abordado por la comisión binacional; y en la última parte se puntualiza sobre el origen histórico del primer monumento de frontera colocado en La Línea, en la costa del Pacífico en el actual municipio de Tijuana, Baja California.Item On "Transatlantic Mysteries: Crime, Culture and Capital in the 'Noir Novels' of Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán" by William J. Nichols(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2012-07-31) Schmidt-Cruz, Cynthia