La autoafirmación de los personajes femeninos en la obra de Ethel Krauze a través del amor, el cuerpo y el erotismo

Author

Sara Pacifici

Date of Award

8-2000

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy

Major

Modern Foreign Languages

Major Professor

Cynthia K. Duncan

Committee Members

Oscar Rivera-Rodas. Michael Handelsman, Sal DiMaria, Todd Diacon

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to discuss the different aspects of eroticism, the body and love in the female protagonists of some works of Ethel Krauze: three collections of poems, Juan (1994), Houston (1996) and Amoreto (1999), and two novels, Infinita (1992) and Muieres en Nueva York (1993) . This study focuses on the main characters, their struggle to assert themselves as women, and their search to find their own identities through the analysis of the way they perceive,their own bodies, the sensuality and their sexual relations to their companions. Not only eroticism is viewed as one of the ways the female characters attempt to find and define themselves, but also, in this study, a close relation between poetry and eroticism is presented.

Recommended Citation

Pacifici, Sara, "La autoafirmación de los personajes femeninos en la obra de Ethel Krauze a través del amor, el cuerpo y el erotismo. " PhD diss., University of Tennessee, 2000.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/8380