| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/78182 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree | en_US |
| dc.format | Monograph | |
| dc.format.medium | Electronic Resource | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.type | Dissertation | |
| dcterms.abstract | The contemporary history of Venezuela is characterized by a series of socio-political crises rooted in ill-defined notions of nation, state and national identity that can be traced all the way back to colonial times and the founding of the nation in the early nineteenth century. In a major cultural movement, many novels and films have appeared in the last three decades examining key periods of the Venezuelan past. This Ph.D. dissertation analyzes two novels (La Luna de Fausto by Francisco Herrera Luque and Lope de Aguirre, Príncipe de la Libertad by Miguel Otero Silva) and two films (Orinoko Nuevo Mundo by Diego Rísquez and Jericó by Luis Alberto Lamata) that give to a general public a new perspective on the discovery and conquest of Venezuela by Spain in the sixteenth century. An analysis of relevant texts (chronicles, history books, personal letters, poems, etc) from this time period, which provided the main background for the novels and films under study, indicates that a mixture of reality and fiction was used to create an official discourse that supported the process of colonization, privileging direct descendants of the European conquistadors and neglecting Native Americans. In their adventures through Venezuela, the European explorers created a colonial discourse that shows the bright and dark sides of the Renaissance man with a shift in the idea of America as a marvelous land to the literature of desengaño. The diverse texts and films analyzed in this study indicate that our vision of the past is constantly changing. It varies from person to person. It was highly subjective in the sixteenth century and it is highly subjective nowadays. Thus, the writers and film directors that created the novels and films under study dealt with the past in their own terms. Using multiple strategies, the two novels and two films examined show a complex colonization process that had a negative impact on the colonized and the colonizers. They attack the idea of a superior European culture, challenging an official history which justifies a dominant white male elite and sets women and non-white people in the periphery of society. | |
| dcterms.available | 2018-03-22T22:39:15Z | |
| dcterms.contributor | Firbas, Paul | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Perez-Melgosa, Adrian. | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Perez-Melgosa, Adrian | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Vernon, Kathleen M. | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Uriarte, Javier | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Burucua, Constanza. | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | Rodriguez, Jose Antonio | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2018-03-22T22:39:15Z | |
| dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2018-03-22T22:39:15Z | |
| dcterms.description | Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature. | en_US |
| dcterms.extent | 245 pg. | en_US |
| dcterms.format | Monograph | |
| dcterms.format | Application/PDF | en_US |
| dcterms.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/78182 | |
| dcterms.issued | 2017-08-01 | |
| dcterms.language | en_US | |
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| dcterms.subject | Latin American Cinema | |
| dcterms.subject | Hispanic American studies -- Film studies. | |
| dcterms.subject | Latin American Novel | |
| dcterms.subject | Venezuela | |
| dcterms.title | New Visions of the Past: Reinterpretations of History in the Novel and Cinema of Contemporary Venezuela | |
| dcterms.type | Dissertation | |
