Date Thesis Awarded
7-2008
Access Type
Honors Thesis -- Access Restricted On-Campus Only
Degree Name
Bachelors of Arts (BA)
Department
Modern Languages and Literatures
Advisor
Teresa Longo
Committee Members
Ann Marie Stock
Betsy Konefal
Abstract
This thesis examines the Nobel lectures of Peace and Literature Prize laureates Pablo Neruda, Gabriel García Márquez and Rigoberta Menchú. I argue that the lectures oppose Western and Latin American symbolic violence against Latin America's attempts at social change. Moreover, I propose that the lectures' power comes from the very fact that they are important cultural products that provide a space within which social relations may be presented and negotiated. These Nobel lectures oppose symbolic violence against Latin America as they expand literary and political discourses to include the continent's subaltern voice.
Recommended Citation
Grosh, Olga, "Discursive Opposition to Symbolic Violence in the Nobel Lectures of Latin American Laureates" (2008). Undergraduate Honors Theses. William & Mary. Paper 847.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/847
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Comments
Thesis is part of Honors ETD pilot project, 2008-2013. Migrated from Dspace in 2016.