So, everything finished orbiting around the concern about the gap that exists between language and things designated by it, between word and reality. Language is an imperfect resource of communication, breaking its link with the world but also needing to coexists with it. But there's also the past narrative, that determines so deeply the way we narrate us the present. History is a continuum. Writing is always a political act.
Thesis
La lengua a pedazos
University of Iowa
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
Spring 2017
DOI: 10.17077/etd.3k8ko08g
Abstract
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- La lengua a pedazos
- Creators
- Helena María García Mariño - University of Iowa
- Contributors
- Luis Muñoz (Advisor)Ana Merino (Committee Member)Luis Estudillo (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Spanish Creative Writing
- Date degree season
- Spring 2017
- DOI
- 10.17077/etd.3k8ko08g
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- Number of pages
- vi, 66 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2017 Helena María García Mariño
- Language
- Spanish
- Date submitted
- 08/02/2017
- Public Abstract (ETD)
“La lengua a pedazos” deals with the concern about the gap that exists between language and things designated by it, between word and reality. Language is an imperfect resource of communication, breaking its link with the world but also inextricably needing to coexist with it.
- Academic Unit
- Spanish and Portuguese
- Record Identifier
- 9983776737402771
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