On this page, you can see a few examples of my graduate and undergraduate writing in Spanish. ¡Disfrute!
Entitled "(Whoa)men: An Exploration of the Paradoxes and Complexities of Female Agency in the novels Sirena Selena vestida de pena and Tuya," this essay was written as an exercise for a graduate course on 20th Century Latin American Literature, and it explores the nuances of Judith Butler's concept of gender performance applied to the female protagonists in Mayra Santos Febre's and Claudio Piñeiro's novels.
This project, "A Countryside without Color: Looking for Life in La casa de Bernarda Alba," is an analysis of the role of death in Federico García Lorca's play La casa de Bernarda Alba. Written as an exercise for an undergraduate course, this essay examines how death, a pathological and palpable entity, becomes an omnipotent character in this play, and what this reflects about the socio-political atmosphere in Spain during the 1930's.
Entitled "Lorca and the Poetics of Duende," this project attempts to discern what Lorca's definition of duende really is. This concept can be best explained as a metaphysical representation of social and political oppression that results in the psychological estrangement from oneself. I also explore how duende manifests itself in Lorca's literary productions.
"Cría Cuervos and Lost Youth" studies Carlos Saura's film ¡Cría!, which tells the story of a young girl, Ana, and her tumultuous family life in the early years of Francisco Franco's dictatorship in Spain. Throughout this essay, I study how Ana grapples with the loss of her mother and of her innocence in a calloused adult world.
This creative piece is an experimental study of Griselda Gambaro's play Decir sí. Posed as a rewriting of her play, Decir No reframes the nuances that Gambaro presents in her work and reworks the expression of personal freedom, despite oppressive social circumstances.