Diagnóstico Otanche - Boyacá.

6 hojas.

Familias Guardabosques - Proyecto artesanos Santa María - Huila : informe final

32 hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías.

Desarrollo técnico : mapa del oficio artesanal.

5 hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías.

Desarrollo técnico: talleres de fortalecimiento técnico.

5 hojas.

Desarrollo técnico: criterios de calidad.

5 hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías.

Desarrollo técnico: talleres de tinturado.

6 hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías.

Desarrollo técnico: acercamiento a otras técnicas tradicionales.

5 hojas.

Desarrollo técnico: diseño o seguimiento a la implementación de equipos o herramientas.

5 hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías.

Productos tradicionales y de innovación en diseño decorados con barniz de Pasto Mopa-Mopa.

36 hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías a color

Diagnóstico cualitativo en torno a la cadena de valor municipio : Cerinza.

21 hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías.

Desarrollo de imágenes corporativas para las unidades de producción de los artesanos vinculados al proyecto.

7 hojas : ilustraciones.

Capacitación técnica en el oficio de trabajos en guadua Otanche - Boyacá Veredas Betania y Camilo.

96 hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías.

Informe final asesoría y asistencia técnica en diseño textil familias guardabosques. – Proyecto artesanos Santa María - Huila.

84 hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías.

“Fiction makes a better job of the truth”: dialogism, oppositional consciousness and re-membering in the novels of Helena María Viramontes

This thesis comprises close textual analyses of Chicana author Helena María Viramontes' two published novels, Under the Feet of Jesus (1995) and Their Dogs Came With Them (2007). These analyses fall under three broad frameworks: space, time and body. Chapter One engages with the first of these frameworks, space, and explores concepts of cognitive mapping and heteroptopias. Chapter Two, which looks at time, employs theories of intertextuality and the palimpsest, while Chapter Three looks at the interrrelationship between mythology and images of the body in the texts. This study emerges five years after the publication of Viramontes' last novel, Their Dogs Came With Them, but offers fresh insight into the contribution of the author to both the Chicano literary tradition and also the U.S. canon through her critique of hegemonic power structures that suppress not only the voices of lower class ethnic citizens but also of ethnic writers. In particular, her work chastises the paucity of attention given to ethnic women writers in the U.S. This thesis reaffirms Viramontes' position as one of the most important writers living and writing in the U.S. today. It corroborates her work as a contestation against ethnic and gender suppression, and applauds the craftsmanship of her narrative style that delicately but decisively exposes the socio-political wrongs that occur in ocntemporary U.S. society.

Echoes of existentialism in the works of Carlos Fuentes

In this thesis I have set out to trace the echoes of existentialism in the work of the Mexican novelist, Carlos Fuentes scrutinizing, in particular, La región más transparente, La muerte de Artemio Cruz and Cambio de piel. In the opening segment of the thesis I outline the essential tenets of existentialist thought and how it became the predominant philosophical and literary movement of the early part of the twentieth-century. Stemming from the work of Sören Kierkegaard in Denmark towards the end of the nineteenth-century, it challenged the arid philosophies of previous generations and provided a new way of looking at man and the human condition. In this opening chapter, I study the works of the more important philosophers in this regard such as Heidegger, Sartre, Jaspers, Marcel, Unamuno, and Ortega y Gasset and show how each in his own way contributed to the further development of the new philosophy. Chapter 2 is concerned with the spread of existentialism to the Latin American continent. In the early part of the twentieth-century, Mexico was emerging from a turbulent revolutionary period and seeking a solution to the fractured nature of its society. The Spanish philosopher, Ortega y Gasset, and the many Spanish intellectuals who sought refuge from Franco’s dictatorship in Mexico, helped to popularise the new philosophy and these lively debates about existentialism served to underpin ideas around mexicanidad or Mexican national identity. Carlos Fuentes was deeply immersed in the debate of his time, positioned as he was as a prominent public intellectual. In La muerte de Artemio Cruz he shows us how great wealth and power are a poor recompense for the loss of love and compassion and lead only to alienation and selfishness. In his other best known novel, La región más transparente, he explores the rise of modern Mexico and its society – an inauthentic society that is corrupted by a scramble for wealth and self-aggrandizement. The final chapter is devoted to the study of Cambio de piel which is concerned with violence and alienation as central pillars of existence. The violence depicted here precipitates a crisis in the human condition and an accompanying sense of alienation. The thesis seeks to establish that existentialism is central not only to Fuentes’s literary concerns but also forms a part of his ethics as an artist.