Patricia Valladares-Ruiz

Patricia Valladares-Ruiz
University of Cincinnati | UC · Department of Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures

Doctor en littérature (option Études hispaniques)
Professor of Latin American and Caribbean literature and film.

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Education
September 2000 - January 2005
Université de Montréal
Field of study
  • Doctorat en littérature (option Études hispaniques)
September 1998 - August 2000
McGill University
Field of study
  • Hispanic Studies

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Publications (30)
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La novela venezolana del siglo XXI se ha erigido como un observatorio creativo de la inmediatez política. Las intervenciones críticas que recoge este libro revelan un amplio abanico de corrientes temáticas y estrategias estéticasa través de las cuales se articula el tratamiento ficcional de la crisis del proyecto revolucionario y su impacto social....
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El tránsito vacilante plantea un estudio minucioso de las más recientes tendencias estéticas y temáticas en la cultura venezolana contemporánea. La antología reúne doce ensayos fundamentales para una mejor comprensión de la diversidad discursiva de las prácticas culturales del nuevo milenio. Esta colección recoge un amplio abanico de acercamientos...
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Este libro analiza las discontinuidades de los postulados ideológicos del sistema revolucionario cubano, en un corpus representativo de la narrativa cubana contemporánea, desde 1990 hasta la actualidad. Este ensayo se ocupa del estudio de subjetividades sexuales alternativas como instrumentos desestabilizadores de la hegemonía nacional. Asimismo, e...
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This article explores the discursive and performative reconsideration of the notions of borders, (trans)national identities, displacement, and homelessness, as well as the expression of political resistance in three diasporic plays: Gennys Pérez’s ¿Tequila o ron? (2014), Alfredo Rodríguez Guillén’s Argonautas de la octava isla (2017), and Teatro en...
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This article examines the literary representation of dissident sexual and gender subjectivities in revolutionary Cuba in Marcial Gala's novel Llámenme Casandra (2019). Grounded in queer, gender, and cultural studies, it analyzes how gender fluidity challenges the state apparatus of social control that punishes any infringement of the "new man" mode...
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A partir del tratamiento de personajes de mujeres afrodescendientes en tres largometrajes caribeños —Miriam miente (Natalia Cabral y Oriol Estrada, 2018), Angélica (Marisol Gómez-Mouakad, 2016) y Keyla (Viviana Gómez Echeverry, 2017)—, este artículo examina cómo las tensiones raciales, genéricas y sexuales revelan dinámicas relacionales resultantes...
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This article analyzes the creative contributions to counterrevolutionary criticism in Venezuelan popular music (2002–2018). I examine how these musical productions reclaim discourses previously controlled by political power. From the working-class neighborhoods of cities such as Caracas and Maracay—Chavista territories par excellence—the emergence...
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Venezuelan cinema has reached its highest international visibility during the last decade. More recently, the escalation of the political crisis, the massive exodus of artistic and technical talent, as well as the reduction of subsidies have undermined the film industry. Additionally, local filmmakers have been forced to circumvent official censors...
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Chinese immigration in Cuba has been a literary motive for authors such as José Martí, José Lezama Lima, Severo Sarduy, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Miguel Barnet, Daína Chaviano, and Mayra Montero. However, the corpus of cultural productions dealing with the traffic and exploitation of coolies (laborers) is relatively small. Marta Rojas’ El equipaje...
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Cambridge Core - European Literature - Narrativas del descalabro - by Patricia Valladares-Ruiz
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p>Este artículo propone una lectura detenida de la novela Fe en disfraz (2009), de Mayra Santos-Febres con el propósito de examinar el reciclaje de un pasado esclavista que denuncia tanto el proceso de erotización de las relaciones de dominación y sumisión, como la reproducción de estas dinámicas en las sociedades poscoloniales. En este contexto, e...
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This article examines the role of the Venezuelan State as a film producer and its influence in the selection and cinematic treatment of predominant topics in documentaries and feature films financed by Villa del Cine (a State-owned production company). Most of these films pursue the (re)construction of the historical memory by drawing parallels bet...
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Soñé que volvía pero una vez allí tenía miedo y quería irme a cualquier otro lado. En el año 2007, el diario español El País publicó un reportaje sobre el auge de la emigración venezolana, donde se mencionaba que el número de venezolanos empadronados en España había aumentado de 9.482 (1999) a 52.178 (2006) (Gualdoni). Posteriormente en el mismo añ...
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This article studies the intersections of racial, gender, and national subjectivities in Marta Rojas's novel, Santa Lujuria o Papeles de blanco (1998). I examine the entanglement of fiction and historical memory as well as the (re)appropriation and (re)construction of the slave experience as a vindication of anti-imperialist discourses. By focusing...
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At the Cuban economy’s most difficult moment (called the “Special Period”), Cuba’s cultural scene witnessed an inundation of groundbreaking literary works. Since publishing in Cuba is not an easy task, the new generation of Cuban writers (“novsimos”) has privileged spaces of participation such as literary contests and publications abroad. In fact,...
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This thesis offers an analysis of the novel La ultima mudanza de Felipe Carrillo of the Peruvian writer Alfredo Bryce Echenique. It is an approach to the narrative strategies which allow the reader to recreate an oral atmosphere through writing, and which propose, consequently, new perspectives to reading fiction. First, the distinctive features of...
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"Thèse présentée à la Faculté des études supérieures en vue de l'obtention du grade de Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D) en littérature (option littérature hispanique)" Thèse (Ph. D.)--Université de Montréal, 2005.

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