Montes Garcés, ElizabethBracic, Blanka Mary Ann2005-08-162005-08-1620040612976807http://hdl.handle.net/1880/42190Bibliography: p. 121-123Accession 2005.028, donated by Blanka Bracic, contains a transcript and CD of Ms. Bracic's interview with Louisa Valenzuela.This thesis investigates the fragmentation of the body, individual identity, society and language in the short stories of Aquí pasan cosas raras by Luisa Valenzuela. The different types of disintegration evidenced in this text occur during a time of intense political violence and personal insecurity in Argentina during the early 1970s; however, they are also symptomatic of a postmodern context as indicated by Jean-François Lyotard in The Postmodern Condition. Mark Ledbetter, in Victims and the Postmodern Narrative, details the characteristics and goals of the multiple struggles between the fragmented entities and the controlling entity that arise in a postmodern setting and are apparent in this collection by Valenzuela. The desire of the fragmented entity (body/identity) in Aquí pasan cosas raras is to create, through a new type of communication to be deciphered by a perceptive receiver, a message relaying a unique personal testimony that will be remembered.x, 147 leaves ; 30 cm.spaUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.master thesis10.11575/PRISM/17575AC1 .T484 2004 B73