Browsing by Author "Matz, Maria Rosario"
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Item La dramaturgia de Cristina Escofet: deconstruccion de los arquetipos femeninos de todos los tiempos(Texas Tech University, 2002-12) Matz, Maria RosarioThe last decades have seen an increasing interest in and production of Feminine and Feminist Theater in Latin America. By raising women's consciousness of the need to replace those identities imposed by society with new identities, individual identities that evolve from within the self, a new woman will emerge, aware of her uniqueness and value as a human being. My dissertation explores the various strategies in the works of Cristina Escofet, which deconstruct the accepted norms of masculinity and femininity and expose them as mere social constructs that serve to discriminate against any behavior or discourse that strays from accepted norms. Playwrights like Escofet are (re)forming the dramatic canon and demonstrate the possibility of a new theater, one separate from the masculine that is evolving through the dialogue that they create. In addition to being an actress and author of prose and poetry, Cristina Escofet is one of the more renowned Argentine playwrights of the last decade. Her works have been performed throughout Argentina as well as New York, Washington D.C, Montevideo, Havana and Puerto Rico. Her first production was the play Te de tias which debuted in Teatro Abierto in 1985. Other works include Solas en la madriguera (1988), Nunca usaras medias de seda (1989), Ritos del corazon (1992), Senoritas en concierto (1993), Las que aman hasta morir o Los fantasmas del heroe (2000). These works along with her work in the critical theory of the genre have won various awards in Argentina. Escofet's theater balances an emphasis on the importance of the visual with that of dialogue. As my analysis will show, the recurring theme in these plays is feminine identity.Item Spanish Indian policy in the internal provinces, 1765-1786(Texas Tech University, 1998-12) Matz, Maria RosarioFrom the sixteenth century, until approximately the second half of the eighteenth century, Spanish Indian policy in the New World was characterized by the idea of integration of the Indian tribes Into colonial society. Beginning with the second half of the eighteenth century, the policy changed drastically. Within the so-called Bourbon reforms was a chapter concerning the northern frontier of the Viceroyalty of New Spain and a new policy that ordered the total extermination of the "hostile Indians." The reason for this radical change in Spanish policy, which dated from 1765 to 1786, was the English menace in the territory west of the Mississippi after 1763. Spain considered It necessary to reevaluate its frontier policy. The English threat to that territory was enhanced by the local population of hostile Indians, who desestabilizated it. In order to avoid larger problems, the crown adopted as Its solution to exterminate those Indians. When England abandoned this area, after the War of the American Revolution and the independence of the United States, the need for control diminished and the extermination policy accordingly disappeared. In other words, the new Spanish policy created for the Interior Provinces between 1765 and 1786 was not simply the consequence of the Indian hostility but developed because England posed danger to the Spanish possessions in nearby Mexico.