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Faculty: Diane Accaria
Brief introduction:
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Academic Degree:
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PhD, New York University (1994)
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| Areas of Expertise: |
Modernism,
Film & Literature,
Native-American Studies,
Comparative Studies,
19th & 20th Century American Literature |
Contact Information |
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| Office location: |
English Department, Office #PED-2B
Basement of Pedreira Building, College of Humanities |
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Available from professor |
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(787) 764-0000 ext. 3814
Messages: (787) 764-0000 ext. 2553 (at the English Department office) |
Email: |
guanara@onelinkpr.net |
Brief biography |
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Diane Accaria-Zavala (1953, New York) is Professor of American literature and film in the English Department at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras since 1976. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies from New York University. She recently co-edited the book Prospero's Isles: The Caribbean Presence in the North American Imaginary -a collection of 14 essays from diverse contributors ranging from Antonio Benitez Rojo to Juan Otero Garabís, on a diversity of topics from music, literature, and architecture [Macmillan Publishers / UK 2004]. The running theme throughout this collection of essays reveals its pertinence as it traces how, either explicitly or implicitly, the Caribbean presence informs-in compelling and inescapable ways-the texture of the American imaginary. Her essays for the book include the prologue: "Undermining Cultural Purity: The Caribbean Creolization of America" as well as the essay: "Blue Voodoo Beads, Rumba, and Revolutions: What Would Hemingway Be Without Cuba?"
Other publications include: On the Road Again: Re-Imag[in]ing Identity and Nationhood with the Road-Trope-the Case of "Miel para Oshún" and "The Motorcycle Diaries." In Historia y Sociedad, Ed. Manuel R. Rodriguez, Departamento de Historia UPRRP [forthcoming Summer 2008]. / Taking Up the White Man´s Burden: Manifest Destiny on Caribbean Shores in "The Americano" [1916]. In Sargasso, 2005-06, I. 107-120. / Breaking the Spell of Our 'Hallucinated Lucidity': Surveying the Native Self within Hollywood Cinema. In The Culture of the Hispanic Caribbean. London: Macmillan Publisher, 1999. 226-240. / In and Out of the Reel World: Borges in Three Takes. In Journal of Film & Literature. Florida State University P, 1995. / Can't We All Be Marilyn?: Film and the Falsity of the Sex Goddess in Macho Camacho's Beat. In Sargasso (Caribbean Film) 8, 1992. / History: the Stuff Nightmares are made of in Wide Sargasso Sea. In Sargasso, 6, 1989. / El gigantismo de Kane y la nueva narrativa de Carlos Fuentes. In Imagenes (IAUPR Film Journal) 2, 1986. / ¡Cámara, acción, Borges! In Imagenes (IAUPR Film Journal)1,1985.
At present, she is completing work on a manuscript that discusses the aesthetic and ideological relationship that writers have with filmmakers in Latin America and the Caribbean: Straddling Borders: Narrating Literature with Cinema in Latin America [forthcoming Winter 2009].
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Last update:
December 15, 2007 17:09 |
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