Date of Award
5-2014
Document Type
Capstone
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
June 2026
Department
Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
College Granting Degree
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Department Granting Degree
Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature
Degree Name
Honors in Major
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Mary Ann Gosser Esquilin
Additional Committee Member 1
Nora Erro Peralta
Abstract
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo (1891-1961), the ruthless Dominican Republic ruler dominated his island’s politics for over thirty years. In his acclaimed 2000 novel, The Feast of the Goat, Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa creates Urania Cabral, a 49-year-old émigrée who at 14 left her nation after becoming Trujillo’s sexual victim. The novel, told from many perspectives, focuses on her return, the dictator’s last day, and the story of the four conspirators waiting to ambush him the night of May 30th 1961. My study analyzes the complex narrative structures of the novel as masterful “rupturing” techniques. Through these the reader pieces together the broken body politic of a traumatized nation as Urania reconstructs in painful detail how the impotent dictator digitally rapes her to ensure her body bears the mark of his brutal anger and frustration.
Recommended Citation
Carreño Cabrejos, Pablo Francisco José, "SISMOLOGÍA EN LA FIESTA DEL CHIVO DE MARIO VARGAS LLOSA: HETEROGLOSIA EN LA NARRACIÓN DEL TRAUMA" (2014). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 354.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general/354
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