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Rupture and Turning Point: The Narrative of Marcio Veloz Maggiolo 1960-1975
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methodologies that effectively support the literary analysis. Each of the chapters of Rupture and Turning Point clearly shows the latter: the role of the writer in the building of literary criticism in his country (chapter 1); the non-Hispanic biblical novel tradition as a first step towards innovation (chapter 2); experimental and vanguard narrative (chapter 3); lyrical prose as an experimental way towards the ‘New Novel’ movement (chapter 4).
Thus far, literary criticism on the narrative of Marcio Veloz Maggiolo does not offer an overall and interdisciplinary analysis of his prose, particularly when dealing with the period 1960-1975. This first phase of his narrative is fundamental to situate Veloz Maggiolo’s exceptional contribution within the new sociocultural and epistemological process that took place in the Dominican Republic and Latin America in the aforementioned years. Rupture and Turning Point also offers a unique contribution to the literature of the Dominican Republic because it lays the foundations for a systematic study of Veloz Maggiolo’s subsequent narrative up to present, and that of his contemporaries; because it systematises and disseminates the value of this literary corpus that marks a conclusive rupture in the literary history of the Dominican Republic; and because it specifies how this radical defining period in the prose of Marcio Veloz Maggiolo institutes, within and from the Dominican Republic, another juncture of a Latin American alternative cultural process utterly relevant to that period until today.
Dr Bruni has published two refereed books, Ruptura y viraje: la narrativa de Marcio Veloz Maggiolo 1960-1975. Santo Domingo, República Dominicana: Secretaría de Estado de Cultura, 2015, and
Letras de la era: imagen de Trujillo en la narrativa dominicana contemporánea. Santo Domingo, República Dominicana: Secretaría de Estado de Cultura, 2009.
Dr Bruni has two refereed, edited books – 2006, Taryn Lesser, Berta Fernández-Alfaro, Lancelot Cowie, Nina Bruni, (Eds.) Intra-Caribbean Migration and the Conflict Nexus. Ottawa, Canada: Human Rights Internet (HRI) in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), and the Centre for Latin America and the Caribbean (CENLAC), The University of the West Indies, and 2005, Lancelot Cowie y Nina Bruni (Eds.) Voces y Letras del Caribe, Mérida, Venezuela: El Otro El Mismo / CENLAC.
She has published over 19 chapters and articles in refereed and reputable non-referreed books and journals. She has also translated many scholarly articles, and was an invited guest reviewer in 1997 of “Dorothy Wordsworth. Recollections of a tour made in Scotland.” Kyros Walter (Ed). Cuadernos de Literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana 2(2): 72-73
Early in her career, she designed and started the BA in Latin American Studies at the College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago, where she served as Senior Lecturer in the field of Spanish Language and Latin American Culture (2010-2012). She also taught Spanish language and Latin American Culture and Literature at The UWI, St. Augustine Campus (2000-2008) and The UWI, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados (2008-2009).
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