{"id":944,"date":"2026-04-08T14:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/?p=944"},"modified":"2026-04-08T22:41:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:41:35","slug":"premi-arcadi-oliveres-to-ysabella-pachano-contreras-ba-dissertation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/2026\/04\/08\/premi-arcadi-oliveres-to-ysabella-pachano-contreras-ba-dissertation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ysabella Pachano to Receive the Arcadi Oliveres Award on 28 April"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We are very happy to share that one of our BA students, Ysabella Pachano Contreras, has been awarded the Premi Arcadi Oliveres a Treballs de Fi de Grau de transformaci\u00f3 per a la Just\u00edcia Global<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervised by Dr Cristina Pividori, Pachano Contreras’ dissertation, \u201cThe American’t Dream: The Roles of Irony, Magical Realism and Empathy in George Saunders’ Short Fiction “The Semplica Girls Diaries” and “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline,” <\/a>examines the idea of the American Dream and the New Sincerity Movement in twenty-first-century George Saunders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project explores the extent to which Saunders uses different forms of irony\u2014situational, verbal, dramatic and cosmic\u2014together with elements of magical realism, such as ghosts, to subvert the American Dream and foster empathy in readers. It argues that \u201cCivilWarLand in Bad Decline\u201d and \u201cThe Semplica Girls\u201d expose the alienation, exploitation, and violence embedded in the pursuit of commodified ideals within capitalist American society. In doing so, Saunders’s short fiction challenges the core tenets of the American Dream \u2013equality, liberty and the pursuit of happiness\u2014by revealing the contradictions through irony, magic realism, and empathy.<\/p>\n\n\n

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“Talent amb Impacte Social”
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The award ceremony for the 9th edition of the Arcadi Oliveres Award <\/a>will take place during the Jornada amb Impacte Social on Tuesday, 28 April, at 10.00<\/strong> in the Sala de Cinema at UAB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We are very happy to share that one of our BA students, Ysabella Pachano Contreras, has been awarded the Premi Arcadi Oliveres a Treballs de Fi de Grau de transformaci\u00f3 per a la Just\u00edcia Global. Supervised by Dr Cristina Pividori, Pachano Contreras’ dissertation, \u201cThe American’t Dream: The Roles of Irony, Magical Realism and Empathy in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3085,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}