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Youngest Doll

by Rosario Ferre

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 A gentle maiden aunt who has been victimized for years unexpectedly retaliates through her talent for making life-sized dolls filled with honey. "The Youngest Doll," based on a family anecdote, is a stunning literary expression of Rosario Ferre's feminist and social concerns. It is the premier story in a collection that was originally published in Spanish in 1976 as Papeles de Pandora and is now translated into English by the author. The daughter of a former governor of Puerto Rico, Ferre portrays women loosening the constraints that have bound them to a patriarchal culture. Anger takes creative rather than polemical form in ten stories that started Ferre on her way to becoming a leading woman writer in Latin America. The upper-middle-class women in The Youngest Doll, mostly married to macho men, rebel against their doll-like existence or retreat into fantasy, those without money or the right skin color are even more oppressed. In terms of power and influence, these women stand in the same relation to men as Puerto Rico itself does to the United States, and Ferre stretches artistic boundaries in writing about their situation. The stories, moving from the realistic to the nightmarish, are deeply, felt, full of irony and black humor, often experimental in form. The imagery is striking: an architect dreams about a beautiful bridge that "would open and close its arches like alligators making love"; a Mercedes Benz "shines in the dark like a chromium rhinoceros." One story, "The Sleeping Beauty," is a collage of letters, announcements, and photo captions that allows chilling conclusions to be drawn from what is not written. The collection includes Ferre's discussion of "When Women Love Men," a story about a prostitute and a society lady who unite in order to survive, and one that illustrates the woman writer's "art of dissembling anger through irony." In closing, she considers how her experience as a Latin American woman with ties to the United States has brought to her writing a dual cultural perspective.
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Violations - Stories Of Love By Latin American Women

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 Decorum was everything - in society, where Catholicism dictated the terms, and in literature, where a code of decency governed writers and readers alike. This title includes stories that announce a dramatic change, a transformation of the literature of love in Latin America, and of the role of women in this most 'feminine' literary tradition.
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Flowering Of The Cumberland

by Harriette Simpson Arnow

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 Presents an evocation of pioneering in the Cumberland River basin, or what is now middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky. This title covers much the same time - from first settlement in 1780 to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. It describes the strength of women like Sally Buchanan in stations fortified against Indian attack.
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Human Rights And Peace - International And National Dimensions

by David P. Forsythe

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 Analyzes and discusses the dimensions of cover and overt human rights violations and how they militate against the establishment of democracies in the Third World. This book evaluates critically the argument that human rights in general and democracy in particular contribute to peaceful international relations.
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The Women Of Tijucopapo

by Marilene Felinto

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 Risia is a heroine little interested in being heroic. All she wants is for her life 'to have a happy ending'. To find it she must go back to Tijucopapo, where her mother was born. One moonlit night her grandmother gave away a baby, and that baby was Risia's mother.
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Late Woodland Societies - Tradition And Transformation Across The Midcontinent

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 A useful volume on the Native cultures of the Late Woodland period (approximately A.D. 300-1000).
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The New Warriors - Native American Leaders Since 1900

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 This volume profiles American Indian men and women who played a significant role in the affairs of their communities and of the nation over the course of the 20th century.
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The Fourth World

by Diamelia Eltit

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 The chaos originating at the moment of the twins' conception gains dramatic proportions when they enter the world male and female. From the moment of their births, everything changes. The violent dissolution of the family becomes a metaphor in which this book explores the social crises in Chile during the military dictatorship of General Pinochet.
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The Brahms-Keller Correspondence

by George Bozarth e Wiltrud Martin

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 For two decades, beginning in the early 1870s, Robert Keller ushered into print most of Johannes Brahms's major compositions. This volume collects for the first time the complete extant correspondence between Brahms and Keller. Their correspondence illuminates a relationship of mutual respect and friendship and highlights the labour that went into the publication of Brahms's masterpieces.
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Mean Woman

by Alicia Borinsky

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 Depicts life in a terrifying, sexually charged world of dictatorships and disappearances. This novel is translated by Cola Franzen.
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Underground River And Other Stories

by Ines Arredondo

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 Set at the beginning of the twentieth century in the tropical northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, this title offers a collection of stories that focus on female subjectivity.
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The Rainforest

by Alicia Steimberg

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 Offers the reader new definitions of happiness and mature love - or perhaps simply the reassurance that in life, nothing is ever quite as terrible as one fears or quite as glorious as one remembers.
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Loon - Memory, Meaning, And Reality In A Northern Dene Community

by Henry S. Sharp

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 Explores the Chipewyan culture. This title teaches us how, in Chipewyan reality, spirits are an actual and almost omnipresent aspect of life. It explains how the Chipewyans create and order the shared reality of their culture. It presents a picture of the people engaged in the human struggle to create meaning.
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Call Me Magdalena

by Alicia Steimberg

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 Erotic entanglements, startling revelations, a furtive intruder, even a possible murder? Not at all what the students of mind control class envisioned when they gathered on a ranch outside Buenos Aires for a relaxing weekend. But here nothing is what it seems, least of all Magdalena herself.
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A Visit To The Ranquel Indians

by Lucio V. Mansilla

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 Lucio V Mansilla (1831-1913), the widely traveled and cultured scion of a famous family, was a colonel in the Argentine army when he undertook an 'excursion' to the Argentine interior in 1870 to visit natives in areas then largely unknown. This title covers the observations of Mansilla that offer ethnographic data related to Argentina's Indians.
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In A State Of Memory

by Tununa Mercado

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 A memoir about exile, displacement, and return. It explores the psychological and physical effects of the narrator's transition into a life in exile: the splintering of her identity, the difficulties of incorporating herself into a host culture, her physical illness, and the haunting memories of her past and the loved ones she left behind.
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Violations - Stories Of Love By Latin American Women

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 Decorum was everything - in society, where Catholicism dictated the terms, and in literature, where a code of decency governed writers and readers alike. This title includes stories that announce a dramatic change, a transformation of the literature of love in Latin America, and of the role of women in this most 'feminine' literary tradition.
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Apostles Of Modernity - American Writers In The Age Of Development

by Guy J. Reynolds

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 Following World War II, Americans entertained a far more international political, cultural, and intellectual awareness as well as a greater fascination with development, progress, and modernity than ever before. This title charts the responses of novelists, travel writers, and literary intellectuals to the nation's engagement in world affairs.
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All The Strange Hours - The Excavation Of A Life

by Loren Eiseley

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 In this work, the author turns his powers of reflection and discovery of his own life to relate his story. Beginning with his childhood experiences and traces the odyssey that led to his search for early post-glacial man.
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Restoring The Chain Of Friendship - British Policy And The Indians Of The Great Lakes, 1783-1815

by Timothy D. Willig

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The Weight Of Temptation

by Ana María Shua

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 Dystopian fantasy, political parable, morality tale - however one reads it, this novel is first and foremost pure Ana MarÃa Shua, a work of fiction like no other and a dark pleasure to read. Shua, an Argentinian writer widely celebrated throughout Latin America, frames her complex drama in deceptively simple, straightforward prose.
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The Women Of Tijucopapo

by Marilene Felinto

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 Features Risia, a heroine little interested in being heroic. This book tells that all she wants is for her life 'to have a happy ending', and to find it she must go back to Tijucopapo, where her mother was born. It describes the trauma of her mother's miserable marriage, and invents tales of Tijucopapo in the happier days before she was born.
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The Youngest Doll

by Rosario Ferre

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 A gentle maiden aunt who has been victimized for years unexpectedly retaliates through her talent for making life-sized dolls filled with honey. The Youngest Doll, based on a family anecdote, is a stunning literary expression of Rosario Ferrs feminist and social concerns. It is the premier story in a collection that was originally published in Spanish in 1976.
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Industrial Park

by Patricia Galvao (Pagu)

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 A work about the voices, clashes, and traffic of Sao Paulo, a city in the middle of rapid change. It includes public documents as well as dialogue and narration, giving a panorama of the city in a sequence of colorful slices. It dramatizes the problems of exploitation, poverty, racial prejudice, prostitution, state repression, and neocolonialism.
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