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Warrior Women And Trans Warriors - Performing Masculinities In Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature

by Carolina Castellanos Gonella

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 Latin American literature has depicted warrior woman and trans warrior characters in armed conflicts but literary critics have not paid much attention to their empowerment. This book introduces a new perspective by analyzing how one trans warrior and two warrior women from three canonical novels contest traditional codes of behavior and appearance.
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Warrior Women And Trans Warriors - Performing Masculinities In Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature

by Carolina Castellanos Gonella

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 Latin American literature has depicted warrior woman and trans warrior characters in armed conflicts but literary critics have not paid much attention to their empowerment. This book introduces a new perspective by analyzing how one trans warrior and two warrior women from three canonical novels contest traditional codes of behavior and appearance.
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Being Portuguese In Spanish - Reimagining Early Modern Iberian Literature, 1580-1640

by Jonathan William Wade

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 Whereas all texts produced in Iberia during the early modern period reflect the distinct social, political, and cultural realities sweeping across the peninsula to some degree, Portuguese literature written in Spanish offers a unique vantage point from which to see these converging landscapes.
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Le Personnel Est Politique - Médias, Esthétique Et Politique De L''Autofiction Chez Christine Angot, Chloé Delaume Et Nelly Arcan

by Mercedes Baillargeon

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 Regardant les questions de témoignage, de confession, de traumatisme, de sexualité et de violence dans les œuvres (semi-)autobiographiques, ce livre explore la co-construction d’identités personnelles et collectives par des femmes écrivains à l’ère des médias et de l’autoreprésentation. À une époque où la littérature française est souvent accusée d''être égocentrique et trop narcissique, Mercédès Baillargeon avance que l’autofiction des femmes a été reçue avec controverse depuis le tournant du millénaire parce qu’elle perturbe les idées reçues à propos des identités nationale, de genre et de race, et parce qu’elle questionne la distinction entre fiction et autobiographie. En effet, ces écrivaines se distinguent du reste de la production française actuelle, car elles cultivent une relation particulièrement tumultueuse avec leur public, à cause de la nature très personnelle, mais également politique de leurs textes semi-autobiographiques et à cause de leurs « performances » comme personnalité publique dans les médias. On y examine donc simultanément la façon dont les médias stigmatisent ces écrivaines ainsi que la manière dont ces dernières manipulent la culture médiatique comme une extension de leur œuvre littéraire. Ce livre analyse ainsi simultanément les implications textuelles et sociopolitiques qui sous-tendent la (dé)construction du sujet autofictionnel, et en particulier la façon dont ces écrivains se redéfinissent constamment à travers la performance rendue possible par les médias et la technologie. De plus, ce travail soulève des questions importantes par rapport à la relation complexe qu’entretiennent les médias avec les femmes écrivains, en particulier celles qui discutent ouvertement de traumatisme, de sexualité et de violence, et qui remettent également en question la distinction entre réalité et fiction. Cet ouvrage contribue à une meilleure compréhension des rapports de pouvoir mis en jeu dans l’autofiction, tant au niveau de la production que de la réception des œuvres. Privilégiant l’autofiction comme phénomène principalement français, cet ouvrage s’intéresse à la valeur politique de ce genre semi-autobiographique par-delà sa mort annoncée avec la disparition de la littérature engagée de l’après-guerre et des avant-gardes des années 50-60, dans le contexte français et francophone actuel, traversé par une crise des identités, le multiculturalisme et une redéfinition du nationalisme à travers l’écriture. Looking at questions of testimony, confession, trauma, sexuality, and violence in (semi-) autobiographical works, this book explores the co-construction of personal and collective identities by women writers in the age of self-disclosure and mass media. In a time when literature is accused of being self-centered and overly narcissistic, women’s autofiction in France since the turn of the millennium has been received with controversy because it disrupts readily accepted ideas about personal and national identities, gender and race, and fiction versus autobiography. Through the study of polemical writers Christine Angot, Chloé Delaume, and Nelly Arcan, Mercédès Baillargeon contends that, by recounting personal stories of trauma and sexuality, and thus opposing themselves in opposition to social convention, and by refusing to dispel doubts regarding the fictional or factual nature of their texts, autofiction resists and helps redefine categories of literary genre and gender identity. This book analyzes concurrently the textual and sociopolitical implications that underlie the (de)construction of the autofictional subject, and particularly how these writers constantly redefine themselves through performance and self-fashioning made possible by media and technology. Moreover, this work raises important questions relating to the media’s complicated relationship with women writers, especially those who discuss themes of trauma, sexuality, and violence, and w...
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Le Personnel Est Politique - Médias, Esthétique Et Politique De L''Autofiction Chez Christine Angot, Chloé Delaume Et Nelly Arcan

by Mercedes Baillargeon

52,99€ + 10% CARD

 Regardant les questions de témoignage, de confession, de traumatisme, de sexualité et de violence dans les œuvres (semi-)autobiographiques, ce livre explore la co-construction d’identités personnelles et collectives par des femmes écrivains à l’ère des médias et de l’autoreprésentation. À une époque où la littérature française est souvent accusée d''être égocentrique et trop narcissique, Mercédès Baillargeon avance que l’autofiction des femmes a été reçue avec controverse depuis le tournant du millénaire parce qu’elle perturbe les idées reçues à propos des identités nationale, de genre et de race, et parce qu’elle questionne la distinction entre fiction et autobiographie. En effet, ces écrivaines se distinguent du reste de la production française actuelle, car elles cultivent une relation particulièrement tumultueuse avec leur public, à cause de la nature très personnelle, mais également politique de leurs textes semi-autobiographiques et à cause de leurs « performances » comme personnalité publique dans les médias. On y examine donc simultanément la façon dont les médias stigmatisent ces écrivaines ainsi que la manière dont ces dernières manipulent la culture médiatique comme une extension de leur œuvre littéraire. Ce livre analyse ainsi simultanément les implications textuelles et sociopolitiques qui sous-tendent la (dé)construction du sujet autofictionnel, et en particulier la façon dont ces écrivains se redéfinissent constamment à travers la performance rendue possible par les médias et la technologie. De plus, ce travail soulève des questions importantes par rapport à la relation complexe qu’entretiennent les médias avec les femmes écrivains, en particulier celles qui discutent ouvertement de traumatisme, de sexualité et de violence, et qui remettent également en question la distinction entre réalité et fiction. Cet ouvrage contribue à une meilleure compréhension des rapports de pouvoir mis en jeu dans l’autofiction, tant au niveau de la production que de la réception des œuvres. Privilégiant l’autofiction comme phénomène principalement français, cet ouvrage s’intéresse à la valeur politique de ce genre semi-autobiographique par-delà sa mort annoncée avec la disparition de la littérature engagée de l’après-guerre et des avant-gardes des années 50-60, dans le contexte français et francophone actuel, traversé par une crise des identités, le multiculturalisme et une redéfinition du nationalisme à travers l’écriture. Looking at questions of testimony, confession, trauma, sexuality, and violence in (semi-) autobiographical works, this book explores the co-construction of personal and collective identities by women writers in the age of self-disclosure and mass media. In a time when literature is accused of being self-centered and overly narcissistic, women’s autofiction in France since the turn of the millennium has been received with controversy because it disrupts readily accepted ...
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Clarice Lispector - From Brazil To The World

by Earl E. Fitz

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 Explains why the Brazilian master was so transformative of modern Brazilian literature and why she has become such a celebrity in the world literature arena. By offering close readings of her novels, stories, and nonfiction pieces, Earl E. Fitz shows the diverse sides of her literary world.
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Clarice Lispector - From Brazil To The World

by Earl E. Fitz

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 Explains why the Brazilian master was so transformative of modern Brazilian literature and why she has become such a celebrity in the world literature arena. By offering close readings of her novels, stories, and nonfiction pieces, Earl E. Fitz shows the diverse sides of her literary world.
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Miradas Transatlanticas - El Periodismo Literario De Elena Poniatowska Y Rosa Montero

by Alicia Rita Rueda-Acedo

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 Women's voices routinely have been muted or omitted entirely when a nation assembles its historical narrative. In Miradas Transatlanticas: El periodismo literario de Elena Poniatowska y Rosa Montero , Alicia Rita Rueda-Acedo examines the relationship between the journalistic and literary work of the two writers named in the title as they utilise a distinct combination of journalism and fiction to create new spaces where women's voices and experiences may be situated prominently in their nations' historical narratives. Rueda-Acedo analyses the works of the two writers from the perspectives of both gender and genre studies, extending the notion of genre from the literary tradition and applying it to journalistic production. Each of the chapters rethinks and revises the concept of literary genres by arguing for the inclusion of the interview, the reportage, the article, and the chronicle within the category of literature. In her study of Las siete cabritas by Poniatowska and Historias de mujeres by Montero, Rueda-Acedo argues successfully that these are works of homage to women who have influenced history. By interpreting and subverting patriarchal models, the writers draw attention to the ways in which women have engaged Mexican, Spanish, and Universal history. Rueda-Acedo focuses on the characteristics of the journalistic interview and proposes its interpretation as a literary text. A poetics of this genre is also proposed. Rueda-Acedo's study explores how Poniatowska and Montero represent women who have marked history as part of the feminist agenda that the two writers have promoted in their journalistic and literary production. The book also emphasises the role of the two writers as researchers and critics and deepens the vibrant debate about the relationship between literature and journalism currently being discussed on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Everyday Consumption In Twenty-First-Century Brazilian Fiction

by Lígia Bezerra

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 The first in-depth study to map out the representation of consumption in contemporary Brazilian prose. The book highlights how our interactions with commodities connect seemingly disconnected areas of everyday life, such as eating habits, the growth of prosperity theology, and ideas of success and failure.
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Song Of Exile - A Cultural History Of Brazil'S Most Popular Poem, 1846-2018

by Joshua Alma Enslen

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 Written in Portugal in 1843 by a homesick student longing for Brazil, Song of Exile has inspired thousands of parodies, pastiches, and new variations. Mapping the reoccurrences of the originalâ€™s keywords and phrases over time, the book uncovers how the poem has been used by successive generations to write and rewrite the nationâ€™s history.
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Paroimia - Brusantino, Florio, Sarnelli, And Italian Proverbs From The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries

by Daniela D'Eugenio

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 The analysis of the three authors' proverbs through comparisons with classical, medieval, and early modern collections of maxims and sententiae provides insights on the fluidity of such expressions, and illustrates the tight relationship between proverbs and sociocultural factors.
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Arteletra - The Sixties In Latin America And The Politics Of Going Unnoticed

by Jason A. Bartles

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 Analyses the sixties in Latin America in order to revisit the core claim of literary and cultural studies to political relevancy in the contemporary world: the task of making visible the invisible. What is at stake in this book is a series of aesthetic and ethical tools for engaging in politics without first passing through visibility.
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Everyday Consumption In Twenty-First-Century Brazilian Fiction

by Lígia Bezerra

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 The first in-depth study to map out the representation of consumption in contemporary Brazilian prose. The book highlights how our interactions with commodities connect seemingly disconnected areas of everyday life, such as eating habits, the growth of prosperity theology, and ideas of success and failure.
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Song Of Exile - A Cultural History Of Brazil'S Most Popular Poem, 1846-2018

by Joshua Alma Enslen

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 Written in Portugal in 1843 by a homesick student longing for Brazil, Song of Exile has inspired thousands of parodies, pastiches, and new variations. Mapping the reoccurrences of the originalâ€™s keywords and phrases over time, the book uncovers how the poem has been used by successive generations to write and rewrite the nationâ€™s history.
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Everyday Consumption In Twenty-First-Century Brazilian Fiction

by Lígia Bezerra

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 The first in-depth study to map out the representation of consumption in contemporary Brazilian prose. The book highlights how our interactions with commodities connect seemingly disconnected areas of everyday life, such as eating habits, the growth of prosperity theology, and ideas of success and failure.
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Song Of Exile - A Cultural History Of Brazil’S Most Popular Poem, 1846-2018

by Joshua Alma Enslen

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 Provides a strong yet practical foundation for understanding the concepts and practices of total productive maintenance (TPM) management - a proactive asset and resource management strategy that is based on enhancing equipment reliability and overall enterprise productivity.
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Paroimia - Brusantino, Florio, Sarnelli, And Italian Proverbs From The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries

by Daniela D'Eugenio

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 The analysis of the three authors' proverbs through comparisons with classical, medieval, and early modern collections of maxims and sententiae provides insights on the fluidity of such expressions, and illustrates the tight relationship between proverbs and sociocultural factors.
ENGLISH

Paroimia: Brusantino, Florio, Sarnelli, And Italian Proverbs From The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries

by Daniela D'Eugenio

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 The analysis of the three authors' proverbs through comparisons with classical, medieval, and early modern collections of maxims and sententiae provides insights on the fluidity of such expressions, and illustrates the tight relationship between proverbs and sociocultural factors.
ENGLISH

Arteletra - The Sixties In Latin America And The Politics Of Going Unnoticed

by Jason A. Bartles

108,15€ + 10% CARD

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 Analyses the sixties in Latin America in order to revisit the core claim of literary and cultural studies to political relevancy in the contemporary world: the task of making visible the invisible. What is at stake in this book is a series of aesthetic and ethical tools for engaging in politics without first passing through visibility.
ENGLISH

Arteletra - The Sixties In Latin America And The Politics Of Going Unnoticed

by Jason A. Bartles

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 Analyses the sixties in Latin America in order to revisit the core claim of literary and cultural studies to political relevancy in the contemporary world: the task of making visible the invisible. What is at stake in this book is a series of aesthetic and ethical tools for engaging in politics without first passing through visibility.
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Sites Of Disquiet - The Non-Space In Spanish American Short Narratives And Their Cinematic Transformations

by Ilka Kressner

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 Some of the most important writers of the twentieth century, including Borges, Cortazar, Rulfo, and Garcia Marquez, have explored ambiguous sites of a disquieting nature. Their characters face merging perspectives, deferral, darkness, or emptiness. Despite the challenges of visualising such slippery spaces, filmic experimentations in Spanish American cinema since the 1960s have sought to adapt these texts to the screen. Ilka Kressner examines these representations of alternative dimensions in Spanish American short narratives and their transformations to the cinematic screen.
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Knowing Subjects - Cognitive Cultural Studies And Early Modern Spanish

by Barbara Simerka

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 Barbara Simerka uses cognitive cultural studies to delineate new ways of looking at early modern Spanish literature and to analyse cognition and social identity in Spain from the late fifteenth to late eighteenth centuries. She analyses works by Cervantes and Gracian, as well as picaresque novels and comedias. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, she brings together several strands of cognitive theory and details the synergies among neurological, anthropological, and psychological discoveries that provide new insights into human cognition.
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Closed Hand - Images Of The Japanese In Modern Peruvian Literature

by Rebecca Riger Tsurumi

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 In her book, The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature, Rebecca Riger Tsurumi captures the remarkable story behind the changing human landscape in Peru at the end of the nineteenth century when Japanese immigrants established what would become the second largest Japanese community in South America. She analyzes how non-Japanese Peruvian narrators unlock the unspoken attitudes and beliefs about the Japanese held by mainstream Peruvian society, as reflected in works written between 1966 and 2006. Tsurumi explores how these Peruvian literary giants, including Mario Vargas Llosa, Miguel Gutiérrez, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Carmen Ollé, Pilar Dughi, and Mario Bellatin, invented Japanese characters whose cultural differences fascinated and confounded their creators. She compares the outsider views of these Peruvian narrators with the insider perceptions of two Japanese Peruvian poets, José Watanabe and Doris Moromisato, who tap personal experiences and memories to create images that define their identities. The book begins with a brief sociohistorical overview of Japan and Peru, describing the conditions in both nations that resulted in Japanese immigration to Peru and concluding in contemporary times. Tsurumi traces the evolution of the terms "Orient" and "Japanese/Oriental" and the depiction of Asians in Modernista poetry and in later works by Octavio Paz and Jorge Luis Borges. She analyzes the images of the Japanese portrayed in individual works of modern Peruvian narrative, comparing them with those created in Japanese Peruvian poetry. The book concludes with an appendix containing excerpts from Tsurumi''s interviews and correspondence in Spanish with writers and poets in Lima and Mexico City.
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Nossa And Nuestra America - Inter-American Dialogues

by Robert Patrick Newcomb

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 Charts Brazilâ€™s evolving and often conflicted relationship with the idea of Latin America through a detailed comparative investigation of four crucial Latin American essayists: Uruguayan critic JosÃ© Enrique RodÃ³, Brazilian writer-diplomat Joaquim Nabuco, Mexican humanist Alfonso Reyes, and SÃ©rgio Buarque de Holanda, one of Brazilâ€™s preeminent historians.
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