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Of Silenced And Unheard Voices From The South - Argentinean Subalternity According To Luisa Valenzuela

by Ana Duffy

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 Luisa Valenzuelas oeuvre is marked by a fixation with marginal characters, those often rendered invisible by society and outside hegemony: the subaltern. Valenzuelas El Mañana captures echoes of the past, aggravated in a globalized world, takes them apart and reassembles them, to then project them into the future. With a clearly dystopian intention, Valenzuelas novel reveals how instances of subjugation under despotism may be re-enacted by following a pattern of forgetting and repeating. This book examines the novels main fictional characters, who propel the reader to an Argentinean distant and recent past, present and future, challenging and dismantling their founding beliefs, and finally reformulating them from below. The novel is shown to present a decolonial version of the dystopian genre in which a new configuration of power projects the perils of gender, class and patriarchal oppression onto the future, along the lines of coloniality. Ultimately, by addressing themes relevant to the fields of literary fiction, criticism and theory as well as decolonial and postcolonial studies, this book maps out the development of subalternity by performing a situated reading of a major work of Argentinean literature.
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Ikebana Politica - Notas, Poemas Y Ejercicios 2005 2015

by Claudia Del Rio

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 This book is a diary derived from the careful editing of notebooks: a complete yet diverse ensemble of investigations, lecture notes, travel diaries, poems, short fictions, summaries, and projects. It shows not only the life of an artist but also the way she transmits her experience, and how she conceives the current state of the arts.
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Beyond Containment - Corporeality In Mercè Rodoredas Literature

by Eva Bru-Dominguez

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 This book provides a critical and context-sensitive reading of corporeality in the narrative fiction of Mercè Rodoreda, through the perspectives of art and film theory, feminism, literary criticism, spatial studies, and nationalist theory. The text approaches Rodoreda as a Catalan woman writer whose work engages with and explores formulaic and normative notions of the gendered body in a particular cultural, geographical and political space. The study covers four main areas: corporeality as surface, image and texture; the relationship between the body and space; the idea of the culturally and politically constructed body as limit; and the concept of the abject or open body. The author places Rodoredas work in dialogue with a range of texts, media, modes of representation and discourses in order to examine how her artistic vision is both integrated with and a mediator of material experience in the twentieth century.
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The Colombian Political Novel 19511987 - A Critical Contribution

by Alvaro Quiroga-Cifuentes

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 This book explores the environment and cultural context of Colombian political novels published between 1951 and 1987. Challenging the label of «novelas de la violencia», the author analyses them as products of their own historical time and takes into account their broader implications, such as their representation of the society they narrate. These novels are shown to be the product of political and ideological issues: the real preoccupations of the writers were the balance of power, social dysfunctionality and the need for reform in a society transitioning from rural to urban. These issues are traced in a close reading of representative novels, in which feature letrados and intellectuals and their role in the evolution of society, culture, literature and power in twentieth-century Colombia. With its critical-theoretical approach, this book constitutes a significant and innovative contribution to the debate on Latin American culture and literature.
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Power, Place And Representation - Contested Sites Of Dependence And Independence In Latin America

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 Questions about dependence and independence are of crucial importance in relation to Latin America, given the regions history and its current situation. They are particularly relevant at this time, with the bicentenary of independence being celebrated throughout the region. This book examines central issues relating to these two notions in the Latin American context, offering twelve different studies of the themes in question, six of which cover sociology and politics and six of which examine topics in literary and cultural studies. The breadth of the subject matter considered in the volume reflects the wide range of issues that the ideas of dependence and independence raise in this political and geographical context, including, among others: identity, hegemony, wealth and poverty, discursive power, the role of civil society, language and gender. The contributors offer new insights into the fields examined, from discussions of the significance of cultural products such as literary works and films to a consideration of the validity of the concept of independence to ongoing efforts to alleviate poverty and assert national autonomy. As a uniquely interdisciplinary and multi-focused collection of essays, the book offers readers an excellent overview of these issues as they relate to Latin America today.
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Gender In Cuban Cinema - From The Modern To The Postmodern

by Guy Baron

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 A film institute was the first cultural institution to be created by the new Cuban revolutionary government in 1959. One of its aims was to create a new cinema to suit the needs of the Revolution in a climate of transformation and renewal. During the same period, issues of gender equality and gender relations became important as the Revolution attempted to eradicate some of the negative social tendencies of the past. Through the prism of the gender debate, Cuban cinema both reflected and shaped some of the central ideological concerns on the island at this time. This book brings together these two extremely significant aspects of the Cuban revolutionary process by examining issues of gender and gender relations in six Cuban films produced between 1974 and 1990. Using close textual analysis and theoretical insights from feminism and postmodernism, the author argues that the portrayal of aspects of gender relations in Cuban cinema developed along a progressive path, from expressions of the modern to expressions of the postmodern.
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Apologia And Criticism - Historians And The History Of Spain, 1500-2000

by Gonzalo Pasamar

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 This book is the first modern overview of the history of historiography in Spain. It covers sources from Juan de Marianas History of Spain, written at the end of the sixteenth century, up to current historical writings and their context. The main objective of the book is to shed light on the continuities and breaks in the ways that Spanish historians represented ideas of Spain. The concept of historiography used is wide enough to span not only academic works and institutions but also public uses of history, including the history taught in schools. The methodology employed by the author combines the tradition of studies of national identity with those of historiography. One of the key themes in the book is the role of the historical profession in Spain and its influence on national discourse from the nineteenth century onwards.
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A Cultural History Of The Cuban Revolution - Power, Hegemony And The Pursuit Of Independent Voices

by Antonio Néstor Álvarez Pitaluga e Guy Baron

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 This is a chronological account of the cultural history of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 2022, examining Cuban revolutionary culture and the control of it by the state. It is a cultural history guidebook about one of the most significant historical events in Latin America in the 20th and 21st centuries, using the most up-to-date sources.
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Reflections On The Veracruz Son Jarocho - Images, Politics And Selected Themes Of A Mexican Music And Dance Tradition

by Randall Kohl

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 Once associated principally with the Veracruz countryside, the son jarocho music and dance tradition is now establishing itself as a twenty-first-century urban practice caught in a struggle between firmly established customs and newly adaptive strategies. This book offers an overview of the musicâ€™s history and musical characteristics.
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Of Silenced And Unheard Voices From The South - Argentinean Subalternity According To Luisa Valenzuela

by Ana Duffy

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 Ana Duffy holds a PhD in Latin American Literature from the University of Queensland, Australia. She has worked in various Australian universities as a lecturer and tutor in the fields of Latin American studies and literature, Spanish and, being a writer herself, in creative writing and literary studies.
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Respectable Professionals - The Origins Of The Liberal Professions In Nineteenth-Century Spain

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 Respectable Professionals contains the contributions of fifteen experts about the birth of new professions and the modernization of working practices in old trades in nineteenth-century Spain. The authors consider that professionalism and respectability were the most relevant elements which structured the bourgeois society in the nineteenth century. The economic changes resulting from the abolition of guilds, the extension of the competences of the State and the liberalization of the economy contributed greatly to the renewal of the labour market. This process took place while some other transformations gave rise to the bourgeois society, such as the urbanization, the updating of the educational system or the organization of professional networks and associations. Starting from the sociology of professions, the book reflects on the historical and sociocultural elements that influenced the development of professional society through different case studies that allow us to compare with other European countries. Nowadays we are living through similar changes in the labour market that should lead us to look back and learn from the challenges faced by professionals in the past.
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Pc Snap And The Case Of The Escaped Lion

by Chris Hall

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Pirates Next Door

by Iain Shaw

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Stinky And His Mate

by Rik Carpenter

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Yes, Shaman Can Wear Jeans

by Nicola Mott

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Sansa (The Not-So-Smelly Skunk)

by Tracey Barker

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Red Dawn Rising

by Debora Hellinga

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Lovingâ€™S The Strange Thing - Jungian Individuation In The Fairy Tales Of Carmen Martin Gaite

by Anne-Marie Storrs

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Lovings The Strange Thing - Jungian Individuation In The Fairy Tales Of Carmen Martín Gaite

by Anne-Marie Storrs

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 This groundbreaking volume argues that Carmen Martín Gaite and Carl Jung form an ideal combination. All the main features of the Jungian individuation process are present in the Spanish writers fairy tales: dreams, shadow figures, wise men and women, the Self, anima and animus. Martín Gaite has been described by the critic Salustiano Martín as trying to offer human beings a different way. In this accessible new study, Anne-Marie Storrs claims that this way is found through the process of individuation the psychological development of a unique individual and that aspects of the process are imaginatively depicted in the three shorter fairy tales, El castillo de las tres murallas, El pastel del diablo and Caperucita en Manhattan, and in the novel so closely linked with Hans Christian Andersens tale, La reina de las nieves. Drawing on the work of Jungian writers to clarify and illuminate its argument, this book takes an entirely new perspective on Martín Gaites work and, in doing so, challenges the prejudice and suspicion that too many in the humanities and beyond continue to experience when they come face to face with Jung.
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Looking At Iberia - A Comparative European Perspective

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 This collection of new essays focuses on key questions within the rapidly growing field of Iberian studies. From a comparative European perspective, the essays question the concept of â€˜Iberianâ€™ itself, query its suitability as a starting point for research and consider it in relation to more established concepts and identities.
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Mapping The Tasteland - Explorations In Food And Wine In Argentinean And European Culture

by Matias Bruera

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 This book draws together the results of extensive research into the complex relationships that some modern European and Argentinean writers have enjoyed with food and wine. The European writers considered include Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Baudelaire, Italo Svevo, Marcel Schwob, James Joyce and Robert Louis Stevenson; their Argentinean counterparts include Domingo F. Sarmiento, Lucio V. Mansilla, Roberto J. Payró and Ezequiel Martínez Estrada. Through an exploration of both fiction and non-fiction, the author shows how these thinkers ideas about food and wine influenced modernity and how they continue to influence contemporary issues such as globalized menus and food poverty.
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«Desaparición» - Argentinas Human Rights Trials

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 This book analyses the ideas of memory, truth and justice in the context of the trials for crimes against humanity in Argentina, from the presidency of RaÃƒÂºl AlfonsÃƒÂn to current developments under Cristina FernÃƒÂ¡ndez de Kirchner. Judges, lawyers, historians, journalists and witnesses give a lucid and critical reconstruction of the last 30 years.
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Galdós And Medicine

by Michael Stannard

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 Benito PÃ©rez GaldÃ³s is revered as Spainâ€™s greatest nineteenth-century author. This book is the first detailed study of the medicine that appears in his work. It analyses the sources available to GaldÃ³sâ€™s network, issues such as epidemic disease, madness and childrenâ€™s diseases, and the significance of GaldÃ³sâ€™s depictions of disease and of doctors.
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A Civil War Of Words - The Cultural Impact Of The Great War In Catalonia, Spain, Europe And A Glance At Latin America

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 This book offers a transdisciplinary perspective on the cultural impact of the Great War in the Mediterranean territories. With a comparative approach, the great variety of representations of the â€˜theatre of warâ€™ are presented, as well as their impact in journalism and fiction of the following decades.
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