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Author : Ellie Guerrero
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Confronting History and Modernity in Mexican Narrative written by Ellie Guerrero and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elisabeth Guerrero
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Confronting History and Modernity in Mexican Narrative written by Elisabeth Guerrero and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2008-07-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two motifs of an angel of history, one European and one Mexican, provide a theoretical framework for this book. The first is Walter Benjamin's interpretation of the Klee painting angelus novus, a figure that gazes upon the ruins of the past, powerless to repair the broken pieces as it keels into the future. Although Benjamin envisions history as catastrophe piled upon catastrophe, he also sees in this angel the possibility for redemption in divine destruction. Mexico City's key monument, the Angel of Independence, also embodies redemption and destruction through history, marking moments of staggering transformation beyond the conquest. Drawing from these two theoretical angels, the study delineates three major narrative tendencies in contemporary historical novels from Mexico. First, these novels humanize canonized heroes and bring them down to earth. Secondly, they demonumentalize the European legacy, renegotiating Europe's five hundred year bequest of conquest and colonialism. Thirdly, the novels have begun to recover secondary figures previously lost to history, particularly women and people of color. While these three tendencies apply throughout Latin America, they are particularly pronounced in Mexican literary production.
Author : G. Aguilar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230616658
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Other Worlds written by G. Aguilar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-23 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Respected film critic Gonzalo Aguilar offers a lucid and sophisticated analysis of Argentine films of the last decade. This is the most complete and up-to-date work in English to examine the 'new Argentine cinema' phenomenon. Aguilar looks at highly relevant films, including those by Lucrecia Martel and Sergio Rejtman.
Author : S. Antebi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023062166X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Carnal Inscriptions written by S. Antebi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-05-25 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores manifestations of physical disability in Spanish American narrative fiction and performance, from José Martí's late nineteenth century crónicas, to Mario Bellatín's twenty-first century novels, from the performances of Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco to the testimonio and filmic depictions of Gabriela Brimmer.
Author : Stuart A. Day
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816534268
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Modern Mexican Culture written by Stuart A. Day and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays presents a key idea or event in the making of modern Mexico through the lenses of art and history--Provided by publisher.
Author : Anne Lambright
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452909245
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Unfolding the City written by Anne Lambright and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city is not only built of towers of steel and glass; it is a product of culture. It plays an especially important role in Latin America, where urban areas hold a near-monopoly on resources and are home to an expanding population. The essays in this collection assert that women's views of the city are unique and revealing. For the first time, Unfolding the City addresses issues of gender and the urban in literature--particularly lesser-known works of literature--written by Latin American women from Mexico City, Santiago, and Buenos Aires. The contributors propose new mappings of urban space; interpret race and class dynamics; and describe Latin American urban centers in the context of globalization. Contributors: Debra A. Castillo, Cornell U; Sandra Messinger Cypess, U of Maryl∧ Guillermo Irizarry, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Naomi Lindstrom, U of Texas, Austin; Jacqueline Loss, U of Connecticut; Dorothy E. Mosby, Mount Holyoke Colle≥ Angel Rivera, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Lidia Santos, Yale U; Marcy Schwartz, Rutgers U; Daniel Noemi Voionmaa, U of Michigan; Gareth Williams, U of Michigan. Anne Lambright is associate professor of modern languages and literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Elisabeth Guerrero is associate professor of Spanish at Bucknell University.
Author : Ignacio M. Sänchez Prado
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316489809
Total Pages : 717 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book A History of Mexican Literature written by Ignacio M. Sänchez Prado and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Mexican Literature chronicles a story more than five hundred years in the making, looking at the development of literary culture in Mexico from its indigenous beginnings to the twenty-first century. Featuring a comprehensive introduction that charts the development of a complex canon, this History includes extensive essays that illuminate the cultural and political intricacies of Mexican literature. Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered verse and fiction of such diverse writers as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mariano Azuela, Xavier Villaurrutia, and Octavio Paz. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History also devotes special attention to the lasting significance of colonialism and multiculturalism in Mexican literature. This book is of pivotal importance to the development of Mexican writing and will serve as an invaluable reference for specialists and students alike.
Author : J. Loss
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137027983
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Caviar with Rum written by J. Loss and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consisting of sixteen essays by renowned writers and artists, Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience is the first book of its kind to bring to life how and why the Soviet period is revisited in Cuban memory these days and what that means for creative production and the future of geopolitics.
Author : Jolie A. Sheffer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813554640
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book The Romance of Race written by Jolie A. Sheffer and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States miscegenation is not merely a subject of literature and popular culture. It is in many ways the foundation of contemporary imaginary community. The Romance of Race examines the role of minority women writers and reformers in the creation of our modern American multiculturalism. The national identity of the United States was transformed between 1880 and 1930 due to mass immigration, imperial expansion, the rise of Jim Crow, and the beginning of the suffrage movement. A generation of women writers and reformers—particularly women of color—contributed to these debates by imagining new national narratives that put minorities at the center of American identity. Jane Addams, Pauline Hopkins, Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton), María Cristina Mena, and Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket) embraced the images of the United States—and increasingly the world—as an interracial nuclear family. They also reframed public debates through narratives depicting interracial encounters as longstanding, unacknowledged liaisons between white men and racialized women that produced an incestuous, mixed-race nation. By mobilizing the sexual taboos of incest and miscegenation, these women writers created political allegories of kinship and community. Through their criticisms of the nation’s history of exploitation and colonization, they also imagined a more inclusive future. As Jolie A. Sheffer identifies the contemporary template for American multiculturalism in the works of turn-of-the century minority writers, she uncovers a much more radical history than has previously been considered.
Author : D. Castillo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137392290
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Mexican Public Intellectuals written by D. Castillo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mexico, the participation of intellectuals in public life has always been extraordinary, and for many the price can be high. Highlighting prominent figures that have made incursions into issues such as elections, human rights, foreign policy, and the drug war, this volume paints a picture of the ever-changing context of Mexican intellectualism.
Author : M. Lazzara
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230623271
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Telling Ruins in Latin America written by M. Lazzara and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the ruin's prolific resurgence in Latin American cultural life at the turn of the millennium and sharply reveals a stirring creative drive by artists and intellectuals toward ethical reflection and change in the midst of ruinous devastation.
Author : D. Baca
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230612571
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing written by D. Baca and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-05-26 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional scholarship on written communication positions the Western alphabet as a precondition for literacy. Thus, pictographic, non-verbal writing practices of Mesoamerica remain obscured by representations of lettered speech. This book examines how contemporary Mestiz@ scripts challenge alphabetic dominance, thereby undermining the colonized territories of "writing." Strategic weavings of Aztec and European inscription systems not only promote historically-grounded accounts of how recorded information is expressed across cultures, but also speak to emerging studies on "visual/multimodal" education. Baca-Espinosa argues that Mestiz@ literacies advance "new" ways of reading and writing, applicable to diverse classrooms of the twenty-first century.
Author : Vanessa Pérez Rosario
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230107893
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration written by Vanessa Pérez Rosario and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.S. beginning with José Martí and concluding with 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Junot Díaz. The contributors consider the way that spatial migration in literature serves as a metaphor for gender, sexuality, racial, identity, linguistic, and national migrations.
Author : L. Meruane
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137394994
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Viral Voyages written by L. Meruane and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of community, sexuality, nation, displacement and globalization.
Author : R. Behar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230616151
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Portable Island written by R. Behar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cubans today are at home in diasporas that stretch from Miami to Mexico City to Moscow. Back on the island, watching as fellow Cubans leave, the impact of departure upon departure can be wrenching. How do Cubans confront their condition as an uprooted people? The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World offers a stunning chorus of responses, gathering some of the most daring Cuban writers, artists, and thinkers to address the haunting effect of globalization on their own lives.
Author : B. Willis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137268808
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature written by B. Willis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring canonical Spanish American and Brazilian texts of the 1920s and 30s, Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature is an innovative analysis of the body as site of inscription for avant-garde objectives such as originality, subjectivity, and subversion.
Author : H. L'Hoeste
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230103189
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Redrawing The Nation written by H. L'Hoeste and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses the role of comics in the formation of a modern sense of nationhood in Latin America and the rise of a collective Latino identity in the USA. It is one of the first attempts - in English and from a cultural studies perspective - to cover Latin/o American comics with a fully continental scope. Specific cases include cultural powerhouses like Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, as well as the production of lesser-known industries, like Chile, Cuba, and Peru.
