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Author : Manuel L. Alonso
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780849029264
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (292 download)
Download or read book El Gibaro written by Manuel L. Alonso and published by . This book was released on 1980-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carlos Antonio Torre
Publisher : La Editorial, UPR
ISBN 13 : 9780847724987
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (249 download)
Download or read book The Commuter Nation written by Carlos Antonio Torre and published by La Editorial, UPR. This book was released on 1994 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Forceful arguments analyze the migration phenomenon in Puerto Rico from different points of view: the parallel between migration in Corcega and migration in Puerto Rico by Hugo Rodriguez Vecchini; and the definition of ""Puerto Rican"" offered by Juan Manuel Garcia Passalacqua."
Author : María Acosta Cruz
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813571294
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Dream Nation written by María Acosta Cruz and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past fifty years, Puerto Rican voters have roundly rejected any calls for national independence. Yet the rhetoric and iconography of independence have been defining features of Puerto Rican literature and culture. In the provocative new book Dream Nation, María Acosta Cruz investigates the roots and effects of this profound disconnect between cultural fantasy and political reality. Bringing together texts from Puerto Rican literature, history, and popular culture, Dream Nation shows how imaginings of national independence have served many competing purposes. They have given authority to the island’s literary and artistic establishment but have also been a badge of countercultural cool. These ideas have been fueled both by nostalgia for an imagined past and by yearning for a better future. They have fostered local communities on the island, and still helped define Puerto Rican identity within U.S. Latino culture. In clear, accessible prose, Acosta Cruz takes us on a journey from the 1898 annexation of Puerto Rico to the elections of 2012, stopping at many cultural touchstones along the way, from the canonical literature of the Generación del 30 to the rap music of Tego Calderón. Dream Nation thus serves both as a testament to how stories, symbols, and heroes of independence have inspired the Puerto Rican imagination and as an urgent warning about how this culture has become detached from the everyday concerns of the island’s people. A volume in the American Literature Initiatives series
Author : Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Antología de Poetas Hispano-americanos Publicada Por la Real Academia Española: Cuba. Santo Domingo. Puerto Rico. Venezuela written by Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victor C. Simpson
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820469218
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (692 download)
Download or read book Colonialism and Narrative in Puerto Rico written by Victor C. Simpson and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the effect of the colonial experience on the protagonists in the novels of Pedro Juan Soto, a renowned author of the Puerto Rican «Generation of 1950». Arguing - in keeping with Soto's generational and personal pessimism - that the protagonists are anti-heroes who struggle with their environment and succumb to it in different ways, it acknowledges that the themes of the Puerto Rican novel are firmly rooted in the island's reality, and offers a cogent review of the literary and socio-political context against which Soto's work must be understood. It also inserts Soto into the canon of post-colonial writers while foregrounding his realist approach to characterization, which is the author's means of articulating his social concerns.
Author : Donald Thompson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461669871
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Music in Puerto Rico written by Donald Thompson and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2002-02-13 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puerto Rico's rich musical history is chronicled in Donald Thompson's translated texts, a history that is often unavailable to those who do not read Spanish easily. Music in Puerto Rico details the Caribbean island's musical roots from Christopher Columbus' second voyage to the New World in the late fifteenth century to twentieth century developments. It explores a multitude of topics, including native instruments, the introduction of music in schools, folk traditions, the legendary salsa, urban pop, and commercial music. The volume also examines musical differences in various regions, including mountains and plains. Documents from historical figures such as Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas and Manuel Alonso have been excerpted and translated. In addition, Music in Puerto Rico explores the various modes of musical expression that have been unique to different geographic regions, including the mountains and the plains. The documented texts also simplify bibliographic search, as many of the anthology's original sources are difficult to locate. Thompson's book provides a glimpse into a society in which cultures intersect and in which magic was born in the form of the popular salsa. Musicians, musicologists, historians, students of Hispanic culture, and anyone interested in the musical foundations of Puerto Rican life will find Music in Puerto Rico a valuable resource.
Author : Magali Roy-Féquière
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592132317
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-century Puerto Rico written by Magali Roy-Féquière and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work attempts to cast new light on the Generacion del Treinta, a group of Creole intellectuals who situated themselves as the voice of a new cultural nationalism in Puerto Rico. Through a feminist lens, it focuses on the interlocking themes of nationalism, gender, class and race.
Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299140547
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)
Download or read book The Cockfight written by Alan Dundes and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1994-06-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originating more than 2500 years ago, cockfighting is one of the oldest documented sports in the world. It has continued to flourish despite bans against it in many countries. In The Cockfight: A Casebook, folklorist Alan Dundes brings together a diverse array of writing on this male-dominated ritual. Vivid descriptions of cockfights from Puerto Rico, Tahiti, Ireland, Spain, Brazil, and the Philippines complement critical commentaries, from the fourth-century reflections of St. Augustine to contemporary anthropological and psychoanalytic interpretations. The various essays discuss the intricate rules of the cockfight, the ethical question of pitting two equally matched roosters in a fight to the death, the emotional involvement of cockfighters and fans, and the sexual implications of the sport. The result is an enlightening collection for anthropologists, folklorists, sociologists, and psychologists, as well as followers of this ancient blood sport.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book The Book lover written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : The Editors of Think Spanish
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071491945
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (714 download)
Download or read book Read and Think Spanish written by The Editors of Think Spanish and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2010-05-02 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for advanced beginners and intermediate-level students in formal language courses as well as those studying on their own Now with audio CD of native speakers so learners can hear the correct way to pronounce the Spanish words
Author : Peter A. Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521727456
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book The Roots of Caribbean Identity written by Peter A. Roberts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-11 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Roots of Caribbean Identity has as its central elements race, place and language. The book presents a movement from a European construction of Caribbean identity towards a more Caribbean construction. The ways in which the identity of the Caribbean region and the identities of the separate islands within the region were shaped are set out in a chronological sequence, starting from the time of the European encounters with the Amerindians and finishing at the end of the nineteenth century."(extrait de la 4ème de couv.).
Author : Norman E. Whitten
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253211941
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (119 download)
Download or read book Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean, Volume 2 written by Norman E. Whitten and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows regional Black history.
Author : Frances Negrón-Muntaner
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814758182
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (581 download)
Download or read book Boricua Pop written by Frances Negrón-Muntaner and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book solely devoted to Puerto Rican visability and cultural impact. The author looks as such pop icons as JLo and Ricky Martin as well as West Side Story.
Author : Juan E. De Castro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197541852
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel written by Juan E. De Castro and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Latin American novel burst onto the international literary scene with the Boom era--led by Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa--and has influenced writers throughout the world ever since. García Márquez and Vargas Llosa each received the Nobel Prize in literature, and many of the best-known contemporary novelists are inspired by the region's fiction. Indeed, magical realism, the style associated with García Márquez, has left a profound imprint on African American, African, Asian, Anglophone Caribbean, and Latinx writers. Furthermore, post-Boom literature continues to garner interest, from the novels of Roberto Bolaño to the works of César Aira and Chico Buarque, to those of younger novelists such as Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Alejandro Zambra, and Valeria Luiselli. Yet, for many readers, the Latin American novel is often read in a piecemeal manner delinked from the traditions, authors, and social contexts that help explain its evolution. The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel draws literary, historical, and social connections so that readers will come away understanding this literature as a rich and compelling canon. In forty-five chapters by leading and innovative scholars, the Handbook provides a comprehensive introduction, helping readers to see the region's intrinsic heterogeneity--for only with a broader view can one fully appreciate García Márquez or Bolaño. This volume charts the literary tradition of the Latin American novel from its beginnings during colonial times, its development during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, and its flourishing from the 1960s onward. Furthermore, the Handbook explores the regions, representations of identity, narrative trends, and authors that make this literature so diverse and fascinating, reflecting on the Latin American novel's position in world literature.
Author : Godfrey Baldacchino
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810881772
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Island Songs written by Godfrey Baldacchino and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through the close analysis of musical performance and tradition, the scholarly contributiors to Island Songs provide a global review of how island songs, their lyrics, and their singers engage with the challenges of modernity, migration, and social change uncovering common patterns despite the diversity and local character of their subjects"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Hugo R. Viera-Vargas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 104012657X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Made in Puerto Rico written by Hugo R. Viera-Vargas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made in Puerto Rico: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, culture, and musicology of 20th and 21st century popular music in Puerto Rico. The essays in this volume, written by both local experts and leading scholars, contextualize under-researched areas of Puerto Rican popular music-making in relation to ideologies, aesthetics, and symbolism, and propose new ways of thinking about Puerto Rican musical cultures. A groundbreaking introduction to Puerto Rican musical culture, the volume covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of popular music in Puerto Rico, while also going beyond conventional narratives. Rather than simply providing histories of key genres, these insightful essays focus on the ways in which Puerto Rican musicians reimagine their distinctive musical language as it transmutes from local practices into global expressions. Offering both a survey of Puerto Rican popular music and pathways into deeper critical inquiry, Made in Puerto Rico is an essential resource for scholars and students of music and of Puerto Rican, Caribbean, Latin American, and African Diaspora Studies.
Author : Albert James Arnold
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027234426
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Hispanic and francophone regions written by Albert James Arnold and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history for the first time charts the literature of the entire Caribbean, the islands as well as continental littoral, as one cultural region. It breaks new ground in establishing a common grid for reading literatures that have been kept separate by their linguistic frontiers. Readers will have access to the best current scholarship on the evolution of popular and literate cultures in the various regions since their earliest emergence."The History of Literature in the Caribbean" brings together the most distinguished team of literary Caribbeanists ever assembled, cutting across ideological commitments and critical methods. Differences in point of view between individual contributors are left intact here as the sign of the colonial inheritance of the region. Introductions and conclusions to the various sections of the History written by the respective subeditors, set them in proper perspective. The unique synoptic aspect of the History lies in its comprehensiveness and its range, which are unequaled."Contributors" A. James Arnold, Julio Rodriguez-Luis, H. Lopez Morales, Maria Elena Rodriguez Castro, Silvio Torres Saillant, Seymour Menton, Ian I. Smart, Efrain Barradas, Raquel Chang-Rodriguez, Carlos Alonso, Ivan A. Schulman, W.L. Siemens, William Luis, Gustavo Pellon, Emilio Bejel, Sandra M. Cypess, Peter Earle, Adriana Mndez Rodenas, J. Michael Dash, Ulrich Fleischmann, Maximilien Laroche, Rgis Antoine, Lon-Franois Hoffmann, Randolph Hezekiah, Bridget Jones, F.I. Case, Marie-Denise Shelton, Beverly Ormerod, J. Michael Dash, Jack Corzani, Anthea Morrison, Juris Silenieks, Frantz Fanon, Vere Knight.
