The Untimely Present

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822324157
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (241 download)

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Book Synopsis The Untimely Present by : Idelber Avelar

Download or read book The Untimely Present written by Idelber Avelar and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Untimely Present examines the fiction produced in the aftermath of the recent Latin American dictatorships, particularly those in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Idelber Avelar argues that through their legacy of social trauma and obliteration of history, these military regimes gave rise to unique and revealing practices of mourning that pervade the literature of this region. The theory of postdictatorial writing developed here is informed by a rereading of the links between mourning and mimesis in Plato, Nietzsche's notion of the untimely, Benjamin's theory of allegory, and psychoanalytic / deconstructive conceptions of mourning. Avelar starts by offering new readings of works produced before the dictatorship era, in what is often considered the boom of Latin American fiction. Distancing himself from previous celebratory interpretations, he understands the boom as a manifestation of mourning for literature's declining aura. Against this background, Avelar offers a reassessment of testimonial forms, social scientific theories of authoritarianism, current transformations undergone by the university, and an analysis of a number of novels by some of today's foremost Latin American writers--such as Ricardo Piglia, Silviano Santiago, Diamela Eltit, João Gilberto Noll, and Tununa Mercado. Avelar shows how the 'untimely' quality of these narratives is related to the position of literature itself, a mode of expression threatened with obsolescence. This book will appeal to scholars and students of Latin American literature and politics, cultural studies, and comparative literature, as well as to all those interested in the role of literature in postmodernity.

Cities in Ruins

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Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 155753571X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)

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Book Synopsis Cities in Ruins by : Cecilia Enjuto Rangel

Download or read book Cities in Ruins written by Cecilia Enjuto Rangel and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures publishes studies on topics of literary, theoretical, or philological importance that make a significant contribution to scholarship in French. Italian. Luso Brazilian, Spanish, and Spanish American literatures. --Book Jacket.

Childhood in the Works of Silvina Ocampo and Alejandra Pizarnik

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Publisher : Tamesis Books
ISBN 13 : 9781855660953
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Childhood in the Works of Silvina Ocampo and Alejandra Pizarnik written by Fiona Joy Mackintosh and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final analysis, Ocampo's works achieve equilibrium between childhood and age, whereas Pizarnik's much-discussed poetic crisis of exile from language itself parallels her deep sense of anxiety at being exiled from the world of childhood."--BOOK JACKET.

Encyclopedia of Homosexuality

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317368150
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Homosexuality by : Wayne R. Dynes

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Homosexuality written by Wayne R. Dynes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990, The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality brings together a collection of outstanding articles that were, at the time of this book’s original publication, classic, pioneering, and recent. Together, the two volumes provide scholarship on male and female homosexuality and bisexuality, and, reaching beyond questions of physical sexuality, they examine the effects of homophilia and homophobia on literature, art, religion, science, law, philosophy, society, and history. Many of the writings were considered to be controversial, and often contradictory, at that time, and refer to issues and difficulties that still exist today. This volume contains entries from A-L.

Translating Women

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Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776619500
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)

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Book Synopsis Translating Women by : Luise von Flotow

Download or read book Translating Women written by Luise von Flotow and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist theory has been widely translated, influencing the humanities and social sciences in many languages and cultures. However, these theories have not made as much of an impact on the discipline that made their dissemination possible: many translators and translation scholars still remain unaware of the practices, purposes and possibilities of gender in translation. Translating Women revives the exploration of gender in translation begun in the 1990s by Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood’s Re-belle et infidèle/The Body Bilingual (1992), Sherry Simon’s Gender in Translation (1996), and Luise von Flotow’s Translation and Gender (1997). Translating Women complements those seminal texts by providing a wide variety of examples of how feminist theory can inform the study and practice of translation. Looking at such diverse topics as North American chick lit and medieval Arabic, Translating Women explores women in translation in many contexts, whether they are women translators, women authors, or women characters. Together the contributors show that feminist theory can apply to translation in many new and unexplored ways and that it deserves the full attention of the discipline that helped it become internationally influential.

Árbol de Alejandra

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Publisher : Tamesis Books
ISBN 13 : 9781855661530
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (615 download)

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Book Synopsis Árbol de Alejandra by : Fiona Joy Mackintosh

Download or read book Árbol de Alejandra written by Fiona Joy Mackintosh and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reassesses Argentinian poet Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-72) in the light of recent publications to her 'complete' poetry and prose, and previously unavailable archive material.

The Sublime South

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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810137313
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis The Sublime South by : Jose Luis Venegas

Download or read book The Sublime South written by Jose Luis Venegas and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sublime South: Andalusia, Orientalism, and the Making of Modern Spain is the first systematic study on cultural images of Andalusia as Spain’s “Orient” and the impact they have had on nation-building and modernization since the late nineteenth century. While a wealth of studies have examined how northern Europeans from the Romantic period viewed Spain and Andalusia as Europe’s Orient, little attention has been paid to how contemporary Spanish artists and intellectuals assimilated Romantic legacies to engage in an internal form of orientalism. José Luis Venegas deftly explores Spain’s shifting engagements with oriental identity and otherness by looking, not just beyond national, ethnic, and racial borders, but at a territory that is institutionally embedded in the nation-state while symbolically placed between inclusion and abjection. The Sublime South shifts the focus and scale of Edward Said’s notion of orientalism by examining how it evolves and manifests transnationally, as the result of European colonialism in Africa and Asia, and intra-nationally, in a European yet orientalized country. Finally, Venegas challenges ethnocentric notions of Iberian cultures and fosters an understanding of the encounters between Western and Muslim cultures beyond opposing, and often mutually negating, essentialisms.

Tango Lessons

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822377233
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis Tango Lessons by : Marilyn G. Miller

Download or read book Tango Lessons written by Marilyn G. Miller and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its earliest manifestations on the street corners of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires to its ascendancy as a global cultural form, tango has continually exceeded the confines of the dance floor or the music hall. In Tango Lessons, scholars from Latin America and the United States explore tango's enduring vitality. The interdisciplinary group of contributors—including specialists in dance, music, anthropology, linguistics, literature, film, and fine art—take up a broad range of topics. Among these are the productive tensions between tradition and experimentation in tango nuevo, representations of tango in film and contemporary art, and the role of tango in the imagination of Jorge Luis Borges. Taken together, the essays show that tango provides a kaleidoscopic perspective on Argentina's social, cultural, and intellectual history from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Contributors. Esteban Buch, Oscar Conde, Antonio Gómez, Morgan James Luker, Carolyn Merritt, Marilyn G. Miller, Fernando Rosenberg, Alejandro Susti

The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521806183
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature by : David T. Gies

Download or read book The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature written by David T. Gies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Detecting Texts

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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205456
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Book Synopsis Detecting Texts by : Patricia Merivale

Download or read book Detecting Texts written by Patricia Merivale and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although readers of detective fiction ordinarily expect to learn the mystery's solution at the end, there is another kind of detective story—the history of which encompasses writers as diverse as Poe, Borges, Robbe-Grillet, Auster, and Stephen King—that ends with a question rather than an answer. The detective not only fails to solve the crime, but also confronts insoluble mysteries of interpretation and identity. As the contributors to Detecting Texts contend, such stories belong to a distinct genre, the "metaphysical detective story," in which the detective hero's inability to interpret the mystery inevitably casts doubt on the reader's similar attempt to make sense of the text and the world. Detecting Texts includes an introduction by the editors that defines the metaphysical detective story and traces its history from Poe's classic tales to today's postmodernist experiments. In addition to the editors, contributors include Stephen Bernstein, Joel Black, John T. Irwin, Jeffrey T. Nealon, and others.

Entiendes?

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822316152
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Book Synopsis Entiendes? by : Emilie L. Bergmann

Download or read book Entiendes? written by Emilie L. Bergmann and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "¿Entiendes?" is literally translated as "Do you understand? Do you get it?" But those who do "get it" will also hear within this question a subtler meaning: "Are you queer? Are you one of us?" The issues of gay and lesbian identity represented by this question are explored for the first time in the context of Spanish and Hispanic literature in this groundbreaking anthology. Combining intimate knowledge of Spanish-speaking cultures with contemporary queer theory, these essays address texts that share both a common language and a concern with lesbian, gay, and bisexual identities. Using a variety of approaches, the contributors tease the homoerotic messages out of a wide range of works, from chronicles of colonization in the Caribbean to recent Puerto Rican writing, from the work of Cervantes to that of the most outrageous contemporary Latina performance artists. This volume offers a methodology for examining work by authors and artists whose sexuality is not so much open as "an open secret," respecting, for example, the biographical privacy of writers like Gabriela Mistral while responding to the voices that speak in their writing. Contributing to an archeology of queer discourses, ¿Entiendes? also includes important studies of terminology and encoded homosexuality in Argentine literature and Caribbean journalism of the late nineteenth century. Whether considering homosexual panic in the stories of Borges, performances by Latino AIDS activists in Los Angeles, queer lives in turn-of-the-century Havana and Buenos Aires, or the mapping of homosexual geographies of 1930s New York in Lorca's "Ode to Walt Whitman," ¿Entiendes? is certain to stir interest at the crossroads of sexual and national identities while proving to be an invaluable resource.

The Word and the Mirror

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Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838633342
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book The Word and the Mirror written by Salvador Jiménez-Fajardo and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1989 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These illuminating essays generally follow the chronology of the twentieth-century Spanish poet Luis Cernuda's creative life, beginning with the poet's early surrealist collections and encompassing his last volume of verse, Desolacion de la quimera (The disconsolate chimera). The select bibliography includes all significant items of Cernuda criticism of the past forty years.

The Poetry of Antonio Machado

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198736800
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Book Synopsis The Poetry of Antonio Machado by : Xon de Ros

Download or read book The Poetry of Antonio Machado written by Xon de Ros and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a much needed reappraisal of a major twentieth-century Spanish poet, Antonio Machado (1875-1939), offering compelling arguments why his poetry should have a more vital profile not only within the precincts of Hispanism but also alongside the most significant twentieth-century poets of Europe and America, seeking to open up new perspectives for the interpretation of his poetry. The unifying concepts, as the title suggests, are landscape and transformation. Landscape, a topic barely broached in Spanish poetry before Machado, is a central thematic concern in his poetry.

Lacanian Psychoanalysis between the Child and the Other

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429814976
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Book Synopsis Lacanian Psychoanalysis between the Child and the Other by : Liora Stavchansky

Download or read book Lacanian Psychoanalysis between the Child and the Other written by Liora Stavchansky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lacanian Psychoanalysis between the Child and the Other explores what topology can contribute to clinical work with children, emphasizing that psychoanalytic listening goes beyond the individuals who attend a session. This kind of listening does not seek for what is hidden inside; rather it seeks to create a continuous topological transformation, with topology regarded as the most sophisticated way in which structure, structuring and playing can be thought. Using Lacan’s theoretical framework, the book provides a new perspective on working with children, re-examining fundamental Lacanian concepts such as structure, subject, lack, Other, clinic and, of course, child itself. It charts how time and space are knitted together for children in psychoanalysis, and how a Lacanian approach can enable clinical practitioners and researchers to venture into cultures of childhood, helping them conceptualize and intervene in the process of knitting and unknotting. The book will be of interest to psychoanalytic child clinicians in practice and training, as well as researchers in the field of child psychoanalysis.

A Common Place

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Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838753781
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (537 download)

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Book Synopsis A Common Place by : Julie Jones

Download or read book A Common Place written by Julie Jones and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issues raised in this study are pertinent to contemporary fiction in general: important here are theories of representation, of place, of metafiction and parody, and questions involving postcolonial, urban, travel, and postmodern literature.

The Exhaustion of Difference

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822327240
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis The Exhaustion of Difference by : Alberto Moreiras

Download or read book The Exhaustion of Difference written by Alberto Moreiras and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-26 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA sophisticated theoretical reconsideration of Latin American studies, critiquing past work and proposing new frameworks for the discipline./div

The Dilemma of Modernity

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Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820481838
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (818 download)

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Book Synopsis The Dilemma of Modernity by : John A. McCulloch

Download or read book The Dilemma of Modernity written by John A. McCulloch and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dilemma of Modernity is a study of the evolution of Ramón Gómez de la Serna's narrative fiction within the context of European Modernism. At a time when Joyce, Kafka, Proust, and Woolfe were experimenting with prose fiction, very little is known about Spain's contribution to the novel. Despite his years in Paris, when it was still considered the cultural capital of Europe, and his championing of the avant-garde in Spain in the 1920s through his literary salon Pombo, which attracted figures such as Borges, Picasso, Huidobro, Buñuel and Lorca, Ramón Gómez de la Serna's work has suffered from critical neglect. The Dilemma of Modernity sets Gómez de la Serna's work within the cultural and historical context of the time and traces his evolution from aesthete to promoter of the avant-garde, modernist, and existentialist.