Dos Vidas


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Quiero contarles un poco quien es Gregorio Nesta García. Según platicas yo nací; el día 1 de mayo de 1955 en el Rancho LA RINCONADA municipio de Tlaltenango Zacatecas, más o menos a unos 60 kilómetros de distancia. Pero en esos tiempos los padres tenían que esperarse un mes antes de registrar los niños por si acaso morían. A mí; me registraron el 8 de junio de 1955 como Gregorio Nesta Sedano.




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Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation


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In Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation, Sandra McGee Deutsch brings to light the powerful presence and influence of Jewish women in Argentina. The country has the largest Jewish community in Latin America and the third largest in the Western Hemisphere as a result of large-scale migration of Jewish people from European and Mediterranean countries from the 1880s through the Second World War. During this period, Argentina experienced multiple waves of political and cultural change, including liberalism, nacionalismo, and Peronism. Although Argentine liberalism stressed universal secular education, immigration, and individual mobility and freedom, women were denied basic citizenship rights, and sometimes Jews were cast as outsiders, especially during the era of right-wing nacionalismo. Deutsch’s research fills a gap by revealing the ways that Argentine Jewish women negotiated their own plural identities and in the process participated in and contributed to Argentina’s liberal project to create a more just society. Drawing on extensive archival research and original oral histories, Deutsch tells the stories of individual women, relating their sentiments and experiences as both insiders and outsiders to state formation, transnationalism, and cultural, political, ethnic, and gender borders in Argentine history. As agricultural pioneers and film stars, human rights activists and teachers, mothers and doctors, Argentine Jewish women led wide-ranging and multifaceted lives. Their community involvement—including building libraries and secular schools, and opposing global fascism in the 1930s and 1940s—directly contributed to the cultural and political lifeblood of a changing Argentina. Despite their marginalization as members of an ethnic minority and as women, Argentine Jewish women formed communal bonds, carved out their own place in society, and ultimately shaped Argentina’s changing pluralistic culture through their creativity and work.




Retorno


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Por sus conocimientos en física cuántica y sus experiencias paranormales, M. G. Vargas resulta ser un excelente narrador de ficción. Retorno es una historia que relata cómo es que gran parte de los habitantes de una antigua aldea que hoy son Islas Caimán, están marcados por una maldición. Un poderoso brujo llamado Kendor, "El brujo del Jaguar Parleante", retorna del averno para cobrar venganza sobre los descendientes de aquellos que un día le quitaron la vida quemándolo vivo. Cuando las fuerzas del más aya se desatan, los del bien también lo hacen. En esta ocasión dos curiosos personajes son enviados por "El Gran Poder", un Joven y sentimental pirata que vivió en siglos pasados, y su extraño cotorro, que habla más que un político. En esta desigual lucha que día con día sostenemos contra los seres de las tinieblas. Créalo, ni usted ni yo estamos nunca solos.




Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature


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A comprehensive, encyclopedic guide to the authors, works, and topics crucial to the literature of Central and South America and the Caribbean, the Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature includes over 400 entries written by experts in the field of Latin American studies. Most entries are of 1500 words but the encyclopedia also includes survey articles of up to 10,000 words on the literature of individual countries, of the colonial period, and of ethnic minorities, including the Hispanic communities in the United States. Besides presenting and illuminating the traditional canon, the encyclopedia also stresses the contribution made by women authors and by contemporary writers. Outstanding Reference Source Outstanding Reference Book




Compañeras: Latina Lesbians (An Anthology), Lesbianas Latinoamericanas


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Originally published in 1987 and revised in 2004, Compañeras speaks with the voices of Latina lesbians who are puertorriqueñas, chicanas, cubanas, chilenas, hondureñas, brasileñas, colombianas, argentinas, peruanas, costarricenses, mexicanas, ecuatorianas, bolivianas, dominicanas, and nicaragüenses; women who met to speak about what it implies to be both Latina and lesbian in our communities, whether we live in Latin America or the US. Each time a woman begins to speak, a liberating process begins, one that is unavoidable and has powerful political implications. In these pages we see repeated the process of self-discovery, of affirmation in coming out of the closet, the search for a definition of our identity within the family and our community, the search for answers, for meaning in our personal struggle, and the commitment to a political struggle to end all forms of oppression. The stages of increasing awareness become clear when we begin to recount the story of our lives to someone else, someone who has experienced the same changes. When we write or speak about these changes, we establish our experience as valid and real, we begin to analyze, and that analysis gives us the necessary perspective to place our lives in a context where we know what to do next. Compañeras becomes an instrument of unity, a political tool. Compañeras habla a través de la voz de lesbianas latinoamericanas, chicanas, puertorriqueñas, cubanas, chilenas, hondureñas, brasileñas, colombianas, argentinas, peruanas, costarricense, mexicanas, ecuatorianas, bolivianas, dominicanas, y nicaragüenses; mujeresque se encontraron para hablar sobre lo que significa en nuestra comunidad ser ambas cosas, latinoamericanas y lesbianas, sea que vivamos en América Latina o en los Estados Unidos. Cada vez que una mujer comienza a hablar, comienza el proceso de liberación; es algo inevitable que tiene implicaciones politicas ponderosas. En estas paginas vemos repetido nuestro propio proceso de descubrimiento, la afirmación al asumirnos ante los demás, la búsqueda de una definición de identidad dentro de la familia y de nuestra comunidad, la búsqueda de repuestas significativas a las muchas personales y el compromise en la lucha politica para acabar con toda forma de opresión. Las etapas de crecimiento o de desarrollo de nuestra conciencia se hacen claras cuando comenzamos a reecontar la historia de nuestras vidas en alguien más, alguien que ha experimentado los mismos cambios. Cuando hablamos sobre estos cambios afirmamos nuestra experienca como válida y real, y ese análisis nos da la perspectiva necesaria para colocar neustras vidas dentro de un context que nos permita saber cuál es el próximo paso que temenos que dar. Compañeras viene a ser un instrument de unidad, una herramienta politica.




Postmodernism of Resistance in Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction and Poetry


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Postmodernism of Resistance in Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction and Poetry examines the ways in which Bolaño employs a type of literary aesthetics that subverts traits traditionally associated with postmodernism. Pastén B. coins these aesthetics “postmodernism of resistance” and argues that this resistance stands in direct opposition to critical discourses that construe the presence of hopeless characters and marginal settings in Bolaño’s works as signs of the writer’s disillusionment with the political as a consequence of the defeat of the Left in Latin America. Rather, he contends, Bolaño creates a fictional world comprised of characters and situations that paradoxically refuse to accept defeat—even while displaying the scars of terrible historical events. In this work Pastén B. challenges some critical assumptions about Bolaño’s fiction and poetry that led to decontextualized interpretations of his work and offers a singularly comprehensive investigation that synthesizes multiple perspectives of a complicated author into one text.




Teresa of Avila's Autobiography


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The Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila (1515-82), author of one of the most acclaimed early modern autobiographies (Vida, 1565), has generated a wealth of literary, historical and theological studies, yet none to date has examined the impact of textual models on Teresa's self-construction. In looking at the issue of the self, Carrera draws on revisions




Mis Poemas y Canciones Escritas con el Corazón


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Mis Poemas y Canciones revelan sentimientos que buscan su expresión en las letras y en la música. Letras que pueden dar viva o estar muertas. Música que te alegra y te recuerda o lágrimas que brotan sin saber cómo detenerlas. Son inspiraciones que buscan un escape de lo más profundo del corazón. Revelando experiencias mías o ajenas, revelando alegrías o penas, revelando ironías o tristezas.




De Amor Y Desamor


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“De amor y desamor” es la recopilación de 85 poemas que expresan esos instantes de amor, nostalgia, melancolía, tristeza, pasión, soledad, dolor, inspiración, arte, deseo… Es una forma de liberar y recordar esos momentos que lograron en mí una sensación… y recordar es vivir… “Vivo para soñar, sueño para vivir, así que duerme que soñando nos encontraremos “