Author : Albert Londres
Publisher : Libros del Zorzal
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,94 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9875992720
En el año 1927 Albert Londres viajó de incógnito a la Argentina para llevar adelante una investigación sobre la trata de blancas. El camino de Buenos Aires, fruto de esa investigación, es mucho más que una crónica ocurrente o el relato de un viaje por el “paraíso de los rufianes”: constituye un testimonio polémico sobre la Argentina y un precioso documento sobre el circuito internacional del hampa.
Author : Lee Hoinacki
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 34,31 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0271039213
El Camino (Spanish for &"the way&") is a day-by-day account of a modern American pilgrim's solitary walk from St. Jean Pied de Port in France, across the Pyrenees and northern Spain, to Santiago de Compostela, believed since medieval times to be the burial place of Saint James. During thirty-two days in 1993, Lee Hoinacki trod the 500-mile route followed by Europeans for over a thousand years, stopping each evening at pilgrim hospices, some centuries-old, to write in his diary. His reflections range from the historical examination of religious sensibility to analyses of modern developments in architecture and technology, from the theological understanding of place to the mentality of mountain bike riders. Readers share in the personal religious growth of a traditional Roman Catholic who, toward the end of his life, finds himself in the welcome company of those who walked the same camino during the past centuries. The constant interplay between pertinent anecdotes from well-chosen fellow pilgrims, both ancient and modern, and Hoinacki's experiences of contemporary Spanish customs and behavior gives the book a captivating timelessness and spiritual insight rarely found in other modern chronicles of the pilgrimage to Santiago.
Author : Ani Garza T
Publisher : Palibrio
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 23,76 MB
Release : 2012-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1463336381
¿Quiénes discutían? ¿Por qué discutían? ¿Sobre qué discutían? Novela contemporánea y de entretenimiento, con personajes de diversas creencias, quienes te cautivarán por su personalidad y con quienes te identificarás. Al mismo tiempo, irán provocando en ti emociones y cuestionamientos que quizá no te has atrevido a confrontar. La novela te mantendrá enganchado de principio a fin y te permitirá ir haciendo conciencia con respecto a las necesidades de todo ser humano en sus aspectos físico, intelectual, familiar, social, emocional y espiritual a lo largo de toda la lectura.
Author : Nora Glickman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 16,92 MB
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135579059
This book recounts the events involving Raquel Liberman, an impoverished immigrant to Argentina that was forced by circumstances into prostitution, and the powerful Zwi Migdal, which controlled the recruitment and deployment of Jewish prostitutes in Argentina while maintaining mutually profitable relations with corrupt politicians and policemen. Liberman's story is presented as an example of individual courage and determination in the face of the violence and corruption of the prostitution business. Her struggle with the Zwi Migdal and triumphant public victory over her oppressors was widely publicized in newspapers and magazines, and was a political cause celebre in its time. This book gives readers an intimate view of how the affair caught the public imagination, and was interpreted and transformed by the artistic imagination.
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 16,26 MB
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ISBN : 1469681250
Author : Herbert E. Craig
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838754856
"Craig begins by attributing the early introduction of the Recherche to the intimate friendship between Proust and the pianist-composer Reynaldo Halm, who was born in Caracas. He then shows in chapter 1 how literary critics of the principal newspapers and literary magazines of such countries as Venezuela, Argentina, and Chile examined this French text, which we know today as one of the fundamental works of modernism. Shortly thereafter interest in the Recherche spread to Cuba, Mexico, Uruguay, and Colombia. Eventually it would be read in all parts of the New World. Over the years Spanish Americans have continued to write about the Recherche and have published several noteworthy books on it, which are included in the comprehensive bibliography which serves as an appendix."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Matt Losada
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1438470630
Investigates how Argentine cinema has represented rural spaces and urban margins from the 1910s to the present. The Projected Nation examines the representation of rural spaces and urban margins in Argentine cinema from the 1910s to the present. The literary and visual culture of the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries formulated a spatial imaginaryoften articulated as an opposition between civilization and barbarism, or its inversioninto which the cinema intervened. As the twentieth century progressed, the new medium integrated these ideas with its own images in various ways. At times cinema limited itself to reproducing inherited representations that reassure the viewer that all is well in the nation, while at others it powerfully reformulated them by filming spaces and peoples previously excluded from the national culture and left behind in the nations modernizing process. Matt Losada accounts for historical events, technological factors, and the politics of film form and viewing in assessing a selection of works ranging from mass-marketed cinema to the political avant-garde, and from the canonical to the nearly unknown. This is an ambitious work that views the spatial imaginary in a full century of film development as informed by national culture and politics. Marvin DLugo, coeditor of The Routledge Companion to Latin American Cinema
Author : Bartolomé Mitre
Publisher :
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Argentina
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Author : Arnd Schneider
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 30,35 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000390896
This book argues for a new anthropology of the moving image, bringing together an important range of essays on time-based media in the contemporary arts and anthropology. It builds on recent attempts to develop more experimental formats and engages with debates on epistemologies of ethnography, relational aesthetics, materiality, sensory ethnography, and observational and participatory cinema. Arnd Schneider critically revisits Baudrillard’s idea of the simulacrum and the hyperreal, engages with new media theory, and elaborates on the potential of the Writing Culture critique for moving image practices bordering art and anthropology. This important work will be essential reading for anybody working across the fields of visual anthropology, film and media studies and visual studies.
Author : Marguerite Feitlowitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 1999-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0199840377
"We were all out in la charca, and there they were, coming over the ridge, a battalion ready for war, against a schoolhut full of children." Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant mothers tortured, their babies stolen and sold on the black market, homes raided in the dead of night, ordinary citizens kidnapped and never seen again--such were the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War. Now, in A Lexicon of Terror, Marguerite Feitlowitz fully exposes the nightmare of sadism, paranoia, and deception the military dictatorship unleashed on the Argentine people, a nightmare that would claim over 30,000 civilians from 1976 to 1983 and whose leaders were recently issued warrants by a Spanish court for the crime of genocide. Feitlowitz explores the perversion of language under state terrorism, both as it's used to conceal and confuse ("The Parliament must be disbanded to rejuvenate democracy") and to domesticate torture and murder. Thus, citizens kidnapped and held in secret concentration camps were "disappeared"; torture was referred to as "intensive therapy"; prisoners thrown alive from airplanes over the ocean were called "fish food." Based on six years of research and moving interviews with peasants, intellectuals, activists, and bystanders, A Lexicon of Terror examines the full impact of this catastrophic period from its inception to the present, in which former torturers, having been pardoned and released from prison, live side by side with those they tortured. Passionately written and impossible to put down, Feitlowitz shows us both the horror of the war and the heroism of those who resisted and survived--their courage, their endurance, their eloquent refusal to be dehumanized in the face of torments even Dante could not have imagined.
