Author : James Buckwalter-Arias
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1855661950
1990s' Cuban literature, caught between a beleaguered socialism and an encroaching global capitalism.
Author : Fiona McAuslan
Publisher : Rough Guides
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781858289038
This ever more accessible island will soon be the hottest Caribbean destination for North American travelers, according to the authors, who cover all sites and events to suit all budgets. of color photos. 43 maps.
Author : Ailsa Peate
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 2024-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1837645256
The presence of bodies and sex in detective fiction has been a long-term feature of this internationally popular genre. Titillation is at the centre of narratives reliant upon discovery and revelation: motives and criminals are slowly revealed, along with sexualized and violated bodies – from femmes fatales to the corpses of victims. A satisfying, gratifying genre for its readership, the detective novel promises the disruption and subsequent restoration of order in societies tarnished by disillusionment which hope for a better future. This book takes as its focus examples of detective fiction from Cuba and Mexico during or in the aftermath of huge social upheaval (the Special Period and the War on Drugs), analyzing representations of sexualities, bodies, and the genre itself. Through an investigation of novels by Leonardo Padura and Amir Valle of Cuba, and Bef and Rogelio Guedea of Mexico, this work investigates increasingly fluid sexualities and bodies in challenging examples of metaphysical detective fiction, a particularly anxious subgenre which challenges both the structures and limits of the detective novel and the reader’s understanding of true and false and right and wrong, representative of troubling periods of severe social disruption for Cuba and Mexico.
Author : Jamie H. Trnka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110392887
Revolutionary Subjects explores the literary and cultural significance of Cold War solidarities and offers insight into a substantial and under-analyzed body of German literature concerned with Latin American thought and action. It shows how literary interest in Latin America was vital for understanding oppositional agency and engaged literature in East and West Germany, where authors developed aesthetic solidarities that anticipated conceptual reorganizations of the world connoted by the transnational or the global. Through a combination of close readings, contextual analysis, and careful theoretical work, Revolutionary Subjects traces the historicity and contingency of aesthetic practices, as well as the geocultural grounds against which they unfolded, in case studies of Volker Braun, F.C. Delius, Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Heiner Müller. The book’s cultural and comparative approach offers an antidote to imprecise engagements with the transnational, historicizing critical impulses that accompany the production of disciplinary boundaries. It paves the way for more reflexive debate on the content and method of German Studies as part of a broader landscape of world literature, comparative literature and Latin American Studies.
Author : Adriana Brodsky
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 18,78 MB
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004237283
Congratulations to Adriana Brodsky and Raanan Rein whose edited volume has been chosen as the winner of the 2013 Latin American Jewish Studies Association Book Prize! The New Jewish Argentina aims at filling in important lacunae in the existing historiography of Jewish Argentines. Moving away from the political history of the organized community, most articles are devoted to social and cultural history, including unaffiliated Jews, women and gender, criminals, printing presses and book stores. These essays, written by scholars from various countries, consider the tensions between the national and the trans-national and offer a mosaic of identities which is relevant to all interested in Jewish history, Argentine history and students of ethnicity and diaspora. This collection problematizes the existing image of Jewish-Argentines and looks at Jews not just as persecuted ethnics, idealized agricultural workers, or as political actors in Zionist politics. "This book is a must-read for students and scholars interested in immigration to Latin America, Ethnic History, and Jewish Studies, but its readership could extend to anybody who is interested in this chapter of social and cultural history." Ariana Huberman, Haverford College
Author : Blandine Destremau-Zeitz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1666904643
This book analyzes the evolution of the eldercare crisis in Cuba under the influence of advanced demographic aging, a prolonged economic crisis, and growing contradictions between the needs, values, and aspirations of the various generations.
Author : Bernadette H. Hyner
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,10 MB
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1443808857
In Forces of Nature, the authors investigate the relationships between the natural world and gender and sexuality. The authors explore the frameworks within which femininity and nature have been constructed, as well as the impact nature has had on our understandings of masculinity, homosexuality, and heterosexuality. For some writers nature has restorative powers, for others nature embodies violence and destruction. Yet, one common thread runs across all of the chapters in this collection: nature and animals can not be separated from the human experience. Forces of Nature brings to light the intimate connection humans have with the natural world and provides students and scholars with innovative readings of both canonical and noncanonical texts.
Author : Marcos A. Alvarez
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1479763748
This book is a compilation of facts, and ideas expressed by Guevara in his own speeches, essays, interviews, working papers, diary, and others from conversations of family members, friends, subordinates, and Castro, including information from his best-known biographers and supporters’ persuasive works published in Cuba and out, after Che’s death in Bolivia. This was when he was not a threat to Fidel Castro’s megalomania, when Guevara did not constitute anymore a danger to Fidel’s dream of becoming a hero, and he would be the most important politician in America, even perhaps in the whole world. At that moment, it was very important for Castro to use his limitless power in the Cuban government to develop the instrumentality necessary to transform Che’s figure in what he is today, an icon.
Author : Denis Jorge Berenschot
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 27,97 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780820474403
The Cuban Revolution has generated extraordinary literary achievements by writers both within Cuba and in exile. This book focuses on selected works by Edmundo Desnoes, Senel Paz and Elías Miguel Muñoz and the transformations of their texts from prose to film and theatre. Performing Cuba breaks new ground by clearly demonstrating how these multiple rewritings and additional authorial voices from the filmic and theatrical media rewrite the characters' gender performances in order to manipulate the texts' reading.
Author : Laurie A. Frederik
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,81 MB
Release : 2012-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0822352656
An ethnography exploring how the meaning of cubanía, or Cubanness, is generated in interactions between the state, ordinary Cubans, intellectuals, and artists and other cultural workers.
