Los amores de Gaston et René
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Release : 1911
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Page : 16 pages
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Release : 1911
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Author : Christopher Ben Simpson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,92 MB
Release : 2012-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567445755
An exploration of the thought of Gilles Deleuze and its relevance to theology.
Author : Stephanie L. Hathaway
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 25,97 MB
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1441139087
The cross-fertilisation in written and material culture across borders in the medieval world.
Author : Louise M. Haywood
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1855660946
Severin), and the application to the Libro of modern critical approaches, drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin, folklore studies, chaos theory, and reader-reception theory (Elizabeth Drayson, Laurence de Looze, Louise O. Vasvari)."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Louis A. Pérez Jr.
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 146960874X
For much of the nineteenth century and all of the twentieth, the per capita rate of suicide in Cuba was the highest in Latin America and among the highest in the world--a condition made all the more extraordinary in light of Cuba's historic ties to the Catholic church. In this richly illustrated social and cultural history of suicide in Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. explores the way suicide passed from the unthinkable to the unremarkable in Cuban society. In a study that spans the experiences of enslaved Africans and indentured Chinese in the colony, nationalists of the twentieth-century republic, and emigrants from Cuba to Florida following the 1959 revolution, Perez finds that the act of suicide was loaded with meanings that changed over time. Analyzing the social context of suicide, he argues that in addition to confirming despair, suicide sometimes served as a way to consecrate patriotism, affirm personal agency, or protest injustice. The act was often seen by suicidal persons and their contemporaries as an entirely reasonable response to circumstances of affliction, whether economic, political, or social. Bringing an important historical perspective to the study of suicide, Perez offers a valuable new understanding of the strategies with which vast numbers of people made their way through life--if only to choose to end it. To Die in Cuba ultimately tells as much about Cubans' lives, culture, and society as it does about their self-inflicted deaths.
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Author : Thomas F. Anderson
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 33,69 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780838756355
Everything in Its Place: The Life and Works of Virgilio Pinera: is a seminal book that fills a major gap in Cuban and Latin American literary criticism. In addition to being the most comprehensive study to date of the life and work of Virgilio Pinera, this is the first book in English on this major twentieth-century Cuban author. In this study Thomas F. Anderson draws extensively on unpublished manuscripts and diverse critical writings, bringing new insights into how Pinera's works responded to key literary influences as well as events in his life and in Cuban political and cultural history.
Author : Carmelo Esterrich
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 23,65 MB
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822983451
From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Puerto Rico was swept by a wave of modernization, transforming the island from a predominantly rural society to an unquestionably urban one. A curious paradox ensued, however. While the island underwent rapid urbanization, and the rhetoric of economic development reigned over official discourses, the newly installed insular government, along with some academic circles and radio and television media, constructed, promoted, and sponsored a narrative of Puerto Rican culture based on rural subjects, practices, and spaces. By examining a wide range of cultural texts, but focusing on the film production of the Division of Community Education, the popular dance music of Cortijo y su combo, and the literary texts of Jose Luis Gonzalez and Rene Marques, Concrete and Countryside offers an in-depth analysis of how Puerto Ricans responded to this transformative period. It also shows how the arts used a battery of images of the urban and the rural to understand, negotiate, and critique the innumerable changes taking place on the island.
Author : Martin C. Taylor
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,83 MB
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786491140
Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) rose from poverty in the foothills of the Andes to become the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. This volume provides both a detailed biography of the author and a careful analysis of her writing. Chronicling the personal, psychological, and social currents of Mistral's life and times, it addresses such topics as her finances, illness, and sexuality. Literary analysis considers the sacred and secular influences on Mistral's oevre, including Catholicism, the Hebraic tradition, Theosophy, and Buddhism. By recounting Mistral's intelligence and perseverance in overcoming her life's obstacles to reach the pinnacle of her field, this book establishes her as a model for Chileans and for humanity.
Author : Nicolàs Kanellos
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781611921632
Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Project is a national project to locate, identify, preserve and make accessible the literary contributions of U.S. Hispanics from colonial times through 1960 in what today comprises the fifty states of the United States.