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43 produkter
El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond
Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil
Häftad, 2016
363 kr
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El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond examines the graphic narrative tradition in the two South American countries that have produced the medium’s most significant and copious output. Argentine graphic narrative emerged in the 1980s, awakened by HÉctor Oesterheld’s groundbreaking 1950s serial El …
Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
Häftad, 2004
219 kr
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Viewing contemporary Latin American films through the lens of queer studies reveals that many filmmakers are exploring issues of gender identity and sexual difference, as well as the homophobia that attempts to defeat any challenge to the heterosexual norms of patriarchal culture. In this study of …
Sexual Textualities
Essays on Queer/ing Latin American Writing
Häftad, 1997
176 kr
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Since the 1991 publication of his groundbreaking book Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing, David William Foster has proposed a series of theoretical and critical principles for the analysis of Latin American culture from the perspectives of the queer. This book continues that project …
Gender and Society in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
Häftad, 1999
219 kr
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"Gender is an absolute ground zero for most human societies," writes David William Foster, "an absolute horizon of social subjectivity." In this book, he examines gender issues in thirteen Brazilian films made (with one exception) after the 1985 return to constitutional democracy and elimination of …
Writer's Reference Guide to Spanish
Av David William Foster, Daniel Altamiranda m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
194 kr
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Writers and editors of Spanish have long needed an authoritative guide to written language usage, similar to The MLA Style Manual and The Chicago Manual of Style. And here it is! This reference guide provides comprehensive information on how the Spanish language is copyedited for publication. The …
Mexico City in Contemporary Mexican Cinema
Häftad, 2002
219 kr
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Just as Mexican national life has come to center on the sprawling, dynamic, almost indefinable metropolis of Mexico City, so recent Mexican cinema has focused on the city not merely as a setting for films but almost as a protagonist in its own right, whose conditions both create meaning for and …
Mexican Literature
A History
Häftad, 1994
576 kr
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Mexico has a rich literary heritage that extends back over centuries to the Aztec and Mayan civilizations. This major reference work surveys more than five hundred years of Mexican literature from a sociocultural perspective. More than merely a catalog of names and titles, it examines in detail the …
Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing
Häftad, 1991
219 kr
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A taboo subject in many cultures, homosexuality has been traditionally repressed in Latin America, both as a way of life and as a subject for literature. Yet numerous writers have attempted to break the cultural silence surrounding homosexuality, using various strategies to overtly or covertly …
Culture and Customs of Argentina
Av David William Foster, Melissa Lockhart m. fl.
E-bok, 1998
883 kr
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Argentina, one of the most dynamic societies in Latin America, is known for its impressive level of cultural production. This examination of the social and cultural institutions of Argentine society contains a series of comprehensive and informative essays that focus on the most important forms of …
Peruvian Literature
A Bibliography of Secondary Sources
Inbunden, 1981
1063 kr
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Puerto Rican Literature
A Bibliography of Secondary Sources
Inbunden, 1982
901 kr
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Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes
A Bio-Critical Sourcebook
Av David William Foster, David W. Foster
Inbunden, 1994
1063 kr
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Gay and lesbian themes in Latin American literature have been largely ignored. This reference fills this gap by providing more than a hundred alphabetically arranged entries for Latin American authors who have treated gay or lesbian material in their works. Each entry explores the significance of …
Culture and Customs of Argentina
Av David William Foster, Melissa Lockhart m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
784 kr
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Argentina, one of the most dynamic societies in Latin America, is known for its impressive level of cultural production. This examination of the social and cultural institutions of Argentine society contains a series of comprehensive and informative essays that focus on the most important forms of …
Spanish Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes
A Bio-Critical Sourcebook
Av David William Foster, David William Foster
Inbunden, 1999
901 kr
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Spanish literature is one of the major European literatures, with an extensive array of canonical and important writers from the Middle Ages to the present. Because Spain was a crossroads of Christian, Jewish, and Islamic cultures, its cultural traditions weave together issues related to homoerotic …
Notable Twentieth-Century Latin American Women
A Biographical Dictionary
Av David William Foster, Cynthia Tompkins m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
925 kr
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Notable Twentieth-Century Latin American Women is a powerful testimony to the outstanding contributions 72 of the most noteworthy women have made to their fields and to society. This volume covers a broad range of women excelling in the fields of politics, art, religion, government, education, …
Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes
A Bio-Critical Sourcebook
E-bok, 1994
1165 kr
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Gay and lesbian themes in Latin American literature have been largely ignored. This reference fills this gap by providing more than a hundred alphabetically arranged entries for Latin American authors who have treated gay or lesbian material in their works. Each entry explores the significance of …
Urban Photography in Argentina
Nine Artists of the Post-dictatorship Era
Häftad, 2007
373 kr
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This work examines the cultural impact of photography in Argentina following the end of the country's military dictatorship in the early 1980s. The interpretive study surveys nine modern photographers in Argentina - Marcelo Brodsky, Gabriel Valansi, Eduardo Gil, Gaby Messina, Adriana Lestido, …
Glimpses of Phoenix
The Desert Metropolis in Written and Visual Media
Häftad, 2013
560 kr
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Part of the self-image of Phoenix is that the city has no history and that anything of importance happened yesterday. Also that Phoenix, the Arizona state capital, is a "clean" city (despite a past of police corruption and social oppression). The "real" Phoenix, easygoing, sun-drenched, a place of …
Myth of Paraguay in the Fiction of Augusto Roa Bastos
Häftad, 1969
381 kr
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This study traces the development of Roa Bastos's concern with the reality of his people and their history and focuses on the mature techniques employed in the creation of a literary myth of a social reality.
Social Realism in the Argentine Narrative
Häftad, 1986
381 kr
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The years 1930 to 1950 were a period of considerable activity in the Argentine novel, in great part as a reaction and response to the military coup of September 1930 that inaugurated what has come to be known as the Infamous Decade of Argentine social history. In this work, David Foster offers a …
Christian Allegory in Early Hispanic Poetry
Häftad, 2014
427 kr
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Distinguishing figural or typological allegory -- a method adapted from the Christian exegesis of the Old Testament -- from the broader Hellenistic concept of allegory, this book examines its use in representative poems of early Hispanic literature. The author focuses on the thematic and structural …
Christian Allegory in Early Hispanic Poetry
E-bok, 2014
440 kr
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Distinguishing figural or typological allegorya method adapted from the Christian exegesis of the Old Testamentfrom the broader Hellenistic concept of allegory, this book examines its use in representative poems of early Hispanic literature. The author focuses on the thematic and structural …
Theoretical Debates in Spanish American Literature
Av David William Foster, Daniel Altamiranda
Inbunden, 1997
1146 kr
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This volume brings together papers on various theoretical questions that have been raised in recent debates in Spanish American literary studies. It provides varying perspectives and explores diverse theoretical approaches to colonial culture, testimonial writing, gender studies, postmodernism, …
Writers of the Spanish Colonial Period
Av David William Foster, Daniel Altamiranda
Inbunden, 1997
3522 kr
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These critical studies propose innovative readings and overall reformulations of the texts and authors that stand as representative of the period for the contemporary reader. The first group of articles refers to reports, chronicles, and Renaissance epics, a vast block of texts that fall in most …
From Romanticism to Modernismo in Latin America
Av David William Foster, Daniel Altamiranda
Inbunden, 1997
2451 kr
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The 19th century in Latin America begins with the weakening of the political institutions established by the Spanish Crown, the emergence of a native consciousness and the diffusion of the ideas of the French Revolution and the United States. These articles examine the phenomena that mark the onset …
Twentieth-Century Spanish American Literature to 1960
Av David William Foster, Daniel Altamiranda
Inbunden, 1997
1748 kr
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The greater body of Spanish American letters stands in somewhat of an ancillary relationship to the traditions that arose in Europe. Only at the end of the 19th century, with the emergence of modernismo, which was linked to European aesthetic movements such as French Parnassianism and Symbolism, …
Twentieth-Century Spanish American Literature since 1960
Av David William Foster, Daniel Altamiranda
Inbunden, 1998
2451 kr
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For Latin American literature of the second half of the 20th century, critics have proposed such labels as new novel and new new novel, boom and post-boom, women's literature, testimonial, postmodern literature, and the like. Given the fact that none of these designations is entirely satisfactory …
Latin American Documentary Filmmaking
Major Works
Häftad, 2013
364 kr
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Latin American Documentary Filmmaking is the first volume written in English to explore Latin American documentary filmmaking with extensive and intelligent analysis. David William Foster, the leading authority on Latin American urban cultural production, provides rich, new interpretations on the …
City as Photographic Text
Urban Documentary Photography of São Paulo
Av David William Foster, David William Foster
Inbunden, 2021
733 kr
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The City as Photographic Text offers the first comprehensive presentation of photography on São Paulo. But more than just a study of one city’s photographic legacy, this book is a manual for how to understand and talk about Latin American photography in general. Focusing on major figures and …
Picturing the Barrio
Ten Chicano Photographers
Häftad, 2017
704 kr
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Mexican-American life, like that of nearly every contemporary community, has been extensively photographed. Yet there is surprisingly little scholarship on Chicano photography. Picturing the Barrio presents the first book-length examination on the topic. David William Foster analyzes the imagery of …
