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161 produkter
Los Invisibles
A History of Male Homosexuality in Spain, 1850-1940
Av Francisco Vázquez García, Richard Cleminson
Inbunden, 2007
239 kr
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Research into homosexuality in Spain is in its infancy. The last ten or fifteen years have seen a proliferation of studies on gender in Spain but much of this work has concentrated on women's history, literature and femininity. In contrast to existing research which concentrates on literature and …
Catalonia
National Identity and Cultural Policy, 1980-2003
Inbunden, 2008
206 kr
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This book examines the cultural policy of the Catalan Autonomous Government under the leadership of Jordi Pujol and his party, Convergencia i Unio, which were in power from the post-Franco transitional period of 1980 to Pujol's retirement in 2003. Examining issues of national identity and cultural …
Killing Carmens
Women's Crime Fiction from Spain
Inbunden, 2007
237 kr
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An innovative and best-selling addition to contemporary peninsular literature, crime fiction by Spanish women re-writes the norms for this particular genre as established by male authors inside Spain, and revises and re-fashions paradigms for the detective novel produced by female Anglophone …
Galdos's 'Torquemada' Novels
Waste and Profit in Late Nineteenth-century Spain
Inbunden, 2007
237 kr
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This book analyses the 'waste versus profit' concept (as propounded by the British author Samuel Smiles and which found many supporters in mid-nineteenth century Spain) in the four novels of the "Torquemada series", by Benito Perez Galdos ("Torquemada en la hoguera" [1889], "Torquemada en la cruz" …
Nestor Perlongher
The Poetic Search for an Argentine Marginal Voice
Av Ben Bollig
Inbunden, 2008
237 kr
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This book is the first full-length study in English of the work of the highly regarded and influential Argentine poet and anthropologist Nestor Perlongher (1949-92). Perlongher's pioneering work takes on the most dynamic and conflictive themes of modern-day Latin America such as dictatorship, …
Hermaphroditism, Medical Science and Sexual Identity in Spain, 1850–1960
Av Francisco Vázquez García, Richard Cleminson
Inbunden, 2009
212 kr
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Analyses the medical category of 'hermaphroditism' in Spain over the period 1850-1960. This title attempts to show how the relationship between the male and female body, biological 'sex', gender and sexuality constantly changed in the light of emerging medical, legal and social influences.
Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture
E-bok, 2010
440 kr
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"Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture" is a compelling study that combines elements of cultural studies and literary studies in order to present an integrated cultural representation of the emergence of a postmodern social constitution of contemporary Spain. Marking a sweeping reposition …
Hermaphroditism, Medical Science and Sexual Identity in Spain, 1850–1960
Av Francisco Vázquez García, Richard Cleminson
E-bok, 2009
158 kr
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This is the first book in English to analyse the medical category of 'hermaphroditism' in Spain over the period 1850-1960. It attempts to show how the relationship between the male and female body, biological 'sex', gender and sexuality constantly changed in the light of emerging medical, legal and …
Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado's 'proverbios Y Cantares'
E-bok, 2011
516 kr
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Antonio Machado (1875-1939) is one of Spain’s most original and renowned twentieth-century poets and thinkers. From his early poems in Soledades. Galerías. Otros poemas of 1907, to the writings of his alter-ego Juan de Mairena of the 1930s, Machado endeavoured to explain how the Other became a …
From Silver Screen to Spanish Stage
The Humorists of the Madrid Vanguardia and Hollywood Film
Av Stuart Green
Inbunden, 2011
500 kr
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This is the first book-length English-language study of a group of five artists closely linked with the Spanish avant-garde in the 1920s and 1930s, now known as the 'Other' Generation of 27. In the same way that their contemporaries of the celebrated Generation of 27 (which included Federico Garcia …
From Silver Screen to Spanish Stage
The Humorists of the Madrid Vanguardia and Hollywood Film
Av Stuart Green
E-bok, 2011
568 kr
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This is the first book-length English-language study of a group of five artists closely linked with the Spanish avant-garde in the 1920s and 1930s, now known as the 'Other' Generation of 27. In the same way that their contemporaries of the celebrated Generation of 27 (which included Federico Garcia …
Modern Argentine Poetry
Exile, Displacement, Migration
Av Ben Bollig
E-bok, 2011
440 kr
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This book is the first to focus on the exile-poetry link in the case of Argentina since the 1950s. Throughout Argentina's history, authors and important political figures have lived and written in exile yet, conversely, contemporary Argentina is a nation of immigrants from Europe and the rest of …
Western Sahara
The Refugee Nation
E-bok, 2010
48 kr
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This book explores the dynamic process of construction of the new Saharawi identity, culture and society developed in the refugee camps over the three last decades of conflict and analyses the complex articulation of elements from the Hispanic, Arab and African worlds that shapes the contours of …
Films of Elias Querejeta
A Producer of Landscapes
Häftad, 2011
167 kr
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The Films of Elias Querejeta: A Producer of Landscapes is the first book in English to explore the career of Spain's most important producer. Through their recurring emphasis on landscape, his films have consistently documented a country in the grip of modernization from the 1960s to the present …
Films of Elias Querejeta
A Producer of Landscapes
E-bok, 2011
211 kr
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This book explores the work of Elias Querejeta, Spain's most important and political producer, through a particular emphasis on the representation of landscape in his films. In doing so, the book examines the ways in Spanish history has been shaped by geographical change since the 1960s.
Los Invisibles
A History of Male Homosexuality in Spain, 1850-1940
Av Francisco Vázquez García, Richard Cleminson
E-bok, 2011
268 kr
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Research into homosexuality in Spain is in its infancy. The last ten or fifteen years have seen a proliferation of studies on gender in Spain but much of this work has concentrated on women's history, literature and femininity. In contrast to existing research which concentrates on literature and …
Sex and Society in Early Twentieth Century Spain
Hildegart Rodriguez and the World League for Sexual Reform
E-bok, 2007
236 kr
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This book examines issues of sex and society in early twentieth-century Spain, with particular emphasis on eugenics and the sex reform movement. As a central narrative thread it uses the specific case history of Hildegart Rodriquez (1914-33), a 'eugenic' child who came to be one of the central …
Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain
The Comedia on Page, Stage and Screen
Inbunden, 2012
340 kr
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This is the first monograph on the performance and reception of sixteenth- and seventeenth- century national drama in contemporary Spain, which attempts to remedy the traditional absence of performance-based approaches in Golden Age studies. The book contextualises the socio-historical background …
Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain
The Comedia on Page, Stage and Screen
Häftad, 2012
345 kr
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This is the first monograph on the performance and reception of sixteenth- and seventeenth- century national drama in contemporary Spain, which attempts to remedy the traditional absence of performance-based approaches in Golden Age studies. The book contextualises the socio-historical background …
Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain
The Comedia on Page, Stage and Screen
E-bok, 2012
176 kr
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This is the first monograph on the performance and reception of sixteenth- and seventeenth- century national drama in contemporary Spain, which attempts to remedy the traditional absence of performance-based approaches in Golden Age studies. The book contextualises the socio-historical background …
Barcelona
Visual Culture, Space and Power
Av Carlota Caulfield, Helena Buffery
E-bok, 2012
150 kr
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Barcelona - Visual Culture, Space and Power offers a unique approach to the history of the avantgarde in Barcelona, as well as its legacy in the post-war period. It presents the relationship between environment, identity and performance as explored by countercultural artists and communities from …
Remaking Brazil
Contested National Identities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
Inbunden, 2012
226 kr
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This volume examines Brazilian films released between 1995 and 2010, with special attention to issues of race, ethnicity and national identity.
Remaking Brazil
Contested National Identities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
E-bok, 2012
229 kr
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This volume examines Brazilian films released between 1995 and 2010, with special attention to issues of race, ethnicity and national identity. Focusing on the idea of the nation as an 'imagined community', the author discuss the various ways in which dominant ideas about brasilidade (Brazilian …
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Borges, Fiction and Art
Av Karl Posso
E-bok, 2012
602 kr
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This volume reconsiders the work and cultural import of Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999), who is best known for his collaborations with Jorge Luis Borges.
Mexican Transition
Politics, Culture and Democracy in the Twenty-first Century
Av Roger Bartra
E-bok, 2013
254 kr
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This book is a collection of essays on the Mexican transition to democracy that offers reflections on different aspects of civic culture, the political process, electoral struggles, and critical junctures.
Spanish Civil War
Exhuming a Buried Past
E-bok, 2013
551 kr
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This book features cutting, edge, interdisciplinary research on the legacy of the Spanish Civil War by established and new scholars from across the world.
Brazilian Road Movie
Journeys of (Self) Discovery
E-bok, 2013
487 kr
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The innovative collection of essays by a distinguished group of scholars brought together in The Brazilian Road Movie - Journeys of (Self) Discovery represents the first book-length publication on Brazil's encounters with and reworkings of one of cinema's most enduringly popular genres.
Galicia, A Sentimental Nation
Gender, Culture and Politics
Av Helena Miguélez-Carballeira
Inbunden, 2013
887 kr
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Galicia, a non-state nation in north-west Spain, has often been portrayed as a sentimental nation, a misty land of poets and legends. This book offers the first study of this trope as a feminizing, colonial stereotype that has marked Galician cultural history since the late nineteenth century. …
Galicia, A Sentimental Nation
Gender, Culture and Politics
Av Helena Miguélez-Carballeira
E-bok, 2013
615 kr
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This is the first feminist and postcolonial analysis of Galician cultural nationalism and its relation to the Spanish state and Spanish centralism.
Mexican Transition
Politics, Culture and Democracy in the Twenty-first Century
Av Roger Bartra
E-bok, 2013
268 kr
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This book is a collection of essays on the Mexican transition to democracy that offers reflections on different aspects of civic culture, the political process, electoral struggles, and critical junctures. They were written at different points in time and even though they have been corrected and …
