McGill-Queen's Iberian and Latin American Cultures Series – serie
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13 produkter
What Would Cervantes Do?
Navigating Post-Truth with Spanish Baroque Literature
Av David Castillo, William Egginton
Häftad, 2022
411 kr
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The attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 was a tragic illustration of the existential threat that the viral spread of disinformation poses in the age of social media and twenty-four-hour news. From climate change denialism to the frenzied conspiracy theories and racist mythologies that fuel …
From the Theater to the Plaza
Spectacle, Protest, and Urban Space in Twenty-First-Century Madrid
Inbunden, 2022
1510 kr
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Lavapiés - diverse, multicultural, and one of Madrid’s most iconic neighbourhoods - has emerged as a locus of resistance movements and of cultural flourishing. Poised at the intersection of theatre studies and cultural geography, this innovative study sketches its physical and imaginary contours.In …
Pen, the Sword, and the Law
Dueling and Democracy in Uruguay
Inbunden, 2022
575 kr
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The duel, and the codes of honour that governed duelling, functioned for decades in many European and Latin American countries as a shadow legal system, regulating in practice what legislators felt free to say and what journalists felt free to write. Yet the duel was also an act of potentially …
Configurations of a Cultural Scene
Young Writers and Artists in Madrid, 1918–1930
Inbunden, 2023
1235 kr
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Throughout the 1920s, a remarkable number of young writers and artists lived and worked in Madrid, creating an atmosphere of effervescence and an upsurge in creativity that has rarely been equalled. These young people, acquainting themselves with one another within the span of only a few years, …
Death in the Snow
Pedro de Alvarado and the Illusive Conquest of Peru
Inbunden, 2022
470 kr
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Pedro de Alvarado is best known as the right-hand man of Hernando Cortés in the conquest of Mexico (1519–21) and the ruthless conqueror of Guatemala some years later. Far less known is his intent to intrude in the conquest of Peru and lay claim to Quito, a wealthy domain in the far north of the …
Beyond Intimacy
Radical Proximity and Justice in Three Mexican Poets
Av Christina Karageorgou-Bastea
Inbunden, 2023
1364 kr
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The ethos of poetry and its social efficacy cannot be underestimated in the quest for a fair society. The works of three contemporary Mexican poets – Abigael Bohórquez, Myriam Moscona, and Gloria Gervitz – offer models for examining important philosophical and literary questions that explore the …
Patriarchy’s Remains
An Autopsy of Iberian Cinematic Dark Humour
Inbunden, 2024
849 kr
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Something is rotten in the state of Spain. The uninterred corpse of a patriarchal figure populates the visual landscapes of Iberian cinemas. He is chilled, drugged, perfumed, ventilated, presumed dead, speared in the cranium, and worse.Analyzing a series of Iberian cinematic dark comedies from the …
Pasting Up Protest
The Art of Memorializing Violence in Mexican Printmaking
Häftad, 2025
397 kr
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Across Mexico, human rights abuses take many forms, as do the strategies designed to denounce and resist them. Political street art thrives; murals, stencils, and posters challenge authorities and commemorate the missing and the disappeared.Pasting Up Protest explores the sociopolitical engagement …
From Griffin to Axolotl
Reimagining the Bestiary in Contemporary Hispanic Literature
Av Ailén Cruz
Häftad, 2025
444 kr
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The fox is cunning, the lion is brave. These familiar ideas span back to the medieval bestiary – short, animal-centred texts, often illustrated, used to disseminate Christian teachings in medieval society. Translated into dozens of languages, bestiaries were wildly popular until the twelfth …
Visualizing Disaster
Crisis Photography in Contemporary Spain
Av Juan F. Egea
Inbunden, 2027
1279 kr
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In an era defined by financial upheaval, mass protest, migration, pandemics, and environmental emergencies, photography has emerged as one of the most powerful means to make sense of life under conditions of sustained crisis. Focusing on contemporary Spain, Visualizing Disaster examines how …
Populism and Ethnicity
Peronism and the Jews of Argentina
Av Raanan Rein
Inbunden, 2020
542 kr
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Juan Perón's decade-long regime, from 1946 to 1955, is often presented as Nazi-fascist and antisemitic – claims that are strongly rooted in Argentina's collective unconscious and popular culture. Challenging this widely held view, Raanan Rein asserts that there was greater Jewish support for Perón …
What Would Cervantes Do?
Navigating Post-Truth with Spanish Baroque Literature
Av David Castillo, William Egginton
Inbunden, 2022
1686 kr
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The attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 was a tragic illustration of the existential threat that the viral spread of disinformation poses in the age of social media and twenty-four-hour news. From climate change denialism to the frenzied conspiracy theories and racist mythologies that fuel …
From the Theater to the Plaza
Spectacle, Protest, and Urban Space in Twenty-First-Century Madrid
Häftad, 2023
455 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Lavapiés - diverse, multicultural, and one of Madrid’s most iconic neighbourhoods - has emerged as a locus of resistance movements and of cultural flourishing. Poised at the intersection of theatre studies and cultural geography, this innovative study sketches its physical and imaginary contours.In …
