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St. John of the Cross
An Appreciation
Häftad, 1992
404 kr
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Saint John of the Cross is one of the greatest figures in the history of Western mysticism and one of the greatest poets of the Spanish language. This book examines his thought and then applies it to contemporary issues and culture. No other book engages John of the Cross with contemporary …
Structures of Power
Essays on Twentieth-Century Spanish-American Fiction
Av Terry J. Peavler, Peter Standish
Häftad, 1996
427 kr
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Explores the many faces of power as revealed in twentieth-century Spanish-American fiction.The many faces of power—political, personal, authorial—as revealed in literature are explored in these essays by specialists on modern Spanish-American narrative. Contributors include Jose Carlos Gonzalez …
Onetti and Others
Comparative Essays on a Major Figure in Latin American Literature
Häftad, 1999
365 kr
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Explores the connections between Onetti, a foundational figure of the 1960s "Boom" in Latin American literature, and other relevant writers and texts from Latin America and beyond.International scholars explore the connections between Juan Carlos Onetti, one of the foundational figures of the 1960s …
Re-reading Jose Martí (1853-1895)
One Hundred Years Later
Häftad, 1999
365 kr
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Re-evaluates Jose Marti's contribution to Latin America's literature and political evolution.This is one of the very few books on the Cuban political thinker and poet Jose Martí available in English. Written by renowned Latin Americanists, the book explores the man who created the notion of Latin …
What is Knowledge?
Av Jose Ortega y Gasset, Jorge García-Gómez
Häftad, 2001
463 kr
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Appearing in English for the first time, this book comprises two of Ortega's most important works, ¿Qué es conocimiento? and the essay "Ideas y creencias." This is Ortega's attempt to systematically present the foundations of his metaphysics of human life and, on that basis, to provide a radical …
Three Spanish Philosophers
Unamuno, Ortega, Ferrater Mora
Av Jose Ferrater Mora, J. M. Terricabras
Häftad, 2003
371 kr
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An introduction to the thought of three major philosophers of twentieth-century Spain.This collection provides an excellent introduction to three of the most important names in twentieth-century Spanish philosophy: Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936), José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955), and José Ferrater …
Mothers, Lovers, and Others
The Short Stories of Julio Cortázar
Häftad, 2006
532 kr
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Provocative reappraisal of the portrayal of women in Julio Cortázar's short stories.Using feminist revisions of psychoanalytic thought and cultural studies, Mothers, Lovers, and Others examines the pervasive role of the conception of the feminine in the short stories of Argentine writer Julio …
Latin American Women On/In Stages
Inbunden, 2004
1170 kr
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Compares plays by Latin American women dramatists born after 1945.While a feminine perspective has become more common on Latin American stages since the late 1960s, few of the women dramatists who have contributed to this new viewpoint have received scholarly attention. Latin American Women On/In …
Quixotism
The Imaginative Denial of Spain's Loss of Empire
Av Christopher Britt Arredondo
Häftad, 2004
462 kr
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Exposes the cultural roots of Spanish fascism.Quixotism explores how a group of Spanish intellectuals, writing during the time of Restoration Spain (1876–1931), incorporated the figure of Don Quixote into an on-going debate on Spanish national and imperial decadence and used this figure to promote …
Destination Dictatorship
The Spectacle of Spain's Tourist Boom and the Reinvention of Difference
Häftad, 2010
357 kr
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Examines the relationship of Spain's 1960s tourist boom to Franco's right-wing dictatorship.When the right-wing military dictatorship of Francisco Franco decided in 1959 to devalue the Spanish currency and liberalize the economy, the country's already steadily growing tourist industry suddenly …
Painting Modernism
Häftad, 2015
495 kr
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Studies the influence of the plastic arts on the major writers of Latin American modernism.Painting Modernism demonstrates the influence of painting and sculpture on the work of the major writers of Latin American modernism. Through his analysis, Ivan A. Schulman, a foundational figure in the …
Minima Cuba
Heretical Poetics and Power in Post-Soviet Cuba
Inbunden, 2015
1479 kr
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Explores the ideological and emotional trauma created after the withering of the socialist utopia in Cuba.2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Mínima Cuba analyzes the reconfiguration of aesthetics and power during the Cuban postrevolutionary transition (1989 to 2005, the conclusion of the …
Contingency and Commitment
Mexican Existentialism and the Place of Philosophy
Inbunden, 2016
1286 kr
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Offers the first comprehensive survey of Mexican existentialism to appear in English.This book examines the emergence of existentialism in Mexico in the 1940s and the quest for a genuine Mexican philosophy that followed it. It focuses on the pivotal moments and key figures of the Hyperion group, …
Libre Acceso
Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies
Av Susan Antebi, Beth E. Jörgensen
Inbunden, 2016
1447 kr
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Analyzes the diverse roles and pervasive presence of disability in Latin American literature and film.Libre Acceso stages an innovative encounter between disciplines that have remained quite separate: Latin American literary, film, and cultural studies and disability studies. It offers a …
City in Common
Culture and Community in Buenos Aires
Av James Scorer
Häftad, 2017
477 kr
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Addresses ways that cultural imaginaries point toward alternative urban futures.In this book James Scorer argues that culture remains a force for imagining inclusive urban futures based around what inhabitants of the city have in common. Using Buenos Aires as his case study, Scorer takes the urban …
City in Common
Culture and Community in Buenos Aires
Av James Scorer
Inbunden, 2016
1643 kr
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Addresses ways that cultural imaginaries point toward alternative urban futures.In this book James Scorer argues that culture remains a force for imagining inclusive urban futures based around what inhabitants of the city have in common. Using Buenos Aires as his case study, Scorer takes the urban …
Radical Poetry
Aesthetics, Politics, Technology, and the Ibero-American Avant-Gardes, 1900-2015
Häftad, 2017
745 kr
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Engages in a critical reanalysis of historical Ibero-American experimental poetry in order to demonstrate how the contemporary digital vanguard owes much to this tradition.With a broad geographic and linguistic sweep covering more than one hundred years of poetry, this book investigates the …
States of Grace
Utopia in Brazilian Culture
Inbunden, 2018
1250 kr
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Provides in-depth analyses of key moments in Brazilian utopianism, including theologico-political, matriarchal, environmental, and work-free utopias.States of Grace offers a novel approach to the study of Brazilian culture through the lens of utopianism. Patrícia I. Vieira explores religious and …
States of Grace
Utopia in Brazilian Culture
Häftad, 2019
711 kr
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Provides in-depth analyses of key moments in Brazilian utopianism, including theologico-political, matriarchal, environmental, and work-free utopias.States of Grace offers a novel approach to the study of Brazilian culture through the lens of utopianism. Patrícia I. Vieira explores religious and …
Argentina Noir
New Millennium Crime Novels in Buenos Aires
Häftad, 2020
745 kr
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An engaging and insightful guide to Argentine crime fiction since 2000.Argentina Noir offers a guide to Argentine crime fiction, with a focus on works published since the year 2000. It argues that the novela negra, or crime novel, has become the favored genre for many writers to address the social …
Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory
Inbunden, 2019
1278 kr
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First book in English to offer a thorough introduction to key concepts and figures in Spanish feminist thought.Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory is the first book in English to offer a substantial overview of Spanish feminist thought. It focuses on six concepts-solitude, personality, social …
Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory
Häftad, 2020
711 kr
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First book in English to offer a thorough introduction to key concepts and figures in Spanish feminist thought.Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory is the first book in English to offer a substantial overview of Spanish feminist thought. It focuses on six concepts-solitude, personality, social …
Forms of Disappointment
Cuban and Angolan Narrative after the Cold War
Av Lanie Millar
Häftad, 2020
532 kr
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Analyzes parallel developments in post–Cold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of revolutionary enthusiasm, disappointment, and solidarity.In Forms of Disappointment, Lanie Millar traces the legacies of anti-imperial solidarity in Cuban and Angolan novels and …
Forms of Disappointment
Cuban and Angolan Narrative after the Cold War
Av Lanie Millar
Inbunden, 2019
1278 kr
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Analyzes parallel developments in post–Cold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of revolutionary enthusiasm, disappointment, and solidarity.In Forms of Disappointment, Lanie Millar traces the legacies of anti-imperial solidarity in Cuban and Angolan novels and …
Unsettling Colonialism
Gender and Race in the Nineteenth-Century Global Hispanic World
Av N. Michelle Murray, Akiko Tsuchiya
Häftad, 2020
745 kr
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An interdisciplinary analysis of gender, race, empire, and colonialism in fin-de-siècle Spanish literature and culture across the global Hispanic world.Unsettling Colonialism illuminates the interplay of race and gender in a range of fin-de-siècle Spanish narratives of empire and colonialism, …
With a Diamond in My Shoe
A Philosopher's Search for Identity in America
Häftad, 2019
657 kr
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The intellectual autobiography of a leading figure in the field of Latin American philosophy.In 1961, at the age of nineteen, Jorge J. E. Gracia escaped from the island of Cuba by passing himself off as a Catholic seminarian. He arrived in the United States with just a few spare belongings and his …
Space of Disappearance
A Narrative Commons in the Ruins of Argentine State Terror
Inbunden, 2020
1834 kr
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Examines the evolution of disappearance as a formal narrative and epistemological phenomenon in late twentieth-century Argentine fiction.More than thirty thousand people were forcibly disappeared during the military dictatorship that governed Argentina from 1976 to 1983, leaving behind a cultural …
Space of Disappearance
A Narrative Commons in the Ruins of Argentine State Terror
Häftad, 2021
711 kr
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Examines the evolution of disappearance as a formal narrative and epistemological phenomenon in late twentieth-century Argentine fiction.More than thirty thousand people were forcibly disappeared during the military dictatorship that governed Argentina from 1976 to 1983, leaving behind a cultural …
Disintegration of Community
On Jorge Portilla’s Social and Political Philosophy, With Translations of Selected Essays
Av Carlos Alberto Sánchez, Francisco Gallegos
Inbunden, 2020
1595 kr
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Analysis of this important Mexican philosopher's social, cultural, and political writings.The Disintegration of Community analyzes the social and cultural writings of Jorge Portilla (1919–1963) in order to demonstrate the continued relevance of his thought. Carlos Alberto Sánchez and Francisco …
Disintegration of Community
On Jorge Portilla’s Social and Political Philosophy, With Translations of Selected Essays
Av Carlos Alberto Sánchez, Francisco Gallegos
Häftad, 2021
463 kr
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Analysis of this important Mexican philosopher's social, cultural, and political writings.The Disintegration of Community analyzes the social and cultural writings of Jorge Portilla (1919–1963) in order to demonstrate the continued relevance of his thought. Carlos Alberto Sánchez and Francisco …
