Folk Art of Spain and the Americas

Folk Art of Spain and the Americas
Author: Marion Oettinger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1997
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Accompanying an important exhibition [beginning in 1997 at the San Antonio Museum of Art and traveling throughout the U.S. and Spain through the year 2000], this beautifully illustrated, comprehensive portrait of the folk art of Spain and the Americas will be the seminal book on the subject for years to come. The folk art of Spain and the Americas encompasses ceramics, furniture, paintings and drawings, sculpture, votive art, and even the performing arts.

The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico

The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico
Author: Alan Eladio Gómez
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2016-09-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1477310762

Bringing to life the stories of political teatristas, feminists, gunrunners, labor organizers, poets, journalists, ex-prisoners, and other revolutionaries, The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico examines the inspiration Chicanas/os found in social movements in Mexico and Latin America from 1971 to 1979. Drawing on fifteen years of interviews and archival research, including examinations of declassified government documents from Mexico, this study uncovers encounters between activists and artists across borders while sharing a socialist-oriented, anticapitalist vision. In discussions ranging from the Nuevo Teatro Popular movement across Latin America to the Revolutionary Proletariat Party of America in Mexico and the Peronista Youth organizers in Argentina, Alan Eladio Gómez brings to light the transnational nature of leftist organizing by people of Mexican descent in the United States, tracing an array of festivals, assemblies, labor strikes, clandestine organizations, and public protests linked to an international movement of solidarity against imperialism. Taking its title from the “greater Mexico” designation used by Américo Paredes to describe the present and historical movement of Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Chicanas/os back and forth across the US-Mexico border, this book analyzes the radical creativity and global justice that animated “Greater Mexico” leftists during a pivotal decade. While not all the participants were of one mind politically or personally, they nonetheless shared an international solidarity that was enacted in local arenas, giving voice to a political and cultural imaginary that circulated throughout a broad geographic terrain while forging multifaceted identities. The epilogue considers the politics of going beyond solidarity.

Spanish in the Americas

Spanish in the Americas
Author: Eleanor Greet Cotton
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2001-11-14
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780878403608

This encyclopedic text focuses on the nature of Hispanic dialects, the spread of Spanish, and contemporary Spanish dialects in the Americas.

The Americas

The Americas
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 678
Release: 1955
Genre: America
ISBN:

A quarterly review of inter-American cultural history.

Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700

Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700
Author: Tamara Harvey
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351936522

Inventive in its approach and provocative in its analysis, this study offers fresh readings of the arguments and practices of four seventeenth-century Euro-American women: Anne Bradstreet, Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Marie de l'Incarnation. Tamara Harvey here compares functionalist treatments of the body by these women, offering a new way to think of corporeality as a device in literary and religious expressions of modesty by women. In doing so, Harvey explores the engagement of these women in ongoing religious, political, scientific and social debates that would have been understood by the authors' contemporaries in both Europe and America.