La Nave de los Locos N° 37

La Nave de los Locos N° 37
Author: La Nave de los Locos
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2010-08-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0557591686

Revista chilena especializada en ovnis, enigmas y temas conexos. Este es el último número de una publicación que marcó toda una época. Incluye un dosier sobre el estado de la ufología, además de entrevistas, investigación de casos, comentarios de libros, etcétera.

Gender and the Self in Latin American Literature

Gender and the Self in Latin American Literature
Author: Emma Staniland
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2015-10-05
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1134614977

This book explores six texts from across Spanish America in which the coming-of-age story ('Bildungsroman') offers a critique of gendered selfhood as experienced in the region’s socio-cultural contexts. Looking at a range of novels from the late twentieth century, Staniland explores thematic concerns in terms of their role in elucidating a literary journey towards agency: that is, towards the articulation of a socially and personally viable female gendered identity, mindful of both the hegemonic discourses that constrain it, and the possibility of their deconstruction and reconfiguration. Myth, exile and the female body are the three central themes for understanding the personal, social and political aims of the Post-Boom women writers whose work is explored in this volume: Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, Ángeles Mastretta, Sylvia Molloy, Cristina Peri Rossi and Zoé Valdés. Their adoption, and adaptation, of an originally eighteenth-century and European literary genre is seen here to reshape the global canon as much as it works to reshape our understanding of gendered identities as socially constructed, culturally contingent, and open-ended.

Allegories of Transgression and Transformation

Allegories of Transgression and Transformation
Author: Mary Beth Tierney-Tello
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1996-07-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791430361

Examines the dynamic relationship between authority and gender in contemporary, experimental narrative works by four Latin American women writers: Diamela Eltit of Chile, Nelida Pinon of Brazil, Reina Roffe of Argentina, and Cristina Peri Rossi of Uruguay.

Cuban Studies 37

Cuban Studies 37
Author: Louis A. Pérez
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2006-10-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822971089

Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field. Widely praised for its interdisciplinary approach and trenchant analysis of an array of topics, each volume features the best scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Cuban Studies 37 includes articles on environmental law, economics, African influence in music, irreverent humor in postrevolutionary fiction, international education flow between the United States and Cuba, and poetry, among others. Beginning with volume 34 (2003), the publication is available electronically through Project MUSE®, an award-winning online database of full-text scholarly journals. More information can be found at http://muse.jhu.edu/publishers/pitt_press/.

City Fictions

City Fictions
Author: Amanda Holmes
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780838756737

Using concepts from urban and cultural studies, City Fictions examines the representation of the city in the works of five important late-twentieth-century Spanish American authors, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortazar, Christina Peri Rossi, Diamela Eltit, and Carlos Monsavais. While each of these authors is influenced at least partially by a specific Spanish American city, be it Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, or Santiago, the element that brings them together is the way in which the city is fictionalized in their work: they all equate both language and the body with urban space. In these metaphors, language breaks down and the body disintegrates, creating a disturbing picture of violent decline. The poetry of Paz associates the urban surroundings with dissolving sentences and desensitized, fingertips; for Cortazar, characters walking through cities are seen as both creating and unraveling written texts;

A History of the Spanish Novel

A History of the Spanish Novel
Author: J. A. G. Ardila
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2015
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199641927

A History of the Spanish Novel is the only volume in English that offers comprehensive coverage of the history of the Spanish novel, from the sixteenth century to the present day, with chapters written by some of the world-leading experts in the field.

Reading the Body Politic

Reading the Body Politic
Author: Amy K. Kaminsky
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1993
Genre: Feminist literary criticism
ISBN: 9781452901473

Writing and Heritage in Contemporary Spain

Writing and Heritage in Contemporary Spain
Author: Stuart Davis
Publisher: Tamesis Books
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2012
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1855662434

This volume is an innovative exploration of cultural heritage through museum studies, metacriticism and literary criticism. This is an innovative exploration of cultural heritage and the literary traditions that shape the contemporary literary scene in Spain. Through a coalescence of museum studies, metacriticism and traditional literary criticism thestudy interweaves discussion of museum spaces with literary analysis, exploring them as agents of memorialisation and a means for preserving and conveying heritage. Following introductory explorations of the development of museums and the literary canon, each chapter begins with a "visit" to a Spanish museum, establishing the framework for the subsequent discussion of critical practices and texts. Case studies include examination of the palimpsest andunconscious influence of canonical cores; the response to masculine traditions of poetry and art; counter-culture of the 1990s; and the ethical concerns of postmemory writing. STUART DAVIS is a Lecturer in Spanish, Girton College, and Newton Trust Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Cambridge.

The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel
Author: Harriet Turner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2003-09-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521778152

The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel presents the development of the modern Spanish novel from 1600 to the present. Drawing on the combined legacies of Don Quijote and the traditions of the picaresque novel, these essays focus on the question of invention and experiment, on what constitutes the singular features of evolving fictional forms. It examines how the novel articulates the relationships between history and fiction, high and popular culture, art and ideology, and gender and society. Contributors highlight the role played by historical events and cultural contexts in the elaboration of the Spanish novel, which often takes a self-conscious stance toward literary tradition. Topics covered include the regional novel, women writers, and film and literature. This companionable survey, which includes a chronology and guide to further reading, conveys a vivid sense of the innovative techniques of the Spanish novel and of the debates surrounding it.

Historical Dictionary of the "dirty Wars"

Historical Dictionary of the
Author: David R. Kohut
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 0810858398

Unlike a conventional war waged against a standing army, a "dirty war" is waged against individuals, groups, or ideas considered subversive. Originally associated with Argentina's military regime from 1976-1983, the term has since been applied to neighboring dictatorships during the period. Indeed, it has become a byword for state-sponsored repression anywhere in the world. The first edition of this reference illustrated the concept by describing the regimes of Argentina, Chile (1973-1990), and Uruguay (1973-1985), which tortured, murdered, and disappeared thousands of people in the name of anticommunism while thousands more were driven into exile. The second edition expands the scope to include Bolivia (1971-1982), Brazil (1964-1985), and Paraguay (1954-1989). Includes a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on the countries; guerrilla and political movements; prominent guerrilla, human-rights, military, and political figures; local, regional, and international human-rights organizations; and artistic figures (filmmakers, novelists, and playwrights) whose works attempt to represent or resist the period of repression.--Publisher.