Semantics of the World

Semantics of the World
Author: Rómulo Bustos Aguirre
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2022-12-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 082636425X

A poet of both the body and spirit, the work of Rómulo Bustos Aguirre often explores the nature of existence at the turn of the twenty-first century—humankind’s relationship to itself and the universe, the meaning or purpose, if any, of human existence, and the daunting task of discerning that meaning. Critics have described his poetry as highly refined lyricism, metaphysical, existential, and at times erotic. Semantics of the World introduces the English-speaking world to the exciting work of Rómulo Bustos Aguirre, one of Colombia’s most celebrated living writers. This selection of extraordinary poems, edited and translated by Nohora Arrieta Fernández and Mark A. Sanders, presents Bustos Aguirre’s works in Spanish alongside their English translations and features the critical apparatus necessary for making Bustos Aguirre’s poetry more accessible to students, scholars, and the general reading public. The volume offers the perfect introduction to Rómulo Bustos Aguirre and his poetry for critical and popular audiences throughout the Anglosphere.

Barack Obama's Speeches/Los Discursos de Barack Obama

Barack Obama's Speeches/Los Discursos de Barack Obama
Author:
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2010-01-26
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1569758026

With the unique ability to transcend politics and touch the universal humanity within each listener, Barack Obama has inspired and empowered people around the globe. For the first time in parallel Spanish and English, this bilingual collection presents his most powerful and moving speeches, including: Con la capacidad única de supercar la política y tocar a la humanidad universal dentro de cada oyente, Barack Obama ha inspriado y otorgado poder a la gente alrededor del mundo. Por primera vez en español e ingles en forma paralela, esta colección bilingüe presenta sus discursos más poderosos y conmovedores, incluyen • Keynote Address • Discurso de aperture • Speech to the National Council of La Raza • Discurso al Consejo Nacional de La Raza • A More Perfect Union • Una union más perfecta • A World That Stands as One • Un mundo que es uno • The American Promise • La promesa estadounidense • Election Night Speech • Discurso de la "Noche electoral" • Inaugural Address • Discurso de investidura • A New Beginning • Un nuevo comienzo • Back to School Speech • Discurso "Vuelta a la escuela"

Bridging the Atlantic

Bridging the Atlantic
Author: University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Center for Latin America
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791429174

This collection of historical, philosophical, sociopolitical, and literary essays examines the linkages between the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America.

Cracking the SAT Spanish Subject Test

Cracking the SAT Spanish Subject Test
Author: George Roberto Pace
Publisher: The Princeton Review
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2005-03
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780375764530

Provides a general review of the test, basic grammatical terms, vocabulary, and practice tests.

Picaro

Picaro
Author: Rupert Croft-Cooke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1934
Genre:
ISBN:

Peripheral Transmodernities

Peripheral Transmodernities
Author: Ignacio López-Calvo
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2012-01-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1443837261

This volume is a collection of essays dealing with the critical dialogue between the cultural production of the Hispanic/Latino world and that of the so-called Orient or the Orient itself, including the Asian and Arab worlds. As we see in these essays, the Europeans’ cultural others (peripheral nations and former colonies) have established an intercultural and intercontinental dialogue among themselves, without feeling the need to resort to the center-metropolis’ mediation. These South-to-South dialogues tend not to be as asymmetric as the old dialogue between the (former) metropolis (the hegemonic, Eurocentric center) and the colonies. These essays about Hispanic and Latino cultural production (most of them dealing with literature, but some covering urban art, music, and film) provide vivid examples of de-colonizing impetus and cultural resistance. In some of them, we can find peripheral subjectivities’ perception of other peripheral, racialized, and (post)colonial subjects and their cultures.

World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent

World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent
Author: Sharae Deckard
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2019-01-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030054411

This book explains neoliberalism as a phenomenon of the capitalist world-system. Many writers focus on the cultural or ideological symptoms of neoliberalism only when they are experienced in Europe and America. This collection seeks to restore globalized capitalism as the primary object of critique and to distinguish between neoliberal ideology and processes of neoliberalization. It explores the ways in which cultural studies can teach us about aspects of neoliberalism that economics and political journalism cannot or have not: the particular affects, subjectivities, bodily dispositions, socio-ecological relations, genres, forms of understanding, and modes of political resistance that register neoliberalism. Using a world-systems perspective for cultural studies, the essays in this collection examine cultural productions from across the neoliberal world-system, bringing together works that might have in the past been separated into postcolonial studies and Anglo-American Studies.

Books in Spanish for Children and Young Adults

Books in Spanish for Children and Young Adults
Author: Isabel Schon
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1993
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780810826229

This installment covers books published mainly since 1989. Citations are grouped by subject within sections according to country, from Argentina to Venezuela. The author has rated each entry as to artistic and literary appeal, and provides general grade level, ISBN and price. Appendices include contact data for book dealers in Spanish-speaking countries and the US. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Seeing in Spanish

Seeing in Spanish
Author: Ryan Prout
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2011-05-25
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1443830399

Seeing in Spanish brings together 22 chapters which share a focus on aspects of visual cultures from the Spanish speaking world. Together these chapters address film, photography, cover art, body art, posters, television, architecture, ekphrasis, biography, murals, graffiti, and digital photo-montage. Between Don Quixote and Daddy Yankee, the essays move from the seventeenth century to the present and traverse Europe, the Americas, and cyberspace. The book is divided into five sections. The first of these, on Spain, includes chapters on the representation of women on LP covers in Spain in the 60s and 70s; portrayals in Spanish cinema of Saint Teresa; Luis Buñuel’s adaptation of Tristana; urban and rural space in recent Spanish documentary film; Catalan television; fine art in Don Quixote; and visions of adoption in three narratives by Spanish writers and filmmakers. The second section, on Mexico and Peru, includes chapters on the fragmentary body in images of Mexico; the art of Abraham Ángel; Jesús Ruiz Durand’s agrarian reform posters; Diego Rivera’s murals; and the role of artistic production in staging the 2006 Oaxaca conflict. The third section, on Cuba, looks at the portrayal of women and of children in recent cinema from the island. It also examines Nancy Morejón’s celebration of the life and art of exiled Cuban artist Ana Mendieta. Section four includes chapters on Chile and Argentina. It addresses street art and graffiti; new forms of publishing; Chilean cinema after Pinochet; and Violeta Parra’s appliqué and collage works. Section five embraces Colombia, Bolivia, and virtual spaces. The contributions to this last section of the book examine childhood in Colombian cinema; the online creativity of pro- and anti-fans of reggaeton; and the photographic diaries of T. Ifor Rees, the UK’s first ambassador to Bolivia. In addition to the geo-political structure which underpins the book’s five sections, the introduction suggests pathways through the contributions focussed on public art and graffiti, women, children, cyberspace and diplomacy, and reconstruction and disintegration. Seeing in Spanish includes 50 illustrations—stills from films, photographs, reproductions of paintings, and screen grabs from the internet—which complement the chapters’ analyses of aspects of Hispanic visual cultures. To aid accessibility, footnotes throughout the book provide English translations of all references from texts in other languages. Taken together, the book’s 22 chapters make a valuable contribution to the existing literature on figures like Don Quixote and Saint Teresa. They also break new ground in approaches to novel areas of scholarship such as sleeve design, artisanal book production, and digital image manipulation. The book will appeal to students and scholars of Spain and Latin America as well as to a general readership with an interest in the visual cultures of the Spanish speaking world.