Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British Library
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 576
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 568
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTango Lessons
Author: Marilyn G. Miller
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2014-02-07
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0822377233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom its earliest manifestations on the street corners of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires to its ascendancy as a global cultural form, tango has continually exceeded the confines of the dance floor or the music hall. In Tango Lessons, scholars from Latin America and the United States explore tango's enduring vitality. The interdisciplinary group of contributors—including specialists in dance, music, anthropology, linguistics, literature, film, and fine art—take up a broad range of topics. Among these are the productive tensions between tradition and experimentation in tango nuevo, representations of tango in film and contemporary art, and the role of tango in the imagination of Jorge Luis Borges. Taken together, the essays show that tango provides a kaleidoscopic perspective on Argentina's social, cultural, and intellectual history from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Contributors. Esteban Buch, Oscar Conde, Antonio Gómez, Morgan James Luker, Carolyn Merritt, Marilyn G. Miller, Fernando Rosenberg, Alejandro Susti
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 584
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Life, Music, and Times of Carlos Gardel
Author: Simon Collier
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 1986-12-15
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0822976420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the first biography in English of the great Argentinian tango singer Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Collier traces his rise from very modest beginnings to become the first genuine "superstar" of twentieth-century Latin America. In his late teens, Gardel won local fame in the barrios of Buenos Aires singing in cafes and political clubs. By the 1920s, after he switched to tango singing, the songs he wrote and sang enjoyed instant popularity and have become classics of the genre. He began making movies in the 1930s, quickly establishing himself as the most popular star of the Spanish-language cinema, and at the time of his death Paramount was planning to launch his Hollywood career.Collier's biography focuses on Gardel's artistic career and achievements but also sets his life story within the context of the tango tradition, of early twentieth-century Argentina, and of the history of popular entertainment.
Postmodernism’s Role in Latin American Literature
Author: H. Weldt-Basson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-06-21
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0230107931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAugusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005), winner of the prestigious Cervantes prize, is one of the most important Latin American writers of the twentieth century. This commemorative collection consists of articles by nine scholars reflecting upon the postmodern nature of the Paraguayan author s literary production and his place in world literature. The volume includes articles on the author s screenplays, his masterpiece, the dictator novel I The Supreme, his short stories, feminist approaches to Roa Bastos s novels, reflections on the writer s Guarani poetry, and a study of the complex, intertextual relationships between his novel El fiscal and his other texts.
Heartbreak Tango
Author: Manuel Puig
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 156478553X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAwash in small-town gossip, petty jealousy, and intrigues, Manuel Puig's Heartbreak Tango is a comedic assault on the fault lines between the disappointments of the everyday world, and the impossible promises of commercials, pop songs, and movies. This melancholy and hilarious tango concerns the many women in orbit around Juan Carlos Etchepare, an impossibly beautiful Lothario wasting away ever-so-slowly from consumption, while those who loved and were spurned by him move on into workaday lives and unhappy marriages. Part elegy, part melodrama, and part dirty joke, this wicked and charming novel demonstrates Manuel Puig's mastery of both the highest and lowest forms of life and culture.
Buenos Aires
Author: James R. Scobie
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 418
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Scrobie probes beyond the physical and demographic growth and examines the socioeconomic impact of settlement patterns, social structure, and cultural attitudes. He emphasizes the amazing urban expansion, both as a symbol and as an explanation of Argentina's direction and development to the present day. Buenos Aires presents the fullest account of the late nineteenth-century growth of any Latin American city - its sights, smells, sounds, and ethnic composition"--Jacket.
South America
Author: James Bryce Bryce (Viscount)
Publisher:
Published: 1912
Total Pages: 490
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes a journey through western and southern South America from Panama to Argentina and Brazil via the Straits of Magellan.
The Prosecutor
Author: Augusto Roa Bastos
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-02-20
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1683930355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Prosecutor is the third novel of a trilogy written by the internationally famous Paraguayan author Augusto Roa Bastos. It was preceded by the novels Son of Man and I The Supreme. Together these three works contemplate what the author has termed “the monotheism of power.” The Prosecutor explores the atrocities of the Alfredo Stroessner dictatorship in Paraguay, which lasted from 1954 to 1989. Through connections with important Paraguayan historical figures, such as Francisco Solano López, the novel links the protagonist to Paraguay’s past as he struggles to give meaning to his life by assassinating the dictator and freeing the Paraguayan people. Combining autobiography, detective fiction, historical novel and philosophy, the novel examines the question of whether one man has the right to judge another. A provocative introduction and comprehensive notes by Helene Carol Weldt-Basson illuminate this translation of one of Roa Bastos’s most important works.
