Con trenes y otros 50 relatos y microrrelatos de viaje
Con trenes y otros 50 relatos y microrrelatos de viaje

Author: Varios autores

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-09-12

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1291556540

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La sexta edición del Concurso de relatos de viaje Moleskin, patrocinado por Ediciones del Viento, ha supuesto un gran salto cualitativo y cuantitativo con respecto a las cinco anteriores gracias a la incorporación de una nueva categoría de microrrelatos. Un total de 232 relatos y microrrelatos de 140 autores provenientes de 14 países diferentes, casi todos latinoamericanos, pero con aportaciones desde países tan distantes como USA, Australia o Francia. Comienza pues una ruta fascinante que nos llevará en tren por escenarios cinematográficos, veremos Bogotá bajo los ojos de una visitante extranjera, nos perderemos por el nordeste de Brasil, visitaremos Estambul, cruzaremos el Cocibolca en Nicaragua, seguiremos el dramático viaje de un padre en busca de la salvación de su hija y, en suma, deambularemos por el apasionante viaje que es la vida

The Absolute
The Absolute

Author: Daniel Guebel

Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Published: 2022-05-17

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1644211610

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Winner.... Premio Municipal de la Novela 2021 Premio Nacional de Literatura Argentina 2018 Premio Literario de la Academia Argentina de Letras 2017 Best Novel Award by La Nación 2016 A provocative multigenerational exploration of creative genius, madness, and family relationships. With the ambition and density of style of Vladimir Nabokov or Olga Tokarczuk, this is a story both profound and handled with a light touch. The Absolute is a sprawling historical novel about the Deliuskin-Scriabin family, made up of six generations of geniuses and madmen. Beginning in the mid-18th century in Russia, across Europe and ending in late 20th-century Argentina, the characters’ lives play out in different branches of art, politics and science in such radical ways that they transform the world and its reality. The narrator’s ancestor, Frantisek Deliuskin, invents a new form of music in the 18th century; his son, Andrei Deliuskin, makes some marginal annotations to the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola that are later interpreted by Lenin as an instruction manual to carry out the Russian Revolution of 1917; Esau Deliuskin, following the course of his father, creates a socialist utopian society; and down through the generations to the narrator, whose creation takes him back in time and space to the moment of the Big Bang. The Absolute is a monumental work about the creation of art and about family, about spiritual traditions and about throwing oneself into the world not to capture life but to create it, in and through words. “This is a masterpiece at a time when masterpieces seem impossible and at the same time challenges the very idea of a masterpiece. … It’s the novel one should read if they want to know what an artist is.” —La Nación

The Latin American Short Story at its Limits
The Latin American Short Story at its Limits

Author: Lucy Bell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1351543075

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The Latin American short story has often been viewed in terms of its relation to orality, tradition and myth. But this desire to celebrate the difference of Latin American culture unwittingly contributes to its exoticization, failing to do justice to its richness, complexity and contemporaneity. By re-reading and re-viewing the short stories of Juan Rulfo, Julio Cortazar and Augusto Monterroso, Bell reveals the hybridity of this genre. It is at once rooted in traditional narrative and fragmented by modern experience; its residual qualities are revived through emergent forms. Crucially, its oral and mythical characteristics are compounded with the formal traits of modern, emerging media: photography, cinema, telephony, journalism, and cartoon art.

Narrative Form
Narrative Form

Author: Suzanne Keen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-07-28

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1137439599

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This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions.

The Long, Lingering Shadow
The Long, Lingering Shadow

Author: Robert J. Cottrol

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 0820344761

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Students of American history know of the law’s critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that this history is best appreciated in a comparative perspective, The Long, Lingering Shadow looks at the parallel legal histories of race relations in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America. Robert J. Cottrol takes the reader on a journey from the origins of New World slavery in colonial Latin America to current debates and litigation over affirmative action in Brazil and the United States, as well as contemporary struggles against racial discrimination and Afro-Latin invisibility in the Spanish-speaking nations of the hemisphere. Ranging across such topics as slavery, emancipation, scientific racism, immigration policies, racial classifications, and legal processes, Cottrol unravels a complex odyssey. By the eve of the Civil War, the U.S. slave system was rooted in a legal and cultural foundation of racial exclusion unmatched in the Western Hemisphere. That system’s legacy was later echoed in Jim Crow, the practice of legally mandated segregation. Jim Crow in turn caused leading Latin Americans to regard their nations as models of racial equality because their laws did not mandate racial discrimination— a belief that masked very real patterns of racism throughout the Americas. And yet, Cottrol says, if the United States has had a history of more-rigid racial exclusion, since the Second World War it has also had a more thorough civil rights revolution, with significant legal victories over racial discrimination. Cottrol explores this remarkable transformation and shows how it is now inspiring civil rights activists throughout the Americas.

Ordinary Places/Extraordinary Events
Ordinary Places/Extraordinary Events

Author: Clara Irazábal

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-01-17

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1134326246

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Clara Irazábal and her contributors explore the urban history of some of Latin America’s great cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there. The avenues and plazas of Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, Caracas, Bogotaì, SaÞo Paulo, Lima, Santiago, and Buenos Aires have been the backdrop for extraordinary, history-making events. While some argue that public spaces are a prerequisite for the expression, representation and reinforcement of democracy, they can equally be used in the pursuit of totalitarianism. Indeed, public spaces, in both the past and present, have been the site for the contestation by ordinary people of various stances on democracy and citizenship. By exploring the use and meaning of public spaces in Latin American cities, this book sheds light on contemporary definitions of citizenship and democracy in the Americas.

Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History
Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History

Author: Jay Clayton

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780299130343

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This collection explores and clarifies two of the most contested ideas in literary theory - influence and intertextuality. The study of influence tends to centre on major authors and canonical works, identifying prior documents as sources or contexts for a given author. Intertextuality, on the other hand, is a concept unconcerned with authors as individuals; it treats all texts as part of a network of discourse that includes culture, history and social practices as well as other literary works. In thirteen essays drawing on the entire spectrum of English and American literary history, this volume considers the relationship between these two terms across the whole range of their usage.

Planning Latin America's Capital Cities 1850-1950
Planning Latin America's Capital Cities 1850-1950

Author: Arturo Almandoz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-08-08

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1136767215

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In this first comprehensive work in English to describe the building of Latin America's capital cities in the postcolonial period, Arturo Almandoz and his contributors demonstrate how Europe and France in particular shaped their culture, architecture and planning until the United States began to play a part in the 1930s. The book provides a new perspective on international planning.

Reading for Storyness
Reading for Storyness

Author: Susan Lohafer

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2020-03-03

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1421429195

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The short story has been a staple of American literature since the nineteenth century, taught in virtually every high school and consistently popular among adult readers. But what makes a short story unique? In Reading for Storyness, Susan Lohafer, former president of the Society for the Study of the Short Story, argues that there is much more than length separating short stories from novels and other works of fiction. With its close readings of stories by Kate Chopin, Julio Cortázar, Katherine Mansfield, and others, this book challenges assumptions about the short story and effectively redefines the genre in a fresh and original way. In her analysis, Lohafer combines traditional literary theory with a more unconventional mode of research, monitoring the reactions of readers as they progress through a story—to establish a new poetics of the genre. Singling out the phenomenon of "imminent closure" as the genre's defining trait, she then proceeds to identify "preclosure points," or places where a given story could end, in order to access hidden layers of the reading experience. She expertly harnesses this theory of preclosure to explore interactions between pedagogy and theory, formalism and cultural studies, fiction and nonfiction. Returning to the roots of storyness, Lohafer illuminates the intricacies of classic short stories and experimental forms of surreal, postmodern, and minimalist fiction. She also discusses the impact of social constructions, such as gender, on the identification of preclosure points by individual readers. Reading for Storyness combines cognitive science with literary theory to present a compelling argument for the uniqueness of the short story.