Artículos de costumbres
Artículos de costumbres

Author: Daniel Muñoz Sempere

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2017-12-06

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1526122219

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This is an annotated critical edition of Artículos de costumbres by the Romantic journalist Mariano José de Larra (1809–37), presented with a critical introduction, study guide, glossary and chronology. Larra is still one of the most widely studied Spanish Romantic authors, and his satire of customs and manners in articles such as El castellano viejo, Vuelva usted mañana and Nochebuena de 1836 offers an insight into nineteenth century Spanish culture, while probing issues that are still seen as defining of Spanish identity today. Artículos de costumbres, presented here with an extensive annotation that identifies references that have not been previously elucidated, is a central text in the Spanish canon, opening up questions about modern Spain and issues such as political revolution, class identities, social change and the inclusion of Spain within European modernity.

The Early Cuadro de Costumbres in Colombia
The Early Cuadro de Costumbres in Colombia

Author: Frank M. Duffey

Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies

Published: 1956

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13:

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This study traces the development of the sketch of manners (cuadro de costumbres), beginning in 1838 until the end of the century. Although the Colombian sketch is not in general distinguished artistically, its scope and variety of subject produce a richly detailed picture of the life, people, and institutions of mid-century Colombia. The author shows the influence of the Spaniards Larra and Mesonero Romanos, and discusses authors of El Mosaico literary group and their predecessors who also wrote in the costumbrista style.

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Publisher: Soffer Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 0473874970

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Fuerza de la Costumbre
Fuerza de la Costumbre

Author: Guillén de Castro

Publisher: Aris and Phillips Hispanic Cla

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1786941449

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Is gender learned or innate? This controversial play asks the question: what happens if you raise a boy to sew and behave as a girl, and raise his sister to fight as a soldier? For the first time ever, Guillén de Castro's La fuerza de la costumbre ('The Force of Habit') will be available to English and Spanish audiences with a performance-tested translation on facing pages. Castro's plot is unique in that, unlike other cross dressing plays, the children do not traverse gender boundaries by choice; instead complications arising from their parents' problematic marriage dictate the gender they should perform. This new Spanish edition (the first since 1927) and performance-tested English translation will begin a new discussion of this understudied work and its implications among Hispanists, comparatists, performance theorists, and gender scholars. The critical apparatus includes a biography of the author, textual history, editorial methodology, metrical analysis, bibliography and notes on the text. Machit's introductory essay, 'Bad Habits: Gender Made and Remade in La fuerza de la costumbre' aims to contextualize and investigate the most salient questions raised by Castro's gender-bending play.

The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature
The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature

Author: Roberto Gonzalez Echevarría

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-09-13

Total Pages: 706

ISBN-13: 9780521340694

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Volume 1 of a comprehensive three-volume history of Latin American literature (including Brazilian): the only work of its kind.

International Law and Indigenous Peoples
International Law and Indigenous Peoples

Author: Joshua Castellino

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2005-03-01

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9047407326

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This volume highlights those instances in the work of international organizations where advances have been made concerning indigenous rights. It also devotes attention to the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and to a number of thematic issues in the field. The human rights situations facing indigenous peoples in Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria and South Africa are dealt with in separate chapters.

Meaningful Resistance
Meaningful Resistance

Author: Erica S. Simmons

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-05-31

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1316552861

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Meaningful Resistance explores the origins and dynamics of resistance to markets through an examination of two social movements that emerged to voice and channel opposition to market reforms. Protests against water privatization in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and rising corn prices in Mexico City, Mexico, offer a lens to analyze the mechanisms by which perceived, market-driven threats to material livelihood can prompt resistance. By exploring connections among marketization, local practices, and political protest, the book shows how the material and the ideational are inextricably linked in resistance to subsistence threats. When people perceive that markets have put subsistence at risk, material and symbolic worlds are both at stake; citizens take to the streets not only to defend their pocketbooks, but also their conceptions of community. The book advances contemporary scholarship by showing how attention to grievances in general, and subsistence resources in particular, can add explanatory leverage to analyses of contentious politics.

Intersected Identities
Intersected Identities

Author: Erica Segre

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9781845452919

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There has always been an important visual element to the construction and questioning of national identity in post-Independence Mexico, though one that has not always been given its due, outside of the celebrated and much-studied muralists. Ranging from the early nineteenth century to the present - from the vogue for the picturesque, illustrated periodicals and the influential writings of Altamirano to a wealth of twentieth-century graphic artists, filmmakers and photographers - this book re-examines the complex variety of ways in which that visual element has operated. In particular, it looks at the ways in which discourses concerning ethnicity and cultural hybridity have been echoed and transformed in Mexican visual culture, resulting in fields of visual discourse which are eclectic and increasingly self-reflexive.