Ambivalence, Modernity, Power

Ambivalence, Modernity, Power

Author: Nuala Finnegan

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9783039105076

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By incorporating a variety of critical approaches within a feminist framework, the author here argues that Mexican women writers participate in a crucial project of unsettling dominant discourses as they strive for new ways of capturing the ambivalent position of the Mexican women in their texts.


The Avowal of Difference

The Avowal of Difference

Author: Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2014-11-19

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1438454279

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The Avowal of Difference explores the potentialities and limitations that queer theory offers in the context of Latino American texts and subjects. Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui contrasts Latino American sexual genealogies with the Anglo-European "coming out" narrative—and interrogates the centrality of the "coming out" story as the regulating metaphor for gay, lesbian, or queer identities. In its place, the book looks at other strategies—from silence to circumlocution, from disavowal to indifference—to theorize queer subject formation in a Latino American cultural context. The analysis of texts by José Lezama Lima, Luis Zapata, Manuel Puig, Severo Sarduy, Junot Díaz, and others offers a comparative approach to understanding how queer sexualities are shaped and written in other cultural contexts.


Chicano/Latino Homoerotic Identities

Chicano/Latino Homoerotic Identities

Author: David W. Foster

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-16

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1317944453

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This collection, which grew out of a research conference held at Arizona State Universoty in November 1997, examines varieties of Chicano/Latino homoerotic identities. It includes essays by a group of scholars who are engaged in defining the parameters of these identities and who are concerned with how those identities interact with the dominate ones articulated by a hegemonic Anglo society in the United States.


Jorge Amado

Jorge Amado

Author: Earl Fitz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-28

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1136518673

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Jorge Amado is simultaneously one of Brazil's most prolific and widely read novelists and one of its most controversial. Seeking to offer for his English-speaking audience the same range of critical thinking that surrounds his work in Brazil, this volume provides an introduction and chronology to Amado's life, followed by a comprehensive survey of his major works by some of the world's leading Latin American Studies scholars. As the case of Jorge Amado is central to the emergence of Brazilian literature in the twentieth century, this volume of original essays will place him in clearer critical perspective for English language readers.


Tomas Gutierrez Alea

Tomas Gutierrez Alea

Author: Paul A. Schroeder

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-21

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1135350752

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Schroeder offers a thorough introduction to the films of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuba's leading filmmaker, covering all 12 of Alea's feature films and examining in depth his three best films within the context of revolutionary Cuba.


Flash and Crash Days

Flash and Crash Days

Author: David George

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1135576467

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Flash and Crash Days: Brazilian Theater in the Post-Dictatorship Period deals with the theater produced in Brazil during the 1980s and 1990s, especially postmodernist directors, women playwrights, and theater companies. It attempts to answer the following questions: Did the thriving stage of the 1950s and 60s wither during the reign of terror in the early 1970s, unleashed in the wake of the 1968 state of siege declared by the generals? Did the return to civilian government fail to create conditions for a new theater? A cursory glance at what little U.S. commentary on Brazilian theater has appeared in recent years could well lead one to answer all of the above questions in the affirmative. Scholars beyond Brazil's borders appear to have bonded with those individuals and companies which contested and then fell victim to repression in the 1960s and 1970s. So pervasive is this scholarly trend that a vacuum, an empty stage has been created. There seems to be an unstated assumption that theater in Brazil thrives only under repression and dictatorship. It is an illusory vacuum. Flash and Crash Days examines how the absence of censorship, on the one hand, and the exigencies of protest and ideological purity on the other, have given rise to a variety of theatrical modes which Brazil has never experienced in the past, allowing all voices the opportunity to be heard in the marketplace of artistic ideas: women's perspectives, particularly those expressed by playwrights; sexual identity, including gender construction and gay perspectives; psychological issues; the individual in society; religion; formal experimentation


The Jewish White Slave Trade and the Untold Story of Raquel Liberman

The Jewish White Slave Trade and the Untold Story of Raquel Liberman

Author: Nora Glickman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-10-12

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1135579059

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This book recounts the events involving Raquel Liberman, an impoverished immigrant to Argentina that was forced by circumstances into prostitution, and the powerful Zwi Migdal, which controlled the recruitment and deployment of Jewish prostitutes in Argentina while maintaining mutually profitable relations with corrupt politicians and policemen. Liberman's story is presented as an example of individual courage and determination in the face of the violence and corruption of the prostitution business. Her struggle with the Zwi Migdal and triumphant public victory over her oppressors was widely publicized in newspapers and magazines, and was a political cause celebre in its time. This book gives readers an intimate view of how the affair caught the public imagination, and was interpreted and transformed by the artistic imagination.


Perspectives on Henri Lefebvre

Perspectives on Henri Lefebvre

Author: Jenny Bauer

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2018-12-03

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 3110494981

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The articles take a decidedly interdisciplinary look at the opus of the French philosopher, sociologist and pioneer of spatial analysis Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991). His works are reflected upon from theoretical and practical perspectives by authors from various fields (literature, history, philosophy, sociology, ethnology) closely examining text references from Lefebvre.