Mexican Literature in Theory

Mexican Literature in Theory

Author: Ignacio M. S�nchez Prado

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2018-01-25

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1501332511

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Mexican Literature in Theory is the first book in any language to engage post-independence Mexican literature from the perspective of current debates in literary and cultural theory. It brings together scholars whose work is defined both by their innovations in the study of Mexican literature and by the theoretical sophistication of their scholarship. Mexican Literature in Theory provides the reader with two contributions. First, it is one of the most complete accounts of Mexican literature available, covering both canonical texts as well as the most important works in contemporary production. Second, each one of the essays is in itself an important contribution to the elucidation of specific texts. Scholars and students in fields such as Latin American studies, comparative literature and literary theory will find in this book compelling readings of literature from a theoretical perspective, methodological suggestions as to how to use current theory in the study of literature, and important debates and revisions of major theoretical works through the lens of Mexican literary works.


Handbook on Cuban History, Literature, and the Arts

Handbook on Cuban History, Literature, and the Arts

Author: Mauricio A. Font

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-02

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1315525003

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First Published in 2016. If scholarship on Cuban studies after the 1959 revolution focused on the historical and cultural aspects of the construction of a socialist order, the post-1989 crisis of socialism in Central and Eastern Europe raised questions about the island’s state as a socialist model. The scholarly gaze gradually began to focus on possibilities for alternative transformations at various levels of social life rather than on the deepening of traditional twentieth-century state socialism. This volume explores the newly emergent themes and debates about Cuban society and history.


Poetry in Pieces

Poetry in Pieces

Author: Michelle Clayton

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2011-01-10

Total Pages: 682

ISBN-13: 0520948289

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Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, Poetry in Pieces is the first major study of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo (1892–1938) to appear in English in more than thirty years. Vallejo lived and wrote in two distinct settings—Peru and Paris—which were continually crisscrossed by new developments in aesthetics, politics, and practices of everyday life; his poetry and prose therefore need to be read in connection with modernity in all its forms and spaces. Michelle Clayton combines close readings of Vallejo’s writings with cultural, historical, and theoretical analysis, connecting Vallejo—and Latin American poetry—to the broader panorama of international modernism and the avant-garde, and to writers and artists such as Rainer Maria Rilke, James Joyce, Georges Bataille, and Charlie Chaplin. Poetry in Pieces sheds new light on one of the key figures in twentieth-century Latin American literature, while exploring ways of rethinking the parameters of international lyric modernity.


The Maya of the Cochuah Region

The Maya of the Cochuah Region

Author: Justine M. Shaw

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0826348645

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This book, the first major collection of data from the Cochuah region investigations, presents and analyzes findings on more than eighty sites and puts them in the context of the findings of other investigations from outside the area.


Past and Power: Public Policies on Memory. Debates, from Global to Local

Past and Power: Public Policies on Memory. Debates, from Global to Local

Author: Jordi Guixé

Publisher: Edicions Universitat Barcelona

Published: 2016-05-26

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 8447539938

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The public authorities have not successfully resolved the management of the traumatic memory of the wars, dictatorships and massacres to which the European project was always intended to be a counterpoint. The conflict of memories and the public discourses about the past are latent on ideological, political and cultural levels. However, if in the past the conflict concerning memories tended to develop inside the borders of countries, it has now leapt into the European arena. This has also led to the confrontation and questioning of the great narratives established in the common memory, especially with countries of the East joining the European Union. Each community, group or nation maintains common memories that do not always fit in or converge with a general overall account. The origins of the UB Solidarity Foundation’s European Observatory on Memories lie in these debates, and through this book — which includes the contributions of specialists in multiple disciplines and the speeches that were given at the first international symposium, “Memory and Power: A Transnational Perspective” — it hopes to present some of the key challenges that this conflict of memories has in store for us in the present and in the future.


Sobras espectrales

Sobras espectrales

Author: Autores Varios

Publisher: Linkgua

Published: 2022-12-01

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 8411269981

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Sobras espectrales: gestiones estético-políticos de los residuos es una antología de crítica cultural inspiradora y en resonancia con el actual giro material en las humanidades. El conjunto de ensayos indaga sobre el dispositivo de lo residual para repensar nuestro presente a través de expresiones culturales mayoritariamente latinoamericanas. Estéticas que se enfocan en la presencia y agencia de los restos de memoria, en las sobras del hiperconsumo, y en los desechos reales y simbólicos. El libro piensa cómo puede leerse aquello que está fuera del sistema de producción, como síntoma de lo social, lo ecológico y lo político. Sin caer en la nostalgia romántica, Adriana López-Labourdette y Valeria Wagner convierten la crítica cultural en arqueología de nuestro presente y plantean modos reivindicativos de pensar el mundo basurizado, el vertedero y la ruina (económica, ambiental y social). Asumiendo una multiplicidad de enfoques de diferentes disciplinas, este volumen colectivo abarca desde la poesía brasileña, la narrativa cubana, peruana, chilena y argentina, hasta la vanguardia venezolana, el cine transnacional y los vertederos cubiertos en Ginebra (Suiza) y Uranium City (Canadá). Se encontrará aquí una lectura de nuestra imposibilidad de gestionar la producción de desechos, o de archivar completamente los restos del pasado. Una lectura hecha desde América Latina hacia el mundo y una reflexión aguda sobre los procesos (insuficientes) de reciclaje tanto en el propio arte, como en nuestros sistemas sociales, políticos y estéticos. Nanne Timmer, Universidad de Leiden


Pintura europea del Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia

Pintura europea del Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia

Author: Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13:

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Catálogo de la exposición "Pintura europea del Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia", que reúne las obras conservadas en la institución relativas a dicha disciplina artística desde el s. XIV hasta el s. XIX, comisariada por Fernando Benito Doménech y José Gómez Frechina y organizada de octubre de 2002 a enero de 2003 en el Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, con el apoyo del Consorcio de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana, la Generalitat Valenciana y las Corts Valencianes.


Uncharted: The New Landscape of Tourism

Uncharted: The New Landscape of Tourism

Author: Juan Elvira

Publisher: Actar D, Inc.

Published: 2022-02-25

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 163840982X

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UNCHARTED / New Landscapes of Tourism has a two-fold objective: to explore new avenues of thought in design teaching, and to do so through research that deals with new architectural landscapes that are linked to tourism. Publishing the Undergraduate Final Projects from IE University’s Undergraduate Architecture program responds to the desire to highlight the importance of design strategies in the process of reformulating the tourist offering within the framework of an open debate about new models for development. The infrastructural nature of architectural design imbues the architect’s creative capacity with the healthy ambition of transforming the territory into new landscapes for touristic opportunities. These new landscapes have been categorized here as productive, urban, industrial, extreme and reversible. UNCHARTED includes additional contributions on architecture, tourism and teaching by José Miguel Iribas, Elia Zenghelis and Eleni Gigantes.