Naïve & Abroad: Mexico
Naïve & Abroad: Mexico

Author: Marcus Henderson Wilder

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2011-09-14

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1462046819

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Reader comments about Marcus Wilder travel columns in the San Antonio EXPRESS~News. Marcus Wilder is a consummate traveler and a one of a kind yarn spinner.Tracy Barnett, Travel Editor, San Antonio EXPRESS-News Mark is Mencken, Ann Coulter, and Chaucer rolled into one.Joseph Columbus Smith, Journalist Love what you are doing with your stories of the Camino. I live the Camino every day in my own way.Sue Kenney, Canadian author, Lecturer, and Pilgrim I read your reports with pleasure. Met een vriendelijke groet.Pieter, The Netherlands I have been reading with interest your story in the newspaper and sharing with my students. I teach Spanish my students follow the Camino via the Internet. Cesiah, International Languages Department Coordinator We are living it through Marcus Wilders eyes. Thank you for a lovely armchair travel adventure.Elizabeth, San Antonio My mother forwarded one of your travel stories to me. I enjoyed it immensely. Your writing is refreshing because you notice the details that make places, people, and events come alive.JoeLyn, Dallas I am fascinated by your stories.Memo, Laredo I bookmarked your page. I was captured.Waltrud, Chicago I love learning about other cultures and have really reveled in the sense of interacting with the people in your narrative.J.J., San Antonio

Naive & Abroad
Naive & Abroad

Author: Marcus Henderson Wilder

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2007-10

Total Pages: 59

ISBN-13: 0595467113

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Reader comments about Marcus Wilder travel columns in the San Antonio EXPRESS-News. "Marcus Wilder is a consummate traveler and a one of a kind yarn spinner." Tracy Barnett, Travel Editor, San Antonio EXPRESS-News "Mark is Mencken, Ann Coulter, & Chaucer rolled into one." Joseph Columbus Smith, Journalist "Love what you are doing with your stories of the Camino. I live the Camino every day in my own way." Sue Kenney, Canadian Author, Lecturer, and Pilgrim "I read your reports with pleasure. Met een vriendelijke groet." Pieter, The Netherlands "I have been reading with interest your story in the newspaper and sharing with my students. I teach Spanish . my students follow the Camino via the Internet." Cesiah, International Languages Dept. Coordinator "We are living it through Marcus Wilder's eyes. Thank you for a lovely armchair travel adventure." Elizabeth, San Antonio "My mother forwarded one of your travel stories to me. I enjoyed it immensely. Your writing is refreshing because you notice the details that make places, people, and events come alive." JoeLyn, Dallas "I am fascinated by your stories." Memo, Laredo "I bookmarked your page. I was captured." Waltrud, Chicago "I love learning about other cultures and have really reveled in the sense of interacting with the people in your narrative." J.J., San Antonio

Naïve and Abroad: Spain
Naïve and Abroad: Spain

Author: Marcus Wilder

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2008-06

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0595493963

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Reader comments about Marcus Wilder travel columns in the San Antonio EXPRESS-News. "Marcus Wilder is a consummate traveler and a one of a kind yarn spinner."-Tracy Barnett, Travel Editor, San Antonio EXPRESS-News "Mark is Mencken, Ann Coulter, and Chaucer rolled into one."-Joseph Columbus Smith, Journalist "Love what you are doing with your stories of the Camino. I live the Camino every day in my own way."-Sue Kenney, Canadian author, Lecturer, and Pilgrim "I read your reports with pleasure. Met een vriendelijke groet."-Pieter, The Netherlands "I have been reading with interest your story in the newspaper and sharing with my students. I teach Spanish . my students follow the Camino via the Internet."-Cesiah, International Languages Department Coordinator "We are living it through Marcus Wilder's eyes. Thank you for a lovely armchair travel adventure."-Elizabeth, San Antonio "My mother forwarded one of your travel stories to me. I enjoyed it immensely. Your writing is refreshing because you notice the details that make places, people, and events come alive."-JoeLyn, Dallas "I am fascinated by your stories."-Memo, Laredo "I bookmarked your page. I was captured."-Waltrud, Chicago "I love learning about other cultures and have really reveled in the sense of interacting with the people in your narrative."-J.J., San Antonio

The Beats in Mexico
The Beats in Mexico

Author: David Stephen Calonne

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2022-04-15

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 197882873X

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Mexico features prominently in the literature and personal legends of the Beat writers, from its depiction as an extension of the American frontier in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road to its role as a refuge for writers with criminal pasts like William S. Burroughs. Yet the story of Beat literature and Mexico takes us beyond the movement’s superstars to consider the important roles played by lesser-known female Beat writers. The first book-length study of why the Beats were so fascinated by Mexico and how they represented its culture in their work, this volume examines such canonical figures as Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Lamantia, McClure, and Ferlinghetti. It also devotes individual chapters to women such as Margaret Randall, Bonnie Bremser, and Joanne Kyger, who each made Mexico a central setting of their work and interrogated the misogyny they encountered in both American and Mexican culture. The Beats in Mexico not only considers individual Beat writers, but also places them within a larger history of countercultural figures, from D.H. Lawrence to Antonin Artaud to Jim Morrison, who mythologized Mexico as the land of the Aztecs and Maya, where shamanism and psychotropic drugs could take you on a trip far beyond the limits of the American imagination.

Motherhood in Mexican Cinema, 1941-1991
Motherhood in Mexican Cinema, 1941-1991

Author: Isabel Arredondo

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2013-12-19

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1476602387

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How were femininity and motherhood understood in Mexican cinema from the 1940s to the early 1990s? Film analysis, interviews with filmmakers, academic articles and film reviews from newspapers are used to answer the question and trace the changes in such depictions. Images of mothers in films by so-called third-wave filmmakers (Busi Cortes, Maria Novaro, Dana Rotberg and Marisa Sistach) are contrasted with those in Mexican classical films (1935-1950) and films from the 1970s and 1980s. There are some surprising conclusions. The most important restrictions in the depiction of mothers in classical cinema came not from the strict sexual norms of the 1940s but in reactions to women shown as having autonomous identities. Also, in contrast to classical films, third-wave films show a woman's problems within a social dimension, making motherhood political--in relation not to militancy within the left but to women's issues. Third-wave films approach the problems of Latin American society as those of individuals differentiated by gender, sexuality and ethnicity; in such films mothers are citizens directly affected by laws, economic policies and cultural beliefs.

Survivors in Mexico
Survivors in Mexico

Author: Rebecca West

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780300105216

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Rebecca West's never-before-published Survivors in Mexico brings to readers a daring and provocative work by a major twentieth-century author. An exhilarating exploration of Mexican history, religion, art, and culture, it explores the inner lives of figures ranging from Cortés and Montezuma to Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Leon Trotsky. "Witty and entertaining, substantive and reflective, insightful and well documented, in splendid and uncommon prose, Rebecca West's travelogue . . . is a model of British sophistication and knack for seeing the other."--Jorge G. Castañeda, New York Times Book Review "An enthrallingly readable book . . . full of sharp impressions and stimulating insights."--Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Luscious reading. . . . The book succeeds beautifully as a travelogue thanks to West's intellect and experience, with Mexico serving as the vehicle for it all."--Sam Quinones, Washington Post Book World

Seen and Heard in Mexico
Seen and Heard in Mexico

Author: Elena Jackson Albarran

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0803266820

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During the first two decades following the Mexican Revolution, children in the country gained unprecedented consideration as viable cultural critics, social actors, and subjects of reform. Not only did they become central to the reform agenda of the revolutionary nationalist government; they were also the beneficiaries of the largest percentage of the national budget. While most historical accounts of postrevolutionary Mexico omit discussion of how children themselves experienced and perceived the sudden onslaught of resources and attention, Elena Jackson Albarrán, in Seen and Heard in Mexico, places children’s voices at the center of her analysis. Albarrán draws on archived records of children’s experiences in the form of letters, stories, scripts, drawings, interviews, presentations, and homework assignments to explore how Mexican childhood, despite the hopeful visions of revolutionary ideologues, was not a uniform experience set against the monolithic backdrop of cultural nationalism, but rather was varied and uneven. Moving children from the aesthetic to the political realm, Albarrán situates them in their rightful place at the center of Mexico’s revolutionary narrative by examining the avenues through which children contributed to ideas about citizenship and nation.

Regional And Sectoral Development In Mexico As Alternatives To Migration
Regional And Sectoral Development In Mexico As Alternatives To Migration

Author: Sergio Diaz-briquets

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-11

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1000309428

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This volume examines a number of regional and sectoral developments in Mexico and assesses how they are related to undocumented migration to the United States, representing efforts to identify productive alternatives to the problem of migration.

Law and Development in Latin America
Law and Development in Latin America

Author: Kenneth L Karst

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1975-01-01

Total Pages: 764

ISBN-13: 9780520029552

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Textbook on law and jurisprudence in Latin America, including an interdisciplinary research analysis of the legal aspects of economic development - covers land reform, commercial law responses to inflation, the role of the courts, etc., includes a case study of legal institutional frameworks in the caracas urban area slums in Venezuela, and provides historical background. References.

Foreigners in Their Native Land
Foreigners in Their Native Land

Author: David J. Weber

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780826335104

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Dozens of selections from firsthand accounts, introduced by David J. Weber's essays, capture the essence of the Mexican American experience in the Southwest from the time the first pioneers came north from Mexico.