Lingua Cosmica
Lingua Cosmica

Author: Dale Knickerbocker

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2018-05-04

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 0252050428

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Anthologies, awards, journals, and works in translation have sprung up to reflect science fiction's increasingly international scope. Yet scholars and students alike face a problem. Where does one begin to explore global SF in the absence of an established canon? Lingua Cosmica opens the door to some of the creators in the vanguard of international science fiction. Eleven experts offer innovative English-language scholarship on figures ranging from Cuban pioneer Daína Chaviano to Nigerian filmmaker Olatunde Osunsanmi to the Hugo Award-winning Chinese writer Liu Cixin. These essays invite readers to ponder the themes, formal elements, and unique cultural characteristics within the works of these irreplaceable—if too-little-known—artists. Dale Knickerbocker includes fantasists and genre-benders pushing SF along new evolutionary paths even as they draw on the traditions of their own literary cultures. Includes essays on Daína Chaviano (Cuba), Jacek Dukaj (Poland), Jean-Claude Dunyac (France), Andreas Eschbach (Germany), Angélica Gorodischer (Argentina), Sakyo Komatsu (Japan), Liu Cixin (China), Laurent McAllister (Yves Meynard and Jean-Louis Trudel, Francophone Canada), Olatunde Osunsanmi (Nigeria), Johanna Sinisalo (Finland), and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Russia). Contributors: Alexis Brooks de Vita, Pawel Frelik, Yvonne Howell, Yolanda Molina-Gavilán, Vibeke Rützou Petersen, Amy J. Ransom, Hanna-Riikka Roine, Hanna Samola, Mingwei Song, Tatsumi Takayuki, Juan Carlos Toledano Redondo, and Natacha Vas-Deyres.

Chicano Nations
Chicano Nations

Author: Marissa K. López

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2011-10-01

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0814752632

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Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Chicano Nations argues that the transnationalism that is central to Chicano identity originated in the global, postcolonial moment at the turn of the nineteenth century rather than as an effect of contemporary economic conditions, which began in the mid nineteenth century and primarily affected the laboring classes. The Spanish empire then began to implode, and colonists in the “new world” debated the national contours of the viceroyalties. This is where Marissa K. López locates the origins of Chicano literature, which is now and always has been “postnational,” encompassing the wealthy, the poor, the white, and the mestizo. Tracing its long history and the diversity of subject positions it encompasses, Chicano Nations explores the shifting literary forms authors have used to write the nation from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. López argues that while national and global tensions lie at the historical heart of Chicana/o narratives of the nation, there should be alternative ways to imagine the significance of Chicano literature other than as a reflection of national identity. In a nuanced analysis, the book provides a way to think of early writers as a meaningful part of Chicano literary history, and, in looking at the nation, rather than the particularities of identity, as that which connects Chicano literature over time, it engages the emerging hemispheric scholarship on U.S. literature.

From American Empire to América Cósmica Through Philosophy
From American Empire to América Cósmica Through Philosophy

Author: Terrance MacMullan

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-08-08

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1793653755

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This book examines points of meaningful affinity as well as contention and misrecognition between philosophical traditions of the Americas. Using Rodó’s metaphors from The Tempest, it reflects on the perils and possibilities for Inter-American philosophy as an established historical fact, a form of propaganda, or as a legitimate aspiration.

The Cosmic Race / La Raza Cosmica
The Cosmic Race / La Raza Cosmica

Author: José Vasconcelos

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1997-08-13

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780801856556

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In this influential 1925 essay, presented here in Spanish and English, José Vasconcelos predicted the coming of a new age, the Aesthetic Era, in which joy, love, fantasy, and creativity would prevail over the rationalism he saw as dominating the present age. In this new age, marriages would no longer be dictated by necessity or convenience, but by love and beauty; ethnic obstacles, already in the process of being broken down, especially in Latin America, would disappear altogether, giving birth to a fully mixed race, a "cosmic race," in which all the better qualities of each race would persist by the natural selection of love.

Sevy's Cosmica Sidera - Paperback
Sevy's Cosmica Sidera - Paperback

Author: Esther Elizabeth Buck

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1312178256

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As all stories are based in speculations, Sevy's Cosmica Sidera explores the possibility that the one who is labeled paranoid and delusional is the one who sees a more honest view of circumstances. The tiles are real and so too must be a tiler. Given a lifetime to live, whether it is two years, two hundred or two thousand, what mark will you leave on society?

Diccionario técnico
Diccionario técnico

Author: Federico Beigbeder Atienza

Publisher: Ediciones Díaz de Santos

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 1046

ISBN-13: 9788479787431

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Más de 100.000 entradas. Glosario de siglas y abreviaturas. Actualización a 2006. El vocabulario técnico de dos mundos en sus manos. Ante la excelente acogida que ha obtenido la primera edición del Diccionario Técnico bilingüe del ingeniero y lexicógrafo Federico Beigbeder, presentamos esta segunda edición, ampliada y actualizada, compuesta por una cuidada selección de nuestra extensa base de datos léxicos que conforman el gran Diccionario Politécnico de las lenguas española e inglesa, editado por Ediciones Díaz de Santos, en los sectores que más aplicación tienen actualmente en la tecnología y el comercio, suministrando soluciones directas, precisas y eficaces a los problemas de terminología bilingüe. La obra abarca un amplio y multifacético repertorio científico-técnico de una extensa gama de campos y sectores, incluidas las nuevas tecnologías que han invadido todos los ámbitos del saber y del conocimiento humano.

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Publisher: Siglo del Hombre Editores

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ISBN-13: 9589029841

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