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Hugo Chavez

By: Cristina Marcano,Alberto Barrera Tyszka

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Hugo Chavez

By: Cristina Marcano,Alberto Barrera Tyszka

He is one of the most controversial and important world leaders currently in power. In this international bestseller, at last available in English, Hugo Chávez is captured in a critically acclaimed biography, a riveting account of the Venezuelan president who continues to influence, fascinate, and antagonize America. Born in a small town on the Venezuelan plains, Chávez found his interests radically altered when he entered the military academy in Caracas. There, as Hugo Chávez reveals in dramatic detail, he was drawn to leftist politics and a new sense of himself as predestined to change the fortunes of his country and Latin America as a whole. Portrayed as never before is the double life Chávez soon began to lead: by day he was a family man and a military officer, but by night he secretly recruited insurgents for a violent overthrow of the government. His efforts would climax in an attempted coup against President Carlos Andrés Pérez, an action that ended in a spectacular failure but gave Chávez his first irresistible taste of celebrity and laid the groundwork for his ascension to the presidency eight years later. Here is the truth about Chávez’s revolutionary “Bolivarian” government, which stresses economic reforms meant to discourage corruption and empower the poor–while the leader spends seven thousand dollars a day on himself and cozies up to Arab oil elites. Venezuelan journalists Cristina Marcano and Alberto Barrera Tyszka explore the often crude and comical public figure who condemns George W. Bush in the most fiery language but at the same time hires lobbyists to improve his country’s image in the West. The authors examine not only Chávez’s political career but also his personal life–including his first marriage, which was marked by a long affair and the birth of a troubled son, and his second marriage, which produced a daughter toward whom Chávez’s favoritism has caused private tension and public talk. This seminal biography is filled with exclusive excerpts from Chávez’s own diary and draws on new research and interviews with such insightful subjects as Herma Marksman, the professor who was his mistress for nine years. Hugo Chávez is an essential work about a man whose power, peculiarities, and passion for the global spotlight only continue to grow.

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1588366502

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Latinx Teens

U.S. Popular Culture on the Page, Stage, and Screen

By: Trevor Boffone,Cristina Herrera

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Latinx Teens

U.S. Popular Culture on the Page, Stage, and Screen

By: Trevor Boffone,Cristina Herrera

What can Latinx youth contribute to critical conversations on culture, politics, identity, and representation? Latinx Teens answers this question and more by offering an energetic, in-depth look at how Latinx teenagers influence twenty-first-century U.S. popular culture. In this exciting new book, Trevor Boffone and Cristina Herrera explore the diverse ways that contemporary mainstream film, television, theater, and young adult literature invokes, constructs, and interprets adolescent Latinidad. Latinx Teens shows how coming-of-age Latinx representation is performed in mainstream media, and how U.S. audiences consume Latinx characters and stories. Despite the challenges that the Latinx community face in both real and fictional settings, Latinx teens in pop culture forge spaces that institutionalize Latinidad. Teen characters make Latinx adolescence mainstream and situate teen characters as both in and outside their Latinx communities and U.S. mainstream culture, conveying the complexities of “fitting in,” and refusing to fit in all at the same time. Fictional teens such as Spider-Man’s Miles Morales, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter’s Julia Reyes, Party of Five’s Acosta siblings, and In the Heights’s Nina Rosario comprise a growing body of pop culture media that portray young Latinxs as three-dimensional individuals who have agency, authenticity, and serious charisma. Teenagers and young adults have always had the power to manifest social change, and this book acknowledges, celebrates, and investigates how Latinx teens in popular culture take on important current issues. With a dynamic interdisciplinary approach, Latinx Teens explores how Latinxs on the cusp of adulthood challenge, transform, expand, and reimagine Latinx identities and their relationships to mainstream U.S. popular culture in the twenty-first century. The book makes a critical intervention into Latinx studies, youth studies, and media cultures. Students and scholars alike will benefit from the book’s organization, complete with chapters that focus on specific mediums and conclude with suggestions for further reading and viewing. As the first book that specifically examines Latinx adolescence in popular culture, Latinx Teens insists that we must privilege the stories of Latinx teenagers in television, film, theater, and literature to get to the heart of Latinx popular culture. Exploring themes around representation, identity, gender, sexuality, and race, the works explored in this groundbreaking volume reveal that there is no single way to be Latinx, and show how Latinx youth are shaping the narrative of the Latinx experience for a more inclusive future.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816545278

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Il bestiario fantastico di età orientalizzante nella penisola italiana

By: Maria Cristina Biella,Enrico Giovanelli

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Il bestiario fantastico di età orientalizzante nella penisola italiana

By: Maria Cristina Biella,Enrico Giovanelli

L'Italia centrale tirrenica nel VII sec. a.C. è ormai da tempo pienamente inserita in un ricco circuito di scambi e commerci a livello mediterraneo. In questo complesso quadro di scambi e contatti, che hanno portato a una radicale trasformazione in ampi settori dell'Italia preromana, uno degli aspetti forse più evidenti e facilmente percepibili è l'evoluzione nelle produzioni artigianali etrusche e italiche di un interessante e variegato bestiario fantastico, che in buona parte affonda le sue radici in ambito lato sensu orientale e greco, ma la cui sopravvivenza nel corso del VII secolo a.C. e oltre, è in un certo senso garantita dalle differenti riletture locali, che spesso rielaborano liberamente i modelli allotri dando vita a figurazioni parzialmente o del tutto nuove.Il volume Il bestiario fantastico di età orientalizzante nella Penisola Italiana, che inaugura i Quaderni della serie Aristonothos, Scritti per il Mediterraneo Antico, ha lo scopo di creare un dossier di partenza, con il fine di attirare attenzione sul fenomeno e suscitare un dibattito, coinvolgendo studiosi che da diversi punti di vista (archeologico, storico artistico, antropologico, ecc.) e a diversi gradi di approfondimento, hanno incontrato nella propria ricerca questo aspetto della cultura figurativa."--Page 4 de la couverture

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Tangram Ediz. Scientifiche

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8864580697

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9788864580692

Hugo Chavez

By: Cristina Marcano,Alberto Barrera Tyszka

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