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The Shattered Mirror

Representations of Women in Mexican Literature

By: María Elena de Valdés

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The Shattered Mirror

Representations of Women in Mexican Literature

By: María Elena de Valdés

Popular images of women in Mexico—conveyed through literature and, more recently, film and television—were long restricted to either the stereotypically submissive wife and mother or the demonized fallen woman. But new representations of women and their roles in Mexican society have shattered the ideological mirrors that reflected these images. This book explores this major change in the literary representation of women in Mexico. María Elena de Valdés enters into a selective and hard-hitting examination of literary representation in its social context and a contestatory engagement of both the literary text and its place in the social reality of Mexico. Some of the topics she considers are Carlos Fuentes and the subversion of the social codes for women; the poetic ties between Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Octavio Paz; questions of female identity in the writings of Rosario Castellanos, Luisa Josefina Hernández, María Luisa Puga, and Elena Poniatowska; the Chicana writing of Sandra Cisneros; and the postmodern celebration—without reprobation—of being a woman in Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate.

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University of Texas Press

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0292786824

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Mexican Melodrama

Film and Nation from the Golden Age to the New Wave

By: Elena Lahr-Vivaz

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Mexican Melodrama

Film and Nation from the Golden Age to the New Wave

By: Elena Lahr-Vivaz

Mexican Melodrama offers a timely look at critically acclaimed films that serve as key referents in discussions of Mexican cinema. Elena Lahr-Vivaz artfully portrays the dominant conventions of historical and contemporary Mexican cinema, showing how new-wave directors draw from a previous generation to produce meaning in the present.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816532516

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Letters From the Andes

By: Elena Bell

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Letters From the Andes

By: Elena Bell

Renée Martin, a 22-year-old Canadian, is stuck in a monotonous job and grieving her grandfather's death. When Sergio, her friend from Ecuador, invites her to the Andes, she seizes the chance for adventure. Imagining jaguars, jungles, and volcanic peaks, Renée leaves for Ecuador with just a small backpack and her grandfather’s red corduroy shirt. On arrival, Renée is welcomed by Sergio’s struggling family and becomes immersed in their culture. Her bond with Sergio deepens as they explore Incan legends and Chilean folk music, navigating the dangers of Quito’s Old Town together - but someone is on their way to disrupt their growing connection... Letters from the Andes is a profound tale of love, loss, and the search for identity against the vibrant backdrop of 1970s South America. Renée and Sergio’s intertwined destinies echo the timeless quest for meaning and the hope of finding one's true path.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1805149792

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Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature

By: Luz Elena Ramirez

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Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature

By: Luz Elena Ramirez

Presents a reference on Hispanic American literature providing profiles of Hispanic American writers and their works.

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Infobase Learning

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1438140606

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Conquest and Reclamation in the Transatlantic Imagination

The Amerindian Fictions of Henty, Haggard, and Griffith

By: Luz Elena Ramirez

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Conquest and Reclamation in the Transatlantic Imagination

The Amerindian Fictions of Henty, Haggard, and Griffith

By: Luz Elena Ramirez

This book examines the imperial spectacles and startling reversals of fortune related in William H. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843) and History of the Conquest of Peru (1847), and investigates how these accounts inspired fictional adaptations by George A. Henty, H. Rider Haggard, and George Griffith. The revision of history in the Amerindian adventure both entertained young transatlantic audiences and was a vehicle to attract tourism and investment in countries such as Mexico and Peru. Henty, Haggard, and Griffith, moreover, used their tales of adventure as a platform to impart British values to their readers. Such values compel the characters and narrators of the novels discussed to act as cultural mediators, to acquire indigenous languages and adopt native ways of being, and, in several of the romance adventures under consideration, to marry Mexican or Incan noblewomen. Part I, Conquest, examines George Henty’s By Right of Conquest: Or, With Cortez in Mexico (1891), H. Rider Haggard’s Montezuma’s Daughter (1893), and George Griffith’s Virgin of the Sun: A Tale of the Conquest of Peru (1898). Part II, Reclamation, argues that English re-writings of history work to eclipse the Spanish in Haggard’s Virgin the Sun (1922), Henty’s Treasure of the Incas (1902) and Griffith’s Romance of Golden Star (1897).

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Taylor & Francis

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1000843645

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The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre

Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780

By: María Elena Díaz

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The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre

Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780

By: María Elena Díaz

This book tells the extraordinary story of a village of peasants and miners who were slaves belonging to the king of Spain and whose local patroness was a vision of the virgin. It explores the ways the royal slaves, assisted by te force of popular religion, achieved a degree of freedom unprecedented in other colonial societies of the New World.

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Stanford University Press

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080474713X

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Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina

By: Paulina Alberto,Eduardo Elena

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Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina

By: Paulina Alberto,Eduardo Elena

This book reconsiders the relationship between race and nation in Argentina during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and places Argentina firmly in dialog with the literature on race and nation in Latin America, from where it has long been excluded or marginalized for being a white, European exception in a mixed-race region. The contributors, based both in North America and Argentina, hail from the fields of history, anthropology, and literary and cultural studies. Their essays collectively destabilize widespread certainties about Argentina, showing that whiteness in that country has more in common with practices and ideologies of Mestizaje and 'racial democracy' elsewhere in the region than has typically been acknowledged. The essays also situate Argentina within the well-established literature on race, nation, and whiteness in world regions beyond Latin America (particularly, other European 'settler societies'). The collection thus contributes to rethinking race for other global contexts as well.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107107636

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Instantes

By: Rosa Elena Rosado De Nieves

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Instantes

By: Rosa Elena Rosado De Nieves

Instantes surge como una pagina dominical de reflexiones, que dará un mensaje de aliento y contribuirá a llenar el gran vacio existencial que se esta viviendo, a través de relatos de situaciones de la vida diaria, donde se presentaran propuestas para ser mejores, con muchas ideas, entrevistas sobre temas de desarrollo humano, poemas y pensamientos para inspirar el espíritu y lo mas importante: La sabiduría de Tony de Melo, Ricardo Bulmes, Luis Jorge González, y muchos más. Mi anhelo es pues que aquilates instantes de felicidad, como nos dice Jorge Luis Borges en este pensamiento que inspiro el nombre de la página

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1617647993

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Fodor's Los Cabos

By: Bob Fagan,Marie Elena Martinez,Jeffrey Van Fleet

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Fodor's Los Cabos

By: Bob Fagan,Marie Elena Martinez,Jeffrey Van Fleet

The crowds keep coming to Los Cabos as much to relax on its beaches and in its spas as to golf on its courses and sail or fish its waters. Well-rounded Los Cabos has more to offer than the average beach resort, including regional wines, a happening arts scene, and both desert and ocean adventures.

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Fodor's

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0891419829

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The Colonial Andes

Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530-1830

By: Elena Phipps,Johanna Hecht,Cristina Esteras Martín,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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The Colonial Andes

Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530-1830

By: Elena Phipps,Johanna Hecht,Cristina Esteras Martín,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

This unique volume illustrates and discusses in detail more than 160 extraordinary fine and decorative art works of the colonial Andes, including examples of the intricate Inca weavings and metalwork that preceded the colonial era as well as a few of the remarkably inventive forms this art took after independence from Spain. An international array of scholars and experts examines the cultural context, aesthetic preoccupations, and diverse themes of art from the viceregal period, particularly the florid patternings and the fanciful beasts and hybrid creatures that have come to characterize colonial Andean art."--Jacket.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588391310

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9781588391315

Modern Literatures in Spain

By: Jo Labanyi,Luisa Elena Delgado

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Modern Literatures in Spain

By: Jo Labanyi,Luisa Elena Delgado

Jo Labanyi and Luisa Elena Delgado provide the first cultural history of modern literatures in Spain. With contributors Helena Buffery, Kirsty Hooper, and Mari Jose Olaziregi, they showcase the country’s cultural richness and complexity by working across its four major literary cultures – Castilian, Catalan, Galician, and Basque – from the eighteenth century to the present. Engaging critically with the concept of the “national”, Modern Literatures in Spain traces the uneven institutionalization of Spain’s diverse literatures in a context of Castilian literary hegemony, as well as examining diasporic and exile writing . The thematically organized chapters explore literary constructions of subjectivity, gender, and sexuality; urban and rural imaginaries; intersections between high and popular culture; and the formation of a public sphere. Throughout, readings are attentive to the multiple ways in which literature serves as a barometer of cultural responses to historical change. An introduction to major cultural debates as well as an original analysis of key texts, this book is essential reading for students and scholars with an interest in the literatures and cultures of Spain.

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1509545832

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Choices and Change

Reflections on the Caribbean

By: Nancy Birdsall,Ramesh Deosaran,Amos Tincani,Elena M. Suárez,Richard J. Bloomfield,Sarath Rajapatirana,Andrés Serbin,Alan K. Henrikson,Charles A.T. Skeete,Havelock R.H. Ross-Brewster,Karen S. Walch,Steven B. Bloomfield,Bertus J. Meins

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Choices and Change

Reflections on the Caribbean

Fourteen essays by experienced political leaders, researchers and scholars examine the political economy and international relations of the Caribbean. Strategies for sustainable development include proposals to link productive structures among private sectors and increase institutional flexibility.

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Inter-American Development Bank

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1886938075

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The Sorrows of Mexico

By: Lydia Cacho,Anabel Hernández,Juan Villoro,Diego Enrique Osorno,Sergio González Rodríguez,Marcela Turati,Emiliano Ruiz Parra,Elena Poniatowska

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The Sorrows of Mexico

By: Lydia Cacho,Anabel Hernández,Juan Villoro,Diego Enrique Osorno,Sergio González Rodríguez,Marcela Turati,Emiliano Ruiz Parra,Elena Poniatowska

With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, this is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of its truth, to start to heal the country's many sorrows. Supported the Arts Council Grant's for the Arts Programme and by PEN Promotes Veering between carnival and apocalypse, Mexico has in the last ten years become the epicentre of the international drug trade. The so-called "war on drugs" has been a brutal and chaotic failure (more than 160,000 lives have been lost). The drug cartels and the forces of law and order are often in collusion, corruption is everywhere. Life is cheap and inconvenient people - the poor, the unlucky, the honest or the inquisitive - can be "disappeared" leaving not a trace behind (in September 2015, more than 26,798 were officially registered as "not located"). Yet people in all walks of life have refused to give up. Diego Enrique Osorno and Juan Villoro tell stories of teenage prostitution and Mexico's street children. Anabel Hernández and Emiliano Ruiz Parra give chilling accounts of the "disappearance" of forty-three students and the murder of a self-educated land lawyer. Sergio González Rodríguez and Marcela Turati dissect the impact of the violence on the victims and those left behind, while Lydia Cacho contributes a journal of what it is like to live every day of your life under threat of death. Reading these accounts we begin to understand the true nature of the meltdown of democracy, obscured by lurid headlines, and the sheer physical and intellectual courage needed to oppose it.

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MacLehose Press

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0857056212

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Unter dem Siegel der Nekropole

Band 5 bis 6

By: Andrew M. Chugg,Michael E. Habicht,Cicero Moraes,Francesco M. Galassi,Elena Varotto,F. Donald Pate

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Unter dem Siegel der Nekropole

Band 5 bis 6

By: Andrew M. Chugg,Michael E. Habicht,Cicero Moraes,Francesco M. Galassi,Elena Varotto,F. Donald Pate

Unter dem Siegel der Nekropole 5 Andrew Chugg The Lost Tombs of the Last Pharaohs. The purpose of this fresh article is to present new evidence that connects the sarcophagus of the last 30th Dynasty pharaoh, Nectanebo II, currently displayed in the British Museum, with a fragment of Macedonian funerary sculpture from the middle of the Ptolemaic period, which is now in Venice. The context of this connection is the search for the missing tombs (there were at least three in Egypt) of Alexander the Great. Michael E. Habicht Meta-database of cranial measurements from Ancient Egypt and Nubia. The study presents a complex and extended database of the morphology of skulls and (partly) also for the body proportion in Ancient Egypt through all periods. The database covers the Predynastic time to the Roman period, males and females. In addition, available data on the Royal families are added. Unter dem Siegel der Nekropole 6 Cicero Moraes, Michael Habicht, Francesco M. Galassi, Elena Varotto & F. Donald Pate Facial reconstruction of the mummy Cairo CG 61076 from the Royal Mummies Cachette DB 320. A princess from the late 18th Dynasty? In this paper we investigate the anthropological aspects of the ancient Egyptian mummy Cairo CG 61076 found in the royal cachette of Deir el-Bahari (DB 320) and labelled as Baqt by reassessing the published literature and photographs and producing a facial reconstruction for the first time. South American mummies: an Overview. This preliminary overview of scientific studies on mummies in South America collects all information available in Europe on the topic. The core of the study is the geographical overview of mummies in different countries and various cultures (from pre-Columbian to Modern Age mummies). Updated edition

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3756276872

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Por el camino andamos...

By: María Elena Pellinen

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Por el camino andamos...

By: María Elena Pellinen

Por el camino andamos... Esta es una novela filosófica que tiene el propósito de resolver esos problemas de todos los días, con los cuales nos enfrentamos por la sencilla razón de haber sido creados poseyendo el mejor de los regalos divinos, la libertad. Esa libertad que cuando bien utilizada nos lleva al éxito, y cuando no, nos lleva a la angustia y al fracaso . Dejemos pues, que Don Sebastián, maestro de filosofía, ilumine el camino de nuestra vida ayudandonos a transitar por esos caminos, y así, pensamiento por pensamiento y acción por acción cambiar, de la pobreza a la riqueza, de la dependencia a la independencia, de la ignorancia a la sabiduría, de la historia a la realidad, del pasado al presente dejándote llevar de la mano de la filosofía de todos los tiempos, la amiga eternal de toda la vida, porque como dice Don Sebastián. Por el camino andamos...

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Xlibris Corporation

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1456834851

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9781456834852

Writing

A Mosaic of New Perspectives

By: Elena L. Grigorenko

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Writing

A Mosaic of New Perspectives

By: Elena L. Grigorenko

This book captures the diversity and richness of writing as it relates to different forms of abilities, skills, competencies, and expertise. It is an invaluable resource for researchers interested in language and cognition, and also educators and clinicians.

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Psychology Press

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1848728123

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9781848728127

Magic Realism

Social Context and Discourse

By: Maria-Elena Angulo

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Magic Realism

Social Context and Discourse

By: Maria-Elena Angulo

Since the 1930s, Latin American writers have used magic realism to transcend the limits of the fantastic and illuminate social problems within the culture. The author considers five modern Latin American novels. Starting with two canonical texts of magic realism, Alejo Carpentier's El reino de este mundo (1949) and Garcia Marquez's Cien a-os de soledad (1967), the author argues that Los Sangurimas (1934), by the Ecuadorian Jos de la Cuadra, is a seminal work due to de la Cuadra's new approach to reality and his use of marvelous and hyperbolic elements. The author shows the continuation of this example in Ecuador in Demetrio Aguilera-Malta's Siete lunas y siete serpientes (1970) and Alicia Y nez Coss'o's Bruna, soroche y los tios (1972), which elucidate social problems of race, class, and gender through use of magic realism. In selecting for her study well-known writers such as Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, and others, less well-known such as de la Cuadra, Aguilera-Malta and Y nez Coss'o, the author demonstrates that both canonical and noncanonical writers for many years have been working on this new way of writing to interpret in fiction the highly complex Latin American reality.

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Routledge

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1317954238

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?DIVORCIO O...HASTA QUE LA MUERTE NOS SEPARE?

By: Mar�a Elena Escobedo

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?DIVORCIO O...HASTA QUE LA MUERTE NOS SEPARE?

By: Mar�a Elena Escobedo

La familia debe de ser el proyecto más importante de nuestra vida y por ende el matrimonio armónico y bien avenido es la cimentación de la misma. Sin embargo, en psicoterapia de pareja, nos encontramos frecuentemente con estos cuestionamientos, Me siento triste y enojada a su lado, siento que es el dueño de mi dolor. ¿Lo podré volver amar? ¿Qué hago? ¿Podré volver a ser feliz si me divorcio? ¿Les afectará emocionalmente mucho a mis hijos? ¿Qué es mejor, dejarlo o quedarme, si me quedo le podré perdonar la infidelidad? ¿Como saber si nuestra relación tiene un buen futuro? Me cae tan mal a veces, que siento seguido que no lo(a) quiero, y luego me arrepiento y siento que lo vuelvo amar. ¿Lo dejo por venganza, porque me engaña, o porque de verdad debo divorciarme? ¿Cómo saber cuándo es necesario el divorcio? (Identificando patologías) ¿Por qué no me busca más en la cama, tendrá otra o tendrá baja la testosterona? En este libro encontrarás respuestas objetivas que implican la constante ambivalencia sobre "Divorcio o Hasta Que La Muerte Nos Separe". Aquí la autora, Dra. María Elena Escobedo, Master en Psicoterapia Matrimonial y Familiar, con más de 12 años de experiencia tratando a parejas en conflicto matrimonial, mantiene una incidencia de menos de uno por ciento de divorcios entre ellas. También aprenderás a valorar cuando sí es necesaria la separación, en el caso de que tu pareja padeciera de algún tipo de Desorden De Personalidad no identificado, y que al diagnosticarse, reusara a tratarse.

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1463360533

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Dignifying Argentina

Peronism, Citizenship, and Mass Consumption

By: Eduardo Elena

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Dignifying Argentina

Peronism, Citizenship, and Mass Consumption

By: Eduardo Elena

During the mid-twentieth century, Latin American countries witnessed unprecedented struggles over the terms of national sovereignty, civic participation, and social justice. Nowhere was this more visible than in Peronist Argentina (1946-1955), where Juan and Eva Per—n led the region's largest populist movement in pursuit of new political hopes and material desires. Eduardo Elena considers this transformative moment from a fresh perspective by exploring the intersection of populism and mass consumption. He argues that Peronist actors redefined national citizenship around expansive promises of a vida digna (dignified life), which encompassed not only the satisfaction of basic wants, but also the integration of working Argentines into a modern consumer society. Drawing on documents such as the correspondence between Peronist sympathizers and authorities, Elena sheds light on the contest over the vida digna. He shows how the consumer aspirations of citizens overlapped with Peronist paradigms of state-led development, but not without generating great friction among allies and opposition from diverse sectors of society. Consumer practices encouraged intense public scrutiny of class and gender comportment, and everyday objects became charged with new cultural meaning. By providing important insights on why Peronism struck such a powerful chord, Dignifying Argentina situates Latin America within the broader history of citizenship and consumption at midcentury and provides innovative ways to understand the politics of redistribution in the region today.

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822977389

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Global Genres, Local Films

The Transnational Dimension of Spanish Cinema

By: Elena Oliete-Aldea

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Global Genres, Local Films

The Transnational Dimension of Spanish Cinema

By: Elena Oliete-Aldea

The acute processes of globalisation at the turn of the century have generated an increased interest in exploring the interactions between the so-called global cultural products or trends and their specific local manifestations. Even though cross-cultural connections are becoming more patent in filmic productions in the last decades, cinema per se has always been characterized by its hybrid, transnational, border-crossing nature. From its own inception, Spanish film production was soon tied to the Hollywood film industry for its subsistence, but other film traditions such as those in the Soviet Union, France, Germany and, in particular, Italy also determined either directly or indirectly the development of Spanish cinema. Global Genres, Local Films: The Transnational Dimension of Spanish Cinema reaches beyond the limits of the film text and analyses and contextualizes the impact of global film trends and genres on Spanish cinema in order to study how they helped articulate specific national challenges from the conflict between liberalism and tradition in the first decades of the 20th century to the management of the contemporary financial crisis. This collection provides the first comprehensive picture of the complex national and supranational forces that have shaped Spanish films, revealing the tensions and the intricate dialogue between cross-cultural aesthetic and narrative models on the one hand, and indigenous traditions on the other, as well as the political and historical contingencies these different expressions responded to.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501320165

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9781501320163

Fratricidio Y Contricion

Breve Historia Del Antisemitismo Cristiano

By: Elena Dantas

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Fratricidio Y Contricion

Breve Historia Del Antisemitismo Cristiano

By: Elena Dantas

Dentro de una perspectiva cristiana, Fratricidio yContricion abarca una breve historia del antisemitismo cristiano; el mea culpa expuesto despues de la Segunda Guerra Mundial por ambasIglesiastanto catolica como protestante-evangelica, y los acuerdos pautados despues del Concilio Vaticano II, a find evitar toda clase de antisemitismo. Asimismo, el libro enfoca el anti-sionismo , el cual se centra en la negacion del Holocaustoy del derecho historico del pueblo judio a Eretz Israel.

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1463473060

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Tinisima

By: Elena Poniatowska

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Tinisima

By: Elena Poniatowska

This fictionalized account of the life of Tina Modotti is a fascinating story of the complex woman caught up in the social and political turbulence of the pre-World War II era.

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0826341233

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Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater

Upstaging Dictatorship

By: Ana Elena Puga

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Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater

Upstaging Dictatorship

By: Ana Elena Puga

Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elaboration in two different kinds of allegory. Each chapter focuses on one contemporary playwright (or one collaborative team, in the case of Brazil) from each of four Southern Cone countries and compares the playwrights’ aesthetic strategies for subverting ideologies of dictatorship: Carlos Manuel Varela (memory in Uruguay), Juan Radrigán (testimony in Chile), Augusto Boal and his co-author Gianfrancesco Guarnieri (historical allegory in Brazil), Griselda Gambaro (abstract allegory in Argentina).

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1135899231

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The Ideal Refugees

Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival

By: Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh

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The Ideal Refugees

Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival

By: Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh

Refugee camps are typically perceived as militarized and patriarchal spaces, and yet the Sahrawi refugee camps and their inhabitants have consistently been represented as ideal in nature: uniquely secular and democratic spaces, and characterized by gender equality. Drawing on extensive research with and about Sahrawi refugees in Algeria, Cuba, Spain, South Africa, and Syria, Fiddian- Qasmiyeh explores how, why, and to what effect such idealized depictions have been projected onto the international arena.

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New Functional Biomaterials for Medicine and Healthcare

By: Elena P. Ivanova,Kateryna Bazaka,R. J Crawford

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New Functional Biomaterials for Medicine and Healthcare

By: Elena P. Ivanova,Kateryna Bazaka,R. J Crawford

New Functional Biomaterials for Medicine and Healthcare provides a concise summary of the latest developments in key types of biomaterials. The book begins with an overview of the use of biomaterials in contemporary healthcare and the process of developing novel biomaterials; the key issues and challenges associated with the design of complex implantable systems are also highlighted. The book then reviews the main materials used in functional biomaterials, particularly their properties and applications. Individual chapters focus on both natural and synthetic polymers, metallic biomaterials, and bio-inert and bioactive ceramics. Advances in processing technologies and our understanding of materials and their properties have made it possible for scientists and engineers to develop more sophisticated biomaterials with more targeted functionality. New Functional Biomaterials for Medicine and Healthcare provides an ideal one-volume summary of this important field that represents essential reading for scientists, engineers, and clinicians, and a useful reference text for undergraduate and postgraduate students. - Provides a concise summary of the latest developments in key types of biomaterials - Highlights key issues and challenges associated with the design of complex implantable systems - Chapters focus on both natural and synthetic polymers, metallic biomaterials, and bio-inert and bioactive ceramics

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1782422668

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Musical ImagiNation

U.S-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom

By: Maria Elena Cepeda

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Musical ImagiNation

U.S-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom

By: Maria Elena Cepeda

Long associated with the pejorative clichés of the drug-trafficking trade and political violence, contemporary Colombia has been unfairly stigmatized. In this pioneering study of the Miami music industry and Miami’s growing Colombian community, María Elena Cepeda boldly asserts that popular music provides an alternative common space for imagining and enacting Colombian identity. Using an interdisciplinary analysis of popular media, music, and music video, Cepeda teases out issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and transnational identity in the Latino/a music industry and among its most renowned rock en español, pop, and vallenato stars. Musical ImagiNation provides an overview of the ongoing Colombian political and economic crisis and the dynamics of Colombian immigration to metropolitan Miami. More notably, placed in this context, the book discusses the creative work and media personas of talented Colombian artists Shakira, Andrea Echeverri of Aterciopelados, and Carlos Vives. In her examination of the transnational figures and music that illuminate the recent shifts in the meanings attached to Colombian identity both in the United States and Latin America, Cepeda argues that music is a powerful arbitrator of memory and transnational identity.

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NYU Press

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0814772250

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Returning Islamist Foreign Fighters

Threats and Challenges to the West

By: Elena Pokalova

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Returning Islamist Foreign Fighters

Threats and Challenges to the West

By: Elena Pokalova

This book examines the challenges foreign fighter returnees from Syria and Iraq pose to Western countries. A number of returnees have demonstrated that they are willing to use violence against their home countries, and some have already staged terrorist attacks on Western soil on apparent orders from ISIS. Through the historical context of previous waves of mobilizations of Islamist foreign fighters, the author tracks the experiences of returnees from previous conflicts and discusses the major security challenges associated with them. The book analyzes the major approaches implemented by Western countries in response to foreign fighter returnees, discusses the prosecution of returnees, and evaluates the corresponding challenges of prison radicalization.

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Springer Nature

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3030314782

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The Fetish of Peace

The Myth of Transformational Peace

By: Joseph H. Campos,Katherine Brannum,Elena Mastors

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The Fetish of Peace

The Myth of Transformational Peace

By: Joseph H. Campos,Katherine Brannum,Elena Mastors

The Fetish of Peace: The Myth of Transformational Peace is a critical theoretical exploration of the ways in which the concept of peace is utilized and managed by the international arena and statist systems, distinctive in that the concept of peace is consistently employed in various performances by the state, and international systems, to address serious issues/problems in the international community. Despite all the rhetoric of peace and actions taken in the name of peace, we find ourselves within the same cycle of violence.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498595715

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Learning Spanish

Step by Step

By: Elena Friederichsen

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Learning Spanish

Step by Step

By: Elena Friederichsen

If you are one of those who wants to but does not have the courage, let me tell you that Spanish is a very beautiful language, full of magic and richness, and it is not difficult since you do not have to be afraid to learn it. The course I offer in this book is divided into concepts, grammar, pronunciation, and comparing differences between English and Spanish with short but clear explanations, only few lessons to learn, and the most important clues that people need for speaking Spanish. Speaking and understanding a different language is one of the most beautiful and satisfying things in life.

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From the Classroom to the Courtroom

A Guide to Interpreting in the U.S. Justice System

By: Elena M. De Jongh

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From the Classroom to the Courtroom

A Guide to Interpreting in the U.S. Justice System

By: Elena M. De Jongh

From the Classroom to the Courtroom: A guide to interpreting in the U.S. justice system offers a wealth of information that will assist aspiring court interpreters in providing linguistic minorities with access to fair and expeditious judicial proceedings. The guide will familiarize prospective court interpreters and students interested in court interpreting with the nature, purpose and language of pretrial, trial and post-trial proceedings. Documents, dialogues and monologues illustrate judicial procedures; the description of court hearings with transcripts creates a realistic model of the stages involved in live court proceedings. The innovative organization of this guide mirrors the progression of criminal cases through the courts and provides readers with an accessible, easy-to-follow format. It explains and illustrates court procedure as well as provides interpreting exercises based on authentic materials from each successive stage. This novel organization of materials around the stages of the judicial process also facilitates quick reference without the need to review the entire volume -- an additional advantage that makes this guide the ideal interpreters' reference manual. Supplementary instructional aids include recordings in English and Spanish and a glossary of selected legal terms in context.

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902723194X

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Underwater Cultural Heritage

Ethical concepts and practical challenges

By: Elena Perez-Alvaro

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Underwater Cultural Heritage

Ethical concepts and practical challenges

By: Elena Perez-Alvaro

Underwater Cultural Heritage investigates cases of underwater cultural heritage, exploring ethical issues that have never been studied before. A vast cultural heritage lies beneath the sea, including the archaeological remains of more than three million vessels, as well as historic monuments and whole cities. In addition, climate change, population growth and current events around the world mean that new underwater cultural heritage is being created faster than ever before. It is, therefore, essential that the ethical issues related to the management of such heritage are considered now, especially as decisions made now will bestow the heritage with a value and will establish legal frameworks that could be used either to protect or harm underwater heritage in the future. Considering a range of challenges related to underwater cultural heritage - including preservation, management, use, sustainability, valuation, politics, identity, human rights, and intangible heritage - the book presents case studies that both illustrate the key ethical issues and also offer possible solutions to help navigate such challenges. The book will also explore the various legislative instruments protecting underwater cultural heritage and emphasise the importance of revising and updating legal frameworks, whilst also taking into account ethical concerns that may expose cultural heritage to more serious menaces. Underwater Cultural Heritage draws on case studies from around the globe and, as such, should be of great interest to academics, researchers and students working in heritage studies, archaeology, history, politics and sustainability. It should also be appealing to heritage practitioners and policymakers who want to learn more about the issues surrounding not only management of underwater cultural heritage but management of cultural heritage in general.

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0429885784

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9780429885785

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