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Borges and the Kabbalah

And Other Essays on His Fiction and Poetry

By: Jaime Alazraki

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Borges and the Kabbalah

And Other Essays on His Fiction and Poetry

By: Jaime Alazraki

This volume brings together a collection of essays on Borges by leading scholar Jaime Alazraki. Together the essays constitute an introduction to important aspects of Borges' oeuvre, including the influence of the Kabbalah, structure and style in the fiction, Borges' poetry, and Borges' impact on Latin American literature.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521306841

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9780521306843

Love and Despair

How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico

By: Jaime M. Pensado

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Love and Despair

How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico

By: Jaime M. Pensado

Love and Despair explores the multiple and mostly unknown ways progressive and conservative Catholic actors, such as priests, lay activists, journalists, intellectuals, and filmmakers, responded to the significant social and cultural shifts that formed competing notions of modernity in Cold War Mexico. Jaime M. Pensado demonstrates how the Catholic Church as a heterogeneous institution—with key transnational networks in Latin America and Western Europe—was invested in youth activism, state repression, and the counterculture from the postwar period to the more radical Sixties. Similar to their secular counterparts, progressive Catholics often saw themselves as revolutionary actors and nearly always framed their activism as an act of love. When their movements were repressed and their ideas were co-opted, marginalized, and commercialized at the end of the Sixties, the liberating hope of love often turned into a sense of despair.

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374

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Univ of California Press

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0520392965

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9780520392960

Rebel Mexico

Student Unrest and Authoritarian Political Culture During the Long Sixties

By: Jaime M. Pensado

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Rebel Mexico

Student Unrest and Authoritarian Political Culture During the Long Sixties

By: Jaime M. Pensado

Winner of the 2014 Mexican Book Prize In the middle of the twentieth century, a growing tide of student activism in Mexico reached a level that could not be ignored, culminating with the 1968 movement. This book traces the rise, growth, and consequences of Mexico's "student problem" during the long sixties (1956-1971). Historian Jaime M. Pensado closely analyzes student politics and youth culture during this period, as well as reactions to them on the part of competing actors. Examining student unrest and youthful militancy in the forms of sponsored student thuggery (porrismo), provocation, clientelism (charrismo estudiantil), and fun (relajo), Pensado offers insight into larger issues of state formation and resistance. He draws particular attention to the shifting notions of youth in Cold War Mexico and details the impact of the Cuban Revolution in Mexico's universities. In doing so, Pensado demonstrates the ways in which deviating authorities—inside and outside the government—responded differently to student unrest, and provides a compelling explanation for the longevity of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.

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Stanford University Press

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0804787298

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9780804787291

Borges and the Kabbalah

And Other Essays on His Fiction and Poetry

By: Jaime Alazraki

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And Other Essays on His Fiction and Poetry

By: Jaime Alazraki

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Borges and the Kabbalah

Borges and the Kabbalah

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Rebel Mexico

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