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Book Spain Transformed

    Book Details:
  • Author : N. Townson
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2007-07-12
  • ISBN : 0230592643
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book Spain Transformed written by N. Townson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spain Transformed addresses the sweeping social and cultural changes that characterized the late Franco regime. This wide-ranging collection reassesses the dictatorship's latter years by drawing on a wealth of new material and ideas, using an interdisciplinary approach.

Book Literature  Testimony and Cinema in Contemporary Colombian Culture

Download or read book Literature Testimony and Cinema in Contemporary Colombian Culture written by Rory O'Bryen and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory and mourning in Colombia. This book provides the first in-depth examination of a representative range of contemporary Colombian cultural engagements with the conflicts known simply as La Violencia that began in Colombia in the late 1940s. These include Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazábal's now classic revision of the 'novela de la Violencia', the autobiographical cycle of acclaimed author Fernando Vallejo, versions of the testimonio by Alfredo Molano and internationally renowned novelist Laura Restrepo, as well as cinematic works by Carlos Mayolo and Luis Ospina. These cultural icons, many of whom are remarkably understudied, show how the heterogeneity of social and cultural processes condensed in La Violencia demands a deconstruction of 'violence' in Colombian culture. This argument is developed in dialogue with European and Latin American cultural theory and contributes to theoretical debates surrounding issues of memory and mourning developed in other Latin American contexts. The narratives explored in this book provide alternatives to abstract historicism and show us how to imagine ways out of deeply rooted cycles of violence. Yet their insistence on haunting and spectres signals the problems besetting the task of mourning in Colombia, positing history rather than psychology as a remainder that troubles efforts to forge collective memories and enact social reconciliation. RORY O'BRYEN lectures in Latin American literature and culture at the University of Cambridge.

Book Spain in Crisis

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Preston
  • Publisher : Hassocks [Eng.] : Harvester Press
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Spain in Crisis written by Paul Preston and published by Hassocks [Eng.] : Harvester Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book ICGR 2018   Proceedings of the International Conference on Gender Research

Download or read book ICGR 2018 Proceedings of the International Conference on Gender Research written by Ana Azevedo and published by Acpil. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings represent the work of researchers participating in the International Conference on Gender Research (ICGR 2018) which is being hosted this year by the ISCAP in Porto, Portugal on 12-13 April 2018. ICGR is a new event on the international research conferences calendar and provides a valuable platform for individuals to present their research findings, display their work in progress and discuss conceptual and empirical advances in the areas surrounding Gender Research. It provides an important opportunity for researchers across a diverse range of fields all looking at aspects relating to Gender to come together with peers to share their varied and valuable experiences. The first day will be opened with a keynote presentation by Bruce I Newman from DePaul University in Chicago, USA who will address the topic Gender and Democracy. In the afternoon, there will be an additional keynote address on Empowering women in the IT/IS research: the importance of role models given by Isabel Ramos from, University of Minho, Portugal. The second day of the conference will be opened by Paola Paoloni from "NiccolÒ Cusano" University, Rome, Italy. Paola will be talking about A Relational Capital Dimension in Universities. In this event, participants will have the opportunity to have access to the latest research and developments concerning Gender Research and after an initial submission of 180 Abstracts, there will be 62 Research Papers, 8 PhD Research Papers, 2 Masters Papers, 1 Non-Academic and 4 Work in Progress Paper published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent truly global research in the field, with contributions from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, The Netherlands, Turkey, UAE, UK and USA.

Book Leopard in the Sun

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura Restrepo
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2000-09-12
  • ISBN : 0375705082
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Leopard in the Sun written by Laura Restrepo and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2000-09-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Laura Restrepo's stunning novel, a feud between two Colombian drug families escalates into a bloody, high-stakes war that will leave no one in its path untouched. The Barragáns and the Monsalves are rival clans, each steeped in wealth and power, each subject only to laws of their own making. The similarities end there. While the Barragáns, headed by the brutal Nando, remain tied to the ancient traditions, the Monsalves grapple with whether or not to follow Mani, their charismatic and conflicted leader, into a modern age in which even fewer rules apply. As both clans ponder the profits they might reap from an expanding global cocaine trade, Nando and Mani are faced with the consequences of their violent pasts--and forced, by their disillusioned women and the prices on their heads, to reckon with the possibility that nothing will be left once all their bullets have found their targets. Rife with sensual detail, this epic story of lust, betrayal, and revenge is as timeless as interfamily conflict and as immediate as today's news.

Book The Franco Regime  1936   1975

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stanley G. Payne
  • Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
  • Release : 2011-09-27
  • ISBN : 0299110737
  • Pages : 698 pages

Download or read book The Franco Regime 1936 1975 written by Stanley G. Payne and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of modern Spain is dominated by the figure of Francisco Franco, who presided over one of the longest authoritarian regimes of the twentieth century. Between 1936 and the end of the regime in 1975, Franco’s Spain passed through several distinct phases of political, institutional, and economic development, moving from the original semi-fascist regime of 1936–45 to become the Catholic corporatist “organic democracy” under the monarchy from 1945 to 1957. Distinguished historian Stanley G. Payne offers deep insight into the career of this complex and formidable figure and the enormous changes that shaped Spanish history during his regime.

Book Senora Honeycomb

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fanny Buitrago
  • Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780060173654
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Senora Honeycomb written by Fanny Buitrago and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amiel, baker of anatomically correct confectionery and other erotic goodies, whose bawdy culinary creations open her mind and whose innovative methods of debt collecting - a certain amount of credit for each kiss, more for an embrace, and so on - give new meaning to exacting a pound of flesh. In Amiel's kitchen, Teodora receives an education both culinary and carnal, one that will gradually awaken the sleeping force of her polymorphous sexuality.

Book Suicide of the Elephants

Download or read book Suicide of the Elephants written by Rickard Lalander and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Dictatorship to Democracy

Download or read book From Dictatorship to Democracy written by John H. Herz and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1982 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aegean Sea Continental Shelf Case  Greece V  Turkey

Download or read book Aegean Sea Continental Shelf Case Greece V Turkey written by International Court of Justice and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Freudian Reading

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  • Author : Lis Møller
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780812213812
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book The Freudian Reading written by Lis Møller and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Freudian Reading, Lis Moller examines the premises, procedures, and objectives of psychoanalytic reading in order to question the kind of knowledge such readings produce. But above all she questions the role of Freud as master explicator.

Book Railways of South America

Download or read book Railways of South America written by United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contested Pasts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katharine Hodgkin
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2003-09-02
  • ISBN : 1134448244
  • Pages : 508 pages

Download or read book Contested Pasts written by Katharine Hodgkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inter-disciplinary volume demonstrates, from a range of perspectives, the complex cultural work and struggles over meaning that lie at the heart of what we call memory. In the last decade, a focus on memory in the human sciences has encouraged new approaches to the study of the past. As the humanities and social sciences have put into question their own claims to objectivity, authority and universality, memory has appeared to offer a way of engaging with knowledge of the past as inevitably partial, subjective and local. At the same time, memory and memorial practices have become sites of contestation, and the politics of memory are increasingly prominent.

Book Spain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pierre Vilar
  • Publisher : Pergamon
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Spain written by Pierre Vilar and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1967 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alonzo V  Immigration and Naturalization Service

Download or read book Alonzo V Immigration and Naturalization Service written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spanish Romanticism and the Uses of History

Download or read book Spanish Romanticism and the Uses of History written by Derek Flitter and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flitter examines those narratives within the intellectual parameters that defined them, probing the conceptual strategies by which writers represented history.

Book Modernity and the Classical Tradition

Download or read book Modernity and the Classical Tradition written by Alan Colquhoun and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1991 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1960s, the rigor and conceptual clarity of Alan Colquhoun's criticism and theory have consistently stimulated debate and have served as an impetus for the pursuit of new directions in both theory and practice. This collection of essays displays Colquhoun's concern with developing a coherent discourse for the rampant pluralism that dominates contemporary architecture. Alan Colquhoun is a practicing architect and Professor of Architecture at Princeton University. His previous collection of essays received the 1985 Architectural Critics Award.