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Book Conquista y contraconquista   la escritura del Nuevo Mundo   actas del XXVIII Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana

Download or read book Conquista y contraconquista la escritura del Nuevo Mundo actas del XXVIII Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Coronado Expedition

Download or read book The Coronado Expedition written by Richard Flint and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as a hardback in 2003.

Book El Lector

    Book Details:
  • Author : Araceli Tinajero
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2010-02-01
  • ISBN : 0292773676
  • Pages : 301 pages

Download or read book El Lector written by Araceli Tinajero and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of reading aloud has a long history, and the tradition still survives in Cuba as a hard-won right deeply embedded in cigar factory workers' culture. In El Lector, Araceli Tinajero deftly traces the evolution of the reader from nineteenth-century Cuba to the present and its eventual dissemination to Tampa, Key West, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. In interviews with present-day and retired readers, she records testimonies that otherwise would have been lost forever, creating a valuable archive for future historians. Through a close examination of journals, newspapers, and personal interviews, Tinajero relates how the reading was organized, how the readers and readings were selected, and how the process affected the relationship between workers and factory owners. Because of the reader, cigar factory workers were far more cultured and in touch with the political currents of the day than other workers. But it was not only the reading material, which provided political and literary information that yielded self-education, that influenced the workers; the act of being read to increased the discipline and timing of the artisan's job.

Book The Places of History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Doris Sommer
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780822323440
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book The Places of History written by Doris Sommer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of essays exploring regionalism in Latin America which seek to fill historical gaps created by the reading of Latin American literature either through a totalizing view of a globalized culture or through universal formulae for reading offere

Book The Miraculous Lie

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  • Author : Bart L. Lewis
  • Publisher : Lexington Books
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780739107874
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book The Miraculous Lie written by Bart L. Lewis and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The golden specter of El Dorado and its promises of unlimited wealth have haunted Western iconography for centuries. The Miraculous Lie: Lope de Aguirre and the Search for El Dorado in the Latin American Historical Novel is a fascinating study of five twentieth-century Latin American novels that focus on one particular search for El Dorado: the infamous 1559 expedition, headed by Pedro Ursua and the first legendary colonial rebel against the crown, Lope de Aguirre. Author Bart Lewis approaches five works--Arturo Uslar Pietri's El Camino de El Dorado, Abel Posses's Daim-n, Miguel Otero Silva's Lope de Aquirre, Pr'ncipe de la Libertad, Jorge Ernesto Funes's Una Lanza por Lope de Aguirre, and FZlix _lvarez SOenz's Cr-nica de Blasfemos--as representations of Latin American literature during the mid to late twentieth-century and as re-examinations of the notorious figure of Lope de Aguirre. Lewis is therefore able to provide not only a successful chronology of the stylistic development of the Latin American novel, but also a thoughtful analysis of how these novels appropriate Aguirre and give a revisionist and authentic voice to the Latin American cultural founder. Wonderfully engaging and beautifully written, The Miraculous Lie examines the search for El Dorado in modern Latin American literature as the search for self-determination.

Book Capturing the Landscape of New Spain

Download or read book Capturing the Landscape of New Spain written by Rebecca A. Carte and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of an encomendero, Baltasar Obregón was twenty years old when he joined the 1564 expedition led by the first governor of Nueva Vizcaya, Francisco de Ibarra. The purpose of the expedition was to establish mining settlements in the borderlands of New Spain and to suppress indigenous rebellions in the region. Although Obregón’s role in the Ibarra expedition was that of soldier-explorer, and despite his lacking an advanced education, he would go on to compose Historia de los descubrimientos de Nueva España twenty years later, expanding his narrative to include the years before and after his own firsthand experiences with Ibarra. Obregón depicts the storied landscape of the northern borderlands with vivid imagery, fusing setting and situation, constructing a new reality of what was, is, and should be, and presenting it as truth. In Capturing the Landscape of New Spain, Rebecca A. Carte explains how landscape performs a primary role in Obregón’s retelling, emerging at times as protagonist and others as antagonist. Carte argues that Obregón’s textualization offers one of the first renderings of the region through the Occidental cultural lens, offering insight into Spanish cultural perceptions of landscape during a period of important social and political shifts. By examining mapping and landscape discourse, Carte shows how history and geography, past and present, people and land, come together to fashion the landscape of northern New Spain.

Book Canines in Cervantes and Vel  zquez

Download or read book Canines in Cervantes and Vel zquez written by John Beusterien and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of the creation of canine breeds in early modern Europe, especially Spain, illustrates the different constructs against which notions of human identity were forged. This book is the first comprehensive history of early modern Spanish dogs and it evaluates how two of Spain’s most celebrated and canonical cultural figures of this period, the artist Diego Velázquez and the author Miguel de Cervantes, radically question humankind’s sixteenth-century anthropocentric self-fashioning. In general, this study illuminates how Animal Studies can offer new perspectives to understanding Hispanism, giving readers a fresh approach to the historical, literary and artistic complexity of early modern Spain.

Book Millennial Literatures of the Americas  1492 2002

Download or read book Millennial Literatures of the Americas 1492 2002 written by Thomas O. Beebee and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems that Americans - North, South, Middle, and Caribbean - tend to define themselves by narrating their End."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Pirate Novels

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  • Author : Nina Gerassi-Navarro
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780822323938
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Pirate Novels written by Nina Gerassi-Navarro and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of selected pirate novels of the 19th century which illustrates the relationship between varied images of pirates and the different political projects of the authors, and the use of pirates as emblems of the struggle of Spanish America to transform

Book Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies  1530 1900

Download or read book Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies 1530 1900 written by Joanne Pillsbury and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive resource for early works on indigenous Andean cultures

Book Latin American Studies Newsletter

Download or read book Latin American Studies Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book For an Audience of Men

Download or read book For an Audience of Men written by Lisa Petrov and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Carlos Fuentes s Terra Nostra and the Kabbalah

Download or read book Carlos Fuentes s Terra Nostra and the Kabbalah written by Sheldon Penn and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than treating the Jewish Kabbalah as merely one heretical doctrine among others in Fuente's novel Tera nostra, Penn (Spanish, U. of Leicester) argues that examining its presence is vital for understanding both the theme and style. He draws on 20th-century scholarship showing links between Jewish mysticism and theories of history and textuality, and literary implementations of the Kabbalah by writers who significantly influenced Fuentes such as Alego Carpentier and Jorge Luis Borges. His discusses the Kabbalistic concept of language and its operation in the novel, Celestina as metaphysical woman, Kabbalistic time, and a novelistic historiography. The text is double spaced. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Book Iberoamericana

Download or read book Iberoamericana written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inti

Download or read book Inti written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Writers Directory

Download or read book The Writers Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book La torre

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 996 pages

Download or read book La torre written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: