Download or read book El basurero de la historia written by Greil Marcus and published by Grupo Planeta Spain. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro podría haberse llamado fácilmente “El robo de la historia”. Ni siquiera ser testigo –uno mismo- de los hechos es garantía de que permanezcan ininmutables. En el curso de averiguaciones recientes, comprendí que las palabras de Greil Marcus me eran citadas tan continuamente como las de los sujetos de sus ensayos. Pero una vez que hay suficientes palabras dando vueltas, alguien va a usarlas para hacerte meter la pata. Elvis Costello Como en los Estados Unidos, con sus linchamientos, revueltas raciales y ataques terroristas sepultados, borrados, silenciados, anónimos –como la Masacre de Bath School de 1927 cerca de East Lansing, capital del estado de Michigan (no se preocupen si no escucharon hablar de ella; casi nadie en los Estados Unidos la conoce)-, toda sociedad encontrará sus modos de silenciar sus propias historias; de convertir un sobrio testimonio en el griterío de un loco, de mezclar la verdad y la mentira hasta que, para el agrado de muchos, ni siquiera un investigador o un místico sea capaz de distinguir una de otra. Pero pasado el tiempo, tarde o temprano, todo fracasa. Greil Marcus, “Prólogo a la edición castellana” Como nunca, estamos inmersos en la cocina cínica del “autorretrato narrativo de una sociedad”, como llama Marcus a esta modelización de la Historia, que impone necesariamente exclusiones y olvidos. En este fuego cruzado de relatos, donde otros pretenden guionarnos la vida, lo mejor sería correrse un rato al costado y darse el tiempo para detectar qué es lo que otra vez acaba en el basurero de la historia. Pablo Schanton, “Introducción”
Download or read book We the Barbarians written by Mabel Moraña and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We, the Barbarians” embarks on a careful and exhaustive reading of three of the most prominent authors in the latest wave of Mexican fiction: Yuri Herrera, Fernanda Melchor, and Valeria Luiselli. Originally published in Mexico in 2021, this work is divided into three parts, one for each author’s narrative production. The book analyzes all of the literary works published by Herrera, Melchor, and Luiselli from the beginning of their writing careers until 2021, allowing for a diachronic interpretation of their respective narrative projects as well as for comparative approaches to their aesthetic and ideological contours. Characterized by the fragmentation of civil society and the decomposition of the myths that accompanied the consolidation of the modern nation, Mexican visual and literary arts have explored a myriad of representational avenues to approach the phenomena of violence, institutional decay, and political instability. The critical and theoretical approaches in “We, the Barbarians” explore a variety of alternative symbolic representations of topics such as nationalism, community, and affect in times impacted by systemic violence, precariousness, and radical inequality. Moraña perceives the negotiations between regional/local imaginaries and global scenarios characterized by the devaluation and resignification of life, both at individual and collective levels. Though it uses three authors as its focus, this book seeks to more broadly theorize the question of the relationship between literature and the social in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Latin America written by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Latin America” is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively. Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three interlocking steps: first, an intellectual history of the concept of Latin America in its natural historical habitat—mid-nineteenth-century redefinitions of empire and the cultural, political, and economic intellectualism; second, a serious and uncompromising critique of the current “Latin Americanism”—which circulates in United States–based humanities and social sciences; and, third, accepting that we might actually be stuck with “Latin America,” Tenorio-Trillo charts a path forward for the writing and teaching of Latin American history. Accessible and forceful, rich in historical research and specificity, the book offers a distinctive, conceptual history of Latin America and its many connections and intersections of political and intellectual significance. Tenorio-Trillo’s book is a masterpiece of interdisciplinary scholarship.
Download or read book The Last Days of Humanism A Reappraisal of Quevedo s Thought written by Alfonso Rey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francisco de Quevedo (Madrid, 1580-1645) was well known for his rich and dynamic style, achieved through an ingenious and complex manipulation of language. Yet he was also a consistent and systematic thinker, with moral philosophy, broadly understood, lying at the core of his numerous and varied works. Quevedo lived in an age of transition, with the Humanist tradition on the wane, and his writing expresses the characteristic uncertainty of a moment of cultural transition. In this book Alfonso Rey surveys Quevedo's ideas in such diverse fields as ethics, politics, religion and literature, ideas which hitherto have received little attention. New information is also provided towards a reconstruction of the cultural evolution of Europe in the years prior to the Enlightenment, and thus the scope of the book extends beyond that of Spanish literature.
Download or read book Cuba 1953 1978 written by Ronald H. Chilcote and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Picaresque and the Writing Life in Mexico written by Jorge Téllez and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies picaresque narratives from 1690 to 2013, examining how this literary form serves as a reflection on the material conditions necessary for writing literature in Mexico. In The Picaresque and the Writing Life in Mexico, Jorge Téllez argues that Mexican writers have drawn on the picaresque as a device for pondering what they regard as the perils of intellectual and creative labor. Surveying ten narratives from 1690 to 2013, Téllez shows how, by and large, all of them are iterations of the same basic structure: pícaro meets writer; pícaro tells life story; writer eagerly writes it down. This written mediation (sometimes fictional but other times completely factual) is presented as part of a transaction in which it is rarely clear who is exploiting whom. Highlighting this ambiguity, Téllez’s study brings into focus the role that the picaresque has played in the presentation of writers as disenfranchised and vulnerable subjects. But as Téllez demonstrates, these narratives embody a discourse of precarity that goes beyond pícaros, and applies to all subjects who engage in the production and circulation of literature. In this way, Téllez shows that the literary form of the picaresque is, above all, a reflection on the value of literature, as well as on the place and role of writing in Mexican society more broadly. The Picaresque and the Writing Life in Mexico is a unique work that suggests new paths for studying the reiteration of literary forms across centuries. Looking at the picaresque in particular, Téllez offers a new interpretation of this genre within its national context and suggests ways in which this genre remains relevant for reflecting on literature in contemporary society. It will be of interest to students and scholars of Latin American studies, Mexican cultures and literatures, and comparative literature.
Download or read book Resisting Categories Latin American And or Latino written by Mari Carmen Ramirez and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This anthology of more than 165 seminal writings by influential twentieth- and twenty-first century artists and critics who explore and challenge complex definitions of what it means to be 'Latin American' or 'Latino' is designed to be an indispensable tool for the study of Latin American and Latino art"--
Download or read book The Nirex Collection Economy in revolution written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book C CTEL La Historia de Carav n written by Zahorí and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caravan, como cualquier lugar de la tierra, no es ajeno a los contrastes naturales del hombre, mas no asi a la naturaleza per se. Contrastes que mas parecen contradicciones propias del desarrollo y de la condicion humana. Las circunstancias y los hechos -cantidad de experiencia-, sin entrar en calificativos absurdos, obedecen a un destino (no como mera sancion). Ese que no da mayores posibilidades de eleccion; pero que recomienda esperanza e inutiliza la amargura, para llevar a sus protagonistas a una total justificacion de lo que no puede justificarse. Elige o no elige el hombre? Digamos, pues, que desde nuestro punto de vista y dentro de un marco de ilusiones si lo hace. Los habitantes se preocupan por vivir mejor, y eso los lleva a dos situaciones: ignorar o esperar. Dos opciones que marcan una pauta de vida.
Download or read book S lo Quien Se Siente Amado Puede Ser Educado written by Juan Bosco Abascal Carranza and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Se explica que para la salud humana la satisfacción de "Las Hambres Básicas" de Caricias, Tiempo y Reconocimiento es tan importante como la ingesta de alimentos, oxígeno y agua. Comprenderemos qué son las Endorfinas -la droga de salud, la alegría, el bienestar y el bienhacer. Conoceremos variadas formas de producirlas en nuestro organismo, pero ante todo la que nos proporciona las cinco ganancias más codiciadas: envejecer despacio, mantener un sistema inmunológico invencible, disponer de una gran energía, vivir alegremente, y poder superar cualquier dolor físico o corporal. Esta forma única es la práctica de las Virtudes: Prudencia, Justicia, Fortaleza, Templanza, Fe, Esperanza y Caridad. Queda demostrado que para educar a nuestros hijos en la Virtud, la receta no consiste en "hacer que ellos hagan lo que creemos que ellos deben hacer", ni mucho menos en lograr que "ellos hagan lo que los padres queremos", sino algo muy distinto: que dentro de un "Sistema Incondicional" de Caricias, Tiempo y Reconocimiento, les hagamos vivir la fuerza de nuestro Amor, para que "ellos quieran hacer habitualmente lo que conviene al Bien Común y al Bien Integral" de todos los involucrados en el proceso educativo. Para esto hace falta desarrollar un Liderazgo Transformador: sólo quien se siente amado puede ser educado. Se propone el justo medio entre los dos extremos en pugna: ni moralismo rígido, ni naturalismo hedonista o utilitario, sino del equilibrio entre esos dos extremos. Como estrategias auxiliares se plantea lo que es la Reingeniería de Valores y Virtudes, se analizan las Bases Filosóficas para Jerarquizar los Valores Operantes, Reales; y se propone la sana jerarquía de los Nueve Valores Universales, así como el rechazo de los Contravalores. El libro concluye con una explicación apasionante: ¿Quién Soy Yo? A la vez que se exponen los Fundamentos Filosóficos de la Dignidad de la Persona.
Download or read book La Historia Jamas Contada Del Tercer Planet written by Raymundo Valadez Aguilar and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta historia te da versión de lo sucedido, y las cosas que siguen pasando en el tercer planeta(la tierra) desde hace 65 millones de años hasta nuestros días, una historia que es totalmente lógica y racional de lo sucedido en un gran cataclismo artificial, que fue la causa de la extinción de los dinosaurios antecedido por una gran guerra entre dos razas, que forcejeaban por el control y los recursos naturales del planeta, de cuales fueron los animales que sobrevivieron a esta guerra y de cómo es que se abrió paso la vida por si sola, de cómo fue que el ser humano fue "evolucionado" y como fue que empezó a poblar la tierra, del por que y como es que existen las diferentes razas en los rincones mas alejados, blancos, negros, rojos y amarillos, del por que unas civilizaciones son mas avanzadas y otras siguen en la edad de hierro, una historia que forcejea entre la verdad y la ficción de la cual solamente el lector tiene la ultima palabra. Esta historia te invita a ver la realidad y no sumergirte en lo cotidiano, te lleva a pensar más allá de la fantasía, te enseña que el poner atencion a las cosas prácticas te lleva por un camino de superación y desenvolvimiento personal, te enseña que revolucionar es evolucionar.
Download or read book Espectros written by Alberto Ribas-Casasayas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-24 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Espectros is a compilation of original scholarly studies that presents the first volume-length exploration of the spectral in literature, film, and photography of Latin America, Spain, and the Latino diaspora. In recent decades, scholarship in deconstructionist "hauntology," trauma studies, affect in image theory, and a renewed interest in the Gothic genre, has given rise to a Spectral Studies approach to the study of narrative. Haunting, the spectral, and the effects of the unseen, carry a special weight in contemporary Latin American and Spanish cultures (referred to in the book as “Transhispanic cultures”), due to the ominous legacy of authoritarian governments and civil wars, as well as the imposition of the unseen yet tangible effects of global economics and neoliberal policies. Ribas and Petersen’s detailed introductory analysis grounds haunting as a theoretical tool for literary and cultural criticism in the Transhispanic world, with an emphasis on the contemporary period from the end of the Cold War to the present. The chapters in this volume explore haunting from a diversity of perspectives, in particular engaging haunting as a manifestation of trauma, absence, and mourning. The editors carefully distinguish the collective, cultural dimension of historical trauma from the individual, psychological experience of the aftermath of a violent history, always taking into account unresolved social justice issues. The volume also addresses the association of the spectral photographic image with the concept of haunting because of the photograph’s ability to reveal a presence that is traditionally absent or has been excluded from hegemonic representations of society. The volume concludes with a series of studies that address the unseen effects and progressive deterioration of the social fabric as a result of a globalized economy and neoliberal policies, from the modernization of the nation-state to present.
Download or read book Donde Empieza la Historia written by Miriam Bornstein-Somoza and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Human Rights Industry written by Alfred de Zayas and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The promotion and protection of human rights is a pillar of the United Nations, enshrined in the Charter, the international bill of rights, elaborated in General Assembly resolutions and declarations, and buttressed by monitoring mechanisms and regional human rights courts. After WWII the world demanded respect for collective and individual rights and freedoms, including the right to live in peace, i.e.freedom from fear and want, the right to food, water, health, shelter, belief and expression. Human dignity was understood as an inalienable entitlement of every member of the human family, rights that were juridical. justiciable and enforceable. It did not take long for these noble goals to be politicized. Many States systematically weaponize human rights for geopolitics. A “human rights industry” operates at all levels and instrumentalizes values with the complicity of diplomats, politicians, non-governmental organizations, academics, journalists, -independent experts-, rapporteurs, secretariat members and media conglomerates. This book addresses the decisive role played by major governmental and private agencies such as the National Endowment for Democracy, USAID, elite think tanks, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, World Economic Forum and others in shaping a “perception” of human rights that primarily serves geopolitical interests. Major non-governmental organizations that once were truly independent, including Amnesty and HRW, today belong to the leading narrative managers. The voting record in the General Assembly and Human Rights Council by China, Russia, the United States, Canada, UK, EU, OIC, Group of 77, Non-aligned movement, etc. documents who supports and who subverts human rights. Why do the Council and NGOs practice double-standards and allow States to brazenly lie, blackmail and bully weaker States? Under the pretext of providing humanitarian assistance, lethal military interventions are conducted, e.g. in Libya, emblematic example of how the noble idea of the “responsibility to protect” was corrupted. Propagandistic use of the words “human rights”, “democracy”, “rule of law”, "freedom" - demean them and subvert rational discourse. Drawing on more than four decades of working in the field of human rights as UN staff member, rapporteur, consultant, professor and NGO president, Alfred de Zayas examines how the tools of implementation of human rights serve to entrench political narratives promoted by the “industry”.
Download or read book Antonio Buero Vallejo and Alfonso Sastre written by Marsha Forys and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
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