Download or read book The Contempor neos Group written by Salvador A. Oropesa and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following the Mexican Revolution, a nationalist and masculinist image of Mexico emerged through the novels of the Revolution, the murals of Diego Rivera, and the movies of Golden Age cinema. Challenging this image were the Contemporáneos, a group of writers whose status as outsiders (sophisticated urbanites, gay men, women) gave them not just a different perspective, but a different gaze, a new way of viewing the diverse Mexicos that exist within Mexican society. In this book, Salvador Oropesa offers original readings of the works of five Contemporáneos—Salvador Novo, Xavier Villaurrutia, Agustín Lazo, Guadalupe Marín, and Jorge Cuesta—and their efforts to create a Mexican literature that was international, attuned to the realities of modern Mexico, and flexible enough to speak to the masses as well as the elites. Oropesa discusses Novo and Villaurrutia in relation to neo-baroque literature and satiric poetry, showing how these inherently subversive genres provided the means of expressing difference and otherness that they needed as gay men. He explores the theatrical works of Lazo, Villaurrutia's partner, who offered new representations of the closet and of Mexican history from an emerging middle-class viewpoint. Oropesa also looks at women's participation in the Contemporáneos through Guadalupe Marín, the sometime wife of Diego Rivera and Jorge Cuesta, whose novels present women's struggles to have a view and a voice of their own. He concludes the book with Novo's self-transformation from intellectual into celebrity, which fulfilled the Contemporáneos' desire to merge high and popular culture and create a space where those on the margins could move to the center.
Download or read book Pap ac rcate soy un adolescente written by Oscar Suarez and published by Editorial San Pablo. This book was released on 2002 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En su sentido etimológico, adolescencia proviene del latín “adolescere”, que significa carecer. De allí que ésta se pueda tomar como un proceso constante y permanente del ser humano. Expertos psicólogos han considerado que es una etapa que merece ser orientada.
Download or read book Translocas written by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translocas focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explores the social and cultural disruptions caused by Latin American and Latinx “locas” (effeminate men, drag queens, transgender performers, and unruly women) and the various forms of violence to which queer individuals in Puerto Rico and the U.S. are subjected. This interdisciplinary, auto-ethnographic, queer-of-color performance studies book explores the lives and work of contemporary performers and activists including Sylvia Rivera, Nina Flowers, Freddie Mercado, Javier Cardona, Jorge Merced, Erika Lopez, Holly Woodlawn, Monica Beverly Hillz, Lady Catiria, and Barbra Herr; television programs such as RuPaul’s Drag Race; films such as Paris Is Burning, The Salt Mines, and Mala Mala; and literary works by authors such as Mayra Santos-Febres and Manuel Ramos Otero. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, a drag performer himself, demonstrates how each destabilizes (and sometimes reifies) dominant notions of gender and sexuality through drag and their embodied transgender expression. These performances provide a means to explore and critique issues of race, class, poverty, national identity, and migratory displacement while they posit a relationship between audiences and performers that has a ritual-like, communal dimension. The book also analyzes the murders of Jorge Steven López Mercado and Kevin Fret in Puerto Rico, and invites readers to challenge, question, and expand their knowledge about queer life, drag, trans performance, and Puerto Rican identity in the Caribbean and the diaspora. The author also pays careful attention to transgender experience, highlighting how trans activists and performers mold their bodies, promote social change, and create community in a context that oscillates between glamour and abjection.
Download or read book Modernity and Tradition written by Nelly S. Gonzalez and published by [Austin] : SALALM Secretariat, Benson Latin American Collection, The General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin. This book was released on 1996 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Queering Black Atlantic Religions written by Roberto Strongman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucumí/Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé to demonstrate how religious rituals of trance possession allow humans to understand themselves as embodiments of the divine. In these rituals, the commingling of humans and the divine produces gender identities that are independent of biological sex. As opposed to the Cartesian view of the spirit as locked within the body, the body in Afro-diasporic religions is an open receptacle. Showing how trance possession is a primary aspect of almost all Afro-diasporic cultural production, Strongman articulates transcorporeality as a black, trans-Atlantic understanding of the human psyche, soul, and gender as multiple, removable, and external to the body.
Download or read book Final Report Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book P lvora sangre y sexo written by Assen Kokalov and published by IAP. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the links between literature and film in Latin America by using queer theory and a series of recent cultural productions whose arguments destabilize traditional gender roles and heteronormative masculinity. For many years, the connections between a literary text and its film adaptation have been considered only from the point of view of the latter’s fidelity to the written work, which many scholars imagined to be the original that filmmakers needed to respect. Within the last two decades, however, the idea of adaptation fidelity has been challenged by a number of critics who refute the existence of an original text and promote the notion of an ambiguous and complex relationship between a literary work and its film adaptation. Based on such developments and with the help of queer theory, this book questions and revises several crucial theoretical approximations that analyze the relations between the two art forms in an attempt to overcome the limitations of fidelity discourse. This is the first book-length study that seeks to examine, with the appropriate detail, the connections between film and literature in Latin America through the lenses of queer theory and by focusing on the representations of numerous practices that do not fit within the general framework of heteronormative sexuality.
Download or read book Romance Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures written by George Haggerty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2000. A rich heritage that needs to be documented Beginning in 1869, when the study of homosexuality can be said to have begun with the establishment of sexology, this encyclopedia offers accounts of the most important international developments in an area that now occupies a critical place in many fields of academic endeavors. It covers a long history and a dynamic and ever changing present, while opening up the academic profession to new scholarship and new ways of thinking. A groundbreaking new approach While gays and lesbians have shared many aspects of life, their histories and cultures developed in profoundly different ways. To reflect this crucial fact, the encyclopedia has been prepared in two separate volumes assuring that both histories receive full, unbiased attention and that a broad range of human experience is covered. Written for and by a wide range of people Intended as a reference for students and scholars in all fields, as well as for the general public, the encyclopedia is written in user-friendly language. At the same time it maintains a high level of scholarship that incorporates both passion and objectivity. It is written by some of the most famous names in the field, as well as new scholars, whose research continues to advance gender studies into the future.
Download or read book Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 2 Number 1 written by Molly Ludlam and published by Phoenix Publishing House. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by Tavistock Relationships, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective. It seeks to provide a forum for disseminating current ideas and research and for developing clinical practice. The annual subscription provides two issues a year. Articles - A Couple Therapist Looks at the Wolf-Man by Robert Morley with a Foreword by Elspeth Morley - Reviewing the Case History of ‘The Young Homosexual Woman’: Two Different Settings – Two Case Histories? by Rodolfo Moguillansky and Mónica Vorchheimer - ‘A Bad Moment with the Light’. No-Sex Couples: The Role of Autistic–Contiguous Anxieties by Jenny Berg - Denial, Dissociation, and Emotional Memories in Couples Treatment by Judith P. Siegel - Working With Couples Between Past and Present: Some Clinical Implications by Flora Gigli, Patrizia Velotti, and Giulio Cesare Zavattini - Beyond Conception: Recovering the Creative Couple after Infertility by Adam Kremen
Download or read book COMBINADO DEL ESTE written by Mireya Robles and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COMBINADO DEL ESTE por Mireya Robles Reseña por Anna Diegel El título de esta obra, que se refiere al nombre de la cárcel más infame de Cuba, conocida por sus extremas violaciones de los derechos humanos, es solamente una descripción parcial del contenido de la novela. Ésta es el relato de casi siete meses en la vida de un joven cubano, desde los días que preceden a su arresto y encarcelamiento en el Combinado a fines de 1979, hasta su liberación y su embarco para los Estados Unidos durante la Operación Mariel en mayo de 1980, cuando Fidel Castro expulsó por la fuerza a los elementos “indeseables” de la sociedad cubana. La segunda parte de Combinado del Este describe la llegada de los “Marielitos” a la Florida, y después, el traslado de los prisoneros cubanos a un centro de relocalización y su vida en ese lugar. El héroe de la novela, Mede, es un personaje complejo, orgulloso de su masculinidad y pronto a defender sus derechos por la fuerza cuando es necesario, pero también, un padre cariñoso, un amigo compasivo y un poeta sensible. De hecho, él está encarcelado por haber escrito poemas disidentes contra el gobierno cubano. Mede es la voz narrativa de la novela y través de él vemos escenas de la vida carcelaria y la violencia habitual entre hombres confinados en un espacio restringido: peleas y puñaladas para determinar quién es más fuerte, violaciones homosexuales, y hasta asesinatos y suicidios. No existe ninguna solidaridad en la miseria entre los presos. Mede describe las condiciones inhumanas que reinan en la cárcel cubana: comida insuficiente y falta de higiene, brutalidad de los guardas hacia los presos y la hipocresía de un sistema que aumenta las raciones de comida o provee a los reclusos de ropa nueva cuando muestran la cárcel a miembros de organizaciones humanitarias extranjeras. Finalmente, Mede les da vida a los varios personajes reunidos en su celda: disidentes políticos, ladrones o asesinos comunes, homosexuales, testigos de Jehová. También describe las costumbres específicamente cubanas de algunos de sus compañeros, particularmente, las prácticas de la santería (la religión afro-cubana) o las de sociedades secretas como la de los abacuás. Unos meses más tarde, los presos son procesados para su evacuación fuera de la isla, una evacuación en la que no pueden revelar su condición de prisioneros, y deben hacerse pasar por ciudadanos civiles pidiendo asilo político, pues la embajada peruana ha concedido asilo a los cubanos que deseen salir del país. Los civiles y los presos comparten los barcos atestados de gente y al llegar a la Florida serán separados, cada grupo asignado a un destino particular por las autoridades americanas. En esta segunda parte de la novela se nota una evolución y una maduración en el carácter del narrador. Mede experimenta emociones contradictorias: alivio por su liberación de la cárcel y desesperación al estar exiliado de su familia y de su amada isla. La descripción de la travesía del barco de los exiliados a través del estrecho de Florida transmite el intenso dolor que siente Mede por su expatriación. Pero pronto, su nueva sensación de libertad supera el sentido de pérdida, y la acogida calurosa de los presos por los americanos, después de seis meses de tratamiento brutal en el Combinado, lo llena de agradecimiento. La última parte de la novela es el relato de un viaje de descubrimiento, en el que el protagonista recupera gradualmente su humanidad y su voz poética. La cándida descripción que hace Mede de objetos y experiencias vividas durante su traslado desde la ciudad “mágica” de Cayo Hueso hacia el campamento para hombres solteros, de donde serán trasladados a otro lugar (abrir las cajitas que la administración le ha dado para su aseo personal, un gesto amable de uno de los encargados que recibe a los prisoneros, un vuelo maravilloso en un avión) enfatiza el contraste entre la vida americana y el trato cruel de la gente en las isla-prisión de Cuba. El lector se da cuenta de que
Download or read book Ca do del Cielo written by Samuel Pastrana Meléndez and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-07-27 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uno de los eventos más importantes en la historia de la aviación es aún desconocido por muchos, debido al encubrimiento de los países que lo protagonizaron, los Estados Unidos y la Unión Soviética. Ocurrió durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la Guerra Fría que le siguió, y tuvo serias consecuencias sobre la política internacional. Caído del cielo recrea cómo el dictador de la Unión Soviética, Joseph Stalin, hizo una copia exacta del B-29 norteamericano —bombardero estratégico superpesado de largo alcance— y lo convirtió en el TU-4 soviético. Es un relato lleno de acción e intriga, donde destacan figuras de la más alta jerarquía de la época, matizado por una compleja historia de amor entre los protagonistas. El B-29 reunía todas las características que hicieron posible el lanzamiento de las bombas atómicas que destruyeron las ciudades japonesas de Hiroshima y Nagasaki en 1945. Ese evento fue catalogado como un recurso de intimidación contra los soviéticos. Ante esa nueva amenaza, Stalin estaba dispuesto a hacer lo necesario para apoderarse de la novel tecnología del asombroso avión norteamericano. Y tal como narra Caído del cielo, finalmente lo logró.
Download or read book Latin American Identities written by Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, Inc. Meeting and published by Salalm Secretariat. This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secretos y Confidencias de una Mujer written by Wendalla Wicca and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Libro "Secretos y Confidencias", trata sobre la vida de la autora, de lo que fue y es en la actualidad. Aquí está narrada su experiencia de vida a partir de una breve reseña sobre sus ancestros. El Libro contiene relatos de sus años de niñez, adolescencia y adultez. Basado en sus experiencias personales, pretende entretener y al mismo tiempo servir de guía a otras mujeres que hayan tenido problemáticas similares. Si bien este libro no ha sido escrito como ejemplo para nadie, la sinceridad y puntos de vista que comparte con sus lectores, al menos servirá para dar a conocer sus profundos anhelos y sueños de felicidad, al mismo tiempo que sus muchastristezas y duelos. En la tercera parte de este libro, la autora comparte episodios de casos paranormales, de sus propias investigaciones como psíquica. El Libro "Secretos y Confidencias", está dedicado a un lector de criterio formado.
Download or read book Different from the Others written by Cyd Sturgess and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of Europe, the interwar period was one of cultural expansion and diversion and increased visibility for lesbians. While historical research on Germany during the period immediately after the First World War has been extensively studied by historians through the lens of gender and sexuality—with an implicit emphasis on the “masculine” dimension of queer female sexuality—the Dutch context has been virtually ignored. Through careful and sensitive studies of medico‐social discourses, media representations, and literary depictions of queer femininity, Different from the Others recovers the submerged history of queer feminine women in both Germany and the Netherlands. Cyd Sturgess provides a theoretical analysis that makes key empirical contributions to the history of Dutch gays and lesbians while reframing our collective understanding of queer femininity more broadly.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures written by Bonnie Zimmerman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-13 with total page 1955 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich heritage that needs to be documented Beginning in 1869, when the study of homosexuality can be said to have begun with the establishment of sexology, this encyclopedia offers accounts of the most important international developments in an area that now occupies a critical place in many fields of academic endeavors. It covers a long history and a dynamic and ever changing present, while opening up the academic profession to new scholarship and new ways of thinking. A groundbreaking new approach While gays and lesbians have shared many aspects of life, their histories and cultures developed in profoundly different ways. To reflect this crucial fact, the encyclopedia has been prepared in two separate volumes assuring that both histories receive full, unbiased attention and that a broad range of human experience is covered. Written for and by a wide range of people Intended as a reference for students and scholars in all fields, as well as for the general public, the encyclopedia is written in user-friendly language. At the same time it maintains a high level of scholarship that incorporates both passion and objectivity. It is written by some of the most famous names in the field, as well as new scholars, whose research continues to advance gender studies into the future.
Download or read book Machos Maricones Gays written by Ian Lumsden and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historically based, first-hand report of contemporary homosexuality in Cuban society and culture.
