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Book El Lector

    Book Details:
  • Author : Araceli Tinajero
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2010-02-15
  • ISBN : 0292721757
  • 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 2010-02-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "El Lector will find a broad and appreciative audience and will become a landmark in the study of Cuban and Latin American cultures." —Roberto González Echevarría, Yale University 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. InEl 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 Hay Victorias Que Parecen Derrotas    Pero Siguen Siendo Victorias

Download or read book Hay Victorias Que Parecen Derrotas Pero Siguen Siendo Victorias written by Myriam Fonseca and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apoc. 12:10 Le oro a Dios y declaro que toda persona que lea este libro, sea libertado del poder del enemigo, de cualquier atadura, declaro liberacion y bendicion a su vida en el nombre de nuestro amado Jesus, Amen! "Porque como a mujer abandonada y triste de espíritu te llamó Jehová, y cómo a la esposa de la juventud que es repudiada, dijo el Dios tuyo. Por un breve momento te abandoné, pero te recogeré con grandes misericordia" Isaías 54:6-7

Book Way Out of Memory  La Salida de la Memoria

Download or read book Way Out of Memory La Salida de la Memoria written by Christine Kern and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-09-11 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La salida de la memoria les muestra los obstaculos de una relacion toxica y les hace comprender que en algun momento llega el dia de la decision con el analisis: "Vete o quedate por una vida feliz". En confianza y amor a Dios recibi la fuerza para emprender nuevos caminos y sentirme libre. 2

Book New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative

Download or read book New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative written by T. Robbins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Authors explored are from the Boom and Postboom periods, including those who combine social preoccupations, like drug trafficking, with aesthetic ones.

Book Cartas a Un Angel

Download or read book Cartas a Un Angel written by Lorena Rodr Guez and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¿Hay algo más hermoso que descubrir la vida paso a paso?... ¿Algo más increíble, que perseguir un sueño?... ¿Conocer la verdad, enfrentarse a la realidad, comprender lo imposible.....? Todo esto y más, podrás encontrar en esta fascinante historia, de mano de su protagonista, Vanesa; una adolescente, que cree amenazada su existencia, si no encuentra pronto respuestas a todas sus preguntas. Incansable, comenzará un recorrido, en busca de posibles soluciones, para su mundo y el de su familia, y todas aquellas personas, con las que conectará inmediatamente. Correrías con pandilleros juveniles, conversaciones extraordinarias, risas, diversión....e incluso misterio, le esperan al lector, en este libro, lleno de magia, que nos muestra la esencia de los seres humanos, recordándonos, que todo, todo, en este loco mundo, puede ser posible.

Book Forgotten Peace

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert A. Karl
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 0520293924
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Forgotten Peace written by Robert A. Karl and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Forgotten Peace examines Colombian society's attempt to move beyond the Western Hemisphere's worst mid-century conflict and how that effort molded notions of belonging and understandings of the past. In this book, Robert A. Karl reconstructs encounters between government officials, rural peoples, provincial elites, and urban intellectuals during a crucial conjuncture that saw reformist optimism transform into alienation. In addition to offering a sweeping reinterpretation of Colombian history--including the most detailed account of the origins of the FARC insurgency in any language--Karl provides a Colombian vantage on global processes of democratic transition, development, and memory formation in the 1950s and 1960s. Sweeping in scope, Forgotten Peace challenges contemporary theories of violence in Latin America."--Provided by publisher.

Book The Age of Mass Child Removal in Spain

Download or read book The Age of Mass Child Removal in Spain written by Peter Anderson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Mass Child Removal in Spain analyses the ideas and practices that underpinned the age of mass child removal. This era emerged from growing criticisms across the world of 'dangerous' parents and the developing belief in the nineteenth century that the state could provide superior guardianship to 'unfit' parents. In the late nineteenth century, the juvenile-court movement led the way in forging a new and more efficient system of child removal that severely curtailed the previously highly protected sovereignty of guardians deemed dangerous. This transnational movement rapidly established courts across the world and used them to train the personnel and create the systems that frequently lay behind mass child removal. Spaniards formed a significant part of this transnational movement and the country's juvenile courts became involved in the three main areas of removal that characterize the age: the taking of children from poor families, from families displaced by war, and from political opponents. The study of Spanish case files reveals much about how the removal process worked in practice across time and across democratic regimes and dictatorships. These cases also afford an insight into the rich array of child-removal practices that lay between the poles of coercion and victimhood. Accordingly, the study offers a history of some of most marginalized parents and children and recaptures their voice, agency, and experience. Peter Anderson also analyses the removal of tens of thousands of children from General Franco's political opponents, sometimes referred to as the lost children of Francoism, through the history and practice of the juvenile courts.

Book  The Angel of Death

Download or read book The Angel of Death written by Ben Abraham and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Articulating the    ij  ba  Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al Andalus

Download or read book Articulating the ij ba Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al Andalus written by Mariam Rosser-Owen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Articulating the Ḥijāba, Mariam Rosser-Owen analyses for the first time the artistic and cultural patronage of the ‘Amirid regents of the last Cordoban Umayyad caliph, Hisham II, a period rarely covered in the historiography of al-Andalus. Al-Mansur, the founder of this dynasty, is usually considered a usurper of caliphal authority, who pursued military victory at the expense of the transcendental achievements of the first two caliphs. But he also commissioned a vast extension to the Great Mosque of Cordoba, founded a palatine city, conducted skilled diplomatic relations, patronised a circle of court poets, and owned some of the most spectacular objects to survive from al-Andalus, in ivory and marble. This study presents the evidence for a reconsideration of this period.

Book Crosses of Memory and Oblivion

Download or read book Crosses of Memory and Oblivion written by Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the history and legacy of monuments to the fallen from the Francoist side in the Spanish Civil War. Del Arco Blanco studies thousands of monuments in towns and cities across Spain to provide a detailed account of the history and memory of the civil war, Francoism, and the transition to democracy. Chapters in the book focus on the myth of those said to have 'fallen for God and for Spain'—a phrase that encapsulated and shaped the dichotomy between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Spaniards. They also focus on the use of monuments to control political and ideological ideals and to legitimise the Francoist dictatorship. Further chapters study Spanish society’s struggle to deal with its past of mass killing, denial, and exclusion. Del Arco Blanco also pays attention to the way the Francoist authorities used monuments and memory for their political and ideological advantage and to control people, power as well as the political agenda. The book draws on extensive research to reconstruct both the specific history of monuments scattered throughout the country and their role within manipulative Francoist memory of the Spanish Civil War. In these ways, monuments helped shape the Francoist narrative and memory, but they also became part of the landscape of contemporary Spanish history. This book is an excellent resource for postgraduate students and professional researchers studying the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and the influence of monuments on the construction of national memory, culture, and society in Spain both at the time and through to the present day.

Book El   ltimo Boabdil  o  Amor y religi  n

Download or read book El ltimo Boabdil o Amor y religi n written by A. M. Galan and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jos     ngel Valente

Download or read book Jos ngel Valente written by José Angel Valente and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Salt and the Colombian State

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joshua M. Rosenthal
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
  • Release : 2014-08-23
  • ISBN : 0822977982
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Salt and the Colombian State written by Joshua M. Rosenthal and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2014-08-23 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In republican Colombia, salt became an important source of revenue not just to individuals, but to the state, which levied taxes on it and in some cases controlled and profited from its production. The salt trade consistently accounted for roughly 10 percent of government income. In the town of La Salina de Chita, in Boyaca province, thermal springs offered vast amounts of salt, and its procurement and distribution was placed under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance. Focusing his study on La Salina, Joshua M. Rosenthal presents a fascinating glimpse into the workings of the early Colombian state, its institutions, and their interactions with local citizens during this formative period. Although historians have cited the state's weakness and, in many cases, its absence in local affairs, Rosenthal counters these assumptions by documenting the primary role the state held in administering contracts, inspections, land rights, labor, and trade in La Salina, contending that this was not an isolated incident. He also uncovers the frequent interaction between the state and local residents, who used the state's liberal rhetoric to gain personal economic advantage. Seen through the lens of the administration of La Salina's saltworks, Rosenthal provides a firsthand account of the role of local institutions and fiscal management in the larger process of state building. His study offers new perspectives on the complex network of republican Colombia's political culture and its involvement in provincial life across the nation.

Book ETA s Terrorist Campaign

Download or read book ETA s Terrorist Campaign written by Rafael Leonisio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the rise and decline of the Basque terrorist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA, Basque Homeland and Freedom). ETA declared a unilateral ceasefire in November 2011, bringing to a close a campaign of political violence that started in the late 1960s. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, the overwhelming majority of secession supporters agreed that an independent Basque homeland would be realised through ‘ballots’ and not ‘bullets’. Providing an inter-disciplinary overview of radical Basque nationalism that pays special attention to the drivers for ETA’s decline, defeat and disbandment, this book includes chapters by historians, political scientists and sociologists who offer three important theoretical and empirical contributions to the literature on nationhood and security studies. Firstly the book re-assesses the military conflict that opposed ETA and the Spanish state, by paying special attention to tactical and strategic considerations as well as the counter-terrorist policy itself. Secondly it provides an original interpretation of the politics of fear which surrounded the process of victimization, as well as assessing the extent to which the issue of violence led to the polarisation of citizens. Thirdly the authors examine the historical narratives and rituals that contributed to the production and reproduction of identity binaries and memories of war. Arguing that the defeat of ETA must be contextualised within the strategic evolution of Basque nationalism, the declining resonance of the radical message and the effectiveness of the Spanish counter-terrorist effort, this book is essential reading for students and scholars working in the areas of European politics, nationalism and terrorism studies.

Book La familia de Le  n Roch  Tomo 2

    Book Details:
  • Author : Benito Pérez Galdós
  • Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
  • Release : 2024-08-08
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book La familia de Le n Roch Tomo 2 written by Benito Pérez Galdós and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-08-08 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sumérgete en la emocionante continuación de "La familia de León Roch, Tomo 2" de Benito Pérez Galdós, donde los conflictos familiares se entrelazan con los dilemas morales en el Madrid del siglo XIX. Acompaña a León Roch en su búsqueda de identidad y propósito en medio de las intrigas y las pasiones de una sociedad en transformación. Desde los salones de la alta sociedad hasta los callejones oscuros donde se ocultan secretos, cada página revela nuevas capas de la complejidad humana. Con una prosa magistral, Galdós teje una red de relaciones y emociones que desafían las convenciones sociales y exploran los límites del amor y la lealtad familiar. Los personajes, ricamente desarrollados, enfrentan decisiones que pondrán a prueba sus valores y su resiliencia en tiempos turbulentos. Explorando temas universales como la búsqueda de la verdad, el conflicto generacional y los sacrificios personales, "La familia de León Roch, Tomo 2" captura la esencia de una época mientras ofrece una perspectiva atemporal sobre los dilemas éticos y emocionales. Publicada por primera vez en [año], esta obra de Galdós ha sido aclamada por su capacidad para combinar un retrato vívido de la sociedad española con una profunda exploración psicológica. A través de sus personajes complejos y su narrativa absorbente, invita a los lectores a reflexionar sobre las motivaciones humanas y las fuerzas que moldean nuestras vidas. Desde sus escenas de drama familiar hasta sus momentos de revelación personal, "La familia de León Roch, Tomo 2" ofrece una lectura cautivadora que dejará una impresión duradera. No te pierdas la oportunidad de sumergirte en esta obra maestra literaria que sigue resonando con la audiencia moderna. Obtén tu copia ahora y descubre por qué la obra de Galdós continúa siendo un referente en la literatura española.

Book The Poetics of Self consciousness

Download or read book The Poetics of Self consciousness written by Jonathan Mayhew and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1994 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Twentieth-century poetry engages in a highly self-conscious meditation on the nature of poetic language. Spanish poetry, however, has sometimes been considered an exception to this tendency. This book, with its focus on linguistic self-reflexivity, refutes the notion that major Spanish poets such as Jorge Guillen and Vicente Aleixandre are theoretically naive creators. In a series of nuanced readings, Jonathan Mayhew demonstrates the extent to which modern Spanish poets are conscious of their linguistic medium." "Previous books on Spanish poetry published in English have been more limited in scope, usually including poets of a single "generation." The Poetics of Self-Consciousness is the first to study well-known writers of the earlier part of the century along with more recent poets such as Jose Angel Valente, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Jose Maria Alvarez, and Juan Lamillar. Interpreting poetic texts written from the 1920s through the 1980s, Mayhew is able to trace the evolving function of literary self-consciousness in Spanish poetry while remaining attentive to the differences among writers of the same historical moment. The modernist poets of the earlier part of the century are preoccupied by the problem of literary mimesis: the representation of reality through language. In the postwar years, poets turned their attention to the social and ethical dimensions of poetic language. The postmodernists of more recent decades, finally, are increasingly concerned with their own belatedness with respect to cultural traditions of the past." "Critics hailed Jonathan Mayhew's first book, Claudio Rodriguez and the Language of Poetic vision, as an "enlightening and timely book on perhaps Spain's greatest living poet," and "a signal first effort from a critic with high scholarly standards and a penetrating insight into contemporary poetry." With The Poetics of Self-Consciousness: Twentieth-Century Spanish Poetry, readers will discover another probing study of other modern and postmodern Spanish poets."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book Poes  as

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jorge Isaacs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1907
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Poes as written by Jorge Isaacs and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: