Download or read book La Orta Literatura de la Revolucion Narrativa Proletaria en Mexico en Los Anos Treinta written by Dionisio Bertin Ortega-Aguilar and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Visions of Power in Cuba written by Lillian Guerra and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba's six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba, Lillian Gue
Download or read book The Language of Fashion written by Roland Barthes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roland Barthes was one of the most widely influential thinkers of the 20th Century and his immensely popular and readable writings have covered topics ranging from wrestling to photography. The semiotic power of fashion and clothing were of perennial interest to Barthes and The Language of Fashion - now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series - collects some of his most important writings on these topics. Barthes' essays here range from the history of clothing to the cultural importance of Coco Chanel, from Hippy style in Morocco to the figure of the dandy, from colour in fashion to the power of jewellery. Barthes' acute analysis and constant questioning make this book an essential read for anyone seeking to understand the cultural power of fashion.
Download or read book The Poisoned Water written by Fernando Benítez and published by Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first English translation makes available to English-speaking readers a powerful modern Mexican novel, first published in 1961. Fernando Benítez, well-known Mexican author, journalist, and winner of Mexico's 1968 best-book award, exploits a true but little-known incident by building it into a tightly structured, tense, and tragic novel of social protest. The incident on which the novel is based is a bloody rebellion against the village feudal master touched off by joking comment on the "poisoning" of the water as one of Don Ulises's men is pushed into the plaza fountain. Feeding on itself, the rumor spreads that the "boss" has poisoned the local spring, and rebellion follows, with its violent and unforeseen consequences. The result is a frightening look at one of Mexico's major social problems and glaring ironies--that over fifty years after a revolution fought by the peasant and for the peasant, most rural groups are still living below the national economic standard.
Download or read book The Paris Commune 1871 written by Karl Marx and published by Sidgwick & Jackson. This book was released on 1971 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises Marx's three addresses to the International Working Men's Association, together with Engel's introductions, and several additional pieces of correspondence and related material. A modern introduction by Christopher Hitchens analyzes the attitude of these thinkers to the Commune, examines the nature of the Commune itself, and traces its impact on the Europe of 1871 and its significance for today. -- Book jacket.
Download or read book Revolution within the Revolution written by Michelle Chase and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handful of celebrated photographs show armed female Cuban insurgents alongside their companeros in Cuba's remote mountains during the revolutionary struggle. However, the story of women's part in the struggle's success has only now received comprehensive consideration in Michelle Chase's history of women and gender politics in revolutionary Cuba. Restoring to history women's participation in the all-important urban insurrection, and resisting Fidel Castro's triumphant claim that women's emancipation was handed to them as a "revolution within the revolution," Chase's work demonstrates that women's activism and leadership was critical at every stage of the revolutionary process. Tracing changes in political attitudes alongside evolving gender ideologies in the years leading up to the revolution, Chase describes how insurrectionists mobilized familiar gendered notions, such as masculine honor and maternal sacrifice, in ways that strengthened the coalition against Fulgencio Batista. But, after 1959, the mobilization of women and the societal transformations that brought more women and young people into the political process opened the revolutionary platform to increasingly urgent demands for women's rights. In many cases, Chase shows, the revolutionary government was simply formalizing popular initiatives already in motion on the ground thanks to women with a more radical vision of their rights.
Download or read book To Change the World written by Margaret Randall and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In To Change the World, the legendary writer and poet Margaret Randall chronicles her decade in Cuba from 1969 to 1980. Both a highly personal memoir and an examination of the revolution's great achievements and painful mistakes, the book paints a portrait of the island during a difficult, dramatic, and exciting time. Randall gives readers an inside look at her children's education, the process through which new law was enacted, the ins and outs of healthcare, employment, internationalism, culture, and ordinary people's lives. She explores issues of censorship and repression, describing how Cuban writers and artists faced them. She recounts one of the country's last beauty pageants, shows us a night of People's Court, and takes us with her when she shops for her family's food rations. Key figures of the revolution appear throughout, and Randall reveals aspects of their lives never before seen. More than fifty black and white photographs, most by the author, add depth and richness to this astute and illuminating memoir. Written with a poet's ear, depicted with a photographer's eye, and filled with a feminist vision, To Change the Worldùneither an apology nor gratuitous attackùadds immensely to the existing literature on revolutionary Cuba.
Download or read book The Fashioned Body written by Joanne Entwistle and published by Polity. This book was released on 2000-07-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological perspective. The book gives a clear summary of the theories surrounding the role and function of fashion in modern society, and examines how fashion plays a crucial role in the formation of modern identity through its articulation of the body, gender and sexuality. In examining fashion in relation to the body, the book offers a much needed synthesis between the literature on fashion and dress, which has tended to ignore the body, and the sociology of the body, which has tended to marginalize fashion and dress. Entwistle shows how an understanding of fashion and dress requires an understanding of the meanings acquired by the body in culture - since it is the body that fashion speaks to and which is dressed in almost all social situations and encounters. She argues that while fashion refers to a specific system of dress originating in the west, all cultures 'dress' the body in the same way, making it a crucial feature of social order. Drawing on the work of Douglas, Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Goffman and Bourdieu, the book offers insights into the connections that need to be made between the body, fashion and dress, arguing for an account of fashion and dress as 'situated bodily practice'. The Fashioned Body will be an invaluable resource for students and academics interested in the social role of fashion and dress in modern culture and will also be of interest to students and researchers in the areas of consumption, cultural studies, gender studies and feminist theory.
Download or read book Broadcasting Modernity written by Yeidy M. Rivero and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth and development of commercial television in Cuba in the 1950s occurred alongside political and social turmoil. In this period of dramatic swings encompassing democracy, a coup, a dictatorship, and a revolution, television functioned as a beacon and promoter of Cuba’s identity as a modern nation. In Broadcasting Modernity, television historian Yeidy M. Rivero shows how television owners, regulatory entities, critics, and the state produced Cuban modernity for television. The Cuban television industry enabled different institutions to convey the nation's progress, democracy, economic abundance, high culture, education, morality, and decency. After nationalizing Cuban television, the state used it to advance Fidel Castro's project of creating a modern socialist country. As Cuba changed, television changed with it. Rivero not only demonstrates television's importance to Cuban cultural identity formation, she explains how the medium functions in society during times of radical political and social transformation.
Download or read book Fashion and Politics written by Djurdja Bartlett and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this incisive book, leaders from international fashion research and artistic practices probe the nuanced relationship between fashion and politics.
Download or read book Aproximaciones a la narrativa de la Revoluci n Mexicana written by Francisco Hernández Ortiz and published by Bonilla Artigas Editores. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El movimiento armado que arrasó México entre 1910 y 1920, y las nuevas condiciones sociales que se dieron durante la lucha, así como en el país que surgió de ésta, llevaron a que surgiera una nueva forma de escritura de ficción, que dio testimonio, a través de sus cuentos y novelas, de lo ocurrido en aquellos años. Los narradores de la Revolución inauguraron una manera de contar que, estilísticamente, los separa de sus antecesores del Porfiriato. En sus relatos, el heroísmo, el valor, el sacrificio, el cumplimiento del deber, el estoicismo, alternan con la crueldad, la avaricia, la injusticia y la traición. Por otro lado, nadie ha juzgado tan rigurosamente a la Revolución como sus narradores. Los autores de las obras que estudian los trabajos de este libro compartieron una nueva manera de escribir y vivieron, más o menos de cerca, los hechos que narran. Mediante la ficción dieron forma literaria a sucesos inmediatos. Este libro nace del Programa de Actualización Permanente de los profesores investigadores de la Becene, la Benemérita y Centenaria Escuela Normal del Estado de San Luis Potosí. Es resultado del trabajo desarrollado en los talleres de redacción de artículos académicos y de crítica literaria en 2013-2014. Asimismo es producto de la colaboración académica al través de redes interinstitucionales establecidas entre la Becene y la Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, El Colegio de San Luis, A.C., la Universidad Veracruzana y la Universidad de Guanajuato. Este libro incluye textos de los siguientes autores: Miguel Ángel Duque Hernández, Elvia Estefanía López Vera, Norma Angélica Cuevas Velasco, María Azareel Vaca Montes, Rosa Esther Hernández Hernández, Jesús Alberto Leyva Ortiz, Francisco Hernández Ortiz, Laura Érika Gallegos Infante, Sofía Iyali Téllez Villalobos, María Guadalupe Escalante Bravo, Alma Rosa Cañedo Gamboa, Ana Mayela de Velázquez Farfán, Martha Patricia Mireles Alemán, Olimpia Badillo Iracheta, Sonia Vargas Almazán.
