Download or read book Latin American Science Fiction Writers written by Darrell B. Lockhart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many readers are unaware of the vast universe of Latin American science fiction, which has its roots in the 18th century and has flourished to the present day. Because science fiction is part of Latin American popular culture, it reflects cultural and social concerns and comments on contemporary society. While there is a growing body of criticism on Latin American science fiction, most studies treat only a single author or work. This reference offers a broad overview of Latin American science fiction. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 70 Latin American science fiction writers. While some of these are canonical figures, others have been largely neglected. Since much of science fiction has been written by women, many women writers are profiled. Each entry is prepared by an expert contributor and includes a short biography, a discussion of the writer's works, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with a general bibliography of anthologies and criticism.
Download or read book Magia oriental written by Idries Shah and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El libro Magia oriental es reconocido como un brillante estudio acerca de caAmo, quaA(c) y por quaA(c) piensa la gente, en territorios que se extienden desde el norte de aAfrica hasta JapaAn.Profusamente ilustrado, el libro es el resultado de aaAos de investigaciaAn y trabajo de campo en una docena de diversas regiones culturales.Su erudita precisiaAn y genuina contribuciaAn al entendimiento cultural lo han transformado en un texto fundamental para cualquiera interesado en creencias informales y pra!cticas esotaA(c)ricas.El trabajo incluye material sobre alquimia india, el sistema abjad de los a!rabes, la adivinaciaAn y los hechizos talisma!nicos, e incluso contiene un antiguo conjuro Brahma!n para conseguir la inmortalidad.
Download or read book Sacred Eroticism written by Juan Carlos Ubilluz and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Eroticism addresses a neglected chapter in Latin American literature, namely, the influence of Georges Bataille and Pierre Klossowski's atheist mysticism in the Latin American erotic novel of the twentieth century. Combining a Lacanian analytical framework with an (Inter)textualist approach. Juan Carlos Ubilluz reveals how Julio Cortazar, Salvador Elizondo, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Juan Garcia Ponce adopted Sataille and Klossowski's aesthetic and philosophical models as a point of departure to rearticulate the modern subject's buried dimension of the sacred through various Innovations on the erotic novel's form. Ubilluz examines the dialectical irruption of these literary experiments into their particular aesthetic, theoretical, and political contexts; showing, for instance, that Cortazar's
Download or read book Feeling Strangely in Mid Century Spanish and Latin American Women s Fiction written by Tess C. Rankin and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM. The early twentieth century was awash in revolutionary scientific discourse, and its uptake in the public imaginary through popular scientific writings touched every area of human experience, from politics and governance to social mores and culture. Feeling Strangely argues that these shifting scientific understandings and their integration into Hispanic and Lusophone society reshaped the experience of gender. The book analyzes gender as a felt experience and explores how that experience is shaped by popular scientific discourse by examining the “strange” femininity of young protagonists in four novels written by women in Spanish and Portuguese: Rosa Chacel’s Memorias de Leticia Valle (published in Argentina in 1945); Norah Lange’s Personas en la sala (Argentina, 1950); Carmen Laforet’s Nada (Spain, 1945); and Clarice Lispector’s Perto do coração selvagem (Brazil, 1943). It pairs each novel with a broad scientific theme selected from those that captured the contemporary popular imagination to argue that the young female protagonists in these novels all put forth visions of young womanhood as an experience of strangeness. Building on Carmen Martín Gaite’s term chicas raras, Rankin proposes this strangeness as constitutive of a gendered experience inextricable from affective and material engagements with the world.
Download or read book Painting on the Page written by Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines psychoanalysis, feminism, philosophy, and semiotics to examine late 19th- and 20th-Century Spanish and Spanish-American literature in relation to painting, and to larger questions of art theory and literary history.
Download or read book Cosmos Latinos written by Andrea L. Bell and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever collection of Latin American science fiction in English.
Download or read book A Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa written by Sabine Köllmann and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion offers an overview and assessment of Mario Vargas Llosa's large body of work, tracing his development as a writer and intellectual in his essays, critical studies, journalism, and theatrical works, but above all inhis novels.
Download or read book From Iberia to Diaspora written by Yedida K Stillman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich, interdisciplinary collection of articles offers fascinating new insights into the history and culture of Sephardic Jewry both in pre-Expulsion Iberia and throughout the far-flung diaspora.
Download or read book La Ins lita Historia de Carmen written by Alicia A. Villarreal Brictson and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carmen decidió cambiar radicalmente cuando dejó de encontrarle sentido a su vida. Lo mejor de todo, fue que en el proceso se divirtió como una loca.
Download or read book La mente intuitiva written by Sadler-Smith, Eugene and published by Editorial UOC. This book was released on 2017-03-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Como líder, directivo, empleado o ciudadano, tu activo más valioso no está encerrado en una caja de seguridad de un banco, ni en ladrillos y cemento, ni en el balance de una compañía; se guarda en un lugar mucho más seguro aunque bastante frágil, tu cabeza, y es una cartera de valores gemelos: tu mente analítica y tu mente intuitiva
Download or read book Whispers from the Other Side written by Arturo Cantu Rivera and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years in prison has a dramatic impact in the human soul. It either kills you or forces you to change one way or another. In my case it did both, killed the old self and gave birth to a new outlook in life. This work was written during my incarceration, 1989-2019, and rescued by my sister Hilda after my release. It represents reflections of the spirit and its evolution throughout said period of time. Unlike other books of its kind, this work does not speak directly of the shortcomings of prison life, rather, it focuses on the search for spiritual understanding of our fate as human beings, of our human condition. It depicts a spirit in motion towards the light of the inner self. May these reflections find solace in the land of wandering souls.
Download or read book Nemo non metuit written by Fabrizio Conti and published by Trivent Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-30 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nemo Non Metuit": Magic in the Roman World has the ambitious goal of discussing some of the fundamental themes in the development of the idea of magic, in all its facets, in the long chronological span of the Roman world, between the 8th century BCE and the 5th century CE. At the same time, this volume is the result of a team effort that has brought together both accomplished scholars and young researchers at the beginning of their scholarly careers. Altogether, this ample work is the result of a synergy that brought together different approaches to the study of Roman magic. The broad content of this volume includes studies on magical gems of Etruscan, Greek and Phoenician background; curse tablets; amulets targeting malaria; erotic spells; the use of veneficia or poisons for magical purposes; judicial prayers in Roman Britain; witches in the literary tradition; the role of women in the matter of magic and divination; the figure of the "Orphic witch" in the age of Augustus; sorcerers and rivals of Jesus Christ; early-Christian sermons against magic and superstition; the fight of late-antique Church against magical powers. By addressing such a diverse spectrum of topics, this volume aims to challenge traditional views and open new paths of interpretation in the reconstruction of a long-term cultural-historical object such as magic in connection to the Roman civilization.
Download or read book Homo Amandi Evoluci n Consciente del Miedo a la Solidaridad written by Dr. Silvia Casabianca and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-12-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los humanos nacemos con el cerebro cableado para el amor y la compasi�n y la neurociencia nos ense�a que el cerebro est� constantemente cambiando. Estos dotes innatos est�n en nuestros genes, nuestra fisiolog�a y nuestra bioqu�mica y pueden ser nutridos y desarrollados en funci�n de construir un mundo m�s solidario
Download or read book Or culo Abierto written by Claudía Zamora and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Una guia practica para la lectura e interpretacion del tarot. Psicoterapia imaginaria. Conocimiento hermetico ancestral. Sanacion a traves de los simbolos egipcios. Decodificacion energetica sistemica transcendental.
Download or read book Cyborgs Sexuality and the Undead written by M. Elizabeth Ginway and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers in Brazil and Mexico discovered early on that speculative fiction provides an ideal platform for addressing the complex issues of modernity, yet the study of speculative fictions rarely strays from the United States and England. Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead expands the traditional purview of speculative fiction in all its incarnations (science fiction, fantasy, horror) beyond the traditional Anglo-American context to focus on work produced in Mexico and Brazil across a historical overview from 1870 to the present. The book portrays the effects—and ravages—of modernity in these two nations, addressing its technological, cultural, and social consequences and their implications for the human body. In Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead, M. Elizabeth Ginway examines all these issues from a number of theoretical perspectives, most importantly through the lens of Bolívar Echeverría’s “baroque ethos,” which emphasizes the strategies that subaltern populations may adopt in order to survive and prosper in the face of massive historical and structural disadvantages. Foucault’s concept of biopolitics is developed in discussion with Roberto Esposito’s concept of immunity and Giorgio Agamben’s distinction between “political life” and “bare life.” This book will be of interest to scholars of speculative fiction, as well as Mexicanists and Brazilianists in history, literary studies, and critical theory.
Download or read book O Mist rio dos senhores de v nus vol III deuses venusianos e capelinos written by Jorge Bessa and published by Tagore Editora. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trilogia – O Mistério dos Senhores de Vênus: Os Deuses Que Vieram do Céu; A Pluralidade dos Mundos Habitados e a Evolução do Homem; Deuses, Venusianos e Capelinos é o resultado de vários anos de pesquisa de Jorge da Silva Bessa que se consagra como profundo estudioso das mitologias e crenças religiosas que marcaram a história da humanidade. Nas quase 500 páginas desta trilogia o autor procura mostrar que, ao longo de nossa história, sempre estivemos amparados e sendo instruídos por elevadíssimas consciências espirituais, conhecidas como deuses, “jardineiros siderais”, “anjos do Senhor” e extraterrestres, entre outras denominações, no seio de quasetodasasgrandescivilizaçõesdopassado. Os deuses do passado, hoje, estão cada vez mais presentes, pois jamais deixaram a humanidade à sua própria sorte. Eles são os mesmos sábios espíritos de outrora, encarregados da execução direta da evolução planetária, que agora intervêm, de forma mais direta para promover essa mudança que alguns chamam Nova Era,FimdoMundoouApocalipse.
