Download or read book Behind Spanish American Footlights written by Willis Knapp Jones and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across a five-hundred-year sweep of history, Willis Knapp Jones surveys the native drama and the Spanish influence upon it in nineteen South American countries, and traces the development of their national theatres to the 1960s. This volume, filled with a fascinating array of information, sparkles with wit while giving the reader a fact-filled course in the history of Spanish American drama that he can get nowhere else. This is the first book in English ever to consider the theatre of all the Spanish American countries. Even in Spanish, the pioneer study that covers the whole field was also written by Jones. Jones sees the history of a nation in the history of its drama. Pre-Columbian Indians, conquistadores, missionary priests, viceroys, dictators, and national heroes form a background of true drama for the main characters here—those who wrote and produced and acted in the make-believe drama of the times. The theatre mirrors the whole life of the community, Jones believes, and thus he offers information about geography, military events, and economics, and follows the politics of state and church through dramatists’ offerings. Examining the plays of a people down the centuries, he shows how the many cultural elements of both Old and New Worlds have been blended into the distinct national characteristics of each of the Spanish American countries. He does full justice to the subject he loves. A lively storyteller, he adds tidbits of spice and laughter, long-buried vignettes of history, tales of politics and drama, stories of high and low life, plots of plays, bits of verse, accounts of dalliance and of hard work, and sad and happy endings of rulers and peons, dramatists, actors, and clowns. A valuable appendix is a selected reading guide, listing the outstanding works of important Spanish American dramatists. A generous bibliography is a useful addition for scholars.

Download or read book Historia m nima de Centroam rica written by Rodolfo Pastor and published by El Colegio de Mexico AC. This book was released on 2011 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este pequeño libro ambicioso intenta articular una visión integral de Centroamérica. La historia material y espiritual, que habla de las cifras de la economía y sus ciclos, pero asimismo de los anhelos y los conceptos básicos, de los poemas y las construcciones imaginarias de los centroamericanos y que pretende explicar un proceso social particular, pero ambiciona también seguir los cambios políticos profundos y adaptaciones de los centroamericanos a los cambios del poder externo, sus revoluciones y las más típicas evoluciones, desde la antigüedad hasta las vicisitudes del imperialismo estadounidense, de que ha sido teatro el istmo durante el último siglo, pasando por los conflictos imperiales entre España e Inglaterra en la era colonial, y entre Inglaterra y EUA en el siglo XIX. Esta obra tiene pues lagunas, olvidos necesarios. Pero quizás también un mérito: más que otras obras parecidas consigue demostrar cómo en la era colonial se integró una economía y sociedad que imantaron una discusión pública centroamericana.

Download or read book List of Books on Latin American History and Description with Reference to Articles in Magazines in the Columbus Memorial Library written by Columbus Memorial Library and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Quadros With a preface by Salvador de Mendon a written by Joaquim Maria SERRA SOBRINHO and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Society and History written by G. L. Ulman and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book S Pero No written by Ann González and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Costa Rican novelist Fabian Dobles (1918-1997) is arguably one of the most important formative writers within the context of Costa Rican and Central American literary history. Yet until now there has been no book-length analysis in either English or Spanish of his narrative contributions. Isolated studies generally place him within the realist and regionalist tendencies of the period and emphasize his mimetic representation of the world. This book, however, reevaluates Dobles' novels and short stories from the perspective of subaltern and postcolonial studies and offers the first theoretically consistent, comprehensive analysis of his narrative corpus.

Download or read book Translating Empire written by Laura Lomas and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Translating Empire, Laura Lomas uncovers how late nineteenth-century Latino migrant writers developed a prescient critique of U.S. imperialism, one that prefigures many of the concerns about empire, race, and postcolonial subjectivity animating American studies today. During the 1880s and early 1890s, the Cuban journalist, poet, and revolutionary José Martí and other Latino migrants living in New York City translated North American literary and cultural texts into Spanish. Lomas reads the canonical literature and popular culture of the United States in the Gilded Age through the eyes of Martí and his fellow editors, activists, orators, and poets. In doing so, she reveals how, in the process of translating Anglo-American culture into a Latino-American idiom, the Latino migrant writers invented a modernist aesthetics to criticize U.S. expansionism and expose Anglo stereotypes of Latin Americans. Lomas challenges longstanding conceptions about Martí through readings of neglected texts and reinterpretations of his major essays. Against the customary view that emphasizes his strong identification with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, the author demonstrates that over several years, Martí actually distanced himself from Emerson’s ideas and conveyed alarm at Whitman’s expansionist politics. She questions the association of Martí with pan-Americanism, pointing out that in the 1880s, the Cuban journalist warned against foreign geopolitical influence imposed through ostensibly friendly meetings and the promotion of hemispheric peace and “free” trade. Lomas finds Martí undermining racialized and sexualized representations of America in his interpretations of Buffalo Bill and other rituals of westward expansion, in his self-published translation of Helen Hunt Jackson’s popular romance novel Ramona, and in his comments on writing that stereotyped Latino/a Americans as inherently unfit for self-government. With Translating Empire, Lomas recasts the contemporary practice of American studies in light of Martí’s late-nineteenth-century radical decolonizing project.

Download or read book The Cambridge History of Latin America written by Leslie Bethell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an authoritative large-scale history of the whole of Latin America, from the first contacts between native American peoples and Europeans in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present day.

Download or read book Costa Rican Natural History written by Daniel H. Janzen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a synthesis of existing knowledge about the flora and fauna of Costa Rica. The major portion of the book consists of detailed accounts of agricultural species, vegetation, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds, and insects. "This is an extraordinary, virtually unique work. . . . The tremendous amount of original, previously unpublished, firsthand information is remarkable."—Peter H. Raven, Director, Missouri Botanical Garden "An essential resource for anyone interested in tropical biology. . . . It can be used both as an encyclopedia—a source of facts on specific organisms—and as a source of ideas and generalizations about tropical ecology."—Alan P. Smith, Ecology

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Download or read book Orqu deas en acuarela la obra in dita de Rafael Lucas Rodr guez Caballero written by Rafael Lucas Rodríguez-Caballero and published by Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En este libro, la palabra apunte adquiere un significado completamente nuevo, pues presenta las anotaciones que Rafael Lucas Rodríguez Caballero, destacado biólogo costarricense de renombre internacional, hizo al estudiar orquídeas a lo largo de varias décadas. Él disectó bajo el microscopio una amplia serie de flores, analizó la diversidad de su forma y presentó los resultados de manera técnica, con anotaciones minuciosas. Pero lo hizo en forma de acuarelas, de modo que examinar sus apuntes es descubrir una obra artística fantástica, en la cual los especímenes toman vida, y frecuentemente un aspecto tridimensional. Las láminas resaltan su ojo de naturalista y su sensibilidad de artista. Rafael Lucas murió sin completar este proyecto, y hasta la fecha solo una porción de su trabajo ha sido publicada. Este libro presenta más de 1000 acuarelas inéditas, con sus respectivas anotaciones. En ellas es posible hallar datos sobre la variación que ocurre dentro de las especies y entre ellas mismas, lo cual es muy relevante en la biología. También son claros sus esfuerzos por identificar las plantas que estudiaba, aspecto de interés en el área histórica. Y, tras décadas de esfuerzos por darlas a conocer, se ofrece aquí el arte espectacular de un estudiante prodigioso de las fascinantes formas de las orquídeas. In this book, the word note acquires a whole new meaning, as it presents the annotations that Rafael Lucas Rodríguez Caballero, prominent Costa Rican biologist of international renown, made as he studied orchids over the course of several decades. He dissected a broad series of flowers under the microscope, analyzed the diversity of their forms, and presented the results in a technical fashion, with meticulous annotations. But he did this in the form of watercolors, so that examining his notes is to discover a fantastic work of art, in which the specimens acquire life and, often, a three-dimensional aspect. These plates highlight his naturalist's eye and artist's sensibility. Rafael Lucas died without finishing this project, and to date only a fraction of this work has been published. This book presents over 1000 of his unpublished watercolors, with their corresponding annotations. In them, there are data on the variation that occurs within and between species, which is relevant in biology. Also clear are his efforts to identify the plants he studied, an aspect of historical interest. And, after decades of attempts at publishing it, here is the spectacular art of a prodigious student of the fascinating forms of orchids.

Download or read book Historia Cr tica de la Literatura Espanola written by José Amador de los Ríos and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture written by Barbara A. Tenenbaum and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alejo Carpentier and His Early Works written by Frank Janney and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Download or read book Introducci n Hist rica al Derecho Romano written by Ricardo Chavira Villag—mez and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Estudio del Derecho romano y de las Instituciones políticas de Roma es indispensable para el cabal conocimiento del origen y evolución de Occidente.La cuna o matriz de la cultura Occidental es, junto con la Grecia, Roma. Es la República Romana la que conquista la Península Ibérica y la sustrae a la influencia del poder de Cartago. Es el Imperio el que unifica el status jurídico de los habitantes de la Península concediéndoles la ciudadanía romana. Es Roma la que, asimismo, unifica la cultura, absorbiendo a los distintos pueblos sujetos a su dominio (dentro de los cuales están los ibéricos o habitantes de las Hispanias); es igualmente Roma la que adopta el cristianismo como religión oficial y es Roma la que nos lega los principios de organización jurídica a través de su magno Derecho, base de la organización jurídica Europeo continental y de Iberoamérica.