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Book How Isabella loves her mommy    As   es como Isabella ama a su mam

Download or read book How Isabella loves her mommy As es como Isabella ama a su mam written by Sandra Cavazos Ayala and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-10-11 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No About the Book information at this time.

Book Understanding Corpus Linguistics

Download or read book Understanding Corpus Linguistics written by Danielle Barth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook introduces the fundamental concepts and methods of corpus linguistics for students approaching this topic for the first time, putting specific emphasis on the enormous linguistic diversity represented by approximately 7,000 human languages and broadening the scope of current concerns in general corpus linguistics. Including a basic toolkit to help the reader investigate language in different usage contexts, this book: Shows the relevance of corpora to a range of linguistic areas from phonology to sociolinguistics and discourse Covers recent developments in the application of corpus linguistics to the study of understudied languages and linguistic typology Features exercises, short problems, and questions Includes examples from real studies in over 15 languages plus multilingual corpora Providing the necessary corpus linguistics skills to critically evaluate and replicate studies, this book is essential reading for anyone studying corpus linguistics.

Book In Vitro

Download or read book In Vitro written by Isabel Zapata and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meditation on in vitro fertilization that expands and complicates the stories we tell about pregnancy. Medical interventions become an exercise in patience, desire, and delirium in this intimate account of bodily transformation and disruption. In candid, graceful prose, Isabel Zapata gives voice to the strangeness and complexities of conception and motherhood that are rarely discussed publicly. Zapata frankly addresses the misogyny she experienced during fertility treatments, explores the force of grief in imagining possible futures, and confronts the societal expectations around maternity. In the tradition of Rivka Galchen’s Little Labors and Sarah Manguso’s Ongoingness, In Vitro draws from diary and essay forms to create a new kind of literary companion and open up space for nuanced conversations about pregnancy.

Book Nahuatl Theater  Death and life in colonial Nahua Mexico

Download or read book Nahuatl Theater Death and life in colonial Nahua Mexico written by Barry D. Sell and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death and Life in Colonial Nahua Mexico presents seven dramas from the first truly American theater. Composed in Nahuatl during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, most of these plays survive only in later copies. Five are morality plays. Presenting Christian views of moral reform, death, judgment, and punishment for sin, they reveal how these themes were adapted into Nahua culture. The other two plays dramatize biblical narratives: the stories of Abraham and Isaac and of the three wise men. In this volume, Barry D. Sell and Louise M. Burkhart offer faithful transcriptions of the Nahuatl as well as new English translations of these remarkable dramas. Accompanying the plays are four interpretive essays and a foreword that broaden our understanding of these rare works. This volume is the first in a four-volume set entitled Nahuatl Theater, edited by Barry D. Sell and Louise M. Burkhart

Book Allegories of Transgression and Transformation

Download or read book Allegories of Transgression and Transformation written by Mary Beth Tierney-Tello and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-07-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the dynamic relationship between authority and gender in contemporary, experimental narrative works by four Latin American women writers: Diamela Eltit of Chile, Nelida Pinon of Brazil, Reina Roffe of Argentina, and Cristina Peri Rossi of Uruguay.

Book Women and Print Culture

Download or read book Women and Print Culture written by Donna M. Kabalen Vanek and published by Arte Público Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers, editors, activists and prostitutes. Women along the US-Mexico border served in many more capacities than simply wives and mothers, though those were their primary roles. Historically, religion was the link between women and the written word. According to the editors of this volume, Mexican women—particularly those from the privileged classes—had access to secular reading beginning in the 1800s. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, several periodicals dedicated to the education of the “fairer sex” emerged. Though the male voice initially predominated, women began contributing poetry and essays to various publications and eventually became editors of their own magazines and newspapers. This collection of ten essays, based on the examination of publications from the US-Mexico region between 1850-1950, explores the role of women in print culture. Leading to a better understanding of women in the history of Mexican border life, the essays are organized in three thematic groupings: “Exploring the Archives: Women and Written Culture in Northeastern Mexico during the Late Nineteenth Century,” “The Cultural History of Women and Print Culture” and “A Transcultural View of Women and their Role as Activists in Northern Mexico and Texas.” The scholars who researched the archival collections of newspapers, magazines and other print matter write about a variety of topics, including the participation of women in the War of Independence (1810-1821) and the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920), the belief females were inferior and should not be educated outside the home and even the cultural history of prostitutes. Published as part of the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage project, this compendium of academic articles sheds light on women’s roles—especially as readers, writers and editors—in the Texas-Mexico border region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Book Nahuatl Theater

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barry D. Sell
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780806138787
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Nahuatl Theater written by Barry D. Sell and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European religious drama adapted for an Aztec audience

Book Censorship and Hollywood s Hispanic Image

Download or read book Censorship and Hollywood s Hispanic Image written by Alfred Richard and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1993-04-22 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1936 and 1955, Hollywood significantly changed its portrayal of Hispanics in motion pictures. This change resulted from the demands of the Production Code Administration, which required film makers to eliminate the more offensive stereotypical Hispanic images. This filmography chronicles all of the Hispanic-related films released during this period. The volume includes entries for nearly four thousand films. The entries are arranged in chapters, with each chapter devoted to a single year. Within the chapters, the entries are listed alphabetically by film title. Each entry includes production information, an annotation detailing the film's Hispanic significance, and references to additional materials. The volume concludes with an alphabetical index of film titles, an index of actors and actresses, an index of place names, a general subject index, and an index of songs. Film historians and scholars of Hispanic culture will find this work to be an indispensable reference tool.

Book Best of Newspaper Design

Download or read book Best of Newspaper Design written by Society for News Design and published by Rockport Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Best of Newspaper Design 24th Edition, the latest in Rockport's highly respected series, presents the winning entries from the Society for News Design's annual competition for 2002. Selected by a panel of judges from over 14,000 international publication entries, this inspirational volume sets the bar for excellence in journalistic design. Bold, full-color layouts feature the best-of-the-best in news, features, portfolios visuals, and more, and each entry is accompanied by insightful commentary on the elements that made the piece a standout winner. A beautiful resource for anyone involved in journalistic design, this is the book in which every industry professional aspires to one day see their work.

Book Quill and Cross in the Borderlands

Download or read book Quill and Cross in the Borderlands written by Anna M. Nogar and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quill and Cross in the Borderlands examines nearly four hundred years of history, folklore, literature, and art concerning the seventeenth-century Spanish nun and writer Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda, identified as the legendary “Lady in Blue” who miraculously appeared to tribes in colonial-era New Mexico and taught them the rudiments of the Catholic faith. Sor María, an author of mystical Marian works, became renowned not only for her alleged spiritual travel from her cloister in Spain to the New World, but also for her writing, studied and implemented by Franciscans on both sides of the ocean. Working from original historical accounts, archival research, and a wealth of literature on the legend and the historical figure alike, Anna M. Nogar meticulously examines how and why the legend and the person became intertwined in Catholic consciousness and social praxis. In addition to the influence of the narrative of the Lady in Blue in colonial Mexico, Nogar addresses Sor María’s importance as an author of spiritual texts that influenced many spheres of New Spanish and Spanish society. Quill and Cross in the Borderlands focuses on the reading and interpretation of her works, especially in New Spain, where they were widely printed and disseminated. Over time, in the developing folklore of the Indo-Hispano populations of the present-day U.S. Southwest and the borderlands, the historical Sor María and her writings virtually disappeared from view, and the Lady in Blue became a prominent folk figure, appearing in folk stories and popular histories. These folk accounts drew the Lady in Blue into the present day, where she appears in artwork, literature, theater, and public ritual. Nogar’s examination of these contemporary renderings leads to a reconsideration of the ambiguities that lie at the heart of the narrative. Quill and Cross in the Borderlands documents the material legacy of a legend that has survived and thrived for hundreds of years, and at the same time rediscovers the historical basis of a hidden writer. This book will interest scholars and researchers of colonial Latin American literature, early modern women writers, folklore and ethnopoetics, and Mexican American cultural studies.

Book La mejor madre del mundo   The Best Mother in the World

Download or read book La mejor madre del mundo The Best Mother in the World written by Nuria Labari and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Una novela rompedora que disecciona el mito de la maternidad desde una nueva perspectiva y que enriquece el debate sobre la ambivalencia que genera esta experiencia en la identidad femenina contemporánea. «Prepárate para leer un libro como nunca has leído antes, que rompe las convenciones de lo narrativo y lo biográfico, de los valores no sólo tradicionales, sino también de los alternativos. Un libro de humor, de amor y de dolor, tan embriagante como un vino fuerte y tan tumultuoso como la vida. A decir verdad, no concibo que pueda haber alguien a quien no le guste.» Rosa Montero La protagonista de esta novela tiene treinta y cinco años y es estéril cuando la Idea de ser madre se le mete en el cuerpo "como un cáncer". Cinco años y dos hijas después cree haberlo ganado y perdido todo. Es entonces cuando decide escribir una historia a vida o muerte, un duelo entre la escritora que fue y la madre en que se ha convertido. Si gana la madre, el libro será un diario sobre su maternidad y una parte de la escritora morirá en el intento. Si gana la escritora, la ficción le arrebatará su propia historia al elevar su maternidad a lo universal. En ese caso, será la escritora quien fulmine a la madre. El resultado es un relato apabullante y siempre ambivalente sobre una experiencia definitiva donde humor, amor y horror se convierten en hilos de la misma trenza. La protagonista examina el mito (pero también el timo) de la maternidad, dialogando abiertamente con todas las voces del pasado que de una manera u otra han alimentado su condición de mujer (y en consecuencia de madre): desde la legendaria homínida Lucy, "madre de la humanidad" hasta la Cenicienta, pasando por Platón, Teresa de Jesús, Darwin, Maupassant o Simone de Beauvoir. En esta novela donde convergen la ficción, la autobiografía y el ensayo, la protagonista trata su propia y palpitante maternidad como un cadáver al que disecciona en directo ante el inevitable estupor del lector. Una invitación abierta a todos los hombres y mujeres que se atrevan a entrar en la mente y el cuerpo de una madre. «Hay muchas maneras de hablar de la maternidad, pero la de Nuria Labari es profundamente original y brillante. Esta novela es una explosión, un viaje intelectual a través de los instintos más primarios y del amor más humano. Nuria Labari ha escrito un libro necesario sobre un tema universal.» .-Lara Moreno ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A groundbreaking novel that dissects the myth of motherhood from a new perspective, and that enriches the debate about the ambivalence that this experience generates in contemporary feminine identity. “Prepare yourself to read a book like no other you’ve read before, which breaks the conventions of storytelling and biographies, of values both traditional and alternative. A book of humor, of love, and of pain, as intoxicating as a strong wine and as tumultuous as life. To tell the truth, I can’t imagine that anyone wouldn’t like this book.” --Rosa Montero The protagonist of this novel is 35 years old and sterile when the idea of becoming a mother gets rooted in her body “like a cancer.” Five years and two daughters later, she feels like she has won and lost everything. It is then that she decides to write a story of life and death, a duel between the writer she was and the mother she has become. If the mother wins, the book will be a diary about motherhood and a part of the writer will die in the process. If the writer wins, the fiction will take away her own story by elevating her motherhood as a universal experience. In that case, the writer conquers the mother. The result is an overwhelming, ambivalent tale about a defining experience where humor, love, and horror are woven together. The protagonist examines the myth (and also the scam) of motherhood, in open dialogue with all the voices of the past that somehow or other have fed into her condition as a woman (and consequently, as a mother): from the legendary hominid Lucy, “mother of humanity,” to Cinderella, and including Plato, Saint Teresa, Darwin, Maupassant, and Simone de Beauvoir.

Book McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama

Download or read book McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama written by McGraw-Hill, inc and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1984 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from the earliest drama to the theater of the 1980's this encyclopedia includes coverage of national drama and theater around the world, theater companies, and musical comedy. Arrangement of the 1,300 entries is alphabetically by name or subject with nearly 950 of these devoted to individual playwrights and their works.

Book Spain  the Second World War  and the Holocaust

Download or read book Spain the Second World War and the Holocaust written by Sara J. Brenneis and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust is the first comprehensive historical and cultural study of Spain's unique relationship to this turbulent historical period.

Book Encyclopedia of Latin American Theater

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Latin American Theater written by Eladio Cortes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American culture has given birth to numerous dramatic works, though it has often been difficult to locate information about these plays and playwrights. This volume traces the history of Latin American theater, including the Nuyorican and Chicano theaters of the United States, and surveys its history from the pre-Columbian period to the present. Sections cover individual Latin American countries. Each section features alphabetically arranged entries for playwrights, independent theaters, and cultural movements. The volume begins with an overview of the development of theater in Latin America. Each of the country sections begins with an introductory survey and concludes with copious bibliographical information. The entries for playwrights provide factual information about the dramatist's life and works and place the author within the larger context of international literature. Each entry closes with a list of works by and about the playwright. A selected, general bibliography appears at the end of the volume.

Book Writing Galicia into the World

Download or read book Writing Galicia into the World written by Kirsty Hooper and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Galicia explores a part of Europe’s cultural and social landscape that has until now remained largely unmapped: the exciting body of creative work emerging since the 1970s from contact between the small Atlantic country of Galicia, in the far north-west of the Iberian peninsula, and the Anglophone world. Unlike the millions who participated in the mass migrations to Latin America during the 19th century, those who left Galicia for Northern Europe in their hundreds of thousands during the 1960s and 1970s have remained mostly invisible both in Galicia and in their host countries. This study traces the innovative mappings of Galician cultural history found in literary works by and about Galicians in the Anglophone world, paying particular attention to the community of ‘London Galicians’ and their descendants, in works by artists (Isaac Díaz Pardo), novelists (Carlos Durán, Manuel Rivas, Xesús Fraga, Xelís de Toro, Almudena Solana) and poets (Ramiro Fonte, Xavier Queipo, Erin Moure). The central argument of Writing Galicia is that the imperative to rethink Galician discourse on emigration cannot be separated from the equally urgent project to re-examine the foundations of Galician cultural nationalism, and that both projects are key to Galicia‘s ability to participate effectively in a 21st-century world. Its key theoretical contribution is to model a relational approach to Galician cultural history, which allows us to reframe this small Atlantic culture, so often dismissed as peripheral or minor, as an active participant in a network of relation that connects the local, national and global.

Book Learn Spanish   Easy Reader   Easy Listener   Parallel Text  Audio Course No  1

Download or read book Learn Spanish Easy Reader Easy Listener Parallel Text Audio Course No 1 written by Polyglot Planet and published by Polyglot Planet. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you relatively new to learning Spanish or do you need to brush-up on your language skills? You wish to not only talk like a native, but also understand them clearly? Welcome to Polyglot Planet. We provide you with the right tools, energy and motivation for you to understand and speak Spanish confidently. Learn to speak Spanish almost instantly with our easy texts and easy audio recordings. Without prior knowledge of grammar or sentence structures, you will learn how to use everyday Spanish consistently and effectively. Not only that! You will also learn key vocabulary, phrases and conjugations in a structured environment, which is designed to help build you a solid foundation you will always remember. With our audio course you will quickly master the listening and speaking skills needed to converse with a native. Our audio tutor you will help you perfect your pronunciation and you will even get a better grip of the grammar, whilst avoiding boring textbook material. You will be speaking Spanish within minutes of taking our course! Parallel Text translations are provided as a guide to help you make word associations, compare sentence structures and learn new vocabulary. Audio is provided in two speeds: easy listening speed and natural speed. Our material is enjoyable, current and made for you. Learning Spanish can be lots of fun - so download this audio book now and start speaking Spanish today!

Book Mother and Myth in Spanish Novels

Download or read book Mother and Myth in Spanish Novels written by Sandra J. Schumm and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembering the forgotten mother is a major theme in Myth and Mother in Spanish Novels and reflects the current interest in the recuperation of historic memory in Spain. The novels in this study feature mature protagonists who recall their mothers as a way to define their own identities and to nullify the fictional matricide prevalent in post-war Spanish novels; this twenty-first-century fiction highlights the haunting presence of the mother and begs comparison with myth.