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Author : Sarita Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858014434314
Author : Naomi Lindstrom
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292778122
The world discovered Latin American literature in the twentieth century, but the roots of this rich literary tradition reach back beyond Columbus's discovery of the New World. The great pre-Hispanic civilizations composed narrative accounts of the acts of gods and kings. Conquistadors and friars, as well as their Amerindian subjects, recorded the clash of cultures that followed the Spanish conquest. Three hundred years of colonization and the struggle for independence gave rise to a diverse body of literature—including the novel, which flourished in the second half of the nineteenth century. To give everyone interested in contemporary Spanish American fiction a broad understanding of its literary antecedents, this book offers an authoritative survey of four centuries of Spanish American narrative. Naomi Lindstrom begins with Amerindian narratives and moves forward chronologically through the conquest and colonial eras, the wars for independence, and the nineteenth century. She focuses on the trends and movements that characterized the development of prose narrative in Spanish America, with incisive discussions of representative works from each era. Her inclusion of women and Amerindian authors who have been downplayed in other survey works, as well as her overview of recent critical assessments of early Spanish American narratives, makes this book especially useful for college students and professors.
Author : Herbert Herzmann
Publisher : tredition
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9783347229020
You do not have to traverse Africa by bicycle, solo extreme climbing routes or snowboard down glaciers in order to have an adventure. Between the extreme adventurer who craves for the adrenaline rush and the tourist who avoids any danger is the traveller. He or she also seeks adventure but without risking life and limb. The memories of seven decades published here show that the average person can also travel adventurously. They contain early travel experiences that made a lasting impression, episodes of youthful wanderlust, hitchhiking trips, long cycling tours, epic road trips through the Balkans and the United States and extensive journeys in South America. Hikes and climbs in the Andes, in Africa and in the Alps round off the picture. Travelling not only makes us experience the present, it also brings us back to the past. How can we walk the border between Austria and Italy in the Dolomites without remembering the First World War? How can we ignore history when we visit Sarajevo or Mostar? And how can we stand in front of La Moneda, the presidential palace in Santiago de Chile and not think about the original Nine Eleven that took place there in 1973? Exploring new regions and foreign countries without relying on tour operators is not entirely risk-free but the independent traveller is rewarded with intensive experiences and unforgettable memories.
Author : Antonio Cornejo Polar
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822391913
Originally published in 1994, Writing in the Air is one of the most significant books of modern Latin American literary and cultural criticism. In this seminal work, the influential Latin American literary critic Antonio Cornejo Polar offers the most extended articulation of his efforts to displace notions of hybridity or "mestizaje" dominant in Latin American cultural studies with the concept of heterogeneity: the persistent interaction of cultural difference that cannot be resolved in synthesis. He reexamines encounters between Spanish and indigenous Andean cultural systems in the New World from the Conquest into the 1980s. Through innovative readings of narratives of conquest and liberation, homogenizing nineteenth- and twentieth-century discourses, and contemporary Andean literature, he rejects the dominance of the written word over oral literature. Cornejo Polar decenters literature as the primary marker of Latin American cultural identity, emphasizing instead the interlacing of multiple narratives that generates the heterogeneity of contemporary Latin American culture.
Author : Vera Wolkowicz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780197548943
The Latin American centennial celebrations of independence (ca.1909-1925) constituted a key moment in the consolidation of national symbols and emblems, while also producing a renewed focus on transnational affinities that generated a series of discourses about continental unity. At the same time, a boom in archaeological explorations, within a general climate of scientific positivism provided Latin Americans with new information about their grandiose former civilizations, such as the Inca and the Aztec, which some argued were comparable to ancient Greek and Egyptian cultures. These discourses were at first political, before transitioning to the cultural sphere. As a result, artists and particularly musicians began to move away from European techniques and themes, to produce a distinctive and self-consciously Latin American art. In Inca Music Reimagined author Vera Wolkowicz explores Inca discourses in particular as a source for the creation of national and continental art music during the first decades of the twentieth century, concentrating on operas by composers from Peru, Ecuador and Argentina. To understand this process, Wolkowicz analyzes early twentieth-century writings on Inca music and its origins and describes how certain composers transposed Inca techniques into their own works, and how this music was perceived by local audiences. Ultimately, she argues that the turn to Inca culture and music in the hopes of constructing a sense of national unity could only succeed within particular intellectual circles, and that the idea that the inspiration of the Inca could produce a music of America would remain utopian.
Author : William H. Beezley
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780826359759
Music has been critical to national identity in Latin America, especially since the worldwide emphasis on nations and cultural identity that followed World War I. Unlike European countries with unified ethnic populations, Latin American nations claimed blended ethnicities--indigenous, Caucasian, African, and Asian--and the process of national stereotyping that began in the 1920s drew on themes of indigenous and African cultures. Composers and performers drew on the folklore and heritage of ethnic and immigrant groups in different nations to produce what became the music representative of different countries. Mexico became the nation of mariachi bands, Argentina the land of the tango, Brazil the country of Samba, and Cuba the island of Afro-Cuban rhythms, including the rhumba. The essays collected here offer a useful introduction to the twin themes of music and national identity and melodies and ethnic identification. The contributors examine a variety of countries where powerful historical movements were shaped intentionally by music.
Author : Doris Sommer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1993-03-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780520082854
National consolidation and romantic novels go hand in hand in Latin America. Foundational Fictions shows how 19th century patriotism and heterosexual passion historically depend on one another to engender productive citizens.
Author : Roberto Gonzalez Echevarría,Enrique Pupo-Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521340691
Volume 1 of a comprehensive three-volume history of Latin American literature (including Brazilian): the only work of its kind.
Author : Maureen Ihrie,Salvador Oropesa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1509 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313080838
Containing roughly 850 entries about Spanish-language literature throughout the world, this expansive work provides coverage of the varied countries, ethnicities, time periods, literary movements, and genres of these writings. Providing a thorough introduction to Spanish-language literature worldwide and across time is a tall order. However, World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia contains roughly 850 entries on both major and minor authors, themes, genres, and topics of Spanish literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, affording an amazingly comprehensive reference collection in a single work. This encyclopedia describes the growing diversity within national borders, the increasing interdependence among nations, and the myriad impacts of Spanish literature across the globe. All countries that produce literature in Spanish in Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia are represented, covering both canonical authors and emerging contemporary writers and trends. Underrepresented writings—such as texts by women writers, queer and Afro-Hispanic texts, children's literature, and works on relevant but less studied topics such as sports and nationalism—also appear. While writings throughout the centuries are covered, those of the 20th and 21st centuries receive special consideration.
Author : I. DUlfano,Isabel Dulfano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137531315
This book analyzes the literary representation of Indigenous women in Latin American letters from colonization to the twentieth century, arguing that contemporary theorization of Indigenous feminism deconstructs denigratory imagery and offers a (re)signification, (re)semantization and reinvigoration of what it means to be an Indigenous woman.
Author : Verity Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2060 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135314248
A comprehensive, encyclopedic guide to the authors, works, and topics crucial to the literature of Central and South America and the Caribbean, the Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature includes over 400 entries written by experts in the field of Latin American studies. Most entries are of 1500 words but the encyclopedia also includes survey articles of up to 10,000 words on the literature of individual countries, of the colonial period, and of ethnic minorities, including the Hispanic communities in the United States. Besides presenting and illuminating the traditional canon, the encyclopedia also stresses the contribution made by women authors and by contemporary writers. Outstanding Reference Source Outstanding Reference Book
Author : Michael Handelsman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313095856
Culture and Customs of Ecuador celebrates the extraordinary cultural, geographic, and ethnic diversity that has made this small country one of Latin America's most unique. Through this overview of its history, religious institutions, literature, social customs, cinema, media, and visual and performing arts, Ecuador emerges as a vibrant microcosm of Latin America. Students and other readers will learn how Ecuadorian society blends pre-Colombian, colonial, modern, and postmodern cultural forces. The underlying themes of Ecuador's continuous struggles with multiculturalism and national identity are presented with unprecedented clarity. Ecuador is a land of drama and paradox with abundant natural resources and a boom and bust economy that has prolonged dependence and instability. Despite many of the economic and social obstacles typical of developing nations, Ecuador has developed a dynamic culture. This multicultural society comes alive through engaging chapters on everything from history to performing arts. A chronology and glossary supplement the text.
Author : Monika Kaup,Debra Rosenthal
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0292743483
Over the last five centuries, the story of the Americas has been a story of the mixing of races and cultures. Not surprisingly, the issue of miscegenation, with its attendant fears and hopes, has been a pervasive theme in New World literature, as writers from Canada to Argentina confront the legacy of cultural hybridization and fusion. This book takes up the challenge of transforming American literary and cultural studies into a comparative discipline by examining the dynamics of racial and cultural mixture and its opposite tendency, racial and cultural disjunction, in the literatures of the Americas. Editors Kaup and Rosenthal have brought together a distinguished set of scholars who compare the treatment of racial and cultural mixtures in literature from North America, the Caribbean, and Latin America. From various angles, they remap the Americas as a multicultural and multiracial hemisphere, with a common history of colonialism, slavery, racism, and racial and cultural hybridity.
Author : R. Anthony Castagnaro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Spanish American fiction
ISBN : UCAL:B4369474
Author : Emilio Castelar
Publisher : Linkgua
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788499537610
La Constitución Federal española de 1873 fue un proyecto de constitución para la Primera República Española, redactado principalmente por Emilio Castelar, que no llegó a ser aprobado por las Cortes. Pretendía la transformación de España en una federación. Estaba muy influida por la Constitución de los Estados Unidos en los términos (Estados federados, Constituciones estatales, Tribunal Supremo federal...) y en la organización de las instituciones (Senado electo por los parlamentos de los Estados y con igual representación independientemente del tamaño y población; elección del presidente de la República mediante un colegio electoral; Tribunal Supremo federal que se ocupa del control de la constitucionalidad de las leyes y dirime los conflictos entre los Estados y el poder federal; prevalencia del derecho federal sobre el de los Estados) y el reparto de las competencias entre la Federación y los Estados. Estuvo, además, influida por la Constitución española de 1869. De ella tomó la declaración de derechos, con dos diferencias clave: la separación entre la Iglesia y el Estado, que supondría el reconocimiento de la libertad de cultos, y la abolición de los títulos de nobleza.
