Killing Carmens

Author : Chris Perriam,Ann Davies
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042019645

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Carmen by Chris Perriam,Ann Davies Pdf

Since Prosper Mérimée and Georges Bizet (with his librettists Meilhac and Halévy) brought the figure of the Spanish Carmen to prominence in the nineteenth century an astonishing eighty or so film versions of the story have been made. This collection of essays gathers together a unique body of scholarly critique focused on that Carmen narrative in film. It covers the phenomenon from a number of aspects: cultural studies, gender studies, studies in race and representation, musicology, film history, and the history of performance. The essays take us from the days of silent film to twenty-first century hip-hop style, showing, through a variety of theoretical and historical perspectives that, despite social and cultural transformations--particularly in terms of gender, sexuality and race--remarkably little has changed in terms of basic human desires and anxieties, at least as they are represented in this body of films. The conception of Carmen's independent sexuality as a source of danger both to men (and occasionally women) and to respectable society has been a constant. Nor has sexual and ethnic otherness lost its appeal. On the other hand, the corpus of Carmen films is more than a simple recycling of stereotypes and each engages newly with the social and cultural issues of their time.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401202787

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Carmen by Anonim Pdf

Since Prosper Mérimée and Georges Bizet (with his librettists Meilhac and Halévy) brought the figure of the Spanish Carmen to prominence in the nineteenth century an astonishing eighty or so film versions of the story have been made. This collection of essays gathers together a unique body of scholarly critique focused on that Carmen narrative in film. It covers the phenomenon from a number of aspects: cultural studies, gender studies, studies in race and representation, musicology, film history, and the history of performance. The essays take us from the days of silent film to twenty-first century hip-hop style, showing, through a variety of theoretical and historical perspectives that, despite social and cultural transformations—particularly in terms of gender, sexuality and race—remarkably little has changed in terms of basic human desires and anxieties, at least as they are represented in this body of films. The conception of Carmen’s independent sexuality as a source of danger both to men (and occasionally women) and to respectable society has been a constant. Nor has sexual and ethnic otherness lost its appeal. On the other hand, the corpus of Carmen films is more than a simple recycling of stereotypes and each engages newly with the social and cultural issues of their time.

Author : Shelley Godsland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124034187

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Killing Carmens by Shelley Godsland Pdf

Focuses on women's crime writing from Spain and offers an approach to Spanish crime fiction, combining literary criticism with sociological and criminological theory. This multidisciplinary study analyses how female authors use crime and detective genres to analyse the role and position of their countrywomen.

Author : Diana Aramburu
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487530532

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Resisting Invisibility by Diana Aramburu Pdf

Engaging with pre-feminist and male-authored crime literature, Resisting Invisibility offers a comparative reading of women’s bodies as represented in Spanish crime literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Utilizing the twin concepts of visibility and invisibility, the book establishes a genealogy of differing viewpoints regarding women’s positions in these narratives, before and after the birth of the modern Spanish female detective. This examination of the politics of female visibility expands our understanding of the aesthetic regimes that have governed the female body from the early phases of the genre’s evolution. While most scholars understand the feminization of the crime genre as a response to second-wave feminism, Resisting Invisibility demonstrates that even in the earliest representations of delinquent women, the politics surrounding the female body are problematized and are more complex than previously conceptualized. Drawing on gender and queer studies, Resisting Invisibility investigates the gendering of crime fiction, forcing us to reconsider the literary history of female visibility and prompting us to establish an alternative genealogy for Spanish crime literature.

Author : Stewart King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000021851

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Murder in the Multinational State by Stewart King Pdf

As Spaniards set out to transform the political, social and cultural landscape of the nation following the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, its crime fiction traces, challenges and celebrates these radical changes. Crime Fiction from Spain: Murder in the Multinational State provides a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between detective fiction and national and cultural identities in post-Franco democratic Spain. What sort of stories are told about the nation within the state in the crime genre? How do the conventions of the crime story shape not only the production of national and cultural identities, but also their disruption? Combining criminological theories of crime and community with an analysis of the genre’s conventions, this study challenges the simple classification of Spanish crime fiction as texts written by Spaniards, set in Spain and with Spanish characters. Instead, it develops a dramatic new reading practice which allows for a greater understanding of the role of crime fiction in the construction and articulation of different and, at times, competing, national and cultural identities, including in the Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia. The book provides a stimulating introduction to the key debates on the study of crime fiction and national and cultural identities in the context of a multinational state.

Author : Signe Howell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134785018

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The Ethnography of Moralities by Signe Howell Pdf

Focusing on the social construction of morality, The Ethnography of Moralities discusses a topic which is complex but central to the study and nature of anthropology. With the recent shift towards an interest in indigenous notions of self and personhood, questions pertaining to the moral and ethical origins of beliefs relating to human rights become increasingly relevant. Some of the questions that the contributors address are: * How is the ethical knowledge grounded? * Which social domains most profoundly articulate moral values and which are most affected? * Who defines and who enforces what is right and wrong? * What constitutes an ethical breach? Suggested answers are made with reference to empirical material so that the complexities and varieties of theoretical and methodological issues are highlighted. They are also discussed with reference to a wide array of ethnographic studies from Argentina, Mongolia, Melanesia, Yemen, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Britain and The Old Testament.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433008938015

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Railway Carmen's Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carol de Dobay Rifelj
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Difference (Psychology) in literature
ISBN : 0472103407

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Reading the Other by Carol de Dobay Rifelj Pdf

Combines literature and philosophy to explore whether and to what extent we can know the thoughts and feelings of others

Author : Javier Muñoz-Basols,Manuel Delgado Morales,Laura Lonsdale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 941 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317487302

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The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies by Javier Muñoz-Basols,Manuel Delgado Morales,Laura Lonsdale Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the field, reaffirming Iberian Studies as a dynamic and evolving discipline offering promising areas of future research. It is an essential tool for research in Iberian Studies.

Author : David B. Reynolds
Publisher : David B. Reynolds
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Why Kill Carmela Bordeaux? by David B. Reynolds Pdf

“What will I do if Carmela Bordeaux doesn’t arrive on time?” Graciela Brown shouted over her shoulder as she headed out the door. “That makes two of us,” Gabriel softly replied to Brown’s backside. “Especially since she has never existed anywhere except in my head,” he muttered softly when the woman was out of hearing range. So begins a harrowing tale as teen girl advice author Carmela Bordeaux battles with one of sudden fame's downsides: death threats from a White Supremacist group intent on killing her because she is beautiful, intelligent and a Latina.

Author : Enric Bou,Jaume Subirana
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786948168

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The Barcelona Reader by Enric Bou,Jaume Subirana Pdf

The first comprehensive Reader to accompany the remarkable city of Barcelona

Author : Barbara Pezzotti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009451475

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Mediterranean Crime Fiction by Barbara Pezzotti Pdf

By exploring the transcultural nature of Mediterranean crime fiction, Barbara Pezzotti advocates for a regional 'reading' of the genre.

Author : Estrella Cibreiro,Francisca López
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136177156

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Global Issues in Contemporary Hispanic Women's Writing by Estrella Cibreiro,Francisca López Pdf

This collection explores the contributions of Hispanic women writers to ongoing Western debates on gender, power, ethics, and the environment, offering a wide range of essays that specifically portray the ways in which contemporary writers focus on issues of global impact in a deliberate and purposeful manner. The contributors analyze texts pertaining to all literary genres, examining a myriad of ethical, philosophical, and political perspectives including feminism, postcolonial theories, cultural and gender studies, information age studies, and ecofeminism. The book visits continuities and discontinuities among Spanish and Latin American women with regards to the ways in which they approach writing as a political weapon: to express ecological concerns; to denounce social injustice; to re-articulate existing paradigms, such as local versus global, violence versus pacifism, immigrant versus citizen; and to raise consciousness about racist, sexist, and other discriminatory practices. Such use of writing as an instrument of ethical and political exploration is underlined throughout the different articles in the volume as the authors emphasize pluralism, social justice, gender equality, tolerance, and political representation. This book offers readers a broad perspective on the multiple ways in which Hispanic women writers are explicitly exploring the social, political, and, economic realities of our era and integrating global perspectives and gender concerns into their writing, highlighting the unprecedented level of sociopolitical engagement practiced by 20th and 21st century Hispanic women writers.

Author : Helena Buffery,Carlota Caulfield
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783161430

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Barcelona by Helena Buffery,Carlota Caulfield Pdf

This fully illustrated, edited volume brings together fresh insights into the changing urban space of Barcelona from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. The volume will contribute to the excavation of the avantgarde in Barcelona, as well as its legacy in the post-war period, although its primary focus will be on the relationship between environment, identity and performance as explored by countercultural artists and communities from the 1960s to the present day.

Author : Naomi Andre
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252050619

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Black Opera by Naomi Andre Pdf

From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemmings and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and South African artists and composers have used opera to reclaim black people's place in history. Naomi André draws on the experiences of performers and audiences to explore this music's resonance with today's listeners. Interacting with creators and performers, as well as with the works themselves, André reveals how black opera unearths suppressed truths. These truths provoke complex, if uncomfortable, reconsideration of racial, gender, sexual, and other oppressive ideologies. Opera, in turn, operates as a cultural and political force that employs an immense, transformative power to represent or even liberate. Viewing opera as a fertile site for critical inquiry, political activism, and social change, Black Opera lays the foundation for innovative new approaches to applied scholarship.