Poncia Vicencio

Author : Conceição Evaristo
Publisher : Host Publications, Inc.
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 092404733X

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Poncia Vicencio by Conceição Evaristo Pdf

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Portuguese by Paloma Martinez-Cruz. The story of a young Afro-Brazilian woman's journey from the land of her enslaved ancestors to the emptiness of urban life. However, the generations of creativity, violence and family cannot be so easily left behind as Ponci is heir to a mysterious psychic gift from her grandfather. Does this gift have the power to bring Poncia back from the emotional vacuum and absolute solitude that has overtaken her in the city? Do the elemental forces of earth, air, fire and water mean anything in the barren urban landscape? A mystical story of family, dreams and hope by the most talented chronicler of Afro-Brazilian life writing today.

Author : Arturo J. Aldama,Chela Sandoval,Peter J. García
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253002952

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Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands by Arturo J. Aldama,Chela Sandoval,Peter J. García Pdf

In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors analyze the expression of Latina/o cultural identity through performance. With music, theater, dance, visual arts, body art, spoken word, performance activism, fashion, and street theater as points of entry, contributors discuss cultural practices and the fashoning of identity in Latino/a communities throughout the US. Examining the areas of crossover between Latin and American cultures gives new meaning to the notion of "borderlands." This volume features senior scholars and up-and-coming academics from cultural, visual, and performance studies, folklore, and ethnomusicology.

Author : Jonathan Warren
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134859764

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Cultures of Development by Jonathan Warren Pdf

The North Atlantic development establishment has had a blemished track record over the past 65 years. In addition to a sizeable portfolio of failure, the few economic success stories in the developing world, such as South Korea and China, have been achieved by rejecting the advice of Western experts. Despite these realities, debates within mainstream development studies have stagnated around a narrow, acultural emphasis on institutions or the size and role of government. Cultures of Development uses a contrapuntal comparison of Vietnam and Brazil to show why it is important for development scholars and practitioners to broaden their conceptualization of economies to include the socio-cultural. This smartly written book based on original, ethnographic research breathes new life into development studies by bringing cultural studies into conversation with development studies, with an emphasis on improving—rather than merely critiquing—market economies. The applied deployment of critical development studies, i.e., interpretive economics, results in a number of theoretical advances in both development and areas studies, demonstrating the economic importance of certain kinds of cultural work carried out by religious leaders, artists, activists, and educators. Most importantly, the reader comes to fully appreciate how economies are embedded within the subjectivities, discourses, symbols, rituals, norms, and values of a given society. This pioneering book revives development practice and policy by offering fresh insights and ideas about how development can be advanced. It will be of special interest to scholars and students of Development Studies, Sociology, Economics, Anthropology, and Area Studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philology, Modern
ISBN : MINN:31951P01071516P

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Publications of the Modern Language Association of America by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Arts, Modern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123422722

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Rain Taxi Review of Books by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paloma Martinez-Cruz
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816529421

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Women and Knowledge in Mesoamerica by Paloma Martinez-Cruz Pdf

Paloma Martinez-Cruz argues that the medicine traditions of Mesoamerican women constitute a hemispheric intellectual lineage that continues to thrive despite the legacy of colonization. Martinez-Cruz asserts that indigenous and mestiza women healers are custodians of a knowledge base that remains virtually uncharted. The few works looking at the knowledge of women in Mesoamerica generally examine only the written—even academic—world, accessible only to the most elite segments of (customarily male) society. These works have consistently excluded the essential repertoire and performed knowledge of women who think and work in ways other than the textual. And while two of the book’s chapters critique contemporary novels, Martinez-Cruz also calls for the exploration of non-textual knowledge transmission. In this regard, the book's goals and methods are close to those of performance scholarship and anthropology, and these methods reveal Mesoamerican women to be public intellectuals. In Women and Knowledge in Mesoamerica, fieldwork and ethnography combine to reveal women healers as models of agency. Her multidisciplinary approach allows Martinez-Cruz to disrupt Euro-based intellectual hegemony and to make a case for the epistemic authority of Native women. Written from a Chicana perspective, this study is learned, personal, and engaging for anyone who is interested in the wisdom that prevailing analytical cultures have deemed “unintelligible.” As it turns out, those who are unacquainted with the sometimes surprising extent and depth of wisdom of indigenous women healers simply haven’t been looking in the right places—outside the texts from which they have been consistently excluded.

Author : Dave Oliphant
Publisher : Host Publications, Inc.
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0924047194

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Memories of Texas Towns and Cities by Dave Oliphant Pdf

Poetry. Renowned American poet Dave Oliphant celebrates his home state in this unique collection of poetry. Oliphant consciously began this series in the autumn of 1974 and finished it twenty-five years later in the fall of 1999. Containing thirty sections, each devoted to a different town, MEMORIES OF TEXAS TOWNS & CITIES brings together a wide ranging picture of Texas through the places, people, and poetry one man remembers and celebrates. Also featuring glorious full color illustrations by Mary Lou Williams.

Author : Urszula Kozioł
Publisher : Host Publications, Inc.
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 092404702X

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Poems (Urszula Koziol) by Urszula Kozioł Pdf

Poetry. Translated from the Polish by Regina Grol-Prokopczyk. Using words, expressions, images and sounds from a variety of sources; popular magic, songs heard in her childhood, music of Bach, everyday conversations and works of great philosophers, Uszula Koziol established herself as one of the most important voices in Polish poetry. In an idiom similar to Paul Celan, Koziol takes the reader into diverse and unique topics from the world of a snowflake to the life of Circe. She is a poet with the fine sensibility of our time who has embarked on the quest for the knowledge of reality, and comments on all aspects of that reality, including the precariousness of life, relationships and humankind's survival with intensity and intelligence. A bilingual collection every serious student of 20th century poetry should have on their shelf.

Author : Astrid Cabral
Publisher : Host Publications, Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0924047445

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Cage by Astrid Cabral Pdf

Poetry. Translated from the Portuguese by Alexis Levitin. In this first-ever bilingual edition of CAGE, eminent Brazilian poet Astrid Cabral is an insightful and irreverent guide to the natural world, leading the beguiled reader through landscapes of rare and surprising beauty. From serpents to seahorses, and from the wilds of the Amazon to the orderly realm of suburbia, these poems urge us to consider our surroundings with empathy and attentiveness. Cabral's complex, multifaceted verse glints with compressed energy, offering a densely layered vision in which simplicity is deceptive and conclusions are likely to be double-edged. A poet of considerable imaginative gifts and metaphysical flair, Astrid Cabral has produced a work of cauterizing beauty. In this perfectly orchestrated volume, each poem enriches and expands the poems that surround it.

Author : Ananda Dev
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184005257

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Indian Tango by Ananda Dev Pdf

‘To say that, in fact, writing has been no more than a way of talking about the body and nothing but the body...’ Lost to the meaning of her life, a foreign writer arrives in Delhi seeking the wordless company of strangers. Delhi is an exploded sun, bleeding everywhere its untrammelled chaos: the feral dampness of bus fumes; the suicidal rush of scooters; the autorickshaw seats impregnated with thousands of odours—nauseous accretions of India’s muddy human tide. The men with their stinking bidis rule as masters and the women remain walled in by centuries of tradition. The author, infatuated by a quiet lady on the street, begins to seek the untamed and undiscovered country that lies below her sari, the delicate throbbing hidden beneath her silence. As she rediscovers her voice and the ability to write a story, and as monsoon arrives, low and heavy-bellied, washing away the concrete barricades of custom, a secret encounter in a music store opens up an ancient darwaza of forbidden pleasures. Bursting with sharp irreverence, Indian Tango is a story of fleshly transgression and unlikely liberation in the patriachopolis of New Delhi.

Author : Pablo Neruda
Publisher : Host Publications, Inc.
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0924047135

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Fifty Odes by Pablo Neruda Pdf

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by George Schade. This bilingual edition of FIFTY ODES by Pablo Neruda, lovingly translated by Latin American scholar George Schade belongs in the collection of every serious poetry lover. Neruda magically transforms everyday objects, from dogs to dictionaries, into essential elements of an always amazing and surprising world. Alastair Reade, dean of Latin American poetry translators, declares, "These translations have the same fizziness, the same physical excitement that Pablo Neruda has."

Author : Haizi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105216987425

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Over Autumn Rooftops by Haizi Pdf

Poetry. East Asia Studies. Translated from the Chinese by Dan Murphy. In the six years prior to his death, Hai Zi wrote over 250 short poems, a number of poetic plays, long poems totaling over 400 pages, and several short stories. His verse illuminates the poverty and desperation of his peasant upbringing, reflects on China's literary and cultural history, and touches down on the grasslands and wheat fields of western China, but he is not simply a cultural poet or a nature poet—his poetry transcends all of this. In OVER AUTUMN ROOFTOPS, Host Publications is proud to make available to English-speaking audiences the work of this profound and beloved poet.

Author : Maria José Somerlate Barbosa
Publisher : University Press of South Incorporated
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173008355092

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Clarice Lispector by Maria José Somerlate Barbosa Pdf

Author : Stanley Wilkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1730738087

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Ancient Fictionality by Stanley Wilkin Pdf

Ancient Fictionality reviews the creation of through literature and art, perceiving it, in all its varied forms, as the greatest of all artistic creations. These books are concerned principally with the Abrahamic Religions and how the intertwining of text and the reconstruction of history have given each a specific and special power. In doing so, this book will look at Mesopotamian and Egyptian deities, such as Ishtar, Enki, Marduk and Thoth,Osiris, Horus and Isis. It will look at the similarities between Egyptian creation myths and the biblical creation myth. Mesopotamian heroes will also be considered, Gilgamesh, Enkidu and Lugalbanda. The amazing literature of both cultures will be analysed at length: epics, instruction literature, histories and poetry. Here, all Western civilisation began!

Author : Maryan Nagy Captan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1737605015

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Sixteen Rabbits by Maryan Nagy Captan Pdf