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Author : Omar Rivabella
Publisher : Random House
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804153645
In a town in an unnamed Latin American country, a Catholic priest—racked by moral doubt regarding the Church’s social role—discovers the torn papers of a diary belonging to a woman arrested and brutally tortured for no apparent reason.
Author : Omar Rivabella
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0140097732
In a town in an unnamed Latin American country, a Catholic priest--racked by moral doubt regarding the Church's social role--discovers the torn papers of a diary belonging to a woman arrested and brutally tortured for no apparent reason
Author : Jean FRANCO,Jean Franco
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674037175
The cultural Cold War in Latin America was waged as a war of values--artistic freedom versus communitarianism, Western values versus national cultures, the autonomy of art versus a commitment to liberation struggles--and at a time when the prestige of literature had never been higher. The projects of the historic avant-garde were revitalized by an anti-capitalist ethos and envisaged as the opposite of the republican state. The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City charts the conflicting universals of this period, the clash between avant-garde and political vanguard. This was also a twilight of literature at the threshold of the great cultural revolution of the seventies and eighties, a revolution to which the Cold War indirectly contributed. In the eighties, civil war and military rule, together with the rapid development of mass culture and communication empires, changed the political and cultural map. A long-awaited work by an eminent Latin Americanist widely read throughout the world, this book will prove indispensable to anyone hoping to understand Latin American literature and society. Jean Franco guides the reader across minefields of cultural debate and histories of highly polarized struggle. Focusing on literary texts by Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa, Roa Bastos, and Juan Carlos Onetti, conducting us through this contested history with the authority of an eyewitness, Franco gives us an engaging overview as involving as it is moving.
Author : JohnR. Decker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351540070
Investigating the complex interactions between devotional imagery and Church doctrine in the Low Countries during the fifteenth century, this book demonstrates how the pictorial arts intersected with popular religious practice. The author reconstructs the conceptual frameworks underlying the use and production of religious art in this period and provides a more nuanced understanding of the use of images in the process of soul formation. This study delves into the complexity of the early modern system of personal justification and argues that religious images and objects were part of a larger 'Technology of Salvation.' In order to make these connections clearer, the author analyzes selected works by Geertgen tot Sint Jans (Little Gerard at St. John's) and shows how they functioned within their larger social and historical milieu.
Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137504326
Set at the intersection of Human Rights, social justice and Literature, this cutting edge book examines a range of literary texts, fiction, plays and poetry, and through them considers representations of Human Rights and their violations. Examining violated bodies and subjects, the settings and environments in which these are embedded and the witnessing of atrocities, it considers how the ‘subject’ (or ‘person’ of Human Rights) emerges within fiction or poetry. Structured so as to move outward from the individual body to the world, the study progresses from the preconditions or settings for Human Rights violations through to atrocity, from witnessing to the making of a specific kind of public around traumatic recall. It addresses representations of destroyed corporeality and subjectivity, the violations and dissolution of the subject and the construction of trauma-memory citizenship to the making of communities of mourning. Through a broad study of texts from different genres, this text reveals how Literature both documents the basic human aspirations of happiness, security and hope, but also the limitations and the violations of these aspirations.
Author : Maryann P. DiEdwardo
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781622739097
'Hermeneutics, Metacognition, and Writing' investigates the social functionality of actions as an essential criterion of study. It focuses on hermeneutics: interpretation through the lens of philosophy of metacognition. Vital contributions to the book include several chapters by Dr. Maryann P. DiEdwardo herself, which explore various facets of the central topic, including the intersectionality of hermeneutics, metacognition, and semiotics, as well as social movements. Dr. Juliet Emmanuel writes on the subject of the connections between hermeneutics, metacognition, and writing, and Jill Kroeger Kinkade presents a chapter on D.H.Lawrence, Hilda Doolittle, and Virginia Woolf’s portrayals of consciousness. Patricia Pasda discusses what links Sr. Francis of Assisi, dogs, and hermeneutics; Dr. T. Madison Peschock presents a feminist paper concerning abuse of those not wielding power. Susan Stangeland offers her expertise and scholarship in the area of Biblical Hermeneutics. This collection of critiques and case studies examines the imagined cultural landscape of specific works and associated activities such as fine art, music, poetry, and digital humanities, which aim to initiate self-monitoring as metacognition, or meta-reflection, by creating interior interpersonal space to overcome adversity. This edited volume will be of particular interest to scholars and students of textual hermeneutics as it relates to prose writing and artistic works in non-verbal media.
Author : James Dawes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674989474
James Dawes defines a new, dynamic American literary genre, which takes as its theme a range of atrocities at home and abroad. This vibrant and modern genre incorporates key debates within the human rights movement in the U.S. and in turn influences the ideas and rhetoric of that discourse.
Author : James Dawes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674030275
What can we do to prevent more atrocities from happening in the future, and to stop the ones that are happening right now? That the World May Know tells the powerful and moving story of the successes and failures of the modern human rights movement. Drawing on firsthand accounts from fieldworkers around the world, the book gives a painfully clear picture of the human cost of confronting inhumanity in our day.
Author : Carolyn Nordstrom
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0812216210
"A deeply researched study into the nature of political violence."--
Author : Joseph R. Slaughter
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823228195
In this timely study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, Joseph Slaughter demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of “world literature” and international human rights law are related phenomena. Slaughter argues that international law shares with the modern novel a particular conception of the human individual. The Bildungsroman, the novel of coming of age, fills out this image, offering a conceptual vocabulary, a humanist social vision, and a narrative grammar for what the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and early literary theorists both call “the free and full development of the human personality.” Revising our received understanding of the relationship between law and literature, Slaughter suggests that this narrative form has acted as a cultural surrogate for the weak executive authority of international law, naturalizing the assumptions and conditions that make human rights appear commonsensical. As a kind of novelistic correlative to human rights law, the Bildungsroman has thus been doing some of the sociocultural work of enforcement that the law cannot do for itself. This analysis of the cultural work of law and of the social work of literature challenges traditional Eurocentric histories of both international law and the dissemination of the novel. Taking his point of departure in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister, Slaughter focuses on recent postcolonial versions of the coming-of-age story to show how the promise of human rights becomes legible in narrative and how the novel and the law are complicit in contemporary projects of globalization: in colonialism, neoimperalism, humanitarianism, and the spread of multinational consumer capitalism. Slaughter raises important practical and ethical questions that we must confront in advocating for human rights and reading world literature—imperatives that, today more than ever, are intertwined.
Author : Juan E. Corradi,Patricia Weiss Fagen,Manuel Antonio Garretón Merino
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0520077059
"A genuinely interdisciplinary work . . . the best attempt I have ever seen at a truly unified intellectuals' approach to an important issue."—Timothy Wickham-Crowley, Georgetown University "Very seldom does a collected volume achieve the academic quality and internal coherence that one sees in this case. It is a major contribution to comparative research on post-authoritarian situations."—Carlos Waisman, University of California, San Diego
Author : David Kohut,Olga Vilella
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442276420
This third edition of Historical Dictionary of the Dirty Wars contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on the countries themselves; guerrilla and political movements.
Author : King-fai Tam,Timothy Y. Tsu,Sandra Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317650461
This book examines representations of the Second World War in postwar Chinese and Japanese cinema. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly disciplines, and analysing a wide range of films, it demonstrates the potential of war movies for understanding contemporary China and Japan. It shows how the war is remembered in both countries, including the demonisation of Japanese soldiers in postwar socialist-era Chinese movies, and the pervasive sense of victimhood in Japanese memories of the war. However, it also shows how some Chinese directors were experimenting with alternatives interpretations of the war from as early as the 1950s, and how, despite the "resurgence of nationalism" in japan since the 1980s, the production of Japanese movies critical of the war has continued.
Author : Christopher Berry Grey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135582760
From articles centering on the detailed and doctrinal exposition of the law to those which reside almost wholly within the realm of philosophical ethics, this volume affords comprehensive treatment to both sides of the philosophico-legal equation. Systematic and sustained coverage of the many dimensions of legal thought gives ample expression to the true breadth and depth of the philosophy of law, with coverage of: The modes of knowing and the kinds of normativity used in the law; Studies in international, constitutional, criminal, administrative, persons and property, contracts and tort law-including their historical origins and worldwide ramifications; Current legal cultures such as common law and civilian, European, and Aboriginal; Influential jurisprudents and their biographies; All influential schools and methods
Author : Marjorie Agosín
Publisher : White Pine Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1877727563
"it is about singing, despite beatings...the new public voices of women invented out of private pain."--Diane Russell-Pineda