Beyond Tordesillas

Beyond Tordesillas
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 261
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ISBN-10 : 0814213472
ISBN-13 : 9780814213476
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Beyond Tordesillas by : Robert Patrick Newcomb

In Beyond Tordesillas both young and established scholars forcefully challenge the disciplinary boundaries that for too long have separated Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian studies. Instead, the volume's contributors reveal Iberian and Latin American cultures to be inherently transoceanic, and therefore best approached in comparative terms.

Brazil

Brazil
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 0521379059
ISBN-13 : 9780521379052
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Brazil by : Bertha K. Becker

Becker and Egler examine and review the process of Brazil's entry into the capitalist world-economy. They trace this development from the country's origins as a Portuguese colony to its status as a regional power in Latin America and the eighth-largest world economy.

Order and Disorder: The Poor Clares Between Foundation and Reform

Order and Disorder: The Poor Clares Between Foundation and Reform
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 450
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ISBN-10 : 9789004243637
ISBN-13 : 9004243631
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Order and Disorder: The Poor Clares Between Foundation and Reform by : Bert Roest

In Order and Disorder: The Poor Clares between Foundation and Reform, Bert Roest provides an up-to-date and comprehensive history of the Poor Clares from their early beginnings until the sixteenth century.

The Making of New World Slavery

The Making of New World Slavery
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 614
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ISBN-10 : 9781789600858
ISBN-13 : 1789600855
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis The Making of New World Slavery by : Robin Blackburn

The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state sought-successfully-to feed upon this commerce and-with markedly less success-to regulate slavery and racial relations. To illustrate this thesis, Blackburn examines the deployment of slaves in the colonial possessions of the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the English and the French. Plantation slavery is shown to have emerged from the impulses of civil society, not from the strategies of individual states. Robin Blackburn argues that the organization of slave plantations placed the West on a destructive path to modernity and that greatly preferable alternatives were both proposed and rejected. Finally, he shows that the surge of Atlantic trade, predicated on the murderous toil of the plantations, made a decisive contribution to both the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West.

Creative Transformations

Creative Transformations
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : 9781438480633
ISBN-13 : 1438480636
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Creative Transformations by : Krista Brune

In Creative Transformations, Krista Brune brings together Brazilian fiction, film, journalism, essays, and correspondence from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Drawing attention to the travels of Brazilian artists and intellectuals to the United States and other parts of the Americas, Brune argues that experiences of displacement have had a significant influence on their work. Across Brazilian literary and cultural history, translation becomes a way of navigating and representing the resulting encounters between languages, interactions with Spanish Americans, and negotiations of complex identities. While Creative Transformations engages extensively with theories of translation from different national and disciplinary contexts, it also constructs a vision of translation uniquely attuned to the place of Brazil in the Americas. Brune reveals the hemispheric underpinnings of works by renowned Brazilian writers such as Machado de Assis, Sousândrade, Mário de Andrade, Silviano Santiago, and Adriana Lisboa. In the process, she rethinks the dynamics between cosmopolitan and national desires and between center and periphery in global literary markets.

Teaching the Latin American Boom

Teaching the Latin American Boom
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Publisher : Modern Language Association
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 9781603291934
ISBN-13 : 1603291938
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Teaching the Latin American Boom by : Lucille Kerr

In the decade from the early 1960s to the early 1970s, Latin American authors found themselves writing for a new audience in both Latin America and Spain and in an ideologically charged climate as the Cold War found another focus in the Cuban Revolution. The writers who emerged in this energized cultural moment--among others, Julio Cortázar (Argentina), Guillermo Cabrera Infante (Cuba), José Donoso (Chile), Carlos Fuentes (Mexico), Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia), Manuel Puig (Argentina), and Mario Varas Llosa (Peru)--experimented with narrative forms that sometimes bore a vexed relation to the changing political situations of Latin America. This volume provides a wide range of options for teaching the complexities of the Boom, explores the influence of Boom works and authors, presents different frameworks for thinking about the Boom, proposes ways to approach it in the classroom, and provides resources for selecting materials for courses.

The Prisoner of Tordesillas

The Prisoner of Tordesillas
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Publisher : New York : Avon Books
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105047931147
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Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis The Prisoner of Tordesillas by : Lawrence L. Schoonover

Tragic story of Juana, Queen of Castile, a lovely woman betrayed.

The Spanish Lake

The Spanish Lake
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Publisher : ANU E Press
Total Pages : 396
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ISBN-10 : 9781920942168
ISBN-13 : 1920942165
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis The Spanish Lake by : Oskar Hermann Khristian Spate

This work is a history of the Pacific, the ocean that became a theatre of power and conflict shaped by the politics of Europe and the economic background of Spanish America. There could only be a concept of &�the Pacific once the limits and lineaments of the ocean were set and this was undeniably the work of Europeans. Fifty years after the Conquista, Nueva Espaą and Peru were the bases from which the ocean was turned into virtually a Spanish lake.

Contemporary Peruvian Cinema

Contemporary Peruvian Cinema
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9781838608217
ISBN-13 : 1838608214
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Contemporary Peruvian Cinema by : Sarah Barrow

WINNER OF A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AWARD 2019 The political violence that erupted towards the end of the twentieth century between the Peruvian state and militant group `Shining Path' left an indelible mark on the country that resonates even today. This study explores representations of the insurgency on screen, and asks what these tell us about the relationship between state, fiction cinema and identity in Peru. In the process, Sarah Barrow highlights the Peruvian experience as a paradigm for the wider study of film-making in societies faced with violence and terrorism. This book provides in-depth analyses of the pivotal films from the 1980s through to the present day that interpret the events, characters and consequences of the bloody conflict. Setting the films in the context of a time of turbulent transition for both Peruvian society and cinema - addressing developments in film policy and production - it reveals the attempts by filmmakers to reflect, shape, define and contest the identity of a fractured population. By interrogating important themes such as memory, trauma and cultural responses to terrorism, chapters explore local perception of nationhood, and highlight links to other Latin American cinemas and global issues. Featuring discussions of the work of Francisco Lombardi, Marianne Eyde, Fabrizio Aguilar and Josue Mendez, amongst others, this detailed investigation of the growing success and political importance of the industry's output traces the complexities of modern Peruvian history.

Curating and the Legacies of Colonialism in Contemporary Iberia

Curating and the Legacies of Colonialism in Contemporary Iberia
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Publisher : University of Wales Press
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 9781786838742
ISBN-13 : 1786838745
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Curating and the Legacies of Colonialism in Contemporary Iberia by : Carlos Garrido Castellano

Combining postcolonial studies, curating and contemporary art, this book surveys the role played by artistic curatorship and contemporary art museums in the shaping of identities and cultural planning in contemporary Iberia. The book’s main hypothesis is that contemporary art has been pivotal in the construction of contemporary Iberia, a process marked by the attention paid (in heterogeneous, not always satisfactory ways) to the entanglement of the legacies of colonialism and the present-day status of Iberian territories as cosmopolitan societies now integrated in the European Union. We argue that, at least from the 1990s, curating emerged as a key activity for Iberian societies to display and configure an image of themselves as modern and fully integrated in the European cultural landscape. Such an image, however, had to cope with the legacies of colonialism and the profound socioeconomic transformations of these societies. This book is concerned with bringing together, while redefining and expanding, Iberian and curatorial studies.