Author: Viriato Sención
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This vivid exposé of corruption and political tyranny in the Dominican Republic rang so true to the reality that the President of that country went on television to denounce the book. Sención's novel follows the lives of three seminary students who suffer from church-state oppression. The book also gives a chilling portrait of Dr. Ramos, a sinister autocrat, who manages to survive six terms as president of his country through manipulation and tyranny.
They Forged the Signature of God
Author: Viriato Sención
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This vivid exposé of corruption and political tyranny in the Dominican Republic rang so true to the reality that the President of that country went on television to denounce the book. Sención's novel follows the lives of three seminary students who suffer from church-state oppression. The book also gives a chilling portrait of Dr. Ramos, a sinister autocrat, who manages to survive six terms as president of his country through manipulation and tyranny.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This vivid exposé of corruption and political tyranny in the Dominican Republic rang so true to the reality that the President of that country went on television to denounce the book. Sención's novel follows the lives of three seminary students who suffer from church-state oppression. The book also gives a chilling portrait of Dr. Ramos, a sinister autocrat, who manages to survive six terms as president of his country through manipulation and tyranny.
Mexican Poetry
Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780802151865
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Collects samplings of the writings of thirty-five influential Mexican poets ranging from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780802151865
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Collects samplings of the writings of thirty-five influential Mexican poets ranging from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries
Latin America's New Historical Novel
Author: Seymour Menton
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292786271
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : es
Pages : 248
Book Description
Beginning with the 1979 publication of Alejo Carpentier's El arpa y la sombra, the New Historical Novel has become the dominant genre within Latin American fiction. In this at-times tongue-in-cheek postmodern study, Seymour Menton explores why the New Historical Novel has achieved such popularity and offers discerning readings of numerous works. Menton argues persuasively that the proximity of the Columbus Quincentennial triggered the rise of the New Historical Novel. After defining the historical novel in general, he identifies the distinguishing features of the New Historical Novel. Individual chapters delve deeply into such major works as Mario Vargas Llosa's La guerra del fin del mundo, Abel Posse's Los perros del paraíso, Gabriel García Márquez's El general en su laberinto, and Carlos Fuentes' La campaña. A chapter on the Jewish Latin American novel focuses on several works that deserve greater recognition, such as Pedro Orgambide's Aventuras de Edmund Ziller en tierras del Nuevo Mundo, Moacyr Scliar's A estranha nação de Rafael Mendes, and Angelina Muñiz's Tierra adentro.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292786271
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : es
Pages : 248
Book Description
Beginning with the 1979 publication of Alejo Carpentier's El arpa y la sombra, the New Historical Novel has become the dominant genre within Latin American fiction. In this at-times tongue-in-cheek postmodern study, Seymour Menton explores why the New Historical Novel has achieved such popularity and offers discerning readings of numerous works. Menton argues persuasively that the proximity of the Columbus Quincentennial triggered the rise of the New Historical Novel. After defining the historical novel in general, he identifies the distinguishing features of the New Historical Novel. Individual chapters delve deeply into such major works as Mario Vargas Llosa's La guerra del fin del mundo, Abel Posse's Los perros del paraíso, Gabriel García Márquez's El general en su laberinto, and Carlos Fuentes' La campaña. A chapter on the Jewish Latin American novel focuses on several works that deserve greater recognition, such as Pedro Orgambide's Aventuras de Edmund Ziller en tierras del Nuevo Mundo, Moacyr Scliar's A estranha nação de Rafael Mendes, and Angelina Muñiz's Tierra adentro.
Power & Its Disguises
Author: John Gledhill
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A rethinking of popular political movements, this book looks at new, emerging, mass visions and analyses their impact and potential in new ways.
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A rethinking of popular political movements, this book looks at new, emerging, mass visions and analyses their impact and potential in new ways.
Tropical Pinnipeds
Author: Juan J. Alava
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1351647636
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Pinnipeds are a fascinating group of marine mammals that play a crucial role as apex predators and sentinels of the functioning and health of marine ecosystems. They are found in the most extreme environments from the Polar regions to the tropics. Pinnipeds are comprised of about 34 species, and of those at least 25% live permanently in tropical zones. This book reviews and updates current research on the biology, marine ecology, bio-monitoring, and conservation of tropical pinniped populations, including their behavior, anthropogenic stressors, and health. It also looks at challenges to be faced for the conservation of tropical pinnipeds, many of which are threatened species.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1351647636
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Pinnipeds are a fascinating group of marine mammals that play a crucial role as apex predators and sentinels of the functioning and health of marine ecosystems. They are found in the most extreme environments from the Polar regions to the tropics. Pinnipeds are comprised of about 34 species, and of those at least 25% live permanently in tropical zones. This book reviews and updates current research on the biology, marine ecology, bio-monitoring, and conservation of tropical pinniped populations, including their behavior, anthropogenic stressors, and health. It also looks at challenges to be faced for the conservation of tropical pinnipeds, many of which are threatened species.
Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America
Author: James Scorer
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787357546
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America is a cutting-edge study of the expanding worlds of Latin American comics. Despite lack of funding and institutional support, not since the mid-twentieth century have comics in the region been so dynamic, so diverse and so engaged with pressing social and cultural issues. Comics are being used as essential tools in debates about, for example, digital cultures, gender identities and political disenfranchisement.
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787357546
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America is a cutting-edge study of the expanding worlds of Latin American comics. Despite lack of funding and institutional support, not since the mid-twentieth century have comics in the region been so dynamic, so diverse and so engaged with pressing social and cultural issues. Comics are being used as essential tools in debates about, for example, digital cultures, gender identities and political disenfranchisement.
The Boy and the Prophet
Author: Pietro Grieco
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
ISBN: 9781419697173
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Using the Socratic dialog system, a boy and a prophet question, discover and illumine the mysteries of life to make meaning of our own existence.
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
ISBN: 9781419697173
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Using the Socratic dialog system, a boy and a prophet question, discover and illumine the mysteries of life to make meaning of our own existence.
The Bush, the Plantations, and the Devils [microform]: Culture and Historical Experience in the Argentinean Chaco
Author: Gaston Rafael Gordillo
Publisher: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
ISBN: 9780612411623
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Publisher: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
ISBN: 9780612411623
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Casta Painting
Author: Ilona Katzew
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300109719
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Casta painting is a distinctive Mexican genre that portrays racial mixing among the Indians, Spaniards & Africans who inhabited the colony, depicted in sets of consecutive images. Ilona Katzew places this art form in its social & historical context.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300109719
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Casta painting is a distinctive Mexican genre that portrays racial mixing among the Indians, Spaniards & Africans who inhabited the colony, depicted in sets of consecutive images. Ilona Katzew places this art form in its social & historical context.
The Architecture of the Palazzo Borghese
Author: Howard Hibbard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Baroque
Languages : it
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Baroque
Languages : it
Pages : 220
Book Description