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Author: Angeles Mastretta Publisher: Vintage Espanol ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : es Pages : 312
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Esta es la historia de una mujer y su evolución personal. Catalina, la protagonista, nos cuenta sobre los avatares de su accidentado matrimonio con el General Andrés Ascencio. Los hechos transcurren en el México patriarcal de los años 30. Se plantea el conflicto de la emancipación femenina que en el caso particular de nuestra heroína pasa por el reconocimiento y la superación de las barreras educativas y culturales que impusieron la discriminación de su sexo. Se muestra una perfecta evolución del personaje de Catalina; primero sumisa y, después, odiando las ridículas cenas a las que tiene que asistir con su esposo. El amor de un amante no la libera. Finalmente la vida le regala soluciones. Se utiliza mucho el humor en esta novela; la sátira es un recurso artístico que nos llama la atención sobre lo absurdo y machista del contexto social mexicano en que se desarrollan los hechos.
Author: Angeles Mastretta Publisher: Vintage Espanol ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : es Pages : 312
Book Description
Esta es la historia de una mujer y su evolución personal. Catalina, la protagonista, nos cuenta sobre los avatares de su accidentado matrimonio con el General Andrés Ascencio. Los hechos transcurren en el México patriarcal de los años 30. Se plantea el conflicto de la emancipación femenina que en el caso particular de nuestra heroína pasa por el reconocimiento y la superación de las barreras educativas y culturales que impusieron la discriminación de su sexo. Se muestra una perfecta evolución del personaje de Catalina; primero sumisa y, después, odiando las ridículas cenas a las que tiene que asistir con su esposo. El amor de un amante no la libera. Finalmente la vida le regala soluciones. Se utiliza mucho el humor en esta novela; la sátira es un recurso artístico que nos llama la atención sobre lo absurdo y machista del contexto social mexicano en que se desarrollan los hechos.
Author: Darlene J. Sadlier Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252092325 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 195
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Like their Hollywood counterparts, Latin American film and TV melodramas have always been popular and highly profitable. The first of its kind, this anthology engages in a serious study of the aesthetics and cultural implications of Latin American melodramas. Written by some of the major figures in Latin American film scholarship, the studies range across seventy years of movies and television within a transnational context, focusing specifically on the period known as the "Golden Age" of melodrama, the impact of classic melodrama on later forms, and more contemporary forms of melodrama. An introductory essay examines current critical and theoretical debates on melodrama and places the essays within the context of Latin American film and media scholarship. Contributors are Luisela Alvaray, Mariana Baltar, Catherine L. Benamou, Marvin D’Lugo, Paula Félix-Didier, Andrés Levinson, Gilberto Perez, Darlene J. Sadlier, Cid Vasconcelos, and Ismail Xavier.
Author: Andrew Grant Wood Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199892458 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 321
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"Andrew Wood masterfully interweaves the many legends about the musician-poet Agustin Lara with solid historical facts, painstakingly documenting his rise from a hopeless romantic bordello-pianist to the world's most renowned bolero composer."--Cover, page [4].
Author: Daniel Balderston Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134788525 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 1833
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This vast three-volume Encyclopedia offers more than 4000 entries on all aspects of the dynamic and exciting contemporary cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean. Its coverage is unparalleled with more than 40 regions discussed and a time-span of 1920 to the present day. "Culture" is broadly defined to include food, sport, religion, television, transport, alongside architecture, dance, film, literature, music and sculpture. The international team of contributors include many who are based in Latin America and the Caribbean making this the most essential, authoritative and authentic Encyclopedia for anyone studying Latin American and Caribbean studies. Key features include: * over 4000 entries ranging from extensive overview entries which provide context for general issues to shorter, factual or biographical pieces * articles followed by bibliographic references which offer a starting point for further research * extensive cross-referencing and thematic and regional contents lists direct users to relevant articles and help map a route through the entries * a comprehensive index provides further guidance.
Author: Gina María Balibrera Publisher: Pantheon ISBN: 0593317246 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 369
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A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • A searingly original debut about two sisters and their flight from genocide—which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to San Francisco’s Cannery Row—each haunted along the way by the ghosts of their murdered friends, who are not yet done telling their stories “A gripping and spellbinding novel...An unforgettable debut.”—Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half “Stunning: original, magical, brutal, beautiful. A sweeping yet intimate look at love, sisterhood, and resistance in the face of devastation.” —Charmaine Wilkerson, author of Black Cake El Salvador, 1923. Graciela, a young girl growing up on a volcano in a community of Indigenous women, is summoned to the capital, where she is claimed as an oracle for a rising dictator. There she meets Consuelo, the sister she has never known, who was stolen from their home before Graciela was born. The two spend years under the cruel El Gran Pendejo’s regime, unwillingly helping his reign of terror, until genocide strikes the community from which they hail. Each believing the other to be dead, they escape, fleeing across the globe, reinventing themselves until fate ultimately brings them back together in the most unlikely of ways… Endlessly surprising, vividly imaginative, bursting with lush life, The Volcano Daughters charts a new history and mythology of El Salvador, fiercely bringing forth voices that have been calling out for generations.
Author: Frances R. Aparicio Publisher: Wesleyan University Press ISBN: 0819569941 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 321
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Winner of the MLA's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for an outstanding book published in English in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and culture (1999) For Anglos, the pulsing beats of salsa, merengue, and bolero are a compelling expression of Latino/a culture, but few outsiders comprehend the music's implications in larger social terms. Frances R. Aparicio places this music in context by combining the approaches of musicology and sociology with literary, cultural, Latino, and women's studies. She offers a detailed genealogy of Afro-Caribbean music in Puerto Rico, comparing it to selected Puerto Rican literary texts, then looks both at how Latinos/as in the US have used salsa to reaffirm their cultural identities and how Anglos have eroticized and depoliticized it in their adaptations. Aparicio's detailed examination of lyrics shows how these songs articulate issues of gender, desire, and conflict, and her interviews with Latinas/os reveal how they listen to salsa and the meanings they find in it. What results is a comprehensive view "that deploys both musical and literary texts as equally significant cultural voices in exploring larger questions about the power of discourse, gender relations, intercultural desire, race, ethnicity, and class."
Author: Daniel Balderston Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 113439960X Category : Caribbean literature Languages : en Pages : 701
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The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. With more than 200 entries written by a team of international contributors, this Encyclopedia successfully covers the popular to the esoteric.The Encyclopedia is an invaluable reference resource for those studying Latin American and/or Caribbean literature as well.
Author: Emma Staniland Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134614977 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 251
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This book explores six texts from across Spanish America in which the coming-of-age story ('Bildungsroman') offers a critique of gendered selfhood as experienced in the region’s socio-cultural contexts. Looking at a range of novels from the late twentieth century, Staniland explores thematic concerns in terms of their role in elucidating a literary journey towards agency: that is, towards the articulation of a socially and personally viable female gendered identity, mindful of both the hegemonic discourses that constrain it, and the possibility of their deconstruction and reconfiguration. Myth, exile and the female body are the three central themes for understanding the personal, social and political aims of the Post-Boom women writers whose work is explored in this volume: Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, Ángeles Mastretta, Sylvia Molloy, Cristina Peri Rossi and Zoé Valdés. Their adoption, and adaptation, of an originally eighteenth-century and European literary genre is seen here to reshape the global canon as much as it works to reshape our understanding of gendered identities as socially constructed, culturally contingent, and open-ended.
Author: Angeles Mastretta
Author: Angeles Mastretta
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Author: Darlene J. Sadlier
Author: David William Foster
Author: Andrew Grant Wood
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Author: Gina María Balibrera
Author: Frances R. Aparicio
Author: Daniel Balderston
Author: Emma Staniland