Author: Icelsa I. Pérez PeñaPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557710499
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
EL VIEJO GO
Author: Icelsa I. Pérez PeñaPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557710499
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Author: Blackwood's Magazine
Author: Cuba Diaries
Author: Isadora TattlinPublisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565123492
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
What do you serve when Castro comes to dinner? Tattlin's firsthand account ofher immersion into Cuban life is uninhibited and revelatory. Nationalads.
American-Spanish Euphemisms
Author: Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Practical Spanish Teacher; Or, A New Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak the Spanish Language ...
Author: Norman PinneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spanish language
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Secular Saints
Author: Sarah M. MisemerPublisher: Tamesis Books
ISBN: 9781855661615
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The sanctification of stardom Contemporary icons are drawn from popular culture - musicians, artists, actors, and other personalities we hear on radio or see on television, on screen, in print and in cyberspace. Today's 'gods' are media personalities, and cults surround stars and artists like Frida Kahlo, Carlos Gardel, Eva Perón, and Selena. Because of transnational and global trends in importing and exporting cultural products, the paintings, music, and politics that these figures crafted accrue symbolic meaning in multiple formats. By viewing them through the lens of performance art we can begin to see how their polyvalent personas were first molded and perfected for the public through paintings, tangos, politics, and Tejano music. Once they fashioned their own complex images, these multi-layered icons continued to travel after death over international boundaries, gendered divisions, political borders, and language barriers. Their reincarnation on stage has allowed dramatists to affix and generate new associations, thus converting them into secular saints for contemporary audiences. SARAH M. MISEMER lectures in Hispanic Studies at TexasA&M University, College Station.
Tom Cringle's Log
Author: Michael ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Tom Cringle's Log
Author: Michael ScottPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387064500
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 918
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Mortal Doubt
Author: Anthony W. FontesPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520969596
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
The fear of violent crime dominates Guatemala City. In the midst of unprecedented levels of postwar violence, Guatemalans struggle to fathom the myriad forces that have made life in this city so deeply insecure. Born out of histories of state terror, migration, and US deportation, maras (transnational gangs) have become the face of this new era of violence. They are brutal organizations engaged in extortion, contract killings, and the drug trade, and yet they have also become essential to the emergence of a certain kind of social order. Drawing on years of fieldwork inside prisons, police precincts, and gang-dominated neighborhoods, Anthony W. Fontes demonstrates how gang violence has become indissoluble from contemporary social imaginaries and how these gangs provide cover for a host of other criminal actors. Ethnographically rich and unflinchingly critical, Mortal Doubt illuminates the maras’ role in making and mooring collective terror in Guatemala City while tracing the ties that bind this violence to those residing in far safer environs.