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Leer en El Caos. Aspectos Y Problemas de Las Literaturas de América Latina. Alberto Rodríguez Carucci. Voz Y Escritura. Revista de Estudios Literarios
Author: Leer en el caos. Aspectos y problemas de las literaturas de América Latina. Alberto Rodríguez Carucci. Voz y Escritura. Revista de estudios Literarios
Author: Elda MoraLeer en el caos
Author: Alberto Rodríguez CarucciPublisher: Universidad Catolica Andres
ISBN: 9789802440009
Category : Law
Languages : es
Pages : 228
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Latin America Between Colony and Nation
Author: J. LynchPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230511724
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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This book focuses on a key period in Latin American history, the transition from colonial status, via the revolutions for independence, to national organization. The essays provide in-depth studies of eighteenth-century society, the colonial state, and the roots of independence in Spanish America. The relation of Spanish America to the age of democratic revolution and the reaction of the Church to revolutionary change are newly defined, and leadership of Simon Bolivar is subject to particular scrutiny. National organization saw the emergence of new political leaders, the caudillos , and the marginalization of many people who sought relief in popular religion and millenarian movements.
Liberators, Patriots and Leaders of Latin America
Author: Jerome R. AdamsPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786455527
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This book features biographies of 32 of the most notable figures in Latin American history. To the 23 individuals from the first edition, consisting mostly of revolutionary, political, and military figures of the past, are added nine new biographies of contemporary Latin American presidents, providing an updated view of the region's leadership. Several patterns run through the individual biographies. The concept of native identity is an important aspect in the stories of Malinche, Juarez, Sandino, and Zapata--profoundly affecting the politics of modern Brazil, Mexico, and Nicaragua. One also sees a continuing compulsion to rebel against overwhelming odds in the cases of Manuela Saenz, Che Guevara and Daniel Ortega.
The Women of Colonial Latin America
Author: Susan Migden SocolowPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521196655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
A highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.
Spanish American Women's Use of the Word
Author: Stacey SchlauPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816517121
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Women's participation, both formal and informal, in the creation of what we now call Spanish America is reflected in its literary legacy. Stacey Schlau examines what women from a wide spectrum of classes and races have to say about the societies in which they lived and their place in them. Schlau has written the first book to study a historical selection of Spanish American women's writings with an emphasis on social and political themes. Through their words, she offers an alternative vision of the development of narrative genresÑcritical, fictional, and testimonialÑfrom colonial times to the present. The authors considered here represent the chronological yet nonlinear development of women's narrative. They include Teresa Romero Zapata, accused before the Inquisition of being a false visionary; InŽs Su‡rez, nun and writer of spiritual autobiography; Gertrudis G—mez de Avellaneda, author of an indigenist historical romance; Magda Portal, whose biography of Flora Trist‡n furthered her own political agenda; Dora Alonso, who wrote revolutionary children's books; Domitila Barrios de Chungara, political leader and organizer; Elvira OrphŽe, whose novel unpacks the psychology of the torturer; and several others who address social and political struggles that continue to the present day. Although the writers treated here may seem to have little in common, all sought to maneuver through institutions and systems and insert themselves into public life by using the written word, often through the appropriation and modification of mainstream genres. In examining how these authors stretched the boundaries of genre to create a multiplicity of hybrid forms, Schlau reveals points of convergence in the narrative tradition of challenging established political and social structures. Outlining the shape of this literary tradition, she introduces us to a host of neglected voices, as well as examining better-known ones, who demonstrate that for women, simply writing can be a political act.
New Perspectives on Historical Writing
Author: Peter BurkePublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271008349
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A new edition of this best-selling collection of essays by leading experts on historical methodology.
Women in Spanish America
Author: Meri KnasterPublisher: Hall Reference Books
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Women's Lives in Colonial Quito
Author: Kimberly GaudermanPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292779933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
What did it mean to be a woman in colonial Spanish America? Given the many advances in women's rights since the nineteenth century, we might assume that colonial women had few rights and were fully subordinated to male authority in the family and in society—but we'd be wrong. In this provocative study, Kimberly Gauderman undermines the long-accepted patriarchal model of colonial society by uncovering the active participation of indigenous, mestiza, and Spanish women of all social classes in many aspects of civil life in seventeenth-century Quito. Gauderman draws on records of criminal and civil proceedings, notarial records, and city council records to reveal women's use of legal and extra-legal means to achieve personal and economic goals; their often successful attempts to confront men's physical violence, adultery, lack of financial support, and broken promises of marriage; women's control over property; and their participation in the local, interregional, and international economies. This research clearly demonstrates that authority in colonial society was less hierarchical and more decentralized than the patriarchal model suggests, which gave women substantial control over economic and social resources.