Author: A. Owen AldrigePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The Ibero-American Enlightenment. Ed. by A. Owen Aldridge
Author: A. Owen AldrigeThe Enlightenment
Author: Dorinda OutramPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521425346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This major new textbook introduces both the concepts and the contexts of the Enlightenment to students of eighteenth-century history.
The Ibero-American Enlightenment
Author: Alfred Owen AldridgePublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Eve's Enlightenment
Author: Catherine M. JaffePublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807133897
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Eve's portrayal in the Bible as a sinner and a temptress seemed to represent -- and justify -- women's inferior position in society for much of history. During the Enlightenment, women challenged these traditional gender roles by joining the public sphere as writers, intellectuals, philanthropists, artists, and patrons of the arts. Some sought to reclaim Eve by recasting her as a positive symbol of women's abilities and intellectual curiosity. In Eve's Enlightenment, leading scholars in the fields of history, art history, literature, and psychology discuss how Enlightenment philosophies compared to women's actual experiences in Spain and Spanish America during the period. Relying on newspaper accounts, poetry, polemic, paintings, and saints' lives, this diverse group of contributors discuss how evolving legal, social, and medical norms affected Hispanic women and how art and literature portrayed them. Contributors such as historians Mónica Bolufer Peruga and María Victoria López-Cordón Cortezo, art historian Janis A. Tomlinson, and literary critic Rebecca Haidt also examine the contributions these women's experiences make to a transatlantic understanding of the Enlightenment. A common theme unites many of the essays: while Enlightenment reformers demanded rational equality for men and women, society increasingly emphasized sentiment and passion as defining characteristics of the female sex, leading to deepening contradictions. Despite clear gaps between Enlightenment ideals and women's experiences, however, the contributors agree that the women of Spain and Spanish America not only took part in the social and cultural transformations of the time but also exerted their own power and influence to help guide the Spanish-speaking world toward modernity. The first interdisciplinary collection published in English, Eve's Enlightenment offers a wealth of information for scholars of eighteenth-century Spanish history, literature, art history, and women's studies. An introduction by editors Catherine M. Jaffe and Elizabeth Franklin Lewis provides helpful historical and contextual information.
The Enlightenment in Iberia and Ibero-America
Author: Brian HamnettPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786830485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This book examines a neglected aspect of the Enlightenment to demonstrate how it influenced the future shape of Spain, Portugal and their American territories.
The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800
Author: Edward G. GrayPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571812100
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
When Columbus arrived in the Americas there were, it is believed, as many as 2,000 distinct, mutually unintelligible tongues spoken in the western hemisphere, encompassing the entire area from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. This astonishing fact has generally escaped the attention of historians, in part because many of these indigenous languages have since become extinct. And yet the burden of overcoming America's language barriers was perhaps the one problem faced by all peoples of the New World in the early modern era: African slaves and Native Americans in the Lower Mississippi Valley; Jesuit missionaries and Huron-speaking peoples in New France; Spanish conquistadors and the Aztec rulers. All of these groups confronted America's complex linguistic environment, and all of them had to devise ways of transcending that environment - a problem that arose often with life or death implications. For the first time, historians, anthropologists, literature specialists, and linguists have come together to reflect, in the fifteen original essays presented in this volume, on the various modes of contact and communication that took place between the Europeans and the "Natives." A particularly important aspect of this fascinating collection is the way it demonstrates the interactive nature of the encounter and how Native peoples found ways to shape and adapt imported systems of spoken and written communication to their own spiritual and material needs.
The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature
Author: Roberto Gonzalez EchevarríaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521340694
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Volume 1 of a comprehensive three-volume history of Latin American literature (including Brazilian): the only work of its kind.
Colonialism Past and Present
Author: Alvaro Felix BolanosPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791489760
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
This collection of essays offers alternative readings of historical and literary texts produced during Latin America's colonial period. By considering the political and ideological implications of the texts' interpretation yesterday and today, it attempts to "decolonize" the field of Latin American studies and promote an ethical, interdisciplinary practice that does not falsify or appropriate knowledge produced by both the colonial subjects of the past and the oppressed subjects of the present. Using recent developments in postcolonial theory, the contributors challenge traditional approaches to Hispanism. The colonial situation under which these texts were composed, with all its injustices and prejudices, still lingers, and most studies have consistently avoided the connection between this colonial legacy and the situation of disenfranchised groups today. Colonialism Past and Present challenges discursive strategies that celebrate only European cultural traits, dismiss non-European cultural legacies, and solidify constructions of national projects considered natural extensions of European civilization since independence from Spain.
The Independence of Spanish America
Author: Jaime E. Rodríguez O.Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521626736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book provides a new interpretation of Spanish American independence, emphasising political processes.
Book History
Author: Ezra GreenspanPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271023304
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Book History is the annual journal of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. (SHARP). Book History is devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly defined as the history of the creation, dissemination, and the reception of script and print. Book History publishes research on the social, economic, and cultural history of authorship, editing, printing, the book arts, publishing, the book trade, periodicals, newspapers, ephemera, copyright, censorship, literary agents, libraries, literary criticism, canon formation, literacy, literacy education, reading habits, and reader response.