Author: Manuela Gallardo y GómezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 16
Book Description
Conoce los frutos de tu tierra. El Granado
Author: Manuela Gallardo y GómezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 16
Book Description
Conoce los frutos de tu tierra. El membrillero
Author: Manuela Gallardo y GómezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 12
Book Description
Conoce los frutos de tu tierra. El melocotonero
Author: Manuela Gallardo y GómezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 12
Book Description
Conoce los frutos de tu tierra
Author: Manuela Gallardo y GómezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 16
Book Description
Cecilia Valdés or El Angel Hill
Author: Cirilo VillaverdePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199725233
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has fascinated readers inside and outside Cuba since the late 19th century. In this new English translation, a vast landscape emerges of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. Set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel introduces us to Cecilia, a beautiful light-skinned mulatta, who is being pursued by the son of a Spanish slave trader, named Leonardo. Unbeknownst to the two, they are the children of the same father. Eventually Cecilia gives in to Leonardo's advances; she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. When Leonardo, who gets bored with Cecilia after a while, agrees to marry a white upper class woman, Cecilia vows revenge. A mulatto friend and suitor of hers kills Leonardo, and Cecilia is thrown into prison as an accessory to the crime. For the contemporary reader Helen Lane's masterful translation of Cecilia Valdés opens a new window into the intricate problems of race relations in Cuba and the Caribbean. There are the elite social circles of European and New World Whites, the rich culture of the free people of color, the class to which Cecilia herself belonged, and then the slaves, divided among themselves between those who were born in Africa and those who were born in the New World, and those who worked on the sugar plantation and those who worked in the households of the rich people in Havana. Cecilia Valdés thus presents a vast portrait of sexual, social, and racial oppression, and the lived experience of Spanish colonialism in Cuba.
The Course of Mexican History
Author: Michael C. MeyerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
This new edition draws on both classic and current sources to provide a comprehensive survey of Mexican history from the pre-Columbian period to the latest presidential election.
The Underdogs
Author: Mariano AzuelaPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440638527
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Hailed as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs recounts the story of an illiterate but charismatic Indian peasant farmer’s part in the rebellion against Porfirio Díaz, and his subsequent loss of belief in the cause when the revolutionary alliance becomes factionalized. Azuela’s masterpiece is a timeless, authentic portrayal of peasant life, revolutionary zeal, and political disillusionment.
Dictionary of Spoken Spanish
Author: United States. War DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature
Author: Friedrich BouterwekPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Portuguese literature
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Photographing the Mexican Revolution
Author: John MrazPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292742835
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920 is among the world’s most visually documented revolutions. Coinciding with the birth of filmmaking and the increased mobility offered by the reflex camera, it received extraordinary coverage by photographers and cineastes—commercial and amateur, national and international. Many images of the Revolution remain iconic to this day—Francisco Villa galloping toward the camera; Villa lolling in the presidential chair next to Emiliano Zapata; and Zapata standing stolidly in charro raiment with a carbine in one hand and the other hand on a sword, to mention only a few. But the identities of those who created the thousands of extant images of the Mexican Revolution, and what their purposes were, remain a huge puzzle because photographers constantly plagiarized each other’s images. In this pathfinding book, acclaimed photography historian John Mraz carries out a monumental analysis of photographs produced during the Mexican Revolution, focusing primarily on those made by Mexicans, in order to discover who took the images and why, to what ends, with what intentions, and for whom. He explores how photographers expressed their commitments visually, what aesthetic strategies they employed, and which identifications and identities they forged. Mraz demonstrates that, contrary to the myth that Agustín Víctor Casasola was “the photographer of the Revolution,” there were many who covered the long civil war, including women. He shows that specific photographers can even be linked to the contending forces and reveals a pattern of commitment that has been little commented upon in previous studies (and completely unexplored in the photography of other revolutions).