Author: United States. Embassy (Spain)
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Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Author: United States. Department of State
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1366

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Author: William Luis
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826513953
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Offers insights on Latino Caribbean writers born or raised in the United States who are at the vanguard of a literary movement that has captured both critical and popular interest. In this groundbreaking study, William Luis analyzes the most salient and representative narrative and poetic works of the newest literary movement to emerge in Spanish American and U.S. literatures. The book is divided into three sections, each focused on representative Puerto Rican American, Cuban American, and Dominican American authors. Luis traces the writers' origins and influences from the nineteenth century to the present, focusing especially on the contemporary works of Oscar Hijuelos, Julia Alvarez, Cristina Garcia, and Piri Thomas, among others. While engaging in close readings of the texts, Luis places them in a broader social, historical, political, and racial perspective to expose the tension between text and context. As a group, Latino Caribbeans write an ethnic literature in English that is born of their struggle to forge an identity separate from both the influences of their parents' culture and those of the United States. For these writers, their parents' country of origin is a distant memory. They have developed a culture of resistance and a language that mediates between their parents' identity and the culture that they themselves live in. Latino Caribbeans are engaged in a metaphorical dance with Anglo Americans as the dominant culture. Just as that dance represents a coming together of separate influences to make a unique art form, so do both Hispanic and North American cultures combine to bring a new literature into being. This new body of literature helps us to understand not only the adjustments Latino Caribbean cultures have had to make within the larger U.S. environment but also how the dominant culture has been affected by their presence.

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Publisher: Siglo del Hombre Editores
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 398

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Author: Ángel Alcalde
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1782847049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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The July 1936 coup d'tat against the Spanish Second Republic brought together a diversity of anti-Republican political and social groups under the leadership of rebel Africanista military officers. In the ensuing Civil War this coalition gradually came under the rule of Generalissimo Franco. This volume explores the hypothesis that the violence and combat experiences of the war were the fundamental ideological crucible for the Francoist regime. The rebels were a group of reactionary and anti-liberal forces with little ideological or political coherence, but they emerged from the conflict not only victorious but ideologically united under the dictator's power. Key to understanding this transition are the different political cultures of the rebel army, how the combatants' war experiences contributed to the transformation of diverse rebel groups, and the role of foreign armed intervention. The contributors examine not only the endogenous Spanish political and military cultures of the Francoist coalition, but also the transnational influence of foreign groups. The roots of Francoist political culture are found in the Falangist and Carlist militias, and Civil Guard units, that lent their support to the military rebellion. The war experiences of conscripts, colonial troops, and junior officers forged the Francoist ideology. It was reinforced by fascist influences and assistance from Germany and Italy, and the lesser-known contributions of Swiss and White Russian volunteers. At the beginning of the conflict the rebel side was not homogeneous. But it weaved together a complex, transnational web of political and military interests in the midst of a bloody and destructive war, transforming itself in the process to a political and dictatorial platform that was to rule Spain for many years.

Author: Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815652364
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Refugee camps are typically perceived as militarized and patriarchal spaces, and yet the Sahrawi refugee camps and their inhabitants have consistently been represented as ideal in nature: uniquely secular and democratic spaces, and characterized by gender equality. Drawing on extensive research with and about Sahrawi refugees in Algeria, Cuba, Spain, South Africa, and Syria, Fiddian- Qasmiyeh explores how, why, and to what effect such idealized depictions have been projected onto the international arena.

Author: Blas Falconer
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816528675
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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"With cultural roots in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, or a variety of other locales, people of Hispanic origin in the United States are too often consigned to a single category. Falconer and López set out to change this with a diverse collection of essays that help answer the question: How can we treat U.S. Latina and Latino literature as a definable whole while acknowledging the many shifting identities within their cultures? This book sheds light on the dangers of abandoning identity by accepting cultural stereotypes and ignoring diversity within diversity. The contributors caution against judging literature based on the race of the author and lament the use of the term Hispanic to erase individuality"--Provided by publisher.

Author: Nicolàs Kanellos
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611921731
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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By all accounts, the most important document for studying history, literature, and culture of Hispanics in the United States has been Spanish-language newspapers. Now, a noted cultural historian and a respected indexer-bibliographer have teamed up to provide the first comprehensive and authoritative source on the production, worldview, and distribution of these periodicals. This useful compendium includes richly annotated entries, notes, and three indexes: by subject, by date, and by geography. The bibliography includes some 1,700 entries in standard bibliographic annotation.

Author: Olivia Muñoz-Rojas
Publisher: Apollo Books
ISBN: 9781845194369
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Examines the wartime destruction and post-war rebuilding of three prominent sites in Madrid, Bilbao and Barcelona in the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath. This title reveals aspects of the Spanish Civil War and the evolution of the Franco regime from an original and fruitful angle.

Author: Carolyn F. Ulrich
Publisher:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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