Author: Ben Creighton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735368108
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Eloy the Existential Donkey is a fully-illustrated children's picture book about dealing with grief and loss from a secular perspective. It tells the story of an asinine centaur named Eloy who makes friends with a traveler who teaches Eloy to play the flute. When Eloy's friend dies in a rockslide, Eloy is forced to come to terms with the concept of mortality and the apparent senselessness of his friend's death.Written by Ben Creighton after his own brother's sudden death at the age of 27 and illustrated by award-winning artist Carolyn Arcabascio, Eloy the Existential Donkey approaches its delicate subject matter with respect and sensitivity. It maintains a tone appropriate for young children without shying away from the hard realities of bereavement.
Author: J. C. Cooper
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500770913
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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In nearly 1500 entries, many of them strikingly and often surprisingly illustrated, J. C. Cooper has documented the history and evolution of symbols from prehistory to our own day. With over 200 illustrations and lively, informative and often ironic texts, she discusses and explains an enormous variety of symbols extending from the Arctic to Dahomey, from the Iroquois to Oceana, and coming from systems as diverse as Tao, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Tantra, the cult of Cybele and the Great Goddess, the Pre-Columbian religions of the Western Hemisphere and the Voodoo cults of Brazil and West Africa.
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004331689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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Work, Labour, and Professions in the Roman World offers new insights, ideas and interpretations on the role of labour and human resources in the Roman economy. The book approaches labour not only as an economic phenomenon, but gives attention also to work as social and cultural phenomenon.
Author: Edward Quinn
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438110359
Category : History in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 401
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Alphabetically arranged articles discuss the major events, figures and movements of the twentieth century and how they have been depicted in literature.
Author: Ariel Mae Lambe
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469652862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
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Vividly recasting Cuba's politics in the 1930s as transnational, Ariel Mae Lambe has produced an unprecendented reimagining of Cuban activism during an era previously regarded as a lengthy, defeated lull. In this period, many Cuban activists began to look at their fight against strongman rule and neocolonial control at home as part of the international antifascism movement that exploded with the Spanish Civil War. Frustrated by multiple domestic setbacks, including Colonel Fulgencio Batista's violent crushing of a massive general strike, activists found strength in the face of repression by refusing to view their political goals as confined to the island. As individuals and in groups, Cubans from diverse backgrounds and political stances self-identified as antifascists and moved, both physically and symbolically, across borders and oceans, cultivating networks and building solidarity for a New Spain and a New Cuba. They believed that it was through these ostensibly foreign fights that they would achieve economic and social progress for their nation. Indeed, Cuban antifascism was such a strong movement, Lambe argues, that it helps to explain the surprisingly progressive turn that Batista and the Cuban government took at the end of the decade, including the establishment of a new constitution and presidential elections.
Author: Bruce Altshuler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780520211926
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Scholarly, sympathetic, lucid--and filled with fascinating detail--The Avant-Garde in Exhibition is as valuable as a reference as it is exciting as a narrative."--Arthur Danto
Author: Thomas C. Wright
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538166232
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
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This book offers an innovative, thematic approach to the history of Latin America since independence. It traces continuity and change in colonial legacies that became central political issues following independence: authoritarian governance; a rigid social hierarchy based on race, color, and gender; the powerful Roman Catholic Church; economic dependency; and the large landed estate. Generally, liberals have sought to modify or abolish these legacies in the interest of what they consider progress, while conservatives have attempted to preserve them as much as possible as bastions of their power and privilege. Examining the evolution of these colonial legacies across two centuries reveals the processes that formed the political systems, economies, societies, and religious institutions that characterize Latin America today.
Author: Laura Lonsdale
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9783319673271
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This book explores multilingualism as an imaginative articulation of the experience of modernity in twentieth-century Spanish and American literature. It argues that while individual multilingual practices are highly singular, literary multilingualism exceeds the conventional bounds of modernism to become emblematic of the modern age. The book explores the confluence of multilingualism and modernity in the theme of barbarism, examining the significance of this theme to the relationship between language and modernity in the Spanish-speaking world, and the work of five authors in particular. These authors – Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Ernest Hemingway, José María Arguedas, Jorge Semprún and Juan Goytisolo – explore the stylistic and conceptual potential of the interaction between languages, including Spanish, French, English, Galician, Quechua and Arabic, their work reflecting the eclecticism of literary multilingualism while revealing its significance as a mode of response to modernity.
Author: Sally Faulkner
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748626514
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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A key decade in world cinema, the 1960s was also a crucial era of change in Spain. A Cinema of Contradiction, the first book to focus in depth on this period in Spain, analyses six films that reflect and interpret these transformations. The coexistence of traditional and modern values and the timid acceptance of limited change by Franco's authoritarian regime are symptoms of the uneven modernity that characterises the period. Contradiction--the unavoidable effect of that unevenness--is the conceptual terrain explored by these six filmmakers. One of the most significant movements of Spanish film history, the 'New Spanish Cinema' art films explore contradictions in their subject matter, yet are themselves the contradictory products of the state's protection and promotion of films that were ideologically opposed to it. A Cinema of Contradiction argues for a new reading of the movement as a compromised yet nonetheless effective cinema of critique. It also demonstrates the possible contestatory value of popular films of the era, suggesting that they may similarly explore contradictions. This book therefore reveals the overlaps between art and popular film in the period, and argues that we should see these as complementary rather than opposing areas of cinematic activity in Spain.
Author: Diana Negrín
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816540012
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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While the population of Indigenous peoples living in Mexico’s cities has steadily increased over the past four decades, both the state and broader society have failed to recognize this geographic heterogeneity by continuing to expect Indigenous peoples to live in rural landscapes that are anathema to a modern Mexico. This book examines the legacy of the racial imaginary in Mexico with a focus on the Wixarika (Huichol) Indigenous peoples of the western Sierra Madre from the colonial period to the present. Through an examination of the politics of identity, space, and activism among Wixarika university students living and working in the western Mexican cities of Tepic and Guadalajara, geographer Diana Negrín analyzes the production of racialized urban geographies and reveals how Wixarika youth are making claims to a more heterogeneous citizenship that challenges these deep-seated discourses and practices. Through the weaving together of historical material, critical interdisciplinary scholarship, and rich ethnography, this book sheds light on the racialized history, urban transformation, and contemporary Indigenous activism of a region of Mexico that has remained at the margins of scholarship.
