Mi Cuajara

Mi Cuajara PDF Author: Lola M. Laben
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098072111
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 173

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The 1960s don’t seem that long ago to many of us. Given how crowded and closely connected the world of the present is, it’s hard to imagine there were places then that had been settled and cultivated for four hundred years but, as recently as the 1980’s, had no electricity, no plumbing, and very little traffic except for horses, donkeys, and (mostly bare) feet. The valley of the Rio Mira in Ecuador was such a place. Jesuit priests brought slaves - including Lola Laben’s ancestors - to farm sugarcane almost four hundred years ago. Slavery was abolished, but the work continued. Agrarian reform came, Lola’s parents became land owners, and the work continued. Lola was born in a mud house identical to the ones her slave ancestors had been born in for generations. She helped her parents farm a little farther downriver in the same manner that her ancestors had farmed. She explored her tropical paradise and wondered about faraway places and listened to the news of the outside world: the world beyond her valley and the city where the train came to and from three times a week. Fate determined that the outside world would find her, and she now resides in the most thoroughly modern and up-to-date nation on the planet. Guess what? Her childhood was full of wonder, beauty, adventure, and freedom even though survival was less certain. This book recounts the world that Lola was born into and how her heritage prepared her to meet the challenges of her future.

Mi Cuajara

Mi Cuajara PDF Author: Lola M. Laben
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098072111
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 173

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Book Description
The 1960s don’t seem that long ago to many of us. Given how crowded and closely connected the world of the present is, it’s hard to imagine there were places then that had been settled and cultivated for four hundred years but, as recently as the 1980’s, had no electricity, no plumbing, and very little traffic except for horses, donkeys, and (mostly bare) feet. The valley of the Rio Mira in Ecuador was such a place. Jesuit priests brought slaves - including Lola Laben’s ancestors - to farm sugarcane almost four hundred years ago. Slavery was abolished, but the work continued. Agrarian reform came, Lola’s parents became land owners, and the work continued. Lola was born in a mud house identical to the ones her slave ancestors had been born in for generations. She helped her parents farm a little farther downriver in the same manner that her ancestors had farmed. She explored her tropical paradise and wondered about faraway places and listened to the news of the outside world: the world beyond her valley and the city where the train came to and from three times a week. Fate determined that the outside world would find her, and she now resides in the most thoroughly modern and up-to-date nation on the planet. Guess what? Her childhood was full of wonder, beauty, adventure, and freedom even though survival was less certain. This book recounts the world that Lola was born into and how her heritage prepared her to meet the challenges of her future.

Al hilo del tiempo

Al hilo del tiempo PDF Author: Dámaso de Lario
Publisher: Universitat de València
ISBN: 8437093708
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409

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Al hilo del tiempo recoge los artículos publicados por el autor en los últimos treinta años, estructurados en torno a sus dos principales preocupaciones historiográficas: las Cortes, en especial las del Reino de Valencia, y la burocracia de la España Imperial. La primera parte sitúa las Cortes valencianas en el contexto de la península ibérica y de los parlamentos europeos, y se explican los momentos y circunstancias que llevaron al País Valenciano a aceptar la propuesta de la Unión de Armas del Conde Duque de Olivares en las Cortes de 1626. La segunda parte analiza la función de los colegios mayores españoles como instituciones de mecenazgo para la educación de las elites burocráticas del imperio español y el papel que el Colegio español de Bolonia (Italia) juega en esa dinámica. En la parte final se apuntan temas poco conocidos de una España que todavía conservaba un imperio, como los intentos frustrados de crear una colonia penal española y los esfuerzos de Rafael Altamira en la creación del «americanismo» español. El autor nos invita, por último, a repensar, en base a la experiencia del pasado, la relación de los dos países ibéricos: España y Portugal.

Aunt Tula/La Tía Tula

Aunt Tula/La Tía Tula PDF Author: Miguel de Unamuno
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486445062
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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A provocative nonconformist, Unamuno (1864-1936) excelled in the creation of essays, fiction, poetry, and plays. In La tía Tula, he paints a memorable portrait of the indomitable Aunt Tula, who fulfills her maternal desires on her own terms. This dual-language edition features an informative introduction and ample footnotes.

Traduction & Littérature Multilingue

Traduction & Littérature Multilingue PDF Author: Alfons Knauth
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643113889
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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The Representation of the Political in Selected Writings of Julio Cortázar

The Representation of the Political in Selected Writings of Julio Cortázar PDF Author: Carolina Orloff
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1855662620
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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OrIoff shows that Cortázar did not become a political writer as a result of the Cuban Revolution, as is often claimed, but rather that the representation of the political was present in Cortázar's very first writings. The book analyses the evolution of the representation of distinct political elements throughout Cortázar's writings, mainly with reference to the novels and the so-called collage books, which have so far received only limited critical attention. The author also alludes to some short stories and refers to many of Cortázar's non-literary texts. Through this chosen corpus, the book follows a thematic thread, showing that politics was present in Cortázar's fiction from his very first writings, and not - as he himself tended to claim - only following his conversion to socialism. The study aims to show that contrary to what many critics have argued, this political conversion did not divide the writer into an irreconcilable before and after - the apolitical versus the political - but rather it simply shifted the emphasis of the representation of the political that already existed in Cortázar's writings. Carolina Orloff is an independent scholar working on research projects in the UK and in Argentina.

Nelly

Nelly PDF Author: Paula Navarro
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615331238
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : es
Pages : 150

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Nelly, la vida de una mujer mexicana, nos pinta una sociologia del Siglo XX en Mexico. Narrada con todo el amor de una abuela, endulzada por una genealogia de historias y escalonadas de estratos sociales. Su infancia a principios de siglo en la capital, su adolescencia repartida por el centro de la Republica y su vida de casada paralela al ferrocarril desde donde proyecto su vida.

Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin

Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crops and climate
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Taking Back the Thread

Taking Back the Thread PDF Author: Nicole Marie Altamirano
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Orientalismo, exotismo y traducción

Orientalismo, exotismo y traducción PDF Author: Eduardo Manzano Moreno
Publisher: Univ de Castilla La Mancha
ISBN: 9788484270249
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : es
Pages : 252

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Orientalismo, exotismo y traducción pretende ahondar en la reflexión en torno a la traducción en cuanto vehículo mediatizado de contacto intelectual, presentando especial atención a la recepción de la cultura árabe-islámica en Europa y al papel desempeñado en ella por las distintas tradiciones de estudios árabes e islámicos. El colonialismo ha condicionado la visión que tenemos de otras culturas como la árabe e islámica. Textos como Las mil y una noches y, especialmente, sus traducciones a las lenguas europeas son paradigmas de estas visiones desenfocadas y exóticas. Las disciplinas habitualmente englobadas bajo la etiqueta de Orientalismo -en España fundamentalmente Arabismo y Africanismo- han estado en nuestro país condicionadas por dos hechos que las han llevado a divergir de otras tradiciones europeas. Por un lado, la existencia de un "Oriente doméstico", Alándalus, ha marcado el desarrollo y orientación de los estudios árabes, islámicos y orientales en la universidad española. Por otra parte la empresa colonial española se materializó en un Oriente, Marruecos, que, aunque no doméstico sí era demasiado cercano, demasiado inmediato para poder separarlo de los entresijos y vivencias de la propia historia de España.

Computerized concordance to Calderón

Computerized concordance to Calderón PDF Author: Hans Flasche
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 1516

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