Author: Ron Austin
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802865844
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Ron Austin first wandered purposefully into Mexico more than fifty years ago, when he produced a documentary on Mexican history for American television. Over the next decades, as his acquaintance with Mexico deepened, so too did his appreciation for the rich and contradictory impulses of Mexican culture and for the beauty of its people and their expressions of faith. At once guidebook, history, memoir, and tribute, Austin s Peregrino engagingly explores the spiritual and cultural heart of Catholic Mexico. Though once merely a tourist peering in a stranger to this distinctive faith and culture Austin, now a devout Catholic and part-year resident of Mexico, writes with respect, affection, and deep understanding as he invites fellow pilgrims peregrinos to regard both Mexico and their own cultures of faith in a new light.
Author: John Bunyan
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
ISBN: 1643523937
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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The Pilgrim’s Progress: A Story You Won’t Want to Miss! Written in the 1600s, this timeless allegory still speaks to readers, realistically describing the joys and trials of anticipating heaven while living the Christian life on this earth. Bunyan’s immortal characters—Christian, Obstinate, Pliable, and Mr. Worldly Wiseman, among others—are placed in compelling settings such as the City of Destruction, the Celestial City, and the Wicket Gate. Escrito en el siglo xvii, El progreso del peregrino sigue hablando hoy a los lectores, y describe de forma realista los gozos y las pruebas en nuestra espera del cielo, mientras vivimos la vida cristiana en esta tierra. Los personajes inmortales de Bunyan —Cristiano, Obstinado, Flexible y el Sr. Sabio Mundano, entre otros— se sitúan en entornos fascinantes como la Ciudad de Destrucción, la Ciudad celestial y la Puerta angosta.
Author: Catherine and Louise d'Ancey
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 129125031X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Veamos algunos de los sitios donde Santo Domingo vivió y trabajó y predicó. ¡Qué oportunidad! No hacía mucho tiempo que Jaime y Peregrino habían compartido su primera peregrinación a Lourdes, pero Peregrino estaba castigado. ¿Le ayudaría a corregirse saber más cosas sobre Santo Domingo? Ven con Panda el Peregrino y lo sabrás. Una encantadora historia para leer en voz alta y disfrutar en familia.
Author: Cecilia Samartin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 141654951X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 371
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Jamilet, a beautiful young woman is marred by a shockingly gruesome birthmark. She is shunned by the villagers in her Mexican village. In search of a medical salvation she crosses the border illegally to Los Angeles. She finds work at a mental hospital where she comes in contact with an elderly Spanish gentleman. The two of them form a spiritual bond that is more healing than modern medicine could ever be.
Author: Benjamin G. Kohl
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719007347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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The gradual secularization of European society and culture is often said to characterize the development of the modern world, and the early Italian humanists played a pioneering role in this process. Here Benjamin G. Kohl and Ronald G. Witt, with Elizabeth B. Welles, have edited and translated seven primary texts that shed important light on the subject of "civic humanism" in the Renaissance.Included is a treatise of Francesco Petrarca on government, two representative letters from Coluccio Salutati, Leonardo Bruni's panegyric to Florence, Francesco Barbaro's letter on "wifely" duty, Poggio Bracciolini's dialogue on avarice, and Angelo Poliziano's vivid history of the Pazzi conspiracy. Each translation is prefaced by an essay on the author and a short bibliography. The substantial introductory essay offers a concise, balanced summary of the historiographcal issues connected with the period.
Author: Roberto Cantú
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443874124
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Carlos Fuentes (1928–2012) was the most prominent novelist in contemporary Mexico and, until his recent death, one of the leading voices in Latin America’s Boom generation. He received the most prestigious awards and prizes in the world, including the Latin Civilization Award (presented by the Presidents of Brazil, Mexico, and France), the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, and the Prince of Asturias Award. During his fecund and accomplished life as a writer, literary theorist, and political analyst, Fuentes turned his attention to the major conflicts of the twentieth century – from the Second World War and the Cuban Revolution, to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the war in Vietnam, and the post-revolutionary crisis of the one-party rule in Mexico – and attended to their political and international importance in his novels, short fiction, and essays. Known for his experimentation in narrative techniques, and for novels and essays written in a global range that illuminate the conflicts of our times, Fuentes’s writings have been rightfully translated into most of the world’s languages. His literary work continues to spur and provoke the interest of a global readership on diverse civilizations and eras, from Imperial Spain and post-revolutionary France, to Ancient and Modern Mexico, the United States, and Latin America. The Reptant Eagle: Essays on Carlos Fuentes and the Art of the Novel includes nineteen essays and one full introduction written exclusively for this volume by renowned Fuentes scholars from Asia, Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Collected into five parts, the essays integrate wide-ranging methods and innovative readings of The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962), Aura (1962), Terra Nostra (1975) and, among other novels, Distant Relations (1980); they analyze the visual arts in Fuentes’s novels (Diego Rivera’s murals and world film); chart and comment on the translations of Fuentes’s narratives into Japanese and Romanian; and propose comprehensive readings of The Buried Mirror (1992) and Personas (2012), Fuentes’s posthumous book of essays. Beyond their comprehensive and interdisciplinary scope, the book’s essays trace Fuentes’s conscious resolve to contribute to the art of the novel and to its uninterrupted tradition, from Cervantes and Rabelais to Thomas Mann and Alejo Carpentier, and from the Boom generation to Latin America’s “Boomerang” group of younger writers. This book will be of importance to literary critics, teachers, students, and readers interested in Carlos Fuentes’s world-embracing literary work.
Author: Benedict J. Kerkvliet
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520031067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Author: Philippines
Publisher:
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Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
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Author: Antonio Olliz Boyd
Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1604977043
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Antonio Olliz Boyd is an emeritus professor of Latin American literature at Temple University. He holds a PhD from Stanford University, an MS from Grorgetown University, and a BA from Long Island University. Dr. Olliz Boyd has published various essays on Afro Latino aesthetics in literature in volumes, such as the Dictionary of Literary Biography: Modern Latin-American Fiction Writers; Singular Like a Bird: The Art of Nancy Morejon; Imagination, Emblems and Expressions: Essays on Latin American, Caribbean, and Continental Culture and Identity; Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays among others, as well as articles on Afro Latino literary criticism in various refereed journals. --Book Jacket.
Author: Kwame Essien
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628952776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Brazilian-African Diaspora in Ghana is a fresh approach, challenging both pre-existing and established notions of the African Diaspora by engaging new regions, conceptualizations, and articulations that move the field forward. This book examines the untold story of freed slaves from Brazil who thrived socially, culturally, and economically despite the challenges they encountered after they settled in Ghana. Kwame Essien goes beyond the one-dimensional approach that only focuses on British abolitionists’ funding of freed slaves’ resettlements in Africa. The new interpretation of reverse migrations examines the paradox of freedom in discussing how emancipated Brazilian-Africans came under threat from British colonial officials who introduced stringent land ordinances that deprived the freed Brazilian- Africans from owning land, particularly “Brazilian land.” Essien considers anew contention between the returnees and other entities that were simultaneously vying for control over social, political, commercial, and religious spaces in Accra and tackles the fluidity of memory and how it continues to shape Ghana’s history. The ongoing search for lost connections with the support of the Brazilian government—inspiring multiple generations of Tabom (offspring of the returnees) to travel across the Atlantic and back, especially in the last decade—illustrates the unending nature of the transatlantic diaspora journey and its impacts.
