Author: Thomas-Simon GueullettePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incas
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Peruvian Tales
Author: Thomas-Simon GueullettePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incas
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Peru and Peruvian Tales
Author: Helen Maria WilliamsPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1554811287
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Helen Maria Williams’s epic poem Peru, first published in 1784, movingly recounts the story of Francisco Pizarro’s brutal conquest and exploitation of the Incas and their subsequent revolt against Spain. Like William Wordsworth, who revised The Prelude over the course of his life, Williams revisited her epic several times within almost four decades, transforming it with each revision. It began as an ambitious poetic blueprint for revolution—in terms of politics, gender, religion, and genre. By the time it appeared in 1823, under the title “Peruvian Tales” in her last poetry collection, Williams’s voice had become more moderate, more restrained; in her words, her muse had become “timid,” reflecting the cultural shift that had taken place in England since the poem’s earliest publication. This edition includes both versions of the poem, along with extensive examples of Williams’s literary sources, other poetic works, and the many and varied critical responses from contemporary reviewers.
Peruvian Tales, Related in One Thousand and One Hours, by One of the Select Virgins of Cusco, to the Yuca of Peru ... Translated from the Original French [of Thomas S. Gueullette], by Samuel Humphreys .. The Fifth Edition
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Author: Thomas-Simon GueullettePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Folktales Told Around the World
Author: Richard M. DorsonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226158748
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Authentic field-recorded texts of over one hundred tales recited by story-tellers from forty-six cultures around the world, collected as a representative sampling of the world's folk traditions.
Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform
Author: Enrique MayerPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 082239071X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform reveals the human drama behind the radical agrarian reform that unfolded in Peru during the final three decades of the twentieth century. That process began in 1969, when the left-leaning military government implemented a drastic program of land expropriation. Seized lands were turned into worker-managed cooperatives. After those cooperatives began to falter and the country returned to civilian rule in the 1980s, members distributed the land among themselves. In 1995–96, as the agrarian reform process was winding down and neoliberal policies were undoing leftist reforms, the Peruvian anthropologist Enrique Mayer traveled throughout the country, interviewing people who had lived through the most tumultuous years of agrarian reform, recording their memories and their stories. While agrarian reform caused enormous upheaval, controversy, and disappointment, it did succeed in breaking up the unjust and oppressive hacienda system. Mayer contends that the demise of that system is as important as the liberation of slaves in the Americas. Mayer interviewed ex-landlords, land expropriators, politicians, government bureaucrats, intellectuals, peasant leaders, activists, ranchers, members of farming families, and others. Weaving their impassioned recollections with his own commentary, he offers a series of dramatic narratives, each one centered around a specific instance of land expropriation, collective enterprise, and disillusion. Although the reform began with high hopes, it was quickly complicated by difficulties including corruption, rural and urban unrest, fights over land, and delays in modernization. As he provides insight into how important historical events are remembered, Mayer re-evaluates Peru’s military government (1969–79), its audacious agrarian reform program, and what that reform meant to Peruvians from all walks of life.
Peru and Peruvian Tales
Author: Helen Maria WilliamsPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460404424
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Helen Maria Williams’s epic poem Peru, first published in 1784, movingly recounts the story of Francisco Pizarro’s brutal conquest and exploitation of the Incas and their subsequent revolt against Spain. Like William Wordsworth, who revised The Prelude over the course of his life, Williams revisited her epic several times within almost four decades, transforming it with each revision. It began as an ambitious poetic blueprint for revolution—in terms of politics, gender, religion, and genre. By the time it appeared in 1823, under the title “Peruvian Tales” in her last poetry collection, Williams’s voice had become more moderate, more restrained; in her words, her muse had become “timid,” reflecting the cultural shift that had taken place in England since the poem’s earliest publication. This edition includes both versions of the poem, along with extensive examples of Williams’s literary sources, other poetic works, and the many and varied critical responses from contemporary reviewers.
The Llama's Secret
Author: Argentina PalaciosPublisher: Troll Communications
ISBN: 9780816730506
Category : Deluge
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Marnacocha the angry sea god has a secret that only the llama knows -- he's going to flood the earth! Can the llama warn the animals and save the earth?
Exotic Women
Author: Julia V. DouthwaitePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812213577
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Julia V. Douthwaite describes the interrelated representations of cultural and sexual difference in key French works of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The heroines of this book are foreign women, brought to France through no will of their own, and forced into the margins of a new society. The author contends that their experience resonates with larger cultural beliefs about exotic and primitive peoples in ancien régime France and illuminates some of the blind spots in Enlightenment thought.
The Peruvian Princess
Author: Alina PaezPublisher: Brillante Books LLC
ISBN: 9781737779605
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The Peruvian Princess is the story of a young girl who grew up in a small, but wondrous valley, between the Peruvian Andes and South American rainforest. She grew into a beautiful young lady who learned to confront and overcome some tragic events in her life. It is a tender and heart-warming tale that will inspire readers of all ages to move forward and keep their dreams alive through honesty, perseverance, and the pursuit of happiness.
Nineteenth-Century British Perspectives on Spanish America
Author: Marisa Palacios KnoxPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003855547
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The sources in this volume focus on Great Britain’s moral, financial, and diplomatic interventions and ambitions in Latin America. It begins during the wars of independence spanning 1810-1825, when Foreign Secretary George Canning prematurely declared, "Spanish America is free; and if we do not mismanage our affairs sadly, she is English." The independence movements of the former Spanish and Portuguese colonies, as well as their ancient past, inspired Romantic writers such as Anna Letitia Barbauld and spurred British military support and political debate, as attested by mercenary Richard Vowell’s Campaigns and Cruises in Venezuela and James Mill's "Emancipation of Spanish America."
