Tinisima

Tinisima PDF Author: Elena Poniatowska
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826341235
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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This fictionalized account of the life of Tina Modotti is a fascinating story of the complex woman caught up in the social and political turbulence of the pre-World War II era.

Tinisima

Tinisima PDF Author: Elena Poniatowska
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826341235
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Book Description
This fictionalized account of the life of Tina Modotti is a fascinating story of the complex woman caught up in the social and political turbulence of the pre-World War II era.

The Multiple Languages of Tinísima

The Multiple Languages of Tinísima PDF Author: Charlotte Jeanne Ekland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Here's to You, Jesusa!

Here's to You, Jesusa! PDF Author: Elena Poniatowska
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142001228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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A remarkable novel that uniquely melds journalism with fiction, by Elena Poniatowska, the recipient of the prestigious 2013 Cervantes Prize Jesusa is a tough, fiery character based on a real working-class Mexican woman whose life spanned some of the seminal events of early twentieth-century Mexican history. Having joined a cavalry unit during the Mexican Revolution, she finds herself at the Revolution's end in Mexico City, far from her native Oaxaca, abandoned by her husband and working menial jobs. So begins Jesusa's long history of encounters with the police and struggles against authority. Mystical yet practical, undaunted by hardship, Jesusa faces the obstacles in her path with gritty determination. Here in its first English translation, Elena Poniatowska's rich, sensitive, and compelling blend of documentary and fiction provides a unique perspective on history and the place of women in twentieth-century Mexico.

The Other Mirror

The Other Mirror PDF Author: Kristine Ibsen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313029849
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213

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During the last decade, women's narrative has become a recognized force in Mexican letters. The essays in this collection explore the recent work of nine contemporary Mexican women writers. Many of the works have been translated into English; some, like Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate, have become international best sellers. The unprecedented commercial success of these novels has generated mixed reactions: at the same time that the secondary status afforded women's narrative has come to be questioned in many academic circles, some authors are dissociating themselves from women's writing. The essays in this volume address these issues, providing a much needed contribution to the study of women's narrative.

Proceedings of the XVth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association "Literature as Cultural Memory" : Leiden, 16-22 August 1997: Gendered memories

Proceedings of the XVth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association Author: Theo D'haen
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042004306
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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False Calm

False Calm PDF Author: María Sonia Cristoff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945492143
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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A genre-bending exploration of the ghost towns of Patagonia.

The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel

The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel PDF Author: Juan E. De Castro
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197541852
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 889

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The Latin American novel burst onto the international literary scene with the Boom era--led by Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa--and has influenced writers throughout the world ever since. García Márquez and Vargas Llosa each received the Nobel Prize in literature, and many of the best-known contemporary novelists are inspired by the region's fiction. Indeed, magical realism, the style associated with García Márquez, has left a profound imprint on African American, African, Asian, Anglophone Caribbean, and Latinx writers. Furthermore, post-Boom literature continues to garner interest, from the novels of Roberto Bolaño to the works of César Aira and Chico Buarque, to those of younger novelists such as Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Alejandro Zambra, and Valeria Luiselli. Yet, for many readers, the Latin American novel is often read in a piecemeal manner delinked from the traditions, authors, and social contexts that help explain its evolution. The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel draws literary, historical, and social connections so that readers will come away understanding this literature as a rich and compelling canon. In forty-five chapters by leading and innovative scholars, the Handbook provides a comprehensive introduction, helping readers to see the region's intrinsic heterogeneity--for only with a broader view can one fully appreciate García Márquez or Bolaño. This volume charts the literary tradition of the Latin American novel from its beginnings during colonial times, its development during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, and its flourishing from the 1960s onward. Furthermore, the Handbook explores the regions, representations of identity, narrative trends, and authors that make this literature so diverse and fascinating, reflecting on the Latin American novel's position in world literature.

Massacre in Mexico

Massacre in Mexico PDF Author: Elena Poniatowska
Publisher: Viking Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Now available in paper is Elena Poniatowska's gripping account of the massacre of student protesters by police at the 1968 Olympic Games, which Publishers Weekly claimed "makes the campus killings at Kent State and Jackson State in 1970 pale by comparison."

The Skin of the Sky

The Skin of the Sky PDF Author: Elena Poniatowska
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826341204
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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"The Skin of the Sky" details the efforts of a country to join the 21st century and paints the portrait of a lonely man who can find true contentment and satisfaction only in the stars.

Gendered Memories

Gendered Memories PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004484094
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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How does gender shape memory? What role does literature play in cultural remembering? These are two of the questions to which the present volume is addressed. Even if we agree that remembering is not biologically determined, we can assume that memory is influenced by the particular social, cultural and historical conditions in which individuals find themselves. And since men and women generally assume different social and cultural roles, their way of remembering should also differ. So, do women and men remember different events, narrate different stories, and narrate or read them in different ways? Gendered Memories, then, not only looks at memory gendered by literature, but also wants to know how gender shapes the memory of literature.