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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “anke birkenmaier”
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  • Alejo Carpentier in Context

    Edited by Anke Birkenmaier ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Alejo Carpentier in Context examines one of the greatest novelists of Latin American literature in the 20th century. The Cuban Carpentier was one of the regions firmest supporters of the Cuban Revolution yet was revealed later to have hidden important details of his biography. A polymath of encyclopedic knowledge, contributions to this book showcase his influence, not only as a novelist but also ... Read more

    $98.39 USD

  • The Specter of Races

    Latin American Anthropology and Literature between the Wars

    by Anke Birkenmaier ...
    Series series New World Studies
    Arguing that race has been the specter that has haunted many of the discussions about Latin American regional and national cultures today, Anke Birkenmaier shows how theories of race and culture in Latin America evolved dramatically in the period between the two world wars. In response to the rise of scientific racism in Europe and the American hemisphere in the early twentieth century, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Caribbean Migrations

    The Legacies of Colonialism

    by Anke Birkenmaier, Anke Birkenmaier, Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Edward Chamberlain, Jorge Duany, Vivian Halloran, Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, Daylet Domínguez, Devyn Spence Benson, Iraida H. López, Rafael Rojas0, Jane Bryce1, Rebecca Dirksen2, Kendy Vérilus3, Kiran C. Jayaram4, April J. Mayes5, Emily A. Maguire6, Alejandro Portes7, Jossianna Arroyo8 ...
    Series series Critical Caribbean Studies
    2021 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Caribbean has long been a key area for empires warring over influence spheres, and where migration waves from Africa, Europe, and Asia accompanied every political transformation. In this volume, an interdisciplinary group of scholars studies the Caribbean’s “unincorporated subjects,” and explores how against all odds, Caribbean artists, filmmakers, and ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Havana beyond the Ruins

    Cultural Mappings after 1989

    Edited by Anke Birkenmaier, Esther Whitfield ...
    In Havana beyond the Ruins, prominent architects, scholars, and writers based in and outside of Cuba analyze how Havana has been portrayed in literature, music, and the visual arts since Soviet subsidies of Cuba ceased, and the Cuban state has re-imagined Havana as a destination for international tourists and business ventures. Cuba’s capital has experienced little construction since the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil

    by Hermano Vianna, John Charles Chasteen ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    Samba is Brazil’s “national rhythm,” the foremost symbol of its culture and nationhood. To the outsider, samba and the famous pre-Lenten carnival of which it is the centerpiece seem to showcase the country’s African heritage. Within Brazil, however, samba symbolizes the racial and cultural mixture that, since the 1930s, most Brazilians have come to believe defines their unique national identity ... Read more

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  • Brutality Garden

    Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture

    by Christopher Dunn ...
    In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicália. Music inspired by that movement is today enjoying considerable attention at home and abroad. Few new listeners, however, make the connection between this music and the circumstances surrounding its creation, the most violent and repressive days of the military regime that governed Brazil from 1964 to ... Read more

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  • Uncivil Wars

    Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory

    by Sandra Messinger Cypess ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916–1998) and Octavio Paz (1914–1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the same experiences and contributed to the formation of Mexican national identity but were judged quite differently, primarily because of gender.While Paz’s privileged, prize ... Read more

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  • Flamenco on the Global Stage

    Historical, Critical and Theoretical Perspectives

    Edited by Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum, Michelle Heffner Hayes, K. Meira Goldberg ...
    The language of the body is central to the study of flamenco. From the records of the Inquisition, to 16th century literature, to European travel diaries, the Spanish dancer beguiles and fascinates. The word flamenco evokes the image of a sensuous and rebellious woman--the bailaora --whose movements seduce the audience, only to reject their attention with a stomp of defiance. The dancer's body is ... Read more

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  • Brazilian Art under Dictatorship

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    by Claudia Calirman ...
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  • Beyond Bolaño

    The Global Latin American Novel

    by Héctor Hoyos ...
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    Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Héctor Hoyos defines and explores new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era. Calling attention to fresh innovations in form, voice, perspective, and representation, he also ... Read more

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  • Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003

    Edited by Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez ...
    The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. With more than 200 entries written by a team of international contributors, this Encyclopedia ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture

    Edited by David T. Gies ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture, tracing its dramatic and often unexpected development from its beginnings after the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts provide analyses of the historical and political background of modern Spain, the culture of the major autonomous regions (notably Castile, Catalonia, and the ... Read more

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