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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “ellen sapega”
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  • Consensus and Debate in Salazar's Portugal

    Visual and Literary Negotiations of the National Text, 1933–1948

    by Ellen W. Sapega ...
    Series series Penn State Romance Studies
    Ellen Sapega’s study documents artistic responses to images of the Portuguese nation promoted by Portugal’s Office of State Propaganda under António de Oliveira Salazar. Combining archival research with current theories informing the areas of memory studies, visual culture, women’s autobiography, and postcolonial studies, the author follows the trajectory of three well-known cultural figures ... Read more

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  • Postcolonial Nation and Narrative III: Literature & Cinema

    Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé e Príncipe

    Edited by Ana Mafalda Leite, Hilary Owen, Ellen Sapega, Carmen Secco ...
    Series Book 13 - Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World
    This volume investigates literary and cinematographic narratives from Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Sao Tome and Principe, analysing the different ways in which social and cultural experience is represented in postcolonial contexts. It continues and completes the exploration of the postcolonial imaginary and identity of Portuguese-speaking Africa presented in the earlier volume Narrating the ... Read more

    $62.19 USD

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    The Allure and Power of an Idea

    by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo ...
    "Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively.Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three ... Read more

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  • Singular and Plural

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    by Kathryn A. Woolard ...
    Series series Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language
    Winner of the Ramon Llull International Prize Winner of the 2017 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Edward Sapir Book Prize A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political movement for an independent Catalonia has brought renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and politically, to speak or not to speak Catalan and to claim Catalan identity. In this book, Kathryn ... Read more

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  • Jorge Amado

    New Critical Essays

    Edited by Earl Fitz, Keith Brower, Enrique Martinez-Vidal ...
    Jorge Amado is simultaneously one of Brazil's most prolific and widely read novelists and one of its most controversial. Seeking to offer for his English-speaking audience the same range of critical thinking that surrounds his work in Brazil, this volume provides an introduction and chronology to Amado's life, followed by a comprehensive survey of his major works by some of the world's leading ... Read more

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  • Beyond Bolaño

    The Global Latin American Novel

    by Héctor Hoyos ...
    Series series Literature Now
    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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  • Urban Latin America

    Images, Words, Flows and the Built Environment

    Edited by Bianca Freire-Medeiros, Julia O'Donnell ...
    Series series Architext
    Urban Latin America explores the relationship between images, words and the built environment using an engaging variety of methods and sources, with a timely emphasis on comparative studies. The book brings together scholars with various disciplinary backgrounds and theoretical affiliations who critically approach urban experiences through visual accounts, texts and architectural elements. The ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Contemporary Latin American Cinema

    Breaking into the Global Market

    Edited by Deborah Shaw ...
    This engaging book explores some of the most significant films to emerge from Latin America since 2000, an extraordinary period of international recognition for the region's cinema. Each chapter assesses an individual film, with some contributors considering the reasons for the unprecedented commercial and critical successes of movies such as City of God, The Motorcycle Diaries, Y tu mamá también, ... Read more

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  • Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature

    Edited by Antonio D. Tillis ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora
    After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation. This volume aims to provide an introduction to the literary worlds and perceptions of national culture and identity of authors from Spanish ... 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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  • A Companion to João Paulo Borges Coelho

    Rewriting the (Post)Colonial Remains

    Edited by Elena Brugioni, Orlando Grossegesse, Paulo de Medeiros ...
    Series Book 14 - Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World
    This companion offers a critical overview of a great part of the literary oeuvre of the acclaimed Mozambican writer and historian João Paulo Borges Coelho. It focuses on a multiplicity of elements central to his literary project, underscoring the originality and complexity of one of the most prominent authors from the Portuguese-speaking world. With contributions from scholars hailing from ... Read more

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  • The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity

    by Nadia Lie ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive and systematic overview of the flourishing genre of the contemporary Latin American road movie, of which Diarios de motocicleta and Y tu mamá también are only the best-known examples. It offers the first systematic survey of the genre and explains why the road movie is key to contemporary Latin American cinema and society. Proposing the new category of “counter ... Read more

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