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“david miranda”

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  • Spanish New York Narratives 1898-1936

    Modernization, Otherness and Nation

    by David Miranda-Barreiro ...
    In the early decades of the twentieth century, New York caught the attention of Spanish writers. Many of them visited the city and returned to tell their experience in the form of a literary text. That is the case of Pruebas de Nueva York (1927) by Jose Moreno Villa (1887-1955), El crisol de las razas (1929) by Teresa de Escoriaza (1891-1968), Anticipolis (1931) by Luis de Oteyza (1883-1961) and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Evidence Found

    An Approach to Crime Scene Investigation

    by David Miranda ...
    Evidence Found: An Approach to Crime Scene Investigation is not another analysis of forensic errors using an "After the Fact" or "Lessons Learned" approach but a "Before the Fact" guide that examines the thought processes that can lead to those mistakes. Plus a few extras tips and tricks from the author's experience of over 25 years. Many high-profile crime scene investigations (and routine ones, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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    Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences (UNABRIDGED)

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    by H. G. Wells ...
    Narrated by Nicholas Rowland, Joan Taylor, David Miranda, Mildred Squier ...

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    2 hours 9 min

    Select Conversations with an Uncle, published in 1895, was H.G. Wells's first literary publication in book form. It consists of reports of twelve conversations between a fictional witty uncle who has returned to London from South Africa with "a certain affluence," as well as two other conversations (one on aestheticism that takes place in a train, titled "A Misunderstood Artist," and another on ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Hispanic Immigrant Literature

    El Sueño del Retorno

    by Nicolás Kanellos ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    Immigration has been one of the basic realities of life for Latino communities in the United States since the nineteenth century. It is one of the most important themes in Hispanic literature, and it has given rise to a specific type of literature while also defining what it means to be Hispanic in the United States. Immigrant literature uses predominantly the language of the homeland; it serves a ... Read more

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  • Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones

    Illuminating Gender and Nation

    by Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela ...
    Series series Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
    Ricardo Palma’s Tradiciones is the first full-length account of Ricardo Palma informed by theories of cultural criticism. Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela sheds new light on important aspects of Palma’s work. She offers a fresh interpretation of the relations between history and literature – perhaps the most discussed aspect of Palma’s work – engaging with new critical thinking on historicism and ... Read more

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  • Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film

    Inclusion, Loss, and Cultural Resistance

    by Andrea Easley Morris ...
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  • The Mobile Nation

    España Cambia de Piel (1954-1964)

    by Tatjana Pavlovic ...
    Tatjana Pavlović received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1996. She is currently associate professor of Spanish at Tulane University in New Orleans. Since 2006, she has served as director of Tulane’s undergraduate Spanish studies programme. Her research and teaching interests centre on twentieth-century Spanish intellectual history, literature, cultural studies and film ... Read more

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  • Spanish Women Writers and Spain's Civil War

    by Maryellen Bieder, Roberta Johnson ...
    Series series New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies
    The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) pitted conservative forces including the army, the Church, the Falange (fascist party), landowners, and industrial capitalists against the Republic, installed in 1931 and supported by intellectuals, the petite bourgeoisie, many campesinos (farm laborers), and the urban proletariat. Provoking heated passions on both sides, the Civil War soon became an international ... Read more

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  • Handbook on Cuban History, Literature, and the Arts

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    by Mauricio A. Font, Araceli Tinajero ...
    First Published in 2016. If scholarship on Cuban studies after the 1959 revolution focused on the historical and cultural aspects of the construction of a socialist order, the post-1989 crisis of socialism in Central and Eastern Europe raised questions about the island’s state as a socialist model. The scholarly gaze gradually began to focus on possibilities for alternative transformations at ... Read more

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  • Latin American Women's Narrative: Practices and Theoretical Perspectives

    Narrativa Feminina en América Latina: Prácticas Perspectivas Teóricas.

    Edited by Sara Castro-Klarén ...
    Series Book 24 - Teoría y Crítica de la Cultura y Literatura
    This volume deals with the narrative of major women writers in Spanish America and analyses the novel, the short story and testimonio writing of the second half of the twentieth century. It contextualises their work by highlighting the importance of women's voices from the colonial period, the nineteenth century and the most recent poetics of zafarrancho and guerrilla narratives. LATIN AMERICAN ... Read more

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  • Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America

    A Critical Anthology

    Edited by Patricia Garcia, Teresa López-Pellisa ...
    Series series Iberian and Latin American Studies
    The fantastic has been particularly prolific in Hispanic countries during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, largely due to the legacy of short-story writers as well as the Latin-American boom that presented alternatives to the model of literary realism. While these writers’ works have done much to establish the Hispanic fantastic in the international literary canon, women authors from ... Read more

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