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Territories of History : Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America
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ISBN: 0271049006 0271034998 0271032790 Year: 2021 Publisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press,

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Sarah H. Beckjord’s Territories of History explores the vigorous but largely unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In historical works by writers such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Bartolomé de Las Casas, and Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Beckjord argues, the authors were not only informed by the spirit of inquiry present in the humanist tradition but also drew heavily from their encounters with New World peoples. More specifically, their attempts to distinguish superstition and magic from science and religion in the New World significantly influenced the aforementioned chroniclers, who increasingly directed their insights away from the description of native peoples and toward a reflection on the nature of truth, rhetoric, and fiction in writing history.Due to a convergence of often contradictory information from a variety of sources—eyewitness accounts, historiography, imaginative literature, as well as broader philosophical and theological influences—categorizing historical texts from this period poses no easy task, but Beckjord sifts through the information in an effective, logical manner. At the heart of Beckjord’s study, though, is a fundamental philosophical problem: the slippery nature of truth—especially when dictated by stories. Territories of History engages both a body of emerging scholarship on early modern epistemology and empiricism and recent developments in narrative theory to illuminate the importance of these colonial authors’ critical insights. In highlighting the parallels between the sixteenth-century debates and poststructuralist approaches to the study of history, Beckjord uncovers an important legacy of the Hispanic intellectual tradition and updates the study of colonial historiography in view of recent discussions of narrative theory.


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Wie wird Weltliteratur gemacht? : Globale Zirkulationen lateinamerikanischer Literaturen
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ISBN: 3110692171 3110692163 Year: 2020 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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Die in den letzten zwanzig Jahren mit neuer Intensität geführte Debatte um den Begriff der Weltliteratur ist eng mit Fragen globaler Vernetzungen in einer polyzentrischen Welt verbunden. Zuletzt wurde Kritik insbesondere an globalisierungsaffinen Konzeptualisierungen laut: Inwiefern ist der Weltliteraturbegriff zu sehr mit politischen und ökonomischen Globalisierungsdynamiken Hand in Hand gegangen? Solche Fragen sind nicht allein in der theoretischen Kontroverse zu klären. Vielmehr muss die materielle Seite der Produktion von Weltliteratur stärker als bisher einbezogen werden. Der Band zeigt anhand lateinamerikanischer Literaturen, wie Konstruktionsprozesse von Weltliteratur konkret ablaufen. Dazu werden Archivmaterialien ausgewertet: Notizen, Reiseberichte, Korrespondenzen zwischen Verleger/innen und Autor/innen. Gerade die lateinamerikanischen Beispiele geben Aufschluss sowohl über Institutionalisierungsprozesse in der westlichen Welt als auch über neue Perspektiven für eine zeitgemäße Kartierung von Weltliteratur jenseits etablierter Kanonisierungsdynamiken. The debate surrounding world literature has been brought into renewed focus in light of questions pertaining to global networks in a polycentric world. Beyond theoretical debates, however, there has been a marked lack of materialistic approaches that seek to shed light on processes underlying the formation of world literature. Using Latin American literature as an example, this volume shows how the global circulation of literature takes place.


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Reading Junot Díaz
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ISBN: 0822981246 9780822981244 9780822963950 0822963957 Year: 2015 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press,

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"Reading Junot Diaz is the first study to focus on his complete body of published works. It explores the totality of his work and provides a concise view of the interconnected and multilayered narrative that weaves throughout Diaz's writings"-- "Dominican American author and Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz has gained international fame for his blended, cross-cultural fiction. Reading Junot Díaz is the first study to focus on his complete body of published works. It explores the totality of his work and provides a concise view of the interconnected and multilayered narrative that weaves throughout Díaz's writings. Christopher Gonzalez analyzes both the formal and thematic features and discusses the work in the context of speculative and global fiction as well as Caribbean and Latino/a culture and language. Topics such as race, masculinity, migration, and Afro-Latinidad are examined in depth. Gonzalez provides a synthesis of the prevailing critical studies of Díaz and offers many new insights into his work"--


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Literatura latinoamericana mundial : Dispositivos y disidencias
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ISBN: 3110673673 3110673657 Year: 2020 Publisher: De Gruyter

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From the perspective of Latin American Studies, this volume offers a critical contribution to the current debate on world literature. It is structured around three conceptual blocks: "gatekeepers", as the dispositives and actors mediating the international circulation of literature; "translation", as an unavoidable but always problematic mechanism; and "local literatures", as modes of writing that remain intrinsically tied to their contexts. ¿Cómo ingresa la literatura en circulación internacional? ¿Qué factores regulan dicho proceso? ¿Qué transformaciones sufre cuando lo hace? ¿Qué sucede con la que nunca lo consigue o se lo propone? Con foco en la literatura que, de acuerdo con postulados teóricos diseñados en los años 60, es concebida como latinoamericana y con contribuciones de destacados investigadores de diferentes lugares de Europa, América Latina y EE.UU., el volumen Literatura latinoamericana mundial intenta ser un aporte crítico al actual debate sobre literatura mundial. Tres bloques conceptuales, que también son tres de los principales núcleos en torno a los cuales gira la discusión, lo organizan: "gatekeepers", con foco en los dispositivos, actores o instituciones que vehiculizan u obturan la circulación internacional de literatura; "traducción", con reflexiones acerca de este mecanismo ineludible, pero siempre problemático, para que la literatura trascienda fronteras nacionales; y "literaturas locales", concentrado en escrituras y proyectos que, al permanecer aferrados a contextos específicos, constituyen el lado negado de ciertos modelos hegemónicos de la teoría de la literatura mundial.


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Intersections of Harm : Narratives of Latina Deviance and Defiance
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ISBN: 0813570387 0813570379 Year: 2015 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press,

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In this innovative new study, Laura Halperin examines literary representations of harm inflicted on Latinas' minds and bodies, and on the places Latinas inhabit, but she also explores how hope can be found amid so much harm. Analyzing contemporary memoirs and novels by Irene Vilar, Loida Maritza Pérez, Ana Castillo, Cristina García, and Julia Alvarez, she argues that the individual harm experienced by Latinas needs to be understood in relation to the collective histories of aggression against their communities. Intersections of Harm is more than just a nuanced examination of the intersections among race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality. It also explores the intersections of deviance and defiance, individual and collective, and mind, body, and place. Halperin proposes that, ironically, the harmful ascriptions of Latina deviance are tied to the hopeful expressions of Latina defiance. While the Latina protagonists' defiance feeds into the labels of deviance imposed on them, it also fuels the protagonists' ability to resist such harmful treatment. In this analysis, Halperin broadens the parameters of literary studies of female madness, as she compels us to shift our understanding of where madness lies. She insists that the madness readily attributed to individual Latinas is entwined with the madness of institutional structures of oppression, and she maintains that psychological harm is bound together with physical and geopolitical harm. In her pan-Latina study, Halperin shows how each writer's work emerges from a unique set of locales and histories, but she also traces a network of connections among them. Bringing together concepts from feminism, postcolonialism, illness studies, and ecocriticism, Intersections of Harm opens up exciting new avenues for Latina/o studies.


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De la literatura latinoamericana a la literatura (latinoamericana) mundial : Condiciones materiales, procesos y actores
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ISBN: 3110622092 3110622041 9783110622096 9783110622119 3110622114 Year: 2019 Publisher: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter

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El debate en torno al concepto de literatura mundial acompaña el proceso de reconfiguración del diseño global desde la Caída del Muro de Berlín y el desmantelamiento del orden bipolar en adelante. Las literaturas nacionales e incluso los constructos regionales están, desde entonces, en crisis. Fórmulas teóricas divergentes y también complementarias buscan resituar las literaturas latinoamericanas en dinámicas globales y superar, así, los marcos que se han revelado como obsoletos. En discusión con postulados idealistas y normativos, De la literatura latinoamericana a la literatura (latinoamericana) mundial propone un examen de las condiciones materiales, procesos y actores que hoy permiten -o impiden- que la literatura latinoamericana entre en circulación internacional y devenga literatura (latinoamericana) mundial. En un segundo momento, bajo la premisa de que las instancias de mediación dejan "huellas", el estudio se aparta de la sociología de la literatura para examinar de cerca configuraciones textuales. Intenta, finalmente y en respuesta al énfasis en la circulación de ciertos modelos hegemónicos, otorgarle visibilidad -y valor como literatura del mundo- a expresiones que permanecen inscriptas en dominios locales. What is World Literature? To answer this question, this book asks another one: How is it produced, that is, what are the material conditions, processes, and actors, which enable Latin-American Literature to circulate internationally and become (Latin-American) World Literature? Exploring the tension between literature for and of the world, the volume also intend to give visibility-and value as World Literature- to local forms of expression.


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Insult to Injury
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ISBN: 9781845198367 1845198360 1782843787 Year: 2016 Publisher: Sussex Academic Press

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"The stark reality of all life, from the biology of the food chain incorporating all living beings to the social stratification and hierarchies of human cultures, revolves around violence - physical or psychological. That unavoidable, black-and-white, worldview of survival of the fittest with little if any gray to mitigate it is colored only by the red lifeblood of the victims of the bigger, the stronger, the smarter, the wilier, who literally and/or figuratively "eat" their victims - overcoming, overwhelming, controlling, oppressing them. The premise behind Insult to Injury: Violence in Spanish, Hispanic American and Latino Art and Literature focuses on the representation of the visual and literary artistic products of a group of seemingly alike yet divergent societies, with linguistic and cultural ties that reflect those societies' means of control. These representations socialize viewers and/or readers in personal or public situations, establishing ubiquitous hierarchies. French social anthropologist/literary critic/theorist Rene Girard maintains in Violence & the Sacred that "the oldest means of social control is. violence." While the incorporated violence itself is not the overweening theme of this work, the representation or threat of violence functions in reality in terms that imply its consequences to the viewer or reader. These consequences are discussed in terms of control-directed violence based on gender roles and politics, socio-cultural power, and environmental issues or eco-violence. The underlying message is that of the necessity to behave according to imposed norms, stated or implied, or suffer those consequences - a convincing leitmotif in works by Spanish, Hispanic American and Latino visual artists and writers in the Spanish language over the ages"--

The plays of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón
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ISBN: 1281949876 9786611949877 184615362X 1855660938 Year: 2003 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K. ; Rochester, N.Y. : Tamesis,

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Alarcón defends the comedia against criticsm through his definition of illusion as a moral art - a stance evident in his plays. The plays of Ruiz de Alarcón, a significant dramatist in the Spanish Golden Age, show in many of their plots a preoccupation with deception, which Whicker believes reflects Alarcón's fundamental concern about truth-telling in literature. His study of Alarcón's comedias stresses the seriousness and moral orthodoxy of the playwright and his concern with how simulation and dissimulation can be viewed both positively and negatively in theatre as well asin life. In support of his argument for the seriousness of Alarcón's theatre - his challenge to his audience to think hard and clear about his play, particularly over the issue of illusion, deception and dissimulation - Whicker focuses on the moral arguments perceived in Alarcón's theatre, and their reference to serious literary-moral issues current in the Golden Age; he tests the relevance of his argument against contemporary circumstances, the ethics ofprivanza in particular. JULES WHICKER lectures in the department of Hispanic studies, University of Birmingham.


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LatinAsian cartographies
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ISBN: 081358986X 0813589886 9780813589886 9780813589862 9780813589855 0813589851 Year: 2018 Publisher: New Brunswick

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LatinAsian Cartographies examines how Latina/o and Asian American writers provide important counter-narratives to the stories of racial encroachment that have come to characterize twenty-first century dominant discourses on race. Susan Thananopavarn contends that the Asian American and Latina/o presence in the United States, although often considered marginal in discourses of American history and nationhood, is in fact crucial to understanding how national identity has been constructed historically and continues to be constructed in the present day. Thananopavarn creates a new "LatinAsian" view of the United States that emphasizes previously suppressed aspects of national history, including imperialism, domestic racism during World War II, Cold War operations in Latin America and Asia, and the politics of borders in an age of globalization. LatinAsian Cartographies ultimately reimagines national narratives in a way that transforms dominant ideas of what it means to be American.


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In Visible Movement : Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam
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ISBN: 1609382544 9781609382544 9781609382445 1609382447 Year: 2014 Publisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,

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"The first book-length study specifically devoted to Nuyorican poetry, In Visible Movement is unique in its historical and formal breadth, ranging from the foundational poets of the 1960s and 1970s to a variety of contemporary poets emerging in and around the Nuyorican Poets Cafe "slam" scene of the 1990s and early 2000s. This uniqueness results in a stunning reflection of how New York Puerto Rican poets have addressed the complexity of identity amid diaspora for over forty years"-- "Since the 1960s, Nuyorican poets have explored and performed Puerto Rican identity both on and off the page. Emerging within and alongside the civil rights movements of the 1960s, the foundational Nuyorican writers sought to counter the ethnic/racial and institutional invisibility of New York City Puerto Ricans by documenting the reality of their communities in innovative and sometimes challenging ways. Since then, Nuyorican poetry has entered the U.S. Latino literary canon and has gained prominence in light of the spoken-word revival of the past two decades, a movement spearheaded by the Nuyorican Poetry Slams of the 1990s. Today, Nuyorican poetry engages with contemporary social issues such as the commodification of the body, the institutionalization of poetry, the gentrification of the barrio, and the national and global marketing of identity. What has not changed is a continued shared investment in a poetics that links the written word and the performing body. The first book-length study specifically devoted to Nuyorican poetry, In Visible Movement is unique in its historical and formal breadth, ranging from the foundational poets of the 1960s and 1970s to a variety of contemporary poets emerging in and around the Nuyorican Poets Cafe "slam" scene of the 1990s and early 2000s. It also unearths a largely unknown corpus of poetry performances, reading over forty years of Nuyorican poetry at the intersection of the printed and performed word, underscoring the poetry's links to vernacular and Afro-Puerto Rican performance cultures, from the island's oral poets to the New York sounds and rhythms of Latin boogaloo, salsa, and hip-hop. With depth and insight, Urayoán Noel analyzes various canonical Nuyorican poems by poets such as Pedro Pietri, Victor Hernández Cruz, Miguel Algarín, Miguel Piñero, Sandra Maria Esteves, and Tato Laviera. He discusses historically overlooked poets such as Lorraine Sutton, innovative poets typically read outside the Nuyorican tradition such as Frank Lima and Edwin Torres, and a younger generation of Nuyorican-identified poets including Willie Perdomo, Maria Teresa Mariposa Fernández, and Emanuel Xavier, whose work has received only limited critical consideration. The result is a stunning reflection of how New York Puerto Rican poets have addressed the complexity of identity amid diaspora for over forty years"--

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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American. --- City and town life in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Puerto Ricans in literature. --- Puerto Ricans --- American poetry --- American literature --- Ethnology --- Intellectual life. --- History and criticism. --- Puerto Rican authors --- New York (N.Y.) --- New York (City) --- Ni︠u︡ Ĭork (N.Y.) --- Novi Jork (N.Y.) --- Nova Iorque (N.Y.) --- Nyu-Yorḳ (N.Y.) --- Nueva York (N.Y.) --- Nu Yorḳ (N.Y.) --- Nyuyok (N.Y.) --- Nuyorḳ (N.Y.) --- New York City (N.Y.) --- Niyū Yūrk (N.Y.) --- Niyūyūrk (N.Y.) --- Niu-yüeh (N.Y.) --- Nowy Jork (N.Y.) --- City of New York (N.Y.) --- New York Stad (N.Y.) --- نيويورك (N.Y.) --- Táva Nueva York (N.Y.) --- Nyu-York Şähäri (N.Y.) --- Нью-Йорк (N.Y.) --- Горад Нью-Ёрк (N.Y.) --- Horad Nʹi︠u︡-I︠O︡rk (N.Y.) --- Нью-Ёрк (N.Y.) --- Ню Йорк (N.Y.) --- Nova York (N.Y.) --- Çĕнĕ Йорк (N.Y.) --- Śĕnĕ Ĭork (N.Y.) --- Dakbayan sa New York (N.Y.) --- Dinas Efrog Newydd (N.Y.) --- Efrog Newydd (N.Y.) --- Nei Yarrick Schtadt (N.Y.) --- Nei Yarrick (N.Y.) --- Νέα Υόρκη (N.Y.) --- Nea Yorkē (N.Y.) --- Ciudad de Nueva York (N.Y.) --- Novjorko (N.Y.) --- Nouvelle York (N.Y.) --- Nua-Eabhrac (N.Y.) --- Cathair Nua-Eabhrac (N.Y.) --- Caayr York Noa (N.Y.) --- York Noa (N.Y.) --- Eabhraig Nuadh (N.Y.) --- Baile Eabhraig Nuadh (N.Y.) --- Нью Йорк балhсн (N.Y.) --- Nʹi︠u︡ Ĭork balḣsn (N.Y.) --- Шин Йорк (N.Y.) --- Shin Ĭork (N.Y.) --- 뉴욕 (N.Y.) --- Lungsod ng New York (N.Y.) --- Tchiaq York Iniqpak (N.Y.) --- Tchiaq York (N.Y.) --- New York-borg (N.Y.) --- Nuova York (N.Y.) --- ניו יורק (N.Y.) --- New York Lakanbalen (N.Y.) --- Lakanabalen ning New York (N.Y.) --- Evrek Nowydh (N.Y.) --- Nouyòk (N.Y.) --- Bajarê New Yorkê (N.Y.) --- New Yorkê (N.Y.) --- Mueva York (N.Y.) --- Sivdad de Mueva York (N.Y.) --- סיבֿדאד די מואיבֿה יורק (N.Y.) --- Sivdad de Muevah Yorḳ (N.Y.) --- מואיבֿה יורק (N.Y.) --- Muevah Yorḳ (N.Y.) --- Novum Eboracum (N.Y.) --- Neo-Eboracum (N.Y.) --- Civitas Novi Eboraci (N.Y.) --- Ņujorka (N.Y.) --- Niujorkas (N.Y.) --- Niujorko miestas (N.Y.) --- Niuiork (N.Y.) --- Њујорк (N.Y.) --- Njujork (N.Y.) --- Bandar Raya New York (N.Y.) --- Bandaraya New York (N.Y.) --- Nuoba Iorque (N.Y.) --- Нью-Йорк хот (N.Y.) --- Nʹi︠u︡-Ĭork khot (N.Y.) --- Āltepētl Yancuīc York (N.Y.) --- Niej-York (N.Y.) --- ニューヨーク (N.Y.) --- Nyū Yōku (N.Y.) --- ニューヨーク市 (N.Y.) --- Nyū Yōku-shi (N.Y.) --- NYC (N.Y.) --- N.Y.C. (N.Y.) --- In literature. --- American poetry. --- Amerikanisches Englisch. --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Literature. --- Lyrik. --- Portoricains --- Poésie américaine --- Puertoricaner. --- History and criticism --- Puerto Rican authors. --- American --- Hispanic American. --- Dans la littérature. --- Auteurs d'origine portoricaine --- Histoire et critique. --- Intellectual life --- 1900 - 2099. --- New York (State) --- New York, NY. --- Boricuas

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