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Addicts
Addicts can be read like a novel or a paper movie. What is a paper movie? It is a novel in scenes that can be read in about two hours and that tells an intense story, a thriller with suspense, humor, and solution of a crime, a felony or a mystery. One of the protagonists of this story is Chelo Gómez, an American and Mexican variant of Sherlock Holmes. Chelo Gómez is not guided by visual, olfactory, and auditory evidence like the famous English detective, but rather by a combination of Sufi stories, musical scores and concerts, and small talks with his young friends-the often absent-minded P. A., nurse Natalia, and waitress Roberta River. Retired police chef Gavin William serves as a rational counterpoint to Chelo's unusual detective investigations. At the end, as in the DVDs, scenes not included and fragments of "interviews" with "actors" from the paper movie are presented.
Facing the Challenges of Language Learning and Teaching in a Changing World
In 2020, the world grappled with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, causing a significant transformation in education. Students had to adapt to remote learning, and educators faced uncertainty in blending technology with teaching. This book showcases a selection of invaluable insights on these issues, and solutions for language educators and language learners worldwide. Whether you are a language teacher, researcher, technology developer, coordinator, student, or language enthusiast, this compilation has something to offer on both personal and professional levels. The book explores the strategies, experiences, and methodologies that defined language learning during a global crisis, and revisits a pivotal moment in education when language learning not only adapted but thrived, providing a roadmap for the future of education. This book is a testament to resilience, adaptability, and the limitless possibilities of language education.
Literature and the Work of Universality
In an age of accelerating ecological crises, global inequalities and democratic fragility, it has become crucial to achieve renewed articulations of human commonality. With anchorage in critical theory as well as world literary studies, this volume approaches literature - and modes of literary thinking - as a key resource for such a task. "Universality" is understood here not as an established "universalism", but as a horizon towards which intellectual inquiry and literary practices orient themselves. In the field of world literature, there is by now a wide repertoire of epistemological resources through which claims to universality can be both questioned and reconfigured. If, at one end of ...
(Re)collecting the Past
This volume addresses the representation of history and collective memory in Latin American literature. The book presents a variety of novel perspectives on the subject, linked by the common themes of the subjectivity of time and history, literature used as a political tool and the representation of marginalized groups. The collection takes an original approach to viewing national histories as represented in literature by adopting a cross-disciplinary position. While there are other publications addressing some of the issues raised in this collection, this book goes beyond literary representations of history. The essays collected here examine technological, political and social developments as a means of creating, re-structuring and (in some cases) potentially destroying nations.
World Editors
The existence of World Literature depends on specific processes, institutions, and actors involved in the global circulation of literary works. The contributions of this volume aim to pay attention to these multiple material dimensions of Latin American 20th and 21st century literatures. From perspectives informed by materialism, sociology, book studies, and digital humanities, the articles of this volume analyze the role of publishing houses, politics of translation, mediators and gatekeepers, allowing insights into the processes that enable books to cross borders and to be transformed into globally circulating commodities. The book focusses both on material (re)sources of literary archives, key actors in literary and cultural markets, prizes and book fairs, as well as on recent dimension of the digital age. Statements of some of the leading representatives of the global publishing world complement these analyses of the operations of selection and aggregation of value to literary texts.
Rethinking Juan Rulfo's Creative World
Though primarily known for his haunting, enigmatic novel Pedro Páramo and the unrelenting depictions of the failures of post-revolutionary Mexico in his short story collection, El Llano en llamas, Juan Rulfo also worked as scriptwriter on various collaborative film projects and his powerful interventions in the area of documentary photography ensure that he continues to inspire interest worldwide. Bringing together some of the most significant names in Rulfian scholarship, this anthology engages with the complexity and diversity of Rulfo’s cultural production. The essays in the collection bring the Rulfian texts into dialogues with other cultural traditions and techniques including the Ja...
Packing My Library
A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France’s Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Packing up his enormous, 35,000†‘volume personal library, choosing which books to keep, store, or cast out, Manguel found himself in deep reverie on the nature of relationships between books and readers, books and collectors, order and disorder, memory and reading. In this poignant and personal reevaluation of his life as a reader, the author illuminates the highly ...
Nor-tec Rifa!
Marketed as a kind of 'ethnic' electronic dance music, Nor-tec samples sounds of traditional music from the north of Mexico transforming these sounds through computer technology used in European and American techno music and electronica. This is an account of this music and the city that fostered its birth.
Angeles Mastretta
The first major study on the works of the Mexican novelist, Angeles Mastretta, demonstrating the rich complexity and range of the author's fiction and essays. The Mexican novelist, Angeles Mastretta [b. 1949], has only recently received serious critical attention largely because her work has been seen as 'popular' and therefore inappropriate for academic study. This first major work tobe published on Mastretta seeks to demonstrate the rich complexity and range of the author's fiction and essays. In the tradition of Post-Boom Latin American women's writing, Mastretta's texts are motivated by a desire to speak primarily of the silenced experiences and voices of women. Two of her novels, refere...
Building and Managing High-Performance Distributed Teams
The age of the distributed team is upon us. Teams can now operate and collaborate from locations other than a central office, and events surrounding the 2020 COVID pandemic have thrown its practicality into sharp relief. Managing a team whose members are distributed across several locations requires a different mindset and will remain a must-have for all areas of business from this point forward. Building and Managing High-Performance Distributed Teams explains what the distributed teams concept means to the future of your company. Author Alberto S. Silveira Jr. leverages his industry knowledge to explore why the high-performance distributed team model is vital to the future of business, and...
