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Poetry of a quality able to cut tunnels through pouring rain and to turn last year's crumbled leaves into this year's swarms of butterflies. Poems like fistfuls of rich and enveloping bursts of imagination, creativity and expression. An outstanding collection.
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A burgeoning new branch of Hispanic literature, Latino-Canadian writing is now becoming part of the Canadian and Quebec literary traditions. Latinocanadá, a critical anthology, examines the work of Hispanic writers who have settled in Canada over the past thirty years and includes newly translated selections of their work.
This critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, daughter of prominent Indigenous leaders Marceline Paul and George Manuel. A vibrant force in the burgeoning Indigenous theatre scene, Vera was at the forefront of residential school writing and did groundbreaking work as a dramatherapist and healer. Long before mainstream Canada understood and discussed the impact and devastating legacy of Canada’s Indian residential schools, Vera Manuel wrote about it as part of her personal and community healing. She became a grassroots leader addressing the need to bring to light the stories of survivors, their journey...
Sorensen investigates the manner in which Chilean media and public culture discuss human rights violations committed during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) as well as human rights problems which still exist.
En la discusión sobre la necesidad de continuar los cambios hacia la consolidación de una democracia plena y, por lo tanto, generar una sociedad respetuosa con su propia historia y en sintonía con la memoria nacional, el libro investiga la forma en que la cultura pública discute las violaciones a los derechos humanos y el rol de los medios de comunicación en el desarrollo de una conciencia social sobre estos hechos. El lector conocerá sobre la censura y la autocensura en los medios, la interpretación a nivel comunicacional de los procesos postraumáticos y la esfera pública, así como su relación con la aceptación de un memoria común, entre otros temas. Cabe mencionar que el traba...