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Literatura infantil y juvenil colombiana
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 161

Literatura infantil y juvenil colombiana

En Colombia, hay autores y obras que dan cuenta de la literatura infantil y juvenil (LIJ), bien sea desde la idea de adaptación para los niños y los jóvenes de libros de la "gran literatura" para adultos, de literatura escrita para estas poblaciones o de literatura que niños y jóvenes se apropian para sí, a partir de la recomendación de un adulto o de las redes sociales y de los medios de comunicación masiva. A partir de la pregunta: ¿cuáles son los problemas, las tendencias, los autores y las obras más representativas de la literatura infantil y juvenil colombiana en los últimos veinte años? y con el interés por dar cuenta de la evolución de la literatura colombiana y del lugar que la LIJ se ha ido forjando en ella, este libro presenta el resultado de una investigación que indagó asuntos como los conceptos de literatura infantil y juvenil, las representaciones del niño y el joven como sujetos lectores, el lugar de la LIJ en la constitución del canon de la literatura colombiana, y la periodización en el marco de problemas y tendencias de la LIJ colombiana, entre 1990 y 2012.

Century of the Wind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 315

Century of the Wind

The third of a three-part study of Latin American history, focusing on events and people of the twentieth century.

Self Portrait in Green
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 81

Self Portrait in Green

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-02-25
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  • Publisher: Influx Press

'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.

Genesis: Memory of Fire, Volume 1
  • Language: en

Genesis: Memory of Fire, Volume 1

Genesis, the first volume in Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, is both a meditation on the clashes between the Old World and the New and, in the author's words, an attempt to “rescue the kidnapped memory of all America.” It is a fierce, impassioned, and kaleidoscopic historical experience that takes us from the creation myths of the Makiritare Indians of the Yucatan to Columbus's first, joyous moments in the New World to the English capture of New York.

The Blue Hour
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

The Blue Hour

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-06-07
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  • Publisher: Random House

Adrián Ormache, a high-flying lawyer with a beautiful wife and two daughters, leads a privileged and glamorous life in one of Lima’s wealthiest neighbourhoods. But when his mother dies, he discovers a letter amongst her possessions making shocking claims about her now long-dead husband, Adrián’s father – a commander in the army during the Peruvian Civil War of the 1980s. As well as being linked to atrocities committed against the ‘Shining Path’ guerrillas, it appears that he also kidnapped and kept a local girl, whose family now seeks retribution. Shocked out of his comfortable existence, Adrián becomes obsessed with finding the girl at the heart of the mystery, and sets out to face the harrowing realities of Peru’s recent past, and uncover the truth about his father.

Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights / Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Volume 25 (2009)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1019

Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights / Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Volume 25 (2009)

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-11-07
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This Yearbook aims to contribute to a greater awareness of the functions and activities of the organs of the Inter-American system for the protection of human rights.

About Trees
  • Language: en

About Trees

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016
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  • Publisher: Unknown

About Trees considers our relationship with language, landscape, perception, and memory in the Anthropocene. The book includes texts and artwork by a stellar line up of contributors including Jorge Luis Borges, Andrea Bowers, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ada Lovelace and dozens of others. Holten was artist in residence at Buro BDP. While working on the book she created an alphabet and used it to make a new typeface called Trees. She also made a series of limited edition offset prints based on her Tree Drawings.

Killing the Water
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 211

Killing the Water

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Time Commences in Xibalbá
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 150

Time Commences in Xibalbá

Time Commences in Xibalbá tells the story of a violent village crisis in Guatemala sparked by the return of a prodigal son, Pascual. He had been raised tough by a poor, single mother in the village before going off with the military. When Pascual comes back, he is changed—both scarred and “enlightened” by his experiences. To his eyes, the village has remained frozen in time. After experiencing alternative cultures in the wider world, he finds that he is both comforted and disgusted by the village’s lingering “indigenous” characteristics.

The Spanish Connection
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 458

The Spanish Connection

In early modern times, the city of Seville was the most important entrept̥ between the Old and the New World, attracting numerous merchants from all of Europe. They provided the American market with European merchandise, especially with textiles and metalware from Flanders and France. This book investigates the networks of Flemish and French merchants in Seville, displaying overall structures of trade as well as collective strategies of both merchant colonies.