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This book argues that political concerns, inseparable from Dante’s biography, permeate his entire corpus, emerging at the intersection of the multiple fields of knowledge he explores, from the liberal arts to law, philosophy, and theology. It also shows that Dante, by elucidating the natural integration of the humanities with the sciences, continues to be a source of provocative insights and inspirations on how to be political beings today. Preceded by an introductory chapter focused on politics and education, the essays collected in the volume offer a range of close textual and contextual readings of Dante’s life and works grouped in four parts: 1. The Self and History, 2. Visions of th...
How contemporary Cuban writers build transnational communities In Writing Islands, Elena Lahr-Vivaz employs methods from archipelagic studies to analyze works of contemporary Cuban writers on the island alongside those in exile. Offering a new lens to explore the multiplicity of Cuban space and identity, she argues that these writers approach their nation as part of a larger, transnational network of islands. Introducing the term “arcubiélago” to describe the spaces created by Cuban writers, both on the ground and in print, Lahr-Vivaz illuminates how transnational communities are forged and how they function across space and time. Lahr-Vivaz considers how poets, novelists, and essayists...
Il folle volo. Las rutas transatlánticas de Dante Alighieri tiene su origen en el proyecto Madrid città dantesca, que conmemoró con actividades académicas y culturales el séptimo centenario de la muerte del poeta florentino a lo largo del año 2021. Lejos de brindar un mapa exhaustivo de los diálogos entre Dante y las literaturas latinoamericanas, este libro ofrece al lector un conjunto de ensayos que observan su presencia en ultramar desde ángulos diversos y originales. El entusiasmo por la figura de Dante Alighieri que se desprende de este volumen no se circunscribe a su Infierno ni a su Paraíso, tampoco a la imagen de exul immeritus, sino que rescata sus múltiples rostros como poeta político, poeta de la modernidad, poeta del amor y poeta de la esperanza. Del abanico de voces que acuden a la obra del autor italiano como fuente de inspiración literaria, filosófica o política dan cuenta estos textos demostrando, al mismo tiempo, la capacidad de mestizaje de las letras latinoamericanas, proclives siempre al cruce de tradiciones heterogéneas con resultados insólitos y transformadores.
Argentina y España han mantenido a lo largo de su historia un vínculo intenso. La distancia entre ambas no aminoró la atracción mutua, cercanía que se manifestó con avidez desde los tiempos coloniales, se revolucionó con violencia durante las embestidas independentistas y fue subyugando a millones de migrantes con la promesa de tierras, bienes y sueños. Es ya un recorrido de ida y vuelta, que ayudó a construir identidades nacionales con rasgos compartidos, fecundadas por los idiomas, las letras y las culturas. Si las relaciones bilaterales son de un perfil privilegiado en el escenario internacional, esa singularidad no ha estado libre de agudas tensiones. Argentina es un país difí...
En un país como la Argentina, caracterizado por un fuerte impacto de la migración ultramarina entre fines del siglo XIX e inicios del XX, la función de la prensa en lengua extranjera adquirió un valor social, cultural, económico y político inevitablemente central, tanto a nivel simbólico como material. La parábola de Il Mattino d’Italia, cotidiano argentino fascista en italiano, se sitúa en una fase particularmente compleja de la historia argentina, en la que revistió un papel significativo. Este trabajo, basándose en el análisis sistemático de los números del diario publicados entre 1930 y 1944 y de documentación archivística y otras fuentes argentinas y extranjeras (italianas y estadounidenses), pretende indagar y profundizar desde perspectivas inéditas la historia del periódico. Una historia que, como surge de las páginas del texto, se configura además como la historia de un sector particular de la sociedad argentina en la década de 1930, entrelazándose de forma variada y compleja con la cultura y la política de Buenos Aires, así como del interior de la República.
Through the disruptive and fiercely inventive voice of a postmodern master, Raúl Zurita's Purgatory, a landmark in contemporary Latin American poetry, records the physical, cultural, and spiritual violence perpetrated against the Chilean people under Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship (1973-90). --from publisher's description.
Peter Pan was born over a century ago. There is something doubly contradictory in this phrase that, although true, is also the reason why this book has been released. We are talking about the boy who will never grow up and the fact that he is celebrating his hundredth birthday should provoke some surprise. At the same time, he is such a powerful icon that it is also true that he seems to have been there, floating in our culture, reappearing in its images, since time immemorial – much farther back than the early twentieth century. This book shows that, although he considered dying to be an awfully big adventure, Peter Pan is, on his one hundredth birthday, more alive than ever. And our pred...
"Fortini/Cani" presents Fortini reading excerpts from his book, focusing on his alienation from Judaism and social relations, the rise of fascism in Italy, and the anti-Arab attitude of European culture. The Italian landscape provides a backdrop that highlights the meaning of the text.
This book contains the proceedings of the latest in a series of biennial conferences on the topic of sustainable regional development that began in 2003. Organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology, the conference series provides a common forum for all scientists specialising in the range of subjects included within sustainable development and planning. It has become apparent that planners, environmentalists, architects, engineers, policy makers and economists have to work together in order to ensure that planning and development can meet our present needs without compromising the ability of future generations. The topics covered by the papers included in the book include City planning; Regional planning; Social and political issues; Sustainability in the built environment; Rural developments; Cultural heritage; Transportation; Ecosystems analysis, protection and remediation; Environmental management; Environmental impact assessment; Indicators of sustainability; Sustainable solutions in developing countries; Sustainable tourism; Waste management; Flood risk management; Resources management; and Industrial developments.
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