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"Frederic Barbera decided to study the forging of Gabriel Miro's literary language in the context of his poetics for two main reasons. On the one hand, he wanted to explain how Miro, a writer born in an area where Castilian was virtually unspoken, had succeeded in forging such a rich literary language in Spanish. On the other hand, he found it necessary to shed light on the way in which the complexity and beauty of that literary language, unanimously acknowledge by Miro's critics, was tightly linked to an ambitious poetics, ultimately responsible for one of the most modern narratives in Spanish in the early twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Poised between the land and the sea, enabling the dynamic flow of people and goods, while also figuratively representing a safe place of rest and refuge, the harbor constitutes a liminal, ambivalent space par excellence that has been central to the American imagination and history since the early colonial days. From the mythical tales of discovery and foundation to the endless flows of migrants, through the dark pages of the slave trade and the imperialistic dream of an ever-expanding nation, harbors, both as a trope and as physical spaces, powerfully signify the American experience. Today, at a time when ideas of border protection and policing gain political prominence in the U.S. and elsew...
Giving status of the Catholic Church as of January 1, 2005.
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This book examines how modern US writers used the changing geographies, regimens, and technologies of modern food to reimagine racial classification and to question its relationship to the mutable body. By challenging a cultural ideal of purity, this literature proposes that racial whiteness is perhaps the most artificial color of them all.