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Salazar
A nuanced and thoughtful biography of the elusive, much debated Portuguese dictator.
A Canon of Empty Fathers
A Canon of Empty Fathers: Paternity in Portuguese Narrative is the first book-length study that analyzes the repeated and peculiar deployment of the father figure in Portuguese narratives from the nineteenth century to the present day. In it, Phillip Rothwell argues for a specifically Portuguese tendency toward what he terms empty paternity - a corruption of the Lacanian paternal function that has surfaced continuously in Portuguese culture from the fifteenth century onward.
Official Gazette
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Portuguese Film, 1930-1960,
Engaging, groundbreaking analysis of Portuguese national and propaganda film of the New State era (1930-1960), including Portugal's African colonies, in historical and cultural context.
Mexican Americans and Sports
For at least a century, across the United States, Mexican American athletes have actively participated in community-based, interscholastic, and professional sports. The people of the ranchos and the barrios have used sport for recreation, leisure, and community bonding. Until now, though, relatively few historians have focused on the sports participation of Latinos, including the numerically preponderant Mexican Americans. This volume gathers an important collection of such studies, arranged in rough chronological order, spanning the period from the late 1920s through the present. They survey and analyze sporting experiences and organizations, as well as their impact on communal and individu...
