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Caribbean Modernist Architecture
In February and March 2008, the International Program and the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art organised the Museum's first symposium on the modernist architecture of the Caribbean and bordering Latin American countries, in collaboration with the Caribbean School of Architecture at the University of Technology, Kingston, Jamaica. The goal was to encourage scholarly, curatorial and broader educational awareness. Topics covered included regional and international legacies, preservation, environmental sustainability and urban planning, as they relate to modernist architectural history and contemporary practice. The presenters were leading architects and architec...
Racial Dynamics in Early Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas
Focusing upon the experiences of ethnoracial minorities, particularly African Americans and Mexican immigrants, in Austin, Texas, during the first three decades of the twentieth century, this book sheds new light on the issues of migration, proletarianization, marginalization, adaptation, identity, and community. As well as providing a textured depiction of minority group responses to life in a racially-stratified society, it offers a ground-breaking exploration of the ambivalent relationship between blacks and Latinos in modern America.
The Capture of Rafael Ortega
Rafael Ortega leads a quiet, uneventful life in the port town of Cádiz, but danger is never far from sight. The Spanish Inquisition looms over Spain with watchful eyes, waiting for any sign of heresy, and press gangs roam the coast looking for vulnerable young men to kidnap into servitude. For a Jewish boy like Rafael, whose family’s faith is itself a dangerous secret, the question is less of if, but of when. It is on one fateful morning that the clock runs out: news of religious Inquisitors at Rafael’s doorstep sends him rushing home in fear for his family. While risking a shortcut through the seedy backstreets of town, he is ambushed. The next thing he knows, he’s been bound, stuffe...
#jokerstash
An anarchist hacker, known by his alias Joker, comes out of the dark web to burn the billion-dollar influencer industry for vengeance and accidentally becomes the influencer king. Joker’s humorous and astute ways have garnered the Prime Minister’s attention. Joker becomes his first follower on social media. But is that his aim? A never before seen firewall, created by a young citizen of India, terminates Joker’s success. When the CBI failed, an ordinary boy with extraordinary talent set foot to help the officials and hurts Joker’s pride. Maira, the director of SWAT and the Prime Minister’s wife, struggles with her life. She doesn’t have a clue that beneath her house, many malicious secrets lay buried. When she digs deeper, her morality is shaken. Joker enters the tunnel, hoping to see the light on the oth-er side, but his delusions of grandeur lead him astray in the darkness. Will his vengeance make the world a better place or will there be no light at the end of the tunnel?
Labyrinth of Imagery
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Spanish-American Literature
With a focus both historical and literary, Enrique Anderson-Imbert surveys the literature of Hispanic America. His study is not merely an historical synthesis of names, titles, and dates; it is, rather, a critical analytical appraisal of the verse, prose, and drama written in Spanish in the Americas in the contemporary period.
Belated Declaration of Love to Séraphine Louis
Belated Declaration of Love to SZraphine Louis brings together a panoramic survey of Venezuelan narrative, the original Spanish text of eight short stories by the late writer, with full English translation, and a focused commentary of the stories and the work of Denzil Romero. This bilingual critical text is an invaluable addition to available resources in Latin American literature for advanced courses taught through either Spanish or English. (TEXT IN SPANISH AND ENGLISH)
The Aesthetic Border
This groundbreaking study examines how modern Colombian literature—from Gabriel García Márquez to Juan Gabriel Vásquez—reflects one of the world’s most tumultuous entrances into globalization. While these literary icons, one canonical, the other emergent, bookend Colombia’s fall and rise on the world stage, the period between the two was inordinately violent, spanning the Colombian urban novel’s evolution into narco-literature. Marking Colombia’s cultural and literary manifestations as threefold, this book explores García Márquez’s retreat to a rural romanticism that paradoxically made him a global literary icon; the country’s violent end to the twentieth century when its largest economic export was narcotics; and the contemporary period in which a new major author has emerged to create a “literature of national reconstitution.” Harkening back to the Regeneration movement and extending through the early twenty-first century, this book analyzes the cultural implications of Colombia’s relationship to the wider world.
Humor in Latin American Cinema
This book addresses a variety of regional humor traditions such as exploitation cinema, Brazilian chanchada, the Cantinflas heritage, the comedy of manners and light sexuality, iconic figures and characters, as well as a variety of humor registers evident in different Latin American films.
