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Students played a critical role in the Sandinista struggle in Nicaragua, helping to topple the US-backed Somoza dictatorship in 1979—one of only two successful social revolutions in Cold War Latin America. Debunking misconceptions, Students of Revolution provides new evidence that groups of college and secondary-level students were instrumental in fostering a culture of insurrection—one in which societal groups from elite housewives to rural laborers came to see armed revolution as not only legitimate but necessary. Drawing on student archives, state and university records, and oral histories, Claudia Rueda reveals the tactics by which young activists deployed their age, class, and gende...
For many fans, metal was visual before it was aural. This book explores the visual dimensions of metal music from the specific socio-historic, geographic, and political positionality of Latin America and the Caribbean where this visual register allows creators and consumers to engage in four distinct strategies (i.e., seeing, revealing, inverting, and appearing) as part of what the authors have termed “extreme decolonial dialogues.” They support their position through a diverse lens that examines essential aspects of the visual dimensions of metal music: album artwork, clothing, film, sites, and activist practices.
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Gegenstand dieser Untersuchung ist der Aufstieg und Fall der theologischen Legitimierung der gehobenen Poesie, die sich ab Ende des 16. und im Laufe des 17. Jahrhunderts im Vizekönigreich Peru vollzieht. Der Höhepunkt dieser Legitimierung liegt in dem Entstehen einer „Academia Antártica“ (Antarktische Akademie) in den ersten Jahrzehnten des 17. Jahrhunderts. Ihr Ende wiederum beginnt in der zweiten Hälfte desselben Jahrhunderts, wenn Gelehrte religiöser Orden, vor allem Juan de Espinosa Medrano und seine Texte zur Verteidigung der Dichtung und der Wissenschaften, diese theologische Macht der weltlichen Poesie bestreiten und für ihre eigenen Predigten und Texten in Anspruch nehmen. ...