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Veinte años y un día
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Elective Affinities
From the nineteenth century to the present, literary entanglements between Latin America and East Central Europe have been socio-politically and culturally diverse, but never random. The Iron Curtain, in particular, forced both regions to negotiate transatlantic «elective affinities», to take a stance in relation to the West, and to position themselves within world literature. As a result, the intellectual fields and creative productions of these regions have critically engaged with notions such as «post-imperial», «marginal», or «peripheral». In this edited volume, scholars from Germany, Brazil, Czech Republic, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Slovenia, and Spain cross the globe from South to East and back to uncover transcultural and transareal convivialities. Their papers explore literary history, poetics, intellectual networks, and aesthetic theory, while discussing new key concepts in global literary history.
Sea of Literatures
Mediterranean studies flourish in literary and cultural studies, but concepts of the Mediterranean and the theories and methods they use are very disparate. This is because the Mediterranean is not a simple geographical or historical unity, but a multiplicity, a network of highly interconnected elements, each of which is different and individual. Talking about Mediterranean literature raises the question of whether the connectivity of Mediterranean literature can or should be limited in some way by constructing an inside and an outside of the Mediterranean. What kind of connectivity and fragmentation do literary texts produce, how do they build and interrupt references (to the real, to fictional forms of representation, to history, but also to other texts and discourses), how do they create and deny communication, and how do they engage with and reflect literary and non-literary concepts of the Mediterranean? These and other questions are considered and discussed in the over twenty contributions gathered in this volume.
Serial Authorship and New Directions in Spanish Female Detective Fiction
This collection of essays expands our understanding and appreciation of the body of work by established female authors of Spanish crime fiction series by analyzing recent narratives that, in some cases, contribute in novel ways to the ongoing reformulation of the genre and, in others, provide readers with a temporary hiatus from it. The studies offer students and scholars of crime fiction new perspectives on the works of well-known authors, as well as analyses of their often less-known narratives that may not fit within the genre. Readers will engage in an exploration of gender dynamics and sexuality, a variety of psychological and social issues, and the consequences of the indiscriminate consumption of media and abuse of the environment and animals in narratives that exhibit the versatility of these outstanding authors. The volume will appeal to a wide audience of literary and cultural studies critics, as well as crime fiction enthusiasts and newcomers to this popular genre.
Fugitive Freedom
Cut loose from their ancestral communities by wars, natural disasters, and the great systemic changes of an expanding Europe, vagabond strangers and others out of place found their way through the turbulent history of early modern Spain and Spanish America. As shadowy characters inspiring deep suspicion, fascination, and sometimes charity, they prompted a stream of decrees and administrative measures that treated them as nameless threats to good order and public morals. The vagabonds and impostors of colonial Mexico are as elusive in the written record as they were on the ground, and the administrative record offers little more than commonplaces about them. Fugitive Freedom locates two of th...
Elective Affinities
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Vida y violencia
Élmer Mendoza escribe, como ocurre casi siempre con la gran literatura, sobre su país y sobre su tiempo. Sus obras, en especial las novelas noir protagonizadas por el Zurdo Mendieta, permiten entrever una sociedad compleja y marcada por los contrastes, que rezuma vida más allá de los tópicos y leyendas y de las realidades sobre la violencia y el narco. Culiacán, capital de Sinaloa, es el centro de este mundo fascinante. El ensayo de Jordi Canal, de aires híbridos y muy personales, que emerge de un diálogo entre historia y crítica literaria, propone una aproximación a los espacios construidos por Mendoza, definidos por lugares, territorios, encuentros, comidas, sonidos y muchas palabras.
Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic
Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic, edited by Lydia Brugué and Auba Llompart, studies the impact of fairy tales on contemporary cultures from an interdisciplinary perspective, with special emphasis on how literature and film are retelling classic fairy tales for modern audiences. We are currently witnessing a resurgence of fairy tales and fairy-tale characters and motifs in art and popular culture, as well as an increasing and renewed interest in reinventing and subverting these narratives to adapt them to the expectations and needs of the contemporary public. The collected essays also observe how the influence of academic disciplines like Gender Studies and current literary and cinematic trends play an important part in the revision of fairy-tale plots, characters and themes.
La banda sonora musical en el cine español y su empleo en la configuración de tipologías de mujer(1960-1969)
La presente investigación pretende realizar una aproximación a la música del cine español de la década de 1960, otorgando especial interés a aquellas manifestaciones musicales que ilustran identidades femeninas. Para ello, y tras el establecimiento de un marco teórico que determina el contexto de este trabajo, se presenta un estudio estético y analítico de la música de cine en la España de los años sesenta. Esta tarea tiene en cuenta, por un lado, las diferentes estéticas musicales, de acuerdo con el heterogéneo panorama cinematográfico y musical existente en la década, y, por otro lado, el análisis de una selección de bandas sonoras representativas según criterios preciso...
El pacifismo en España desde 1808 hasta el «No a la Guerra» de Iraq
El «No a la Guerra» inundó las calles y se desplegó en los balcones. Durante el primer trimestre de 2003, las capitales de nuestro país fueron testigos de repetidas manifestaciones en contra de la invasión de Iraq por parte de Estados Unidos, con la colaboración de Reino Unido y España, y en contra de las mentiras vertidas por los gobiernos de estos países. Pero ¿cómo se fue generando el pacifismo en nuestra contemporaneidad? Prestigiosos intelectuales de diversas disciplinas se han reunido para debatir sobre los conceptos que vertebran este libro: el antibelicismo, el antimilitarismo y el pacifismo. El objetivo es trazar una línea de continuidad en la formación del rechazo a ...
