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Includes essays on: the role of race in the revolution of 1933; the subject of disaster in eighteenth-century Cuban poetry; developments in Cuban historiography over the past fifty years; a profile of the work of historian Jos Vega Suol; and a remembrance of essayist and literary critic Nara Arajo, who also contributed an article on travel in Cuba for this volume.
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«Allí estaba, tan cerca de mí y de mis amigos. Con su leyenda tan presente… ¡y todavía menos que hoy! Por desgracia, no conocí a Miguel Espinosa cuando vivía. En cuanto leí las primeras páginas de Tríbada, me atraparon su singularidad y su originalidad. ¡Qué locura tan lúcidamente analizada por el paciente mismo! ¡Qué sutileza es este delirio de interpretación! ¿Era autista ese hombre, como puede parecerlo Kant? Al igual que el recluso de Königsberg, se encerró entre cuatro paredes en una ciudad, lejos de las pompas y vanidades del mundo: en Murcia. A decir verdad, no tenía necesidad alguna de un horizonte más amplio para abarcar su siglo y el siguiente, que es el nuestro. Su obra hunde sus raíces en el siglo XVII, señalando las semejanzas que hay entre ella y la de otro Miguel: el autor del Quijote. […] Si don Quijote sueña con vivir las aventuras fabulosas de las novelas de caballerías, los protagonistas de Tríbada buscan incansablemente la clave de lo cotidiano más banal, negándose a contemplar el hecho desnudo, que para ellos, y para el autor, es la esencia misma de lo diabólico […]» Extractos del prólogo de Fernando Arrabal
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Literature Review from the year 2022 in the subject Sociology - Politics, Majorities, Minorities, grade: 10, Auckland University of Technology, language: English, abstract: This review analyses the theoretical concept of quality of life in light of the existing literature on this topic. It describes quality of life as seen from Latin American migrants' perceptions and the factors impacting the quality of life for migrant and refugees not only in New Zealand but worldwide as well. Finally, this review explores the complexity of migrant and refugee status from the political, cultural, social and economic perspectives associated with their quality of life. Extensive research on the settlement a...
An ethnography of post-Soviet Cubas health-care sector which reveals Cuba to be a pragmatic and contradictory state.
Longstanding evidence of the links between the environment, development and human health has led to a recognition of the need for public health policy to address sustainable development in low, middle and high income countries. One of the great challenges for public health practitioners is to understand and try to modify the relationship between the environment and health. This book examines the underlying concepts and history of environmental public health including the key factors: • Air pollution • Chemical contamination • Climate hazards • Housing and the built environment This book has been fully revised to discuss recent international environmental conventions and legislation i...
Easily distinguished by the horns and frills on their skulls, ceratopsians were one of the most successful of all dinosaurs. This volume presents a broad range of cutting-edge research on the functional biology, behavior, systematics, paleoecology, and paleogeography of the horned dinosaurs, and includes descriptions of newly identified species.