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En la apertura de este nuevo siglo, los viejos y nuevos temas surgidos en el seno de las sociedades contemporáneas y llevados al ámbito educativo nos han mostrado cuán frágil es la profesión docente y la vulnerabilidad de su práctica. Seguimos en la búsqueda de la pieza faltante del rompecabezas para responder a las exigencias de este mundo; que se mueve entre el mercado globalizado de las economías con sus consecuencias en la polarización social, económica, cultural, ideológica y educativa; y a las demandas concretas de los que asisten a las instituciones educativas todos los días con la esperanza de que su permanencia y supervivencia en el sistema educativo arrojará frutos. En...
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'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.
Over the course of some two centuries following the conquests and consolidations of Spanish rule in the Americas during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries—the period designated as the Baroque—new cultural forms sprang from the cross-fertilization of Spanish, Amerindian, and African traditions. This dynamism of motion, relocation, and mutation changed things not only in Spanish America, but also in Spain, creating a transatlantic Hispanic world with new understandings of personhood, place, foodstuffs, music, animals, ownership, money and objects of value, beauty, human nature, divinity and the sacred, cultural proclivities—a whole lexikon of things in motion, variation, an...