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The Book of Barcelona
A slighted wife escapes her wealthy family for the evening and stumbles into the city's red-light district... The head of security at Barcelona's container port searches for a figure that only he has seen sneak in... An elderly woman brings home a machine that will turn her body into atoms, so she can leave behind a city that is no longer recognisable... Historically, Barcelona is a city of resistance and independence; a focal point for Catalan identity, as well as the capital of Spanish republicanism. Nestled between the Mediterranean coast and mountains, this burgeoning city has also been home to some of the greatest names in modern art and architecture, and attracts visitors and migrants from all over the world. As a result, the city is a melting-pot of cultures, and the stories gathered here offer a miscellany of form and genre, fittingly reminiscent of one of Gaudi's mosaics. From the boy-giant outgrowing his cramped flat on the city's outskirts, to the love affair that begins in a launderette, we meet characters who are reclaiming the independence of their city by challenging common misconceptions and telling its myriad truths.
Things That Happen to You in Barcelona When You're Thirty
DIVWhat happens when you turn thirty and still don’t know what you want to be when you grow up? In this witty and sharply observed portrait of a generation, lost thirtysomethings grapple with, and avoid, the responsibilities of adulthood /divDIV On the morning after celebrating her thirtieth birthday in Barcelona, a journalist wakes up to a hangover—and a magician in her bed—and wonders if she’s too old to be living as though she was still twenty years old. Her artist friend, Blai, has already immortalized the rest of their group on canvas. There’s man-eater Cati, drama-queen lesbian Neus, and wild-haired, poet turned teacher Nil. But as she enters a new decade of her life, the nar...
A New History of Iberian Feminisms
A New History of Iberian Feminisms is both a chronological history and an analytical discussion of feminist thought in the Iberian Peninsula, including Portugal, and the territories of Spain – the Basque Provinces, Catalonia, and Galicia – from the eighteenth century to the present day. The Iberian Peninsula encompasses a dynamic and fraught history of feminism that had to contend with entrenched tradition and a dominant Catholic Church. Editors Silvia Bermúdez and Roberta Johnson and their contributors reveal the long and historical struggles of women living within various parts of the Iberian Peninsula to achieve full citizenship. A New History of Iberian Feminisms comprises a great deal of new scholarship, including nineteenth-century essays written by women on the topic of equality. By addressing these lost texts of feminist thought, Bermúdez, Johnson, and their contributors reveal that female equality, considered a dormant topic in the early nineteenth century, was very much part of the political conversation, and helped to launch the new feminist wave in the second half of the century.
A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula
Volume 2 of A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula brings to an end this collective work that aims at surveying the network of interliterary relations in the Iberian Peninsula. No attempt at such a comparative history of literatures in the Iberian Peninsula has been made until now. In this volume, the focus is placed on images (Section 1), genres (Section 2), forms of mediation (Section 3), and cultural studies and literary repertoires (Section 4). To these four sections an epilogue is added, in which specialists in literatures in the Iberian Peninsula, as well as in the (sub)disciplines of comparative history and comparative literary history, search for links between Volumes 1 and 2 from the point of view of general contributions to the field of Iberian comparative studies, and assess the entire project that now reaches completion with contributions from almost one hundred scholars.
Cuerpos para odiar
Cuerpos para odiar es un retrato crudo, auténtico y conmovedor de la vida de las travestis, exponiendo la sordidez de la calle, la brutalidad policial, el hambre y el rechazo implacable de la sociedad. En un gesto político, Claudia Rodríguez desafía las normas ortográficas como símbolo de resistencia y reivindicación de las que no tienen voz. Una obra emocionante y valiente que nos descubre a una autora impregnada de la realidad cruel de la vida marginal.
Cuadernos de humo sagrado. Alan Moore
Cuadernos de humo sagrado incluye los ensayos Buster Brown en las barricadas, sobre el cómic underground; El Cadillac de Frankenstein, un buen repaso a todo el género de la ciencia ficción; y La venus del cenagal contra los anillos de pene nazis, que se adentra en el mundo de la pornografía. ¡Una píldora de conocimiento para mentes inquietas! «Moore, el mago del caos que vino a enterrar a los superhéroes». —The Objective. A través de estos tres ensayos apasionantes, Alan Moore nos lleva a reflexionar y nos invita a explorar nuevos horizontes intelectuales. Este libro es un tesoro para los amantes de la cultura pop, las entusiastas del cómic, las aficionadas a la ciencia ficción y aquellas dispuestas a fliparlo con debates provocativos. Prepárate para un viaje literario inolvidable de la mano de uno de los más grandes maestros de la escritura contemporánea. Traducción de FelixFrog2000
The Art of Pere Joan
Born in Mallorca, Pere Joan Riera (known professionally as Pere Joan) thrived in the underground comics world, beginning in the mid-1970s with the self-published collections Baladas Urbanas and MuŽrdago, both of which were released almost immediately after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco and Spain's transition to democracy. The first monograph in English on a comics artist from the Spain, The Art of Pere Joan takes a topographical approach to reading comics, applying theories of cultural and urban geography to Pere Joan’s treament of space and landscape in his singular body of work. Balancing this goal with an exploration of specific works by Pere Joan, Benjamin Fraser demonstrates that looking at the thematic, structural, and aesthetic originality of the artist's landscape-driven work can help us begin to newly understand the representational properties of comics as a spatial medium. This in-depth examination reveals the resonance between the cultural landscapes of Mallorca and Pere Joan's metaphorical approach to both rural and urban environments in comics that weave emotional, ecological, and artistic strands in revolutionary ways.
Narrativa catalana de la postmodernitat. Històries, formes i motius
Narrativa catalana de la postmodernitat presenta una visió de conjunt —inexistent fins ara— de la literatura catalana de les darreres quatre dècades. L’autor construeix diversos itineraris a través dels moments històrics, les formes literàries i els motius recurrents que es poden detectar, en especial, en l’obra de Quim Monzó, l’autor més popular i influent de la postmodernitat, però també en la de narradors d’edats i trajectòries molt diferents que queden integrats en un panorama ampli, coherent i divers: de Baltasar Porcel a Albert Sánchez Piñol, de Jaume Cabré a Màrius Serra, de Jesús Moncada a Ramon Erra, de Sergi Pàmies a Empar Moliner, de Vicenç Pagès Jordà a Llucia Ramis, de Jordi Puntí a Lluís Oliván, de Joan Daniel Bezsonoff a Manuel Baixauli. A partir de la lectura de les seves obres, Jordi Marrugat no sols ens descobreix les aportacions concretes que han fet a la literatura catalana més actual, sinó que ens aproxima a la condició de l’home postmodern.
Novel·la catalana avui. 3r Encontre d’escriptors i crítics a les Garrigues
Novel·la catalana avui 2000-2016 recull les ponències del 3r Encontre d’escriptors i crítics a les Garrigues, centrat en la novel·la catalana dels últims anys, la qual, per la seva contemporaneïtat, pràcticament no ha estat objecte d’estudi. Les aportacions de Marta Alòs, Borja Bagunyà, Àlex Broch, Antoni Dalmau, Miquel Àngel Estradé, Miquel Maria Gibert, Lluís Meseguer, Antoni Munné-Jordà, Francesc Pané, Adolf Piquer, Sebastià Portell i Anna Maria Villalonga presenten una radiografia de la novel·la catalana contemporània més recent, la que s’orienta cap al futur que ens crida.
