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Thirty years after the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands, the war remains a source of continued debate and analysis for politicians, historians and military strategists. Not only did the conflict provide a fascinating example of modern expeditionary warfare, but it also brought to the fore numerous questions regarding international law, sovereignty, the inheritance of colonialism, the influence of history on national policy and the use of military force for domestic political uses. As the essays in this collection show, the numerous facets of the Falklands War remain current today and have ramifications far beyond the South Atlantic. Covering issues ranging from military strategy ...
Thirty years after the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands, the war remains a source of continued debate and analysis for politicians, historians and military strategists. Not only did the conflict provide a fascinating example of modern expeditionary warfare, but it also brought to the fore numerous questions regarding international law, sovereignty, the inheritance of colonialism, the influence of history on national policy and the use of military force for domestic political uses. As the essays in this collection show, the numerous facets of the Falklands War remain current today and have ramifications far beyond the South Atlantic.
Ethics and Aesthetics of Translation engages with translation, in both theory and practice, as part of an interrogation of ethical as well as political thought in the work of three bilingual European authors: Bernardo Atxaga, Milan Kundera and Jorge Semprún. In approaching the work of these authors, the book draws upon the approaches to translation offered by Benjamin, Derrida, Ricœur and Deleuze to highlight a broad set of ethical questions, focused upon the limitations of the monolingual and the democratic possibilities of linguistic plurality; upon our innate desire to translate difference into similarity; and upon the ways in which translation responds to the challenges of individual a...
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This volume offers a critical study of a representative selection of Latin American women writers who have made major contributions to all literary genres and represent a wide range of literary perspectives and styles. This volume offers a critical study of a representative selection of Latin American women writers who have made major contributions to all literary genres and represent a wide range of literary perspectives and styles. Many of these women have attained the highest literary honours: Gabriela Mistral won the Nobel Prize in 1945; Clarice Lispector attracted the critical attention of theorists working mainly outside the Hispanic area; others have made such telling contributions to...
The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel provides an accessible introduction to an important World literature. While many of the authors covered—Aira, Bolaño, Castellanos Moya, Vásquez—are gaining an increasing readership in English and are frequently taught, there is sparse criticism in English beyond book reviews. This book provides the guidance necessary for a more sophisticated and contextualized understanding of these authors and their works. Underestimated or unfamiliar Spanish American novels and novelists are introduced through conceptually rigorous essays. Sections on each writer include: *the author's reception in their native country, Spanish America, and Spain *biographical history *a critical examination of their work, including key themes and conceptual concerns *translation history *scholarly reception The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel offers an authoritative guide to a rich and varied novelistic tradition. It covers all demographic areas, including United States Latino authors, in exploring the diversity of this literature and its major themes, such as exile, migration, and gender representation.
Esta Antología personal de la escritora argentina Alicia Kozameh, precedida por un Estudio preliminar de la catedrática María A. Semilla Durán, tiene un doble objetivo: el de iniciar al lector en el conocimiento de una obra literaria personalísima por una parte; el de guiarlo en su lectura e interpretación de la misma por otra. Los textos así seleccionados están organizados cronológicamente, y constituyen un corte transversal de la obra total, que deja ver cada uno de los estratos que la componen. El volumen se prestigia con una reflexión inédita de la autora sobre la indefensión de la persona ante la escritura autobiográfica. El estudio preliminar que introduce el volumen acompaña el viaje del lector a través de los textos, analizando las secuencias seleccionadas y leyéndolas desde una perspectiva global, atenta a la evolución de la escritura al hilo del tiempo. Para completar la mirada crítica, incluimos al final un instrumento pedagógico destinado a los estudiantes que quisieran trabajar sobre las obras de Alicia Kozameh, consistente en una serie de orientaciones válidas para la indagación de su escritura.
"Cet essai nous entraîne dans les arcanes de la vie que Jorge Semprún a livré progressivement à travers le récit de sa vie dans ses cinq ouvrages, «Quel beau dimanche»,«L'écriture ou la vie», «Adieu, vive clarté», «Autobiographie de Federico Sanchez» et «Federico Sanchez vous salue bien.». La lecture approfondie de ces cinq textes majeurs de Jorge Semprún, Maria Angélica Semilla Duran tente de démêler les fils d'une d'écriture à nulle autre pareille et si symptomatique du XXème siècle. Pour cela, Jorge Semprún utilise toutes les formes littéraires qu'il manie pour conjurer l'expérience de la Mort, lui qui l'a frôlée à plusieurs reprises et la transmettre à travers « les fragments déchirés de son MOI et nouer, sur le métier de l'écriture, les fils déliés de l'imaginaire. » Les matériaux refont surface à mesure qu'il les sollicite, sans toujours respecter un ordre chronologique mais refont surface au rythme des relations, des connivences, des associations d'idées, un temps décomposé comme un puzzle qui se reconstitue au-delà de la rationalité." - Extret de: http://jfhispanie.canalblog.com/
In the final analysis, Ocampo's works achieve equilibrium between childhood and age, whereas Pizarnik's much-discussed poetic crisis of exile from language itself parallels her deep sense of anxiety at being exiled from the world of childhood."--BOOK JACKET.
Phenomena such as the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, or the surge of political populism show that the current phase of accelerated globalization is over. New concepts are needed in order to respond to this exhaustion of the global project: the volume scrutinizes these responses in the aesthetic realm and under a "post-global" banner, while incorporating alternative, non-Western epistemologies and literatures of the post-colonial Global South.