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In Rural Resistance in the Land of Zapata, Tanalís Padilla shows that the period from 1940 to 1968, generally viewed as a time of social and political stability in Mexico, actually saw numerous instances of popular discontent and widespread state repression. Padilla provides a detailed history of a mid-twentieth-century agrarian mobilization in the Mexican state of Morelos, the homeland of Emiliano Zapata. In so doing, she brings to the fore the continuities between the popular struggles surrounding the Mexican Revolution and contemporary rural uprisings such as the Zapatista rebellion. The peasants known in popular memory as Jaramillistas were led by Rubén Jaramillo (1900–1962). An agra...
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Engineering Applications, WEA 2019, held in Santa Marta, Colombia, in October 2019. The 62 revised full papers and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 178 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: computer science; computational intelligence; bioengineering; Internet of things; power applications; simulation systems; optimization.
This book explores how local social organization and cohesion enable covert and overt nonviolent strategies.
Aquél que mata a otro para defenderse a sí mismo o a un tercero actúa en legítima defensa. A simple vista parece sencillo evaluar cuándo esta figura cobija la conducta de una persona y cuándo no lo hace. Pero, como en todo, hay situaciones grises, difusas, hay casos en los que la configuración de la legítima defensa no se establece en el primer nivel de análisis sino después de un examen profundo de las circunstancias concretas en las que tienen lugar los hechos. Este es el caso de las mujeres tiranizadas que matan a sus parejas-agresoras en situaciones donde no hay confrontación. Por un lado, ellas cometen un acto típico de matar que, dependiendo de las diferentes regulaciones p...
Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005), winner of the prestigious Cervantes prize, is one of the most important Latin American writers of the twentieth century. This commemorative collection consists of articles by nine scholars reflecting upon the postmodern nature of the Paraguayan author s literary production and his place in world literature. The volume includes articles on the author s screenplays, his masterpiece, the dictator novel I The Supreme, his short stories, feminist approaches to Roa Bastos s novels, reflections on the writer s Guarani poetry, and a study of the complex, intertextual relationships between his novel El fiscal and his other texts.
CONTENIDO: Móviles de la escritura femenina - Mentalidades y primeras voces de mujer en la narrativa colombiana - Narradoras destacadas - Cuatro ensayos de aproximación a la narrativa femenina colombiana - Recreación de la maliche en la pluma de Flor Romero - Locura mujer escritura en la cisterna, de Rocío Vélez de Piedrahita y en Misiá señora, de Albalucía Ángel - La prostitución en La novia oscura, de Laura Restrepo - Señora de la miel, de Fanny Buitrago y el autodescubrimiento del cuerpo femenino.