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A luminous history of Cuba’s most dynamic and defining rituals and the ever-improvisational character of Cuban culture In the Cuban town of Sagua la Grande, a young Roberto González Echevarría peers out the window of his family home on the morning of the Nochebuena fiesta as preparations begin for the slaughter of a feast day pig. The author recalls “watching them at a distance, though thinking, fearing, that once I grew older I would have to participate in the whole event.” Now an acclaimed scholar of Latin American literature, González Echevarría returns to the rituals that defined his young life in Cuban Fiestas. Drawing from art, literature, film, and even the national sport of...
This book provides a transversal scholarly exploration of the multiple changes exhibited around Venezuelan media during the Chávez regime. Bringing together a body of original research by key scholars in the field, the book looks at the different processes entailed by Chavismo’s relationship with the media, extending their discussion beyond the boundaries of the specific cases or examples and into the entire articulation of a nearly-perfect communicational hegemony. It explores the wide-ranging transformations in the national mediascape, such as how censorship of journalistic endeavors has impacted news consumption/production in the country to the complexities of Venezuelan filmmaking dur...
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Compilación de textos escritos por distintos pensadores y pensadoras que reflexionan en torno a la obra de Pablo Oyarzún, destacado ensayista, traductor y filósofo chileno.
La trayectoria poética de Rafael Cadenas (Barquisimeto, Venezuela, 1930) presenta una extrema coherencia en la que se engarzan de forma sucesiva los diferentes libros de poemas junto con los ensayos, que en su mayor parte han servido para apoyar sus temas o incidir en los aspectos tratados, dialogando de forma visible con su poesía, con lo que constituyen una especie de summa literaria. No es posible, por tanto, hablar de una doble faceta en su trayectoria como autor de libros poéticos y de ensayos, más bien todo se traba en torno a la palabra, todo tiene que ver de algún modo con la poesía. Casos evidentes son los de Realidad y literatura (1979), Anotaciones (1983), En torno al lengua...