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Revolution! Captured by Emiliano Zapata's marauding peasant army, young Barbara Ryan unexpectedly becomes the "Tiger of the South's" good-luck charm. They ride together into battle, defeating powerful enemies and escaping death time and time again. But can the unlikely duo survive the threats from within their own ranks? Based on true events in the life of the author's grandmother and set in old Mexico during one of the great revolutionary upheavals of the 20th century, this story has something for everyone – madness and bravery, treachery and gallantry, promise and despair.
Within queer, transgender, and Latinx and Chicanx cultural politics, brown transgender narratives are frequently silenced and erased. Brown trans subjects are treated as deceptive, unnatural, nonexistent, or impossible, their bodies, lives, and material circumstances represented through tropes and used as metaphors. Restoring personhood and agency to these subjects, Francisco J. Galarte advances “brown trans figuration” as a theoretical framework to describe how transness and brownness coexist within the larger queer, trans, and Latinx historical experiences. Brown Trans Figurations presents a collection of representations that reveal the repression of brown trans narratives and make tha...
This volume presents current research in the formal treatment of linguistic phenomena in the Romance languages. It focuses on a variety of issues in phonology, second language acquisition, semantics, and syntax. Topics in phonological theory include the analysis of geminates, assimilation, rhotics, aspiration, syllabification, the interaction of phonology with morphology, the phonology-phonetics interface, and issues of transderivation and allomorphy selection. The primary question addressed in the area of second language acquisition theory is the issue of learners' access to Universal Grammar. The studies in semantic theory examine the proper analysis of indefinites, bare plurals, and specificity, with a particular emphasis on the syntax-semantics interface. Finally, the essays on syntactic theory discuss issues pertaining to argument structure, functional projections, phrase structure and adjunction, feature checking, and the syntactic representation of tense.
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.
The first essays in this volume locate Latin America within the postmodernism debate by addressing both its position in the theory of the postmodern and the peripheral existence of the continent in light of the globalizing practices of the contemporary world. The next essays focus on the Caribbean and elements of the formation of identity and culture in a group of societies belonging to the same geographic region but confronted with the idiosyncrasies of their colonial histories, the problematics of race and language, and their relation to the politics and cultures of metropolitan powers. There are three essays concerned with re-readings of the first encounters between Europe and America and...
Las raíces del realismo mágico en los escritos de Borges y otros autores de América Latina han sido ampliamente reconocidos y bien documentadas produciendo una serie de estudios críticos, muchos de los cuales figuran en la bibliografía de este trabajo. Dentro de este marco, este libro presenta a los lectores una variedad de escritoras de grupos étnicos, conocidas y menos conocidas, y las coloca en un contexto literario en el que se tratan tanto a nivel individual como escritoras así como a nivel colectivo como parte de un movimiento artístico más amplio. Este libro es el resultado del trabajo realizado en las universidades de Sheffield y la de València y representa una valiosa investigación y una importante contribución a los estudios literarios.