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Daughters of the Diaspora
Daughters of the Diaspora features the creative writing of 20 Hispanophone women of African descent, as well as the interpretive essays of 15 literary critics. The collection is unique in its combination of genres, including poetry, short stories, essays, excerpts from novels and personal narratives, many of which are being translated into English for the first time. They address issues of ethnicity, sexuality, social class and self-representation and in so doing shape a revolutionary discourse that questions and subverts historical assumptions and literary conventions. Miriam DeCosta-Willis's comprehensive Introduction, biographical sketches of the authors and their chronological arrangement within the text, provide an accessible history of the evolution of an Afra-Hispanic literary tradition in the Caribbean, Africa and Latin America. The book will be useful as textbook in courses in Africana Studies, Women's Studies, Caribbean, Latina and Latin American Studies as well as courses in literature and the humanities.
Interventions
The editors are committed to destroying perceptions and stereotypes of third world women as passive victims who need to be "liberated" by Western feminists. The essays address cases in which women have challenged and resisted the political formations-nationalist struggles, revolutions, religious fundamentalist practices, and authoritarian regimes-that shape their daily lives. Each critic presents a close reading of the circumstances under which the feminist writers and film-makers.
Targeted: Beirut
Based on comprehensive interviews with survivors, extensive military records, as well as personal letters, diaries and photographs, the full story is revealed behind the deadly truck bomb that exploded at the U.S. Marine Corp barracks in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983.
Latinocanadá
A burgeoning new branch of Hispanic literature, Latino-Canadian writing is now becoming part of the Canadian and Quebec literary traditions. Latinocanadá, a critical anthology, examines the work of Hispanic writers who have settled in Canada over the past thirty years and includes newly translated selections of their work.
Philosophy and Literature in Latin America
Philosophy and Literature in Latin America presents a unique and original view of the current state of development in Latin America of two disciplines that are at the core of the humanities. Divided into two parts, each section explores the contributions of distinguished American and Latin American experts and authors. The section on literature includes the literary activities of Latin Americans working in the United States, an area in which very little research has been demonstrated and, for that reason, will add an interesting new dimension to the field of Latin American studies.
Dragons in the Land of the Condor
"The book considers the influence of a Chinese ethnic background or lack thereof in the writing of several twentieth and twenty-first century Sino-Peruvian authors"--
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Sodan jaloista kouluun ja maailmalle
Oili Sarja kertoo kirjassaan lapsuudestaan sodan aikana ja kouluelämästä sen jälkeen. Hyvät ystävät ja iloiset leikit korvasivat tuolloin sen aineellisen pulan, mihin maamme oli sodan johdosta joutunut. Oili oli Kiikoisissa sotaa paossa talvisodan pahimman ajan kevättalvella 1944. Hän kävi Kruunuhaan valmistavan koulun jälkeen Tyttönormaalilyseota ja pääsi sieltä ylioppilaaksi 1956. Kirjassa kerrotaan paitsi koulun opetusohjelmasta, myös mielenkiintoisista opettajista. Oili liittyi siihen joukkoon, joka jo ennen rippikouluikää alkoi käydä seurakuntien nuorisotyön järjestämissä tilaisuuksissa. Erityisen lämpöisiä ajatuksia hänessä herättävät muistot seurakunnan...
