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Comics is...: Debating the Subject of Comics Studies

Autor: Martin Lund

Número de Páginas: 240

Taking the contested and contestable meaning of “comics” as its starting point, Comics is… brings together ten comics scholars from different disciplines and with different approaches to what some of us call comics, to debate and discuss the foundations of Comics Studies in a provocative and thought-provoking way. The book is built around a three-part structure: each contributor writes a sentence or brief statement, starting from the prompt “Comics is…”; a colleague replies to the statement with a reflection, critique, or application of the statement or the position it advances; and, finally, the author of the statement responds to the reply in a brief essay. Through its dialogical format, the book is likely to spark new conversations in the field; the statement–response–reply format will illustrate that the ways we think as comics scholars are processual, and any reader will find things they agree and disagree with in its pages - and, more importantly, will find occasion to reevaluate their own thinking. Furthermore, when taken together, the “Comics is…” statements along with the responses and replies provide a barometer of the state of Comics Studies at...

Sojourner Truth

Autor: Mary Butler

Número de Páginas: 126

Profiles the life of Sojourner Truth, born a slave and later freed, as she fought for equal rights for African Americans and woman.

El fracaso del mestizo

Autor: Pedro Ángel Palou

Número de Páginas: 270

El fracaso del mestizo indaga en el cine mexicano, desde Santa hasta Amores perros, con Los olvidados de por medio , y también en la narrativa, en un recorrido que parte de Al filo del agua y pasa por Pedro Páramo y Balún Canán para llegar a La región más transparente y cuestionar el tema más espinoso de nuestro siglo XX: la identidad. El proyecto cultural del Estado mexicano es así desmontado ladrillo a ladrillo para revelar el fracaso del mestizaje y el rencor del mestizo, acaso su más patente legado en nuestros días.

Lucero

Número de Páginas: 368

Multiculturalisme / Mondialisation

Número de Páginas: 144

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States

Número de Páginas: 592

Presents volume two of the four-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, and contains a number of A to Z articles on topics such as identity, art, politics, religion, education, health, and history. health, and history.

The British National Bibliography

Autor: Arthur James Wells

Número de Páginas: 2744

Fait et fiction

Autor: Françoise Lavocat

Número de Páginas: 644

Les frontières entre fait et fiction, réalité et imaginaire, ont la réputation d’être désormais brouillées. Pourquoi les défendre ? Parce qu’elles sont une nécessité cognitive, conceptuelle et politique ; parce que leur disparition élimine le plaisir de passer d’un monde à l’autre. Françoise Lavocat propose ici de repenser les frontières de la fiction dans la littérature, le cinéma, le théâtre et les jeux vidéo.La première ambition de son livre réside dans le bilan très complet qu’il dresse des controverses anciennes et récentes sur le statut de la fiction dans les domaines de la théorie littéraire, du droit, de la psychanalyse et des sciences cognitives. À la faveur des ces éclairages multiples, l’ouvrage prend notamment en compte le phénomène du storytelling, l’histoire des rapports entre Histoire et poésie, la question du blasphème. Le parti pris de distinction qu’il adopte, tout en défendant l’idée d’une hybridité essentielle de la fiction, en constitue le second intérêt et la stimulante nouveauté. Les conditions de possibilité d’une culture de la fiction sont interrogées, ainsi que ses limites. Le point de vue...

Encyclopedia Latina

Autor: Ilan Stavans , Harold Augenbraum

Número de Páginas: 498

In its four volumes, 650 entries, 2000 pages and 1.2 million words, Encyclopedia Latina explores every aspect of Latino life in America from a myriad of perspectives, spanning the arts, media, cuisine, government and politics, science and technology, business, health, and sports, among others. While the collection represents an important cultural point of reference and source of pride for Latino youth, it will also serve the interests of an increasingly diverse American population who can all relate to the themes and stories included in this resource.

The Borderlands

Autor: Andrew Grant Wood

Número de Páginas: 352

Presents alphabetically arranged entries on issues concerning the U.S. southwestern states and northern Mexican states that share a common border, covering such topics as "coyotes" who help smuggle illegal aliens across the border, to the Minutemen, American volunteers who patrol the border, to the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The Hispanic American Historical Review

Número de Páginas: 504

Includes "Bibliographical section".

Brown Gumshoes

Autor: Ralph Edward Rodriguez

Número de Páginas: 216

Winner, Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies, 2006 Popular fiction, with its capacity for diversion, can mask important cultural observations within a framework that is often overlooked in the academic world. Works thought to be merely "escapist" can often be more seriously mined for revelations regarding the worlds they portray, especially those of the disenfranchised. As detective fiction has slowly earned critical respect, more authors from minority groups have chosen it as their medium. Chicana/o authors, previously reluctant to write in an underestimated genre that might further marginalize them, have only entered the world of detective fiction in the past two decades. In this book, the first comprehensive study of Chicano/a detective fiction, Ralph E. Rodriguez examines the recent contributions to the genre by writers such as Rudolfo Anaya, Lucha Corpi, Rolando Hinojosa, Michael Nava, and Manuel Ramos. Their works reveal the struggles of Chicanas/os with feminism, homosexuality, familia, masculinity, mysticism, the nationalist subject, and U.S.-Mexico border relations. He maintains that...

Pluma Fronteriza

Número de Páginas: 124

Publications of the Modern Language Association of America

Número de Páginas: 938

St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture

Autor: Tom Pendergast , Sara Pendergast

Número de Páginas: 440

Contains essays that provide information on various elements of popular culture in the United States during the twentieth century, covering the major areas of film, music, print culture, social life, sports, television and radio, and art and performance. Arranged alphabetically from A-to-D.

Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors & Literary Agents

Autor: Jeff Herman

Número de Páginas: 948

A guide to the names and specialities of American and Canadian publishers, editors, and literary agents includes information on the acquisition process and on choosing literary agents.

The Letters That Never Came

Autor: Mauricio Rosencof , Ilan Stavans

Número de Páginas: 132

The story of longing and hope in the life of a Jewish boy and his family in 1930s Uruguay.

Dreaming of the Delta

Autor: Perla Suez

Número de Páginas: 140

"Argentine novel set during the Proceso de reorganizacion nacional; an experimental thriller that focuses on secrecy, betrayal, and violence and reflects the national struggle for power and control through the servants in a mansion in the Entre Rios region."--Provided by publisher"

The War in Bom Fim

Autor: Moacyr Scliar

Número de Páginas: 152

"Through the local children's imaginative fantasy of a pretend war, tells the story of the day-to-day survival of Jews in Porto Alegre, Brazil, during World War II. The first novel by Brazilian-Jewish author Moacyr Scliar; translated by David William Foster"--Provided by publisher.