En la historia de Nicaragua, la mujer ha tenido una participación cuantitativa y cualitativamente mayor que en otras luchas. Más de 80 entrevistas con mujeres de todas las edades, condiciones sociales e integración política dan fe de su problemática, de su compromiso y de su insuperable combatividad.
In To Change the World, the legendary writer and poet Margaret Randall chronicles her decade in Cuba from 1969 to 1980. Both a highly personal memoir and an examination of the revolution's great achievements and painful mistakes, the book paints a portrait of the island during a difficult, dramatic, and exciting time. Randall gives readers an inside look at her children's education, the process through which new law was enacted, the ins and outs of healthcare, employment, internationalism, culture, and ordinary people's lives. She explores issues of censorship and repression, describing how Cuban writers and artists faced them. She recounts one of the country's last beauty pageants, shows us a night of People's Court, and takes us with her when she shops for her family's food rations. Key figures of the revolution appear throughout, and Randall reveals aspects of their lives never before seen. More than fifty black and white photographs, most by the author, add depth and richness to this astute and illuminating memoir. Written with a poet's ear, depicted with a photographer's eye, and filled with a feminist vision, To Change the Worldùneither an apology nor gratuitous...
Ordenar para controlar estudia comparativamente las estructuras del ordenamiento espacial y político en las llanuras del caribe (provincias coloniales de Cartagena y Santa Marta) y en los Andes centrales (provincia de Santafé y antigua jurisdicción de la ciudad de Tunja). Analiza los procesos económicos, sociales y políticos experimentados en estas dos grandes regiones durante el siglo XVIII, basándose en la consulta de documentos del Archivo General de la Nación en Bogotá y del Archivo General de Indias en Sevilla, para aproximarse a la especificidad de los complejos procesos regionales y loca les que se vivían en cada una de las regiones consideradas. Resalta la importancia de las formas de organización espacial y política vigentes en las áreas rurales y su articulación con los centros urbanos de los que dependían jurisdiccional mente. El texto busca dimensionar la importancia social y política de un ordenamiento espacial, cuyo sentido y alcance se oculta tras la familiaridad y naturalidad con la que se lo percibe. Se trata de una forma de ordenamiento que tiende a pasar desapercibida, porque el espacio, más que manifestarse abiertamente como lo hace el tiempo,...
Hacía tiempo que me venía rondando la idea de escribir algo informal de los hechos, historias, cuentos, hablillas y sucesos o correveidilerías más simples, insulsas o carentes de interés específico que en algún tiempo de mi niñez, juventud o senectud he vivido o escuchado, de los chismes que en plan informal en reuniones, en especial los que se contaban en las tardes-noches de barbería en mi casa, por aquellos buenos hombres que venían a afeitarse y cortarse el pelo. Así mismo, quería contar aquellos dichos o sucedidos que de una u otra manera he oído o vivido, o he inventado, y que haya creído tengan algún interés, aunque sólo sea el del simple relato, el del placer de su escritura, y nada más.
This book, rooted in the disciplines of theology and peace studies, reflects with and on war-affected communities in Colombia about transitioning from violence to peace. It argues that much that is significant for peace- building in situations of war escapes the notice of governments, human rights organizations, and academics because it is accomplished through a kind of agency they do not recognize. This book names that agency as constructive agency under duress and demonstrates its significance for peacebuilding by reflecting on a form that the author has seen operating in Colombia over nearly two decades.
Esta obra examina los códigos y rituales inscritos en el amor romántico entre las élites letradas neogranadinas de mediados del siglo XIX. A partir de la lectura de correspondencia personal e intimista de miembros de la burguesía de la época, la autora arguye que los cambios en la esfera privada e íntima, que incluyen aspectos como la construcción de masculinidades y feminidades, la escogencia de pareja matrimonial, los valores morales y la construcción de la subjetividad —asociada con el impacto del Romanticismo— fueron concurrentes con los procesos políticos que vivía el país. Este libro ofrece una interpretación diferente de la historia de Bogotá en el siglo XIX, que se ubica dentro de una extensa historiografía, desarrollada mayormente fuera de América Latina, referida a la historia de las emociones y de la cultura de la sensibilidad.
La conquista del Nuevo Mundo trajo grandes beneficios para los países colonizadores que, a través de nuevas instituciones como el sistema colonial y sus haciendas, latifundios y plantaciones pudieron atender sus demandas de alimentos, materias primas y acumulación de capital. En América, no obstante, este sistema colonial resultó ser una economía dependiente de la explotación, que introdujo la expropiación de tierras de las comunidades indígenas, proceso para el cual se utilizaron mecanismos de fuerza y violencia como la esclavitud indígena, el incendio de pueblos, la destrucción de sus frágiles o complejas economías, las violaciones de mujeres y la fundación de pueblos e instituciones que consagraron el saqueo de metales preciosos. No sorprende, por lo tanto, que estos procesos derivaran en confrontaciones sociales y profundos cambios ecológicos. Este libro estudia los problemas propios del sistema colonial en la Nueva Granada, donde surgieron haciendas de ganados, caña de azúcar, cacao, trigo, con cuyos productos se atendían mercados urbanos, regionales e internacionales a una escala menor. Esta obra examina también la operación propia de estas haciendas, las ...
In 1969, poet and revolutionary Margaret Randall was forced underground when the Mexican government cracked down on all those who took part in the 1968 student movement. Needing to leave the country, she sent her four young children alone to Cuba while she scrambled to find safe passage out of Mexico. In I Never Left Home, Randall recounts her harrowing escape and the other extraordinary stories from her life and career. From living among New York's abstract expressionists in the mid-1950s as a young woman to working in the Nicaraguan Ministry of Culture to instill revolutionary values in the media during the Sandinista movement, the story of Randall's life reads like a Hollywood production. Along the way, she edited a bilingual literary journal in Mexico City, befriended Cuban revolutionaries, raised a family, came out as a lesbian, taught college, and wrote over 150 books. Throughout it all, Randall never wavered from her devotion to social justice. When she returned to the United States in 1984 after living in Latin America for twenty-three years, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service ordered her to be deported for her “subversive writing.” Over the next five...
The effect of Saint Domingue's decolonization on the wider Atlantic world The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic. Its repercussions ranged from the world commodity markets to the imagination of poets, from the council chambers of the great powers to slave quarters in Virginia and Brazil and most points in between. Sharing attention with such tumultuous events as the French Revolution and the Napoleonic War, Haiti's fifteen-year struggle for racial equality, slave emancipation, and colonial independence challenged notions about racial hierarchy that were gaining legitimacy in an Atlantic world dominated by Europeans and the slave trade. The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World explores the multifarious influence—from economic to ideological to psychological—that a revolt on a small Caribbean island had on the continents surrounding it. Fifteen international scholars, including eminent historians David Brion Davis, Seymour Drescher, and Robin Blackburn, explicate such diverse ramifications as the spawning of slave resistance and the stimulation of slavery's...
Presented as the authentic testimony of the disenfranchised, the colonized, and the oppressed, testimonio has in the last two decades emerged as one of the most significant genres of Latin America's post-boom literature. In the political battles that have taken place around the formation of the canon, the testimonio holds a special place: no other single genre of literature has taken up such a large part of current debate. Initially hailed in the 1970s as a genuine form of resistance literature, testimonio has since undergone a significant change in its critical reception. The essays in The Real Thing analyze the testimonio, its history, and its place in contemporary consciousness. Although the literature of testimony arose on the margins of institutional power and its ends were in large part political change, the canonization of testimonio by the academic Left has moved it from margin to center, ironically bringing about the institutionalization of its transgressive and counter-hegemonic qualities. Discussing Latin American works ranging from Salvadorian writer Roque Dalton's Miguel Marmol to I . . . Rigoberta Menchu, a work that earned its author a Nobel Prize, this collection...
By excerpting from letters she exchanged with five irreverent writers and artists, Margaret Randall constructs conversations that open windows on four pivotal moments in her life and on world events. This correspondence touches on important themes, such as social change, identity, art, and creative integrity—issues that were relevant then and remain so today. The letters are sometimes philosophical, sometimes intimate, and deal with family life as well as major creative projects, including literary political publishing, often taken on against daunting odds. Society continuously tries to subsume or shape influential rebel minds to its interests. Every generation has those who will not allow themselves to be silenced or controlled. This book is exciting evidence of this. Chapters: I. Walter Lowenfels: A Poet Who Laughed at Time II. Laurette Séjourné: A Woman with Pick and Shovel and Arnaldo Orfila: A Man Who Filled a Century III. Susan Sherman: A Woman Before Her Time IV. Greg Smith: A Painter Who Listens to Silence
Insightfully links the impact of U.S. foreign policy on the people of Latin America, the female voice in art and literature, and the need to break the silence around incest and other abuse.
The Cuban revolutionary government engaged in social engineering to redefine the nuclear family and organize citizens to serve the state.
Do miracles like those found in the pages of the Bible still happen today? Mabel Tupper didn’t think so. She was sure that the Bible miracles were true, but she didn’t think God acted in that way anymore. Then one night at a conference Mabel found herself listening to a little old woman share about some angels who had walked beside her the previous week! Mabel tucked that story away in her heart for several years. Little by little, and then more and more often, she heard stories of people who experienced direct answers to prayer in their times of need, often through the involvement of angels. Each story was carefully filed away. By the time Mabel retired, she had fat file folders full of stories proving that God still intervenes in the lives of His servants here on earth. Angels at Pincher Creek contains many of the stories that filled those folders. As you read, you will marvel at God’s providence and protection in the lives of His children around the globe.
A feminist perspective on the War on Terror from one of the country's most important elders.
Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
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