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Medicine, Power, and the Authoritarian Regime in Hispanic Literature
This book offers a substantial examination of how contemporary authors deal with the complex legacies of authoritarian regimes in various Spanish-speaking countries. It does so by focusing on works that explore an under-studied aspect: the reliance of authoritarian power on medical notions for political purposes. From the Porfirian regime in Mexico to Castro’s Cuba, this book describes how such regimes have sought to seize medical knowledge to support propagandistic ideas and marginalize their opponents in ways that transcend specific pathologies, political ideologies, and geographical and temporal boundaries. Medicine, Power, and the Authoritarian Regime in Hispanic Literature brings together the work of literary scholars, cultural critics, and historians of medicine, arguing that contemporary authors have actively challenged authoritarian narratives of medicine and disease. In doing so, they continue to re-examine the place of these regimes in the collective memory of Latin America and Spain.
Untold Microcosms
Collection, colonialism, translation, and the ephemera that shapes the stories we tell about ourselves. Featuring new original works by: Yásnaya Elena Aguilar, Cristina Rivera Garza, Joseph Zárate, Juan Cárdenas, Velia Vidal, Lina Meruane, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Dolores Reyes, Carlos Fonseca, Djamila Ribeiro The Central and South American collection at the British Museum collections contains approximately 62,000 objects, spanning 10,000 years of human history. The vast majority cannot be displayed, and those objects are the subject of Untold Microcosms , a collection of ten stories from ten Latin American writers, and inspired by the narratives about our past that we create through museums, in spite of their gaps and disarticulations.
Explorers Dreamers and Thieves
Explorers, Dreamers and Thieves is an adventure through memory and archives. This book is an exercise in invention that emerges from the complex history of encounter between Europe and the Americas. Following the success of Untold Microcosms – which saw ten Latin American authors write stories inspired by objects from their countries held by the British Museum – the curatorial team at the Museum and at Hay Festival have joined forces again, this time with a slightly different proposal.Six writers – Selva Almada ,Rita Indiana ,Josefa Sánchez ,Philippe Sands ,Juan Gabriel Vásquez andGabriela Weiner – were invited to examine a series of ethnographic documents: a profusion of diaries, letters, drawings, thoughts and transactions, all referring to the acquisition of works for the collection. Using this material as a starting point, they were asked to imagine narratives about the people involved in bringing those pieces to the museum. The journey through these texts is not unlike the one that, in years past, was undertaken by the explorers, dreamers and thieves who serve as an inspiration for this book.
Towards a Feminist Translator Studies
This pioneering work advocates for a shift toward inclusivity in the UK translated literature landscape, investigating and challenging unconscious bias around women in translation and building on existing research highlighting the role of translators as activists and agents and the possibilities for these new theoretical models to contribute to meaningful industry change. The book sets out the context for the new subdiscipline of feminist translator studies, positing this as an essential mechanism to work towards diversity in the translated literature sector of the publishing industry. In a series of five case studies that each exemplify a key component of the feminist translator studies "to...
Fate
This novel focuses on a group of characters who are all in different ways endeavouring to take control of their fate. Their desire to lead a genuine existence forces them to confront difficult decisions, and to break out of comfortable routines.Karl and Marina have been together for ten years and have a young son, Simón. Karl is a German-born oboist at Argentina’s national orchestra, and Marina is a meteorologist. On a field trip, she meets fellow researcher Zárate, and what might have been just a fling starts to erode the foundations of her marriage. Then there is Amer, a dynamic and successful taxidermist. At a group therapy session for smokers, Amer falls for the younger Clara. While the relationship between Karl and Marina disintegrates, the love story between Amer and Clara is just beginning – or is it already at an end? One of Argentina’s leading contemporary writers, Jorge Consiglio portrays the inner worlds of these characters through the minute details of their everyday lives, laying bare their strivings and their frustrations with a wry gaze, and seeking in this close-up texture a deeper truth.
Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 76
Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas.
El mar de noche
Los relatos de El mar de noche se mueven en una zona fronteriza de la realidad donde lo cotidiano da paso a lo excepcional. No son relatos complacientes: la buena literatura es aquella que no se entrega con facilidad, pero que, en el proceso en que uno logra alcanzarla, termina siendo modificado por ella. Así son los cuentos de Adela Sánchez Avelino. El lector está llamado a interpretar un drama que sucede fuera de su mirada. Como esquirlas de un estallido que sucedió antes de comenzar, los personajes cargan con sus secretos, hablan con sobreentendidos, se esconden. El prodigio de Sánchez Avelino está en conseguir que esos silencios llenen las páginas con el rugido de un mar que no se ve, pero que se lo presiente fuerte, constante, imperecedero. Como su literatura.
Samsara
Una pareja emprende un viaje de un de semana a Carhué, provincia de Buenos Aires, para visitar a la familia de ella. En la casa los esperan los tíos y la abuela, a quienes él hasta entonces no conocía. Las escenas familiares de rigor ?almuerzos, juegos de cartas, programas de TV? se alternan con las excursiones por el pueblo, cuya mayor atracción son las termas y las ruinas de la inundación de 1985. Pero lo que en la superficie parece ser una simple escapada de un de semana o un viaje de visita familiar, se revela, bajo la mirada del narrador, como un viaje de introspección, al interior de una relación que parece haber perdido todo sentido, atrapada en lo habitual, lo ordinario. En ese devenir, la mirada del narrador va del extrañamiento a la cercanía, de la observación neutra a la cámara subjetiva, con el ritmo pausado que impone una suerte de apatía hiperatenta que simula dominarlo. Una historia mínima que desde una aparente quietud descompone los hechos cotidianos en breves estallidos que alcanzan con sus esquirlas las fibras más íntimas del lector.
Maelstrom
Gustavo está en Santiago de Compostela investigando la repercusión de la Guerra Civil Española en Bahía Blanca, más precisamente, cómo se organizó allí la ayuda a los republicanos. En un paseo por el parque de la Alameda, un pequeño jardín de helechos, el Jardín de Andrómeda, y una placa con siete nombres despiertan su curiosidad. Que una ciudad tan católica le dedique un jardín a un personaje de la mitología griega le pareció algo raro. Los nombres en la placa le hicieron pensar en víctimas de la guerra, en republicanos, sobre todo porque eran de diferentes nacionalidades. Pero al parecer nadie sabe nada al respecto, ni siquiera el jardinero del lugar, cuyo nombre, llamativ...
