La Mansion de Araucaima y otros relatos
Title | La Mansion de Araucaima y otros relatos PDF eBook |
Author | Álvaro Mutis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789581801275 |
Prison Writing of Latin America
Title | Prison Writing of Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Joey Whitfield |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2018-07-26 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1501334603 |
What happens inside Latin American prisons? How does the social organisation of prisoners relate to the political structures beyond the walls? Is it possible to resist corrupt penal regimes? In Prison Writing of Latin America, Joey Whitfield turns to those best placed to answer these questions: people who have been imprisoned themselves. Drawing on a century of material produced by Latin American prisoners from Mexico, Cuba, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil, Whitfield weaves readings of novels, memoirs and testimonial texts with social and political analysis. Rather than distinguishing between dictatorial and democratic periods of government, he shows that from the point of view of the prisoner, all states are authoritarian in nature. In the face of oppression, however, prisoners both 'political' and 'criminal' have found ways not only to resist but also to create alternative communities both real and imagined, sometimes in collaboration with each other.
The Adventures of Maqroll
Title | The Adventures of Maqroll PDF eBook |
Author | Alvaro Mutis |
Publisher | Perennial |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 1996-01 |
Genre | Maqroll, el Gaviero (Fictitious character) |
ISBN | 9780060926878 |
Monographic Series
Title | Monographic Series PDF eBook |
Author | Library of Congress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 888 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Monographic series |
ISBN |
The Mansion
Title | The Mansion PDF eBook |
Author | Álvaro Mutis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
The Mansion is a series of poetic, linked stories of a fabulist nature by Latin America's esteemed Alvaro Mutis. In The Mansion Mutis introduces the odd characters who inhabit a large house on a coffee plantation owned by the distateful Don Graci, and relates the unfortunate events which force its abandonment."
National Union Catalog
Title | National Union Catalog PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1032 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Catalogs, Union |
ISBN |
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Literature, Testimony and Cinema in Contemporary Colombian Culture
Title | Literature, Testimony and Cinema in Contemporary Colombian Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Rory O'Bryen |
Publisher | Tamesis Books |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Memory and mourning in Colombia. This book provides the first in-depth examination of a representative range of contemporary Colombian cultural engagements with the conflicts known simply as La Violencia that began in Colombia in the late 1940s. These include Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazábal's now classic revision of the 'novela de la Violencia', the autobiographical cycle of acclaimed author Fernando Vallejo, versions of the testimonio by Alfredo Molano and internationally renowned novelist Laura Restrepo, as well as cinematic works by Carlos Mayolo and Luis Ospina. These cultural icons, many of whom are remarkably understudied, show how the heterogeneity of social and cultural processes condensed in La Violencia demands a deconstruction of 'violence' in Colombian culture. This argument is developed in dialogue with European and Latin American cultural theory and contributes to theoretical debates surrounding issues of memory and mourning developed in other Latin American contexts. The narratives explored in this book provide alternatives to abstract historicism and show us how to imagine ways out of deeply rooted cycles of violence. Yet their insistence on haunting and spectres signals the problems besetting the task of mourning in Colombia, positing history rather than psychology as a remainder that troubles efforts to forge collective memories and enact social reconciliation. RORY O'BRYEN lectures in Latin American literature and culture at the University of Cambridge.