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Otra Mirada A Una Sola Muerte Numerosa: Las Memorias De Género Y De Victimización Femenina, Beatrice J. Nichols 2013 Wittenberg University

Otra Mirada A Una Sola Muerte Numerosa: Las Memorias De Género Y De Victimización Femenina, Beatrice J. Nichols

La BloGoteca de Babel

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Gramáticas De La Luz: El Trabajo De Memoria Y Post Memoria En El Documental Chileno, Craig Osterbrock 2013 Wittenberg University

Gramáticas De La Luz: El Trabajo De Memoria Y Post Memoria En El Documental Chileno, Craig Osterbrock

La BloGoteca de Babel

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La Representación De La Memoria Traumática En La Vida Doble Y Mi Verdad, Alison Tange 2013 Loyola University Chicago

La Representación De La Memoria Traumática En La Vida Doble Y Mi Verdad, Alison Tange

La BloGoteca de Babel

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Archiveras Anarquistas: Corporal Testimony In The Work Of Diamela Eltit, Megan L. Corbin 2013 West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Archiveras Anarquistas: Corporal Testimony In The Work Of Diamela Eltit, Megan L. Corbin

Languages & Cultures Faculty Publications

There exists a constant within the trajectory of Diamela Eltit’s contributions to New Chilean Fiction: the turn to the body’s revelatory capacity as a corporal archive of human existence. Simultaneously exploring and rejecting the confines of the traditional testimonial reliance on language, Eltit moves the reader to a reconsideration of the truth-telling function of the biological materiality of the body, placing imperfect corporalities on display as a means of speaking, even where the voice itself may falter. This essay locates Eltit’s move to the corporal within the trajectory of feminist criticism, the traumatic realities of the Chilean dictatorship and post-dictatorship …


Criollismo Femenino Y Mestizaje En Mah Rap De Malín D’Echevers, Claudia García 2013 University of Nebraska at Omaha

Criollismo Femenino Y Mestizaje En Mah Rap De Malín D’Echevers, Claudia García

Foreign Languages and Literature Faculty Publications

Este ensayo propone una lectura de Mah Rap (1946) de la guatemalteca Malín D’Echevers, que articula l novela con la teosofía, el regeneracionismo y el feminismo moderado de la época, mostrando cómo la autora constituye una versión femenina del criollismo. A partir del cruce de este género con elementos de la novela sentimental y la hist6rica, y recurriendo a elementos autobiograficos que determinan una cercanía personal o familiar con el material histórico así como una simpatía interior con el mundo indígena plasmados en la novela, D’Echevers se desvía de los tópicos del criollismo masculino e inscribe la progresiva incursión femenina …


[Introduction To] Aprendices, Fabriqueras Y Obreros: El Trabajo Industrial En La Narrativa Argentina Del Siglo Xx (1930-2007), Karina Elizabeth Vázquez 2013 University of Richmond

[Introduction To] Aprendices, Fabriqueras Y Obreros: El Trabajo Industrial En La Narrativa Argentina Del Siglo Xx (1930-2007), Karina Elizabeth Vázquez

Bookshelf

El tema central de este libro es la relación entre trabajo, literatura y cultura tal como ésta aparece representada en las figuraciones literarias del trabajo industrial. No obstante, la propuesta analítica de la autora va más allá de los aspectos narratológicos de los textos estudiados e indaga el conjunto de discursos socioculturales y políticos sobre la historia argentina de los últimos setenta años con los cuales los discursos literarios y críticos han estado en continuo diálogo. Las experiencias de ascenso social, el ingreso masivo de las mujeres al mercado de trabajo, la incorporación de los asalariados al escenario político, el …


From Mounds To Maps To Models: Visualizing Ancient Architecture Across Landscapes, Heather Richards-Rissetto 2013 University of Nebraska-Lincoln

From Mounds To Maps To Models: Visualizing Ancient Architecture Across Landscapes, Heather Richards-Rissetto

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Since the onset of settlement pattern studies in the 1950s, landscape mapping projects have become an archaeological mainstay. Remote sensing technologies such as lidar, photogrammetry, and SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) steadily reveal new archaeological sites. For landscape archaeology, the detection and mapping of small architectural complexes and households offers important data to contextualize larger (often already known) sites and perform regional analyses. However, because the majority of sites remain unexcavated, analysis is limited, and yet Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and 3D Visualization are expanding the possible uses for older and newly-acquired data on unexcavated mounds. This paper describes a GIS …


Language, Politics, And History: An Introductory Essay, José del Valle 2013 CUNY Graduate Center

Language, Politics, And History: An Introductory Essay, José Del Valle

Publications and Research

This book chapter examines different articulations of language and history and introduces a new configuration that focuses on the political dimension of language.


El Futuro Del Quechua En El Perú: ¿Se Puede Revitalizar?, Sarah Dowman 2013 Bowling Green State University

El Futuro Del Quechua En El Perú: ¿Se Puede Revitalizar?, Sarah Dowman

La BloGoteca de Babel

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Poetas Bandidos, Zen Masters Nuyorican Y Crevice-Makers Decoloniales – ¡Oh My! Una Exploración Interseccional Del Arte Y La Política Nuyorican, Caroline Shipley 2013 Bowling Green State University

Poetas Bandidos, Zen Masters Nuyorican Y Crevice-Makers Decoloniales – ¡Oh My! Una Exploración Interseccional Del Arte Y La Política Nuyorican, Caroline Shipley

La BloGoteca de Babel

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From The Editor: Who Are Our Ancestors?, Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez 2013 DePaul University

From The Editor: Who Are Our Ancestors?, Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez

Diálogo

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From The Guest Thematic Editor: True Interdisciplinarity, Peter Casarella 2013 DePaul University

From The Guest Thematic Editor: True Interdisciplinarity, Peter Casarella

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The Resurrection Project Of Mexican Catholic Chicago: Spiritual Activism And Liberating Praxis, Karen Mary Davalos 2013 Loyola Marymount University

The Resurrection Project Of Mexican Catholic Chicago: Spiritual Activism And Liberating Praxis, Karen Mary Davalos

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Faith And Family For Early Mexican Immigrants To Chicago: The Diary Of Elidia Barroso, Deborah Kanter, Elidia Barroso 2013 Albion College

Faith And Family For Early Mexican Immigrants To Chicago: The Diary Of Elidia Barroso, Deborah Kanter, Elidia Barroso

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Latino-Indigenous Influence On U.S. Catholicism In Demetria Martínez's Confessions Of A Berlitz-Tape Chicana, Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez 2013 DePaul University

Latino-Indigenous Influence On U.S. Catholicism In Demetria Martínez's Confessions Of A Berlitz-Tape Chicana, Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez

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The ideas presented by New Mexico novelist-writer Demetria Martínez in her collection of columns, Confessions of a Berlitz-tape Chicana, explore how she espouses and represents Latino Catholicism, applied as a practice rooted in indigenous culture merged with Catholic imagery during the colonial era. Her writing and stances indicate that Latino Catholicism is built on principles of community and social justice. Critical commentary is drawn from Chicana/o writers and recent texts on Mexican-American spirituality.


La Tradición Conchera: Historical Process Of Danza And Catholicism, Jennie Luna 2013 New Mexico State University

La Tradición Conchera: Historical Process Of Danza And Catholicism, Jennie Luna

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La Tradición Conchera (Conchero tradition), often used synonymously with Danza Azteca (Aztec Dance), has profound and complex roots connected to both an indigenous and colonial trajectory. This article presents a concise map of this history and the ties to the Catholic Church, which has been both a process of syncretism and synergy. The syncretism of Indigenous world views with the Catholic Church has had elements of preservation and decimation as demonstrated within the complex history of Danza. This article focuses on the Post-Cuauhtémoc origins of Danza (dances) and its relationship with the Church, State, and Indigenous communities.


An Archbishop's View On Immigration And Social Justice, Rubén Franco 2013 DePaul University

An Archbishop's View On Immigration And Social Justice, Rubén Franco

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Between The Chac Mool And The Chalice: An Art Exhibit At Depaul University, Eric J. Garcia 2013 DePaul University

Between The Chac Mool And The Chalice: An Art Exhibit At Depaul University, Eric J. Garcia

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The Storm And Mom's Prayers, Or How I Lost My Religion, Arthur Ramírez 2013 DePaul University

The Storm And Mom's Prayers, Or How I Lost My Religion, Arthur Ramírez

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Cream Puff Pipe Dreams, Mary Helen Pérez 2013 DePaul University

Cream Puff Pipe Dreams, Mary Helen Pérez

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