The Film Archipelago - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Film Archipelago write by Antonio Gómez. This book was released on 2021-12-16. The Film Archipelago available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do the islands and archipelagos of the New World figure in Latin American cinema? Comprising 15 essays and a critical introduction, The Film Archipelago: Islands in Latin American Cinema addresses this question by examining a series of intersections between insular spaces and filmmaking in Latin America. The volume brings together international scholars and filmmakers to consider a diverse corpus of films about islands, films that take place on islands, films produced in islands, and films that problematise islands. The book explores a diverse range of films that extend from the Chilean documentaries of Patricio Guzmán to work on the Malvinas/Falkland Islands, and films by Argentine directors Gustavo Fontán and Lucrecia Martel. Chapters focus on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), the Mexican Islas Marías, and the Panamanian Caribbean; on ecocritical, environmental and film historical aspects of Brazilian and Argentine river islands; and on Cuban, Guadeloupean, Haitian, and Puerto Rican contexts. The Film Archipelago argues that the islands and archipelagos of Latin American cinema constitute a critically interesting, analytically complex, and historically suggestive angle to explore issues of marginality and peripherality, remoteness and isolation, and fragility and dependency. As a whole, the collection demonstrates to what extent the combined insular and archipelagic lens can re-frame and re-figure both longstanding and recent discussions on the spaces of Latin American cinema.
Affect, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
Affect, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Affect, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America write by Cecilia Macón. This book was released on 2021-03-27. Affect, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book emphasizes the significance of affects, feelings and emotions in how we think about politics, gender and sexuality in Latin America. Considering the complex and even contradictory social processes that the region is experiencing today, many Latin American authors are turning to affect to find a key to understand our present situation, to revisit our history, and to imagine new possibilities for the future. This tendency has shown such a specificity and sometimes departure from northern productions that it compels us to focus more deeply on its own arguments, methods, and critical contributions. This volume features essays that explore the particularities of Latin American ways of thinking about affect and how they can shed new light into our understanding of, gender, sexuality and politics.
Sweet Diamond Dust
Sweet Diamond Dust - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sweet Diamond Dust write by Rosario Ferre. This book was released on 1996-10-01. Sweet Diamond Dust available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rosario Ferre uses family history as a metaphor for the class struggles and political evolution of Latin America and Puerto Rico in this highly provacative, profound, and delightfully readable collection of stories. Originally published in Spanish under the title Maldito Amor ("Cursed Love"), Sweet Diamond Dust introduced American readers to a voice that is by turns lyrical and wickedly satiric. In this tale the De La Valle family's secrets, ambitions, and passions, interwoven with the fate of the local sugar mill, are recounted by various relatives, friends, and servants. As the characters struggle under the burden of privilege, the story, permeated with haunting echoes of Puerto Rico's own turbulent history, becomes a splendid allegory for a nation's past. The three accompanying stories each follow the lives of the descendants of the De La Valle family, making the book a drama in four parts, raising troubling issues of race, religion, freedom, and sex, with Ferre's trademark irony and startling imagery.
The Bachelor Girl
The Bachelor Girl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bachelor Girl write by Victor Margueritte. This book was released on 1923. The Bachelor Girl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
In the Midst of Winter
In the Midst of Winter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Midst of Winter write by Isabel Allende. This book was released on 2017-10-31. In the Midst of Winter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New York Times and worldwide bestselling author Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil that offers “a timely message about immigration and the meaning of home” (People). During the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, Richard Bowmaster, a lonely university professor in his sixties, hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, and what at first seems an inconvenience takes a more serious turn when Evelyn comes to his house, seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant, Lucia Maraz, a fellow academic from Chile, for her advice. As these three lives intertwine, each will discover truths about how they have been shaped by the tragedies they witnessed, and Richard and Lucia will find unexpected, long overdue love. Allende returns here to themes that have propelled some of her finest work: political injustice, the art of survival, and the essential nature of—and our need for—love.
