Strange Pilgrimages - 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 Strange Pilgrimages write by Ingrid Elizabeth Fey. This book was released on 2000. Strange Pilgrimages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This anthology "decolonizes" the voices of Latin Americans who travel abroad and engage in cultural critiques of their homelands in counterpoint to foreigners' better known accounts of Latin America. The 17 contributions by North and South American academics examine--including entertaining first person accounts--the themes of constructing nations/a national identity post- independence, touring modernity, taking sides, and the art of living and working abroad. References include suggested films (e.g. Carmen Miranda: Bananas is My Business, 1994) as well as readings. Lacks an index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Table Talk
Table Talk - 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 Table Talk write by . This book was released on 1916. Table Talk available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Pilgrim Stories
Pilgrim Stories - 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 Pilgrim Stories write by Nancy Louise Frey. This book was released on 1998-12-30. Pilgrim Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Unlike the religiously-oriented pilgrims who visit Marian shrines such as Lourdes, the modern Road of St. James attracts an ecumenical mix of largely wel.
Strange Pilgrimages
Strange Pilgrimages - 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 Strange Pilgrimages write by Achmat Dangor. This book was released on 2013-04-01. Strange Pilgrimages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the award-winning pen of Achmat Dangor comes a subtle and multi-layered collection of short stories that showcases an unusual and illuminating take on ‘the struggle years’, and how the past impacts on us in a variety of ways. The journeys, which are the subject matter of the stories, operate on both a literal and metaphorical level. The reader is introduced to various characters in a variety of situations; the link between them is that each undertakes a ‘pilgrimage’ into the past and shows the impact this has on their lives. Central to much of this are ‘the struggle years’. This has seen some sent into exile, but few ever forget their ‘South Africanness’, for the pull of ‘nostalgia’ is an ever-present force. Some question the value of what they did during those years, others see it in a rather ambivalent light, while others want to forget, want to move on, want to be relieved of the ‘baggage’ of their past. For many of them, sex becomes the means of escape from the shackles of memory. This is not just another encomium to the ‘struggle’ years; instead, what makes this book stand out is the author’s unusual and illuminating take on that period of our history. It is not viewed, then, in a way we’ve become accustomed to, but from a different perspective. Additionally, each story is decidedly ‘relevant’ and, most importantly, all make for easy and engrossing reading.
Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century 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 Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America write by Adriana Méndez Rodenas. This book was released on 2013-12-12. Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: European Women Pilgrims retraces the steps of five intrepid “lady travelers” who ventured into the geography of the New World—Mexico, the Southern Cone, Brazil, and the Caribbean—at a crucial historical juncture, the period of political anarchy following the break from Spain and the rise of modernity at the turn of the twentieth century. Traveling as historians, social critics, ethnographers, and artists, Frances Erskine Inglis (1806–82), Maria Graham (1785–1842), Flora Tristan (1803–44), Fredrika Bremer (1801–65), and Adela Breton (1849–1923) reshaped the map of nineteenth-century Latin America. Organized by themes rather than by individual authors, this book examines European women’s travels as a spectrum of narrative discourses, ranging from natural history, history, and ethnography. Women’s social condition becomes a focal point of their travels. By combining diverse genres and perspectives, women’s travel writing ushers a new vision of post-independence societies. The trope of pilgrimage conditions the female travel experience, which suggests both the meta-end of the journey as well as the broader cultural frame shaping their individual itineraries.
