wyszukanych pozycji: 56
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Latinos and Narrative Media: Participation and Portrayal
ISBN: 9781349474158 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This is the first book to explore the multitude of narrative media forms created by and that feature Latinos in the twenty-first century - a radically different cultural landscape to earlier epochs. The essays present a fresh take informed by the explosion of Latino demographics and its divergent cultural tastes.
This is the first book to explore the multitude of narrative media forms created by and that feature Latinos in the twenty-first century - a radically...
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191,85 zł |
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The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature
ISBN: 9780415667883 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature presents the first comprehensive overview of these popular, experimental and diverse literary cultures. Frederick Luis Aldama traces a historical path through Latino/a literature, examining both the historical and political contexts of the works, as well as their authors and the readership. He also provides an enlightening analysis of: the differing sub-groups of Latino/a literature, including Mexican American, Cuban American, Puerto Rican American, Dominican American, and Central and South American emigre authors established and emerging...
The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature presents the first comprehensive overview of these popular, experimental and diverse literary cul...
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203,44 zł |
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Dancing with Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas
ISBN: 9780520243927 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This first critical biography of Arturo Islas (1938-1991) brings to life the complex and overlapping worlds inhabited by the gay Chicano poet, novelist, scholar, and professor. Gracefully written and deeply researched, Dancing with Ghosts considers both the larger questions of Islas's life--his sexuality, racial identification, and political personality--and the events of his everyday existence, from his childhood in the borderlands of El Paso to his adulthood in San Francisco and at Stanford University. Frederick Aldama portrays the many facets of Islas's engaging and often...
This first critical biography of Arturo Islas (1938-1991) brings to life the complex and overlapping worlds inhabited by the gay Chicano poet, novelis...
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209,23 zł |
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Mex-Ciné: Mexican Filmmaking, Production, and Consumption in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780472071937 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Mex-Cine offers an accessibly written, multidisciplinary investigation of contemporary Mexican cinema that combines industrial, technical, and sociopolitical analysis with analyses of modes of reception through cognitive theory. Mex-Cine aims to make visible the twenty-first century Mexican film industry, its blueprints, and the cognitive and emotive faculties involved in making and consuming its corpus. A sustained, free-flowing book-length meditation, Mex-Cine enriches our understanding of the way contemporary Mexican directors use specific technical devices,...
Mex-Cine offers an accessibly written, multidisciplinary investigation of contemporary Mexican cinema that combines industrial, technical, and ...
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412,34 zł |
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Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle
ISBN: 9780292722811 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Exploring a wide range of mainstream and independent comic books, this is the first comprehensive collection of scholarly and archival work on multicultural comics from around the world.
Exploring a wide range of mainstream and independent comic books, this is the first comprehensive collection of scholarly and archival work on multicu...
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249,28 zł |
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The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies
ISBN: 9780190917944 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 744 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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1048,08 zł |
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Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle
ISBN: 9780292737433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle is the first comprehensive look at comic books by and about race and ethnicity. The thirteen essays tease out for the general reader the nuances of how such multicultural comics skillfully combine visual and verbal elements to tell richly compelling stories that gravitate around issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality within and outside the U.S. comic book industry. Among the explorations of mainstream and independent comic books are discussions of the work of Adrian Tomine, Grant Morrison, and... Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle is the first comprehensive look at comic books by and about ra... |
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111,87 zł |
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Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia
ISBN: 9781496828019 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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645,02 zł |
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Postethnic Narrative Criticism: Magicorealism in Oscar Zeta Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie
ISBN: 9780292722101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 157 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Magical realism has become almost synonymous with Latin American fiction, but this way of representing the layered and often contradictory reality of the topsy-turvy, late-capitalist, globalizing world finds equally vivid expression in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film. Writers and filmmakers such as Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie have made brilliant use of magical realism to articulate the trauma of dislocation and the legacies of colonialism that people of color experience in the postcolonial, multiethnic... Magical realism has become almost synonymous with Latin American fiction, but this way of representing the layered and often contradictory reality ... |
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86,44 zł |
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Latino/a Children's and Young Adult Writers on the Art of Storytelling
ISBN: 9780822964971 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Children's and young adult literature has become an essential medium for identity formation in contemporary Latino/a culture in the United States. This book is an original collection of more than thirty interviews led by Frederick Luis Aldama with Latino/a authors working in the genre. The conversations revolve around the conveyance of young Latino/a experience.
Children's and young adult literature has become an essential medium for identity formation in contemporary Latino/a culture in the United States. Thi...
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208,58 zł |
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Graphic Borders: Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future
ISBN: 9781477309148 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From the influential work of Los Bros Hernandez in Love & Rockets, to comic strips and political cartoons, to traditional superheroes made nontraditional by means of racial and sexual identity (e.g., Miles Morales/Spider-Man), comics have become a vibrant medium to express Latino identity and culture. Indeed, Latino fiction and nonfiction narratives are rapidly proliferating in graphic media as diverse and varied in form and content as is the whole of Latino culture today. Graphic Borders presents the most thorough exploration of comics by and about Latinos... From the influential work of Los Bros Hernandez in Love & Rockets, to comic strips and political cartoons, to traditional superheroes made... |
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412,07 zł |
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Formal Matters in Contemporary Latino Poetry
ISBN: 9780230391635 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Today's Latino poetry scene is incredibly vibrant. With original interviews, this is the first meditation on the thematic features of such poetry. Looking at how Julia Alvarez, Rhina Espaillat, Rafael Campo, and C. Dale Young use structures such as meter, rhyme, and line break, this study identifies a poetics of formalist Latino poetry.
Today's Latino poetry scene is incredibly vibrant. With original interviews, this is the first meditation on the thematic features of such poetry. Loo...
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191,85 zł |
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The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies
ISBN: 9780367209414 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 570 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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1093,76 zł |
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Why the Humanities Matter: A Commonsense Approach
ISBN: 9780292725935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 391 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Is there life after postmodernism? Many claim that it sounded the death knell for history, art, ideology, science, possibly all of Western philosophy, and certainly for the concept of reality itself. Responding to essential questions regarding whether the humanities can remain politically and academically relevant amid this twenty-first-century uncertainty, Why the Humanities Matter offers a guided tour of the modern condition, calling upon thinkers in a variety of disciplines to affirm essential concepts such as truth, goodness, and beauty. Offering a lens of "new... Is there life after postmodernism? Many claim that it sounded the death knell for history, art, ideology, science, possibly all of Western philosop... |
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152,57 zł |
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Jeff Smith: Conversations
ISBN: 9781496824790 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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645,02 zł |
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Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia: Conversations with Writers and Artists
ISBN: 9780292713123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Since the 1980s, a prolific "second wave" of Chicano/a writers and artists has tremendously expanded the range of genres and subject matter in Chicano/a literature and art. Building on the pioneering work of their predecessors, whose artistic creations were often tied to political activism and the civil rights struggle, today's Chicano/a writers and artists feel free to focus as much on the aesthetic quality of their work as on its social content. They use novels, short stories, poetry, drama, documentary films, and comic books to shape the raw materials of life into art objects that cause... Since the 1980s, a prolific "second wave" of Chicano/a writers and artists has tremendously expanded the range of genres and subject matter in Chic... |
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132,22 zł |
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Comics Studies Here and Now
ISBN: 9780367590703 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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203,44 zł |
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¡Muy Pop!: Conversations on Latino Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780472118939 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Although investigations of Hispanic popular culture were approached for decades as part of folklore studies, in recent years scholarly explorations of lucha libre, telenovelas, comic strips, comedy, baseball, the novela rosa and the detective novel, sci-fi, even advertising have multiplied. What has been lacking is an overarching canvas that offers context for these studies, focusing on the crucial, framing questions: What is Hispanic pop culture? How does it change over time and from region to region? What is the relationship between highbrow and popular culture in the... Although investigations of Hispanic popular culture were approached for decades as part of folklore studies, in recent years scholarly explorations... |
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369,50 zł |
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Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts
ISBN: 9780292728882 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts brings together in one volume cutting-edge research that turns to recent findings in cognitive and neurobiological sciences, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and evolutionary biology, among other disciplines, to explore and understand more deeply various cultural phenomena, including art, music, literature, and film. The essays fulfilling this task for the general reader as well as the specialist are written by renowned authors H. Porter Abbott, Patrick Colm Hogan, Suzanne Keen, Herbert Lindenberger, Lisa Zunshine, Katja Mellman,... Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts brings together in one volume cutting-edge research that turns to recent findings in cogni... |
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142,39 zł |
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Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia
ISBN: 9781496828026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Acclaimed comics scholar Frederick Luis Aldama shines light on how mainstream comics have clumsily distilled and reconstructed Indigenous identities and experiences. This book emphasizes how Indigenous comic artists are themselves clearing new visual-verbal narrative spaces for articulating more complex histories, and narratives of self.
Acclaimed comics scholar Frederick Luis Aldama shines light on how mainstream comics have clumsily distilled and reconstructed Indigenous identities a...
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209,53 zł |