This is not just another book about Shakespeare. While it does reveal the existence of yet another alternative Shakespeare, it also takes the legendary man of letters beyond English-speaking shores in order to illustrate the diverse effects of translation in creating and deciding the afterlives of canonical texts. By focusing on a minority language spoken by 6.5 million speakers yet still only partially recognized by the Spanish government, "Shakespeare in Catalan" tells us a story of the Bard as both a counter-imperialist deployed against colonial domination and a universal imperialist used...
This is not just another book about Shakespeare. While it does reveal the existence of yet another alternative Shakespeare, it also takes the legendar...
Gender studiesof Spain has thus far focused almost exclusively on women, leaving the social and political history of male homosexuality virtually untouched. "'Los Invisibles'" fillsthis significant gap in the study of Spanish culture by analyzing the effects of medical and legal regulation on male homosexuals. Drawing from the discourse of medical history, Richard Cleminson and Francisco Vazquez Garcia evaluate the impact of psychiatry, education, race, and the growth ofgay subcultures on cultural representations of homosexuality in this pioneering study.A PDF version of this book is...
Gender studiesof Spain has thus far focused almost exclusively on women, leaving the social and political history of male homosexuality virtually unto...
Hildegart Rodriguez s sensational death at the hands of her own mother usually overshadows her fascinating life. Alison Sinclair s examination of Rodriguez s role as a central player in the Spanish chapter of the World League for Sexual Reform reveals much more than just a dramatic demise. Through analysis of her correspondence with English sexologist Havelock Ellis, we glimpse poignant details of Rodriguez s personal tensions and anxieties. By building on this exploration of one woman s life, Sinclair also shows us Spain s contacts with the international community and delivers a gripping...
Hildegart Rodriguez s sensational death at the hands of her own mother usually overshadows her fascinating life. Alison Sinclair s examination of Rodr...
Benito Perez Galdos has long been considered the Spanish Tolstoy; however, unlike those of his Russian counterpart, few of his works are available in English and fewer still are the subjects of serious literary scholarship. This book approaches one of the author s most memorable characters, Madrid moneylender Francisco Torquemada, and considers the extent to which notions of profit, efficiency, and utility inform the Torquemada series juxtaposing nineteenth-century understandings of waste and profit with contemporary economic ideas in order to better comprehend the writer and his world."
Benito Perez Galdos has long been considered the Spanish Tolstoy; however, unlike those of his Russian counterpart, few of his works are available in ...
This volume examines the cultural policy of the Catalan Autonomous Government under the leadership of Jordi Pujol and his party, Convergencia I Unio, who were in power from the post-Franco transitional period through Pujol s retirement in 2003. Examining issues of national identity and cultural nationalism in the context of globalization, multiculturalism, and the commodifications of culture, this book looks at how Pujol s government tackled these challenges. In addition, Kathryn Crameri analyzes the impact of devolved government on the promotion and preservation of minority cultures and the...
This volume examines the cultural policy of the Catalan Autonomous Government under the leadership of Jordi Pujol and his party, Convergencia I Unio, ...
Mexico is home to some of the world s most extraordinary folk art, and the majority of its highly acclaimed pieces were created by women. Looking closely at eight types of Mexican folk art, including votive paintings, embroidered exvotos, cardboard Judas dolls, reproductions of Frida Kahlo s paintings made of clay, and clay figures from Cumicho called "alebrijes," this beautifully illustrated volume is one of the first to trace the role and effects of gender on both the objects of Mexican folk art and the knowledge and life experiences that lie behind them."
Mexico is home to some of the world s most extraordinary folk art, and the majority of its highly acclaimed pieces were created by women. Looking c...
In a world increasingly dominated by visual sensation, understanding the role and influence of comics and cartoon humor in popular culture has become essential. Catalan Cartoons examines the changing fortunes of Catalan cartooning against the shifting political landscape in the period 1898 1982. It considers how Catalan satire has been shaped by periods of relative calm as well as periods of censorship, violence, war, and dictatorship, and it demonstrates how the cartooning tradition did not end with the Franco dictatorship, but instead continued in a number of adapted forms, playing...
In a world increasingly dominated by visual sensation, understanding the role and influence of comics and cartoon humor in popular culture has become ...
This book profiles a group of five artists closely linked with the Spanish avant-garde in the 1920s and 30s, now known at the Other Generation of 27. In the same way that their contemporaries of the celebrated Generation of 27 attempted a revolution of the arts through poetry inspired by European modernism, the Other Generation of 27 attempted to renovate Spanish humour, first in prose, then in theater and cinema. These artists drew on the humour of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Ernst Lubitsch, and the Marx Brothers for their stage comedy and stretched the limits of the stage by...
This book profiles a group of five artists closely linked with the Spanish avant-garde in the 1920s and 30s, now known at the Other Generation of 2...
Brazil has long been home to a strong and important film industry, and in recent years Brazilian cinema has been drawing growing attention worldwide, with such films as "Central Station" and "City of God" receiving international acclaim." Remaking Brazil" takes a close look at Brazilian films released between 1995 and 2010, including "Elite Squad," "Orfeu," "The Trespasser," and "Almost Brothers," paying special attention to issues of race, ethnicity, and national identity. Despite increased interest in ethnic and racial aspects of Brazilian society, until now there has been very...
Brazil has long been home to a strong and important film industry, and in recent years Brazilian cinema has been drawing growing attention worldwid...
"Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain" examines the work of Spain s three major playwrights of the baroque era, Calderon de la Barca, Lope de Vega, and Tirso Molina, in the context of contemporary Spain and twenty-first-century stagings of their works, both on stage and in film and television. The first extended study of these dramatists to consider modern-day performances of their work in their full sociohistorical context, this volume attempts to remedy the traditional absence of performance-based approaches in Golden Age studies, while also providing detailed aesthetic analyses of...
"Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain" examines the work of Spain s three major playwrights of the baroque era, Calderon de la Barca, Lope de Veg...
