Cultural Writing. Latin American studies. Bilingual Spanish/English edition with translations by the author. This is the second volume of TO MAKE OURSELVES HEARD. Like the first volume, it is a compilation of newspaper articles, speeches, scholarly essays and case studies, all related to my work on freedom of expression for International PEN, the largest worldwide organization of writers. These texts were written between September 2002 adn March 2004. Some were first written in Spanish, others in English –Lucina Kathman.
Realismo Magico, Vallenato Y Violencia Politica En El Caribe Colombiano By reading Caribbean novels and ethnographies I trace the conformation of a critical tradition which influences aesthetics and social thought, and makes public the relation between cultural myths and social inequalities. In contrast to Alejo Carpentiers image of the Caribbean as a sanctuary where intellectuals escape from western rationalism, Garcia…
Colección De Documentos Inéditos Para La Historia De Chile Desde El… Excerpt from Colección de Documentos Inéditos para la Historia de Chile Desde el Viaje de Magallanes Hasta la Batalla de Maipo, 1518-1818, Vol. 18: Valdivia y Sus Compañeros, XI E después de lo susodicho, en este dicho día, mes e' año dicho, yo, el dicho escribano, hice la dicha citación…
La Biblia Envenenada The drama of a U.S. missionary family in Africa during a war of decolonization. At its center is Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister who establishes a mission in a village in 1959 Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his…
Memorias En Conflicto Para contribuir a este esfuerzo de polemología comparada, el presente volumen reúne una selección de trabajos presentados en varios eventos académicos, organizados conjuntamente por el Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos (IFEA), el Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP), la Red para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias Sociales en el Perú, el…
Croniñón Little Croniñón helps his clan hunt and kill a mammoth and at the same time learns to paint the walls of the cave he lives in.
No Juegues De Noche! It may seem to be an amusing game but behind the Ouija exists a frightening and not-so-amusing mystery.
