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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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The Language of Gendered Violence and Sexual Aggression in the Spanish Civil War: Conceptualizations and Reassessments

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the conceptual vocabulary through which violence against women during the Spanish Civil War has been interpreted, with particular attention to the longstanding predominance of the category ‘sexed violence’ (violencia sexuada).
SABINA MOMPÓ TORIBIO
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source

Nuria Amat. Traducir la ambigüedad

open access: yesTicontre: Teoria Testo Traduzione, 2017
La escritura de Nuria Amat, una de las mejores escritoras españolas contemporáneas, se mueve en terrenos propios de la frontera: entre géneros, entre ficción y realidad y, por último, entre lenguas, ya que, siendo su lengua materna el catalán, la autora ...
Nuria Pérez Vicente
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The Spanish Civil war in contemporary Spanish fiction: Soldados de Salamina, La Mula and Los Girasoles Ciegos

open access: yes, 2010
This dissertation is looking at the representation of the Civil War in three significant texts: Soldados de Salamina, La mula and Los girasoles ciegos. Approaching this representation is important since it is part of a controversial contemporary revival ...
Ramos Caballero, Aurelio
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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
wiley   +1 more source

Riding the Centaur Metaphor from Past to Present: Myth, Constellation and Non-gendered Hybrid

open access: yesIAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, 2019
Tracking the ancient centaur as myth and metaphor through cultural history to the twenty-first century reveals how humans have begun to reconceive animal-human relations.
Jeri Kroll
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Sites of struggle: representations of family in Spanish film (1996-2004)

open access: yes, 2012
Electronic redacted version excludes images for which permission has not been granted by the rights holderThis thesis analyses how ways of thinking about and meanings of family are (re)negotiated and (re)presented in six films that, to varying degrees ...
Rutherford, Jennifer R.
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Why Don Quijote's Battle Continues in Contemporary Cuban Literature: Tres tristes tigres and El mundo alucinante [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
First paragraph: The 1960s was a particularly productive decade for Latin American literature. In those years, Latin American writers produced an astounding number of excellent novels that are marked by their incredible diversity in style and/or content.
Lange, Charlotte
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A tribute to Stephen King: Hispanic Gothic and cultural globalization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
King: Homenaje al rey del terror/King. Homage to the King of Terror is an anthology of short stories written by Latin American and Spanish young authors in tribute to Stephen King and compiled by Ecuadorian writer Jorge Luis Cáceres.
Ordiz, Ines
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