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[Review of] Bienvenido L. Lumbera. Tagalog Poetry: 1570-1898 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1991
Bienvenido Lumbera, in his Preface to this survey of Tagalog poetry, apologizes for the shortcomings of his book. Originally written twenty years ago as a doctoral dissertation, it does not take into account new information on Tagalog poetry and its ...
Skinner, Cruz
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Of Love, Loss and Love Lost: The (uncompleted) Reception of Rabindranath Tagore in Spain

open access: yesPoliteja, 2016
The paper is a concise review of the reception of Rabindranath Tagore in Spain and the crucial role played by the Spanish writer Juan Ramón Jiménez and his wife Zenobia Camprubí in promoting the poetry of the “great Bard of Bengal,” not only in Spain but
Guillermo Rodríguez
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Mysterious China as a Source for Literary Hoaxes: Poetry in the Spanish Literary Magazine Prisma [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Litterarum, 2018
The essay examines two blocks of poetry published in the pages of a Spanish literary magazine Prisma that came out in Barcelona in the 1920s: one of them presents translations of the poetry by anonymous Chinese author; another one is formed by the poems ...
Natalia Yu. Kharitonova
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Exploring Jewish forms of speaking to God : the use of apostrophe in David Rosenmann-Taub’s Cortejo y epinicio [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
textIn his first published collection of poetry, Cortejo y epinicio (1949), Chilean author David Rosenmann-Taub (1927) references Jewish culture, prayers and beliefs.
Wyse, Raelene Camille
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A Late Medieval Knight Reflecting on his Public Life: Hugo de Urriés (c. 1405-c. 1493), Diplomacy and Translating the Classics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article focuses on Aragonese courtier Hugo de Urriés's public profile by means of analyzing the critical points derived from examining his personal, political, cultural and historical stands making use of an invaluable primary source, his letter to ...
Conde Solares, Carlos
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In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
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David J. Hildner, Poetry and truth in the Spanish works of fray Luis de León. Tamesis, London, 1992; 177 pp.

open access: yesNueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, 1994
Se reseñó el libro: Poetry and truth in the Spanish works of fray Luis de León.
Nancy Altenburg
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Teaching Race and Space Through Asian American and Latino Performance Poetry: I Was Born with Two Tongues Broken Speak and Sonido Ink(quieto)s Chicano, Illnoize [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
I Was Born with Two Tongues and Sonido (Ink)quieto, two Chicago-based spoken word and musical groups, both released CDs around the turn of the millennium: Two Tongues Broken Speak in 1999 and Sonidos Chicano, Illnoize in 2001. Both CDs centrally wrestle
Hseu, Jane
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Men Who Talk About Love in Late Medieval Spain: Hugo de Urriés and Egalitarian Married Life [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In the last third of the fifteenth century, Hugo de Urriés’s work can offer the modern reader a very rare and informative perspective from the points of view of social history and history of ideas.
Conde Solares, Carlos
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