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Criticón, 2015 Gabriel Álvarez de Toledo (1662-1714) was one of the most prominent Spanish intellectuals at the turn of the 18th Century. Although his position in the Spanish cultural field was mainly based on his reputation and writings as a Church historian, the ...
Javier Jiménez Belmonte
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ILCEA, 2020 The association between poetry and songs is not an obvious fact because of an artificial hierarchy still too frequent. The contemporary spanish poetry, with the called poetry of experience, is a good example for this kind of analysis about musicalized ...
Myriam Roche
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Gender &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
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Gender &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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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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The English translation of seventeenth-century French lyric poetry and epigrams during the Caroline period [PDF]
, 2008 This doctoral thesis is the first comprehensive study of contemporary English translations of French lyric poetry during the Caroline period. While there has been extensive study of translations from French literature of other genres, notably drama ...
Cameron, Anne Louise
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“The ‘Ars vivendi’ of Laura Mañà’s Morir en San Hilario/To Die in San Hilario (2005)”
, 2012 Over the past decade Spanish-Language Cinema has established itself beside Spanish and Latin American Cinema, and Morir en San Hilario is a good example of these new flexible collaborations rather than a strict transnational co-production.
Bentley, Bernard Pierre Emile
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RELATIONS BETWEEN POETIC AND VISUAL LANGUAGE: NOTES ON ROBERTO ECHAVARREN’S POETRY
Gragoatá, 2004 This essay discusses the poetry of the Uruguayan Roberto Echavarren, trying to establish relations between visual and poetic language. It demonstrates how poetry interacts, in a critical way, with contemporary cultural life, which is characterized by a ...
Antonio Andrade
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Stephen Spender, the 1930s, and Spanish Writing
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2005 During the Spanish Civil War, the English literary world constructed important meanings about itself through its response to the conflict, a war in which the future of European Writing itself was being decided.
David Callahan
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Gender &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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