Mar: 1984 books

Histoire de profiter des beaux jours d’été, trois familles de banlieue se réunissent le temps d’un barbecue. Alors que le mercure monte et que les verres se vident, les discussions sur les voyages à venir se font plus animées et une joyeuse compétition ne tarde pas à s’installer. Puisque...

De Tanger à Madrid, dans le monde feutré des ambassades, une jeune couturière se bat pour la cause des Alliés. Trahie par l'homme qu'elle aimait, Sira, vingt ans, se retrouve seule à Tétouan. La guerre civile ravage l'Espagne et elle ne peut rejoindre sa mère à Madrid. Sans argent, sans amis,...

Du Mexique à La Havane, des Antilles à l'Andalousie, un grand roman d'aventures, de vengeance et d'amour. Par l'auteur de L'Espionne de Tanger, vendu à plus d'un million d'exemplaires à travers le monde. Mexique, fin du XIXe siècle. Pugnace et brillant, le très charismatique Mauro Larrea a tout...

The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema interrogates notions of the child as a symbol of futurity and also loss. By exploring the ways children function discursively within a dystopian framework we may better understand how and why traditional notions of childhood are repeatedly tethered to sites of...

Wolf Vostell (Leverkusen, 1932-Berlín, 1998), artista multimedia, desarrolló su vida y su obra entre sus estudios de Alemania (Colonia, Berlín) y Extremadura (Malpartida de Cáceres, donde fundó un museo). A partir de los años cincuenta fue pionero en Europa de los nuevos comportamientos artísticos...

The Act of Killing is a documentary film on the Indonesian genocide that took place between October 1965 and March 1966, during which time an estimated 500,000 to 2.5 million accused communists, including landless farmers, unionized workers, labour organizers, intellectuals and ethnic Chinese Indonesians,...

This holiday, we proudly presents to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas classics: most beloved novels, tales, legends, poetry & carols - to warm up your heart and rekindle your holiday sparkle: Works by Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter,...

This is Poetry at its best! Same blood, same flesh and same chemical composition. We breathe, we eat, we think and we feel. Our only difference is PRECEPTION!!! The way in which we view people, places and things based on what we know and how we feel and/or have felt. The glass can be half full and/or...

Toward a Cultural Archive of la Movida revisits the cultural and social milieu in which la**Movida, an explosion of artistic production in the late 1970s and early 1980s, was articulated discursively, aesthetically, socially, and politically. We connect this experience with a broader national and...

Between 1853 and 1964, on the western shore of what is now the city of Hayward, there existed a small rural community. This pictorial history traces the role that this region, which became known as Russell City, played in the development of the East Bay. Named for Joel Russell, a New England teacher...

Ambivalent Desires: Representations of Modernity and Private Life in Colombia (1890s-1950s) is a literary and cultural study of the reception of modernity in Colombia. Unlike previous studies of Latin American modernization, which have usually focused on the public aspect of the process, this book...

The authors of this edited volume use a queer perspective to address colonialism as localized in the Global South, to analyse how the queer can be decolonized and to map the implications of such conversations on hegemonic and alternative understandings of modernity. This book is distinct in at least...

Justice and Space Matter in a Strong, Unified Latino Community provides a detailed analysis of colonias along the Mexico–United States border, examining the intersection of culture, education, language, literacy, race, religion, and social class in Latino immigrant communities. The researchers investigated...

Charys visual expression reveals simultaneously her displacement from and re-encounter with a nation that is marked by a long history of dispossession and cultural intermixing. Her art can perhaps be best understood in the context of the Cuban avant-garde movement, which, in turn, resonates against...