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La mujer en el umbral
by Mauricio BonnettEn la Bogotá de los años sesenta, Diego y Sebastián,dos muchachos burgueses, viven una apacible y solitariaexistencia, sacudida apenas por los fantasmasde la imaginación y los estragos de las hormonas. Enmedio de esta cotidianidad irrumpe Rosa Tulia, unamujer hermosa y enigmática, que se convierte en objetode veneración y fuente de prohibidas ensoñacioneseróticas. Pero Rosa Tulia trae consigo un pasadode violencia y humillación que sus nuevos adoradoresno pueden comprender, y que se irá develando, ensalvaje contrapunto a lo largo de las páginas, hastaalcanzar un clímax estremecedor e inesperado.
La Mujer Que se Daba con las Puertas
by Roddy DoyleUn policía bisoño se presenta de súbito en casa de Paula: su marido, Charlo, ha muerto a manos de las fuerzas del orden. Charlo era guapo, fascinante, el preferido de todas las amigas de Paula. Y un chulo. Es la vida de Paula, en nítidas escenas que cortan el aliento por su precisión y su realismo. Es el martirio de Paula, una mujer sencilla y soñadora, bajo el poder de un marido brutal. Palizas, lesiones graves, torturas. Visitas a Urgencias. La excusa de costumbre: "Me he dado un golpe con una puerta". Un aborto. Los médicos tratan a Paula con desdén. Una mañana, Paula coincide con Nicola, su hija, en la cocina. Charlo la mira de un modo extraño. De repente, Paula comprende. Entre ambas mujeres, a golpe de sartén, consiguen echar a Charlo a la calle. Han hecho, por fin, algo bueno. Una novela absolutamente extraordinaria, que viene a confirmar la estatura literaria de uno de los grandes novelistas irlandeses de nuestro tiempo. Roddy Doyle nació en Dublín en 1958. Su primera novela, The Commitments, obtuvo un enorme éxito en el momento de su publicación, en 1987, sobre todo a raíz de que Alan Parker la llevase al cine. También The Snapper, aparecida en 1990, dio lugar a otra película, esta vez dirigida por Stephen Frears. The Van (La camioneta, Alfaguara, 1996) quedó finalista en el Booker Prize de 1991 (y fue llevada al cine de nuevo por Stephen Frears). Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, ganadora del Booker Prize en 1993, ha sido la obra más vendida de la historia de este premio y ha sido traducida a diecinueve idiomas.
La mujer romántica: Lectoras, autoras y escritores en la Argentina, 1830-1870
by Graciela BatticuoreLa primera investigación sobre el arduo y reñido proceso en el que se transforma el lugar de la mujer, de lectora a escritora, en la Argentina del siglo XIX. Vida, obra, avatares y estrategias de las pioneras: Mariquita Sánchez, Juana Manuela Gorriti, Juana Manso y Eduarda Mansilla. La mujer romántica da cuenta de las diversas formas que asumieron los procesos a través de los cuales las primeras mujeres que serían reconocidas como escritoras en la Argentina alcanzaron el estatuto de autoras. Esos procesos y las circunstancias en que acontecieron estuvieron determinados histórica y socialmente por los conflictos políticos y los climas de ideas que atravesaron el siglo XIX argentino. En tiempos en que el género prefiguraba la habilitación a la lectura primero y, a partir de ella, a estadios como los de la escritura, la sociabilidad literaria y finalmente la publicación, algunas de las tácticas con las que las mujeres se abrieron camino fueron el anonimato, la seudonimia, la difusión restringida, los padrinazgos masculinos o las venias internacionales. La emergencia en el campo de la cultura de pioneras como Mariquita Sánchez, Juana Manuela Gorriti, Juana Manso y Eduarda Mansilla cuestionó lo dominante y dialogó necesariamente con las voces letradas reconocidas y legitimadas: Sarmiento, Alberdi, Gutiérrez, Quesada. Así, aparecieron en tensión axiomas o mandatos como los del amor, la maternidad y la familia por un lado y vocaciones, a veces embrionarias e intuitivas, otras conscientes y dispuestas a la disputa, relacionadas con ideas como las de emancipación, trabajo y producción intelectual, por el otro. Historiográficamente riguroso, teoréticamente reflexivo, analíticamente situado, críticamente agudo y en términos ensayísticos tan audaz como revelador y contemporáneo, este libro presenta la doble característica de clásico indispensable para la comprensión del pasado y herramienta potente para la intervención en los debates más urgentes del presente.
Las mujeres de su vida
by Lena DivaniAl cumplir los treinta y cinco años, Ana ve sacudida su vida por un incidente: el descubrimiento de una fotografía que muestra a una bella desconocida en brazos de su marido. A partir de ese momento, la protagonista se replantea su monótona existencia y emprende un tortuoso camino jalonado de diversas etapas. Las mujeres de su vida es la historia de la lucha de Ana, de la evolución de su personalidad a través de las voces de las mujeres que la rodean: su madre, Mania, una mujer fuerte y decidida; Katerina, su hija adolescente, incapaz de entender la ira de Ana; una amiga de la infancia; una compañera de estudios; su jefa.
Mujeres del alma mía: Sobre el amor impaciente, la vida larga y las brujas buenas
by Isabel AllendeUna Isabel Allende más Allende que nunca. Un regalo para todos sus lectores, una lección de vida y coraje. Cada año vivido y cada arruga cuentan mi historia. Isabel Allende bucea en su memoria y nos ofrece un emocionante libro sobre su relación con el feminismo y el hecho de ser mujer, al tiempo que reivindica que la vida adulta hay que vivirla, sentirla y gozarla con plena intensidad. En Mujeres del alma mía la gran autora chilena nos invita a acompañarla en este viaje personal y emocional donde repasa su vinculación con el feminismo desde la infancia hasta hoy. Recuerda a algunas mujeres imprescindibles en su vida, como sus añoradas Panchita, Paula o la agente Carmen Balcells; a escritoras relevantes como Virginia Woolf o Margaret Atwood; a jóvenes artistas que aglutinan la rebeldía de su generación o, entre otras muchas, a esas mujeres anónimas que han sufrido la violencia y que llenas de dignidad y coraje se levantan y avanzan... Ellas son las que tanto le inspiran y tanto le han acompañado a lo largo de su vida: sus mujeres del alma. Finalmente, reflexiona también sobre el movimiento #MeToo -que apoya y celebra-, sobre las recientes revueltas sociales en su país de origen y, cómo no, sobre la nueva situación que globalmente estamos viviendo con la pandemia. Todo ello sin perder esa inconfundible pasión por la vida y por insistir en que, más allá de la edad, siempre hay tiempo para el amor.
Mujeres del alma mía: Sobre el amor impaciente, la vida larga y las brujas buenas
by Isabel AllendeUna Isabel Allende más Allende que nunca. Un regalo para todos sus lectores, una lección de vida y coraje. Cada año vivido y cada arruga cuentan mi historia. Isabel Allende bucea en su memoria y nos ofrece un emocionante libro sobre su relación con el feminismo y el hecho de ser mujer, al tiempo que reivindica que la vida adulta hay que vivirla, sentirla y gozarla con plena intensidad. En Mujeres del alma mía la gran autora chilena nos invita a acompañarla en este viaje personal y emocional donde repasa su vinculación con el feminismo desde la infancia hasta hoy. Recuerda a algunas mujeres imprescindibles en su vida, como sus añoradas Panchita, Paula o la agente Carmen Balcells; a escritoras relevantes como Virginia Woolf o Margaret Atwood; a jóvenes artistas que aglutinan la rebeldía de su generación o, entre otras muchas, a esas mujeres anónimas que han sufrido la violencia y que llenas de dignidad y coraje se levantan y avanzan... Ellas son las que tanto le inspiran y tanto le han acompañado a lo largo de su vida: sus mujeres del alma. Finalmente, reflexiona también sobre el movimiento #MeToo -que apoya y celebra-, sobre las recientes revueltas sociales en su país de origen y, cómo no, sobre la nueva situación que globalmente estamos viviendo con la pandemia. Todo ello sin perder esa inconfundible pasión por la vida y por insistir en que, más allá de la edad, siempre hay tiempo para el amor.
The Mulatta and the Politics of Race
by Teresa C. ZackodnikFrom abolition through the years just before the civil rights struggle began, African American women recognized that a mixed-race woman made for a powerful and, at times, very useful figure in the battle for racial justice. The Mulatta and the Politics of Race traces many key instances in which black women have wielded the image of a racially mixed woman to assault the color line. In the oratory and fiction of black women from the late 1840s through the 1950s, Teresa C. Zackodnik finds the mulatta to be a metaphor of increasing potency. Before the Civil War white female abolitionists created the image of the “tragic mulatta,” caught between races, rejected by all. African American women put the mulatta to diverse political use. Black women used the mulatta figure to invoke and manage American and British abolitionist empathy and to contest racial stereotypes of womanhood in the postbellum United States. The mulatta aided writers in critiquing the “New Negro Renaissance” and gave writers leverage to subvert the aims of mid-twentieth-century mainstream American culture. The Mulatta and the Politics of Race focuses on the antislavery lectures and appearances of Ellen Craft and Sarah Parker Remond, the domestic fiction of Pauline Hopkins and Frances Harper, the Harlem Renaissance novels of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen, and the little-known 1950s texts of Dorothy Lee Dickens and Reba Lee. Throughout, the author discovers the especially valuable and as yet unexplored contributions of these black women and their uses of the mulatta in prose and speech.
Mulatto America
by Stephan TaltyBlack and white culture has been blending and colliding in America for hundreds of years. In the 1700s, black slaves discovered their masters' Bibles and found in them a seditious faith of their own. In the 1920s, young white men fell in love with New Orleans jazz and created an underground of cultural dissidents. In the 1970s, black style began its takeover of the sports world and made Dr. J and Michael Jordan the idols of millions. In Mulatto America, a dazzling work of cultural history, the stories of these daring and deeply influential encounters are described in vibrant detail. Beginning with new and shocking revelations about the white slaves kidnapped into "the House of Bondage," Mulatto America vividly chronicles the hidden connections that have shaped American style and character. Stephan Talty proposes that, along with the hatred that ruled the relationship between blacks and whites for so long, there has been a largely unexamined flip side: a powerful attraction that led both races to mimic what they saw and desired in each other. The pages of this groundbreaking work, which introduces a strong new voice, are populated by the renegades who crossed the color line out of deep conviction or wild curiosity: W. E. B. Du Bois, Dorothy Dandridge, Elvis, Jay-Z, and many others. Each chapter examines a different vanguard: The interracial lovers of the slavery era who ignored theories of racial inferiority and gave us models of devotion and daring. The black elite early in the last century who found in Shakespeare and Michelangelo not only deeply humanist masterpieces but hope that white bigotry could be overcome. And the members of today's hip-hop generation, who revel in the cultural freedom earned at so high a cost. Drawing on original research and daring new interpretations of crucial events in American history, Talty paints a portrait of a lost America: one in which musicians, writers, and ordinary people led the nation to a deeper understanding of the strangers on the other side of town. Without the mixing of black and white culture, America would look, sound, and feel completely different than it does today. On a cultural level, as well as racially, we are indeed a mulatto nation. This provocative and highly engaging new history shows us how this came to pass.
Mules and Men (Maxnotes Literature Guides)
by Christopher HubertREA's MAXnotes for Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers.
Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization
by Horacio Saggion Jakub Piskorski Roman Yangarber Thierry PoibeauInformation extraction (IE) and text summarization (TS) are powerful technologies for finding relevant pieces of information in text and presenting them to the user in condensed form. The ongoing information explosion makes IE and TS critical for successful functioning within the information society. These technologies face particular challenges due to the inherent multi-source nature of the information explosion. The technologies must now handle not isolated texts or individual narratives, but rather large-scale repositories and streams---in general, in multiple languages---containing a multiplicity of perspectives, opinions, or commentaries on particular topics, entities or events. There is thus a need to adapt existing techniques and develop new ones to deal with these challenges. This volume contains a selection of papers that present a variety of methodologies for content identification and extraction, as well as for content fusion and regeneration. The chapters cover various aspects of the challenges, depending on the nature of the information sought---names vs. events,--- and the nature of the sources---news streams vs. image captions vs. scientific research papers, etc. This volume aims to offer a broad and representative sample of studies from this very active research field.
Multi-Stakeholder Contribution in Asian Environmental Communication (Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media)
by Huang Miao Mohamad Saifudin Mohamad Saleh Shaidatul Akma Adi KasumaMulti-Stakeholder Contribution in Asian Environmental Communication focuses on how diverse actors can come together to promote sustainable environmental practices.Bringing together 25 environmental communication scholars and practitioners across 15 innovative chapters, this book explores the dynamic roles of stakeholders – ranging from governmental bodies and non-profit organisations to local communities and industry players – involved in advancing environmental communication across the Asian continent. Drawing on a rich tapestry of case studies and interdisciplinary perspectives, the book sheds light on the interplay of religious, cultural, political, and economic factors that shape environmental communication strategies and public perception in Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, China, Thailand, Iran, Japan, and Pakistan. It probes into contemporary issues such as Islamic environmental communication, gender roles, social media, political communication, the role of games and gaming companies, as well as the portrayal of ecological messages in film. Overall, this book aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice and will make a significant contribution to the growing literature on multi-stakeholder contribution in environmental communication, particularly in the Asian context.This volume will be of great interest to practitioners, policymakers, and researchers working in the field of environmental communication.
The Multi-Talented Mr.Erskine
by Katherine Elise ChaddockThis first biography of John Erskine views him in the larger contexts of the mass culture and expanded commercialism that helped propel his fame. It also relates a life narrative that demonstrates perils of academic celebrity along a conceptual path from public intellectual to pop icon.
Multicultural Children’s Literature: A Critical Issues Approach
by Ambika G. GopalakrishnanThis book is designed to prepare K-12 preservice and inservice teachers to address the social, cultural, and critical issues of our times through the use of multicultural children's books. It will be used as a core textbook in courses on multicultural children's literature and as a supplement in courses on children's literature and social studies teaching methods. It can also be used as a supplement in courses on literacy, reading, language arts, and multicultural education.
Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle
by Frederick Luis AldamaMulticultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle is the first comprehensive look at comic books by and about race and ethnicity. The thirteen essays tease out for the general reader the nuances of how such multicultural comics skillfully combine visual and verbal elements to tell richly compelling stories that gravitate around issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality within and outside the U. S. comic book industry. Among the explorations of mainstream and independent comic books are discussions of the work of Adrian Tomine, Grant Morrison, and Jessica Abel as well as Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan’s The Tomb of Dracula; Native American Anishinaabe-related comics; mixed-media forms such as Kerry James Marshall’s comic-book/community performance; DJ Spooky’s visual remix of classic film; the role of comics in India; and race in the early Underground Comix movement. The collection includes a “one-stop shop” for multicultural comic book resources, such as archives, websites, and scholarly books. Each of the essays shows in a systematic, clear, and precise way how multicultural comic books work in and of themselves and also how they are interconnected with a worldwide tradition of comic-book storytelling.
Multicultural Health Translation, Interpreting and Communication (Routledge Studies in Empirical Translation and Multilingual Communication)
by Meng Ji Mustapha Taibi Ineke H. CrezeeMulticultural Health Translation, Interpreting and Communication presents the latest research in health translation resource development and evaluation, community and professional health interpreting, and the communication of health risks to multicultural populations. Covering a variety of research topics in empirical health translation and interpreting, this advanced resource will be helpful for research students and academics of translation and interpreting studies who have an interest in health issues, particularly in multicultural and multilingual societies. This edited volume brings in interdisciplinary expertise from areas such as translation studies, community interpreting, health communication and education, nursing, medical anthropology and psychology, and will be of interest to healthcare professionals, language services in multilingual societies and researchers interested in communication between healthcare providers and users.
Multicultural Issues and Literacy Achievement (Literacy Teaching Series)
by Kathryn AuThis book is a sequel to the author's earlier volume entitled, Literacy Instruction in Multicultural Settings. In addition to extensive updating of earlier material, this book extends the content coverage to include issues of power, attitudes, and systemic change through the application of discourse theory and critical theory. In doing so, however, the author has tried to maintain the brevity, stylistic clarity, and classroom focus of the earlier volume.Key features of this important new book include:*Teaching Flexibility. Although written with the classroom needs of pre-service teachers in mind, theory and research are treated in sufficient depth to make the book suitable for graduate courses and for teacher study groups.*Issues Organization. Each chapter is organized around familiar issues that characterize schools and classrooms with diverse student populations and explores these issues through new lenses that most teachers have not previously encountered.*Social Constructivist Perspective. Critical theory, discourse theory, and historical perspective are introduced in order to sensitize readers to the need to recognize negative, socially sustained patterns that hamper literacy achievement and replace them with positive patterns. To this end each chapter asks students to maintain a running list of negative patterns along with alternative positive patterns.
Multicultural Issues and Literacy Achievement
by Kathryn H. AuThis book is a sequel to the author's earlier volume entitled, Literacy Instruction in Multicultural Settings. In addition to extensive updating of earlier material, this book extends the content coverage to include issues of power, attitudes, and systemic change through the application of discourse theory and critical theory. In doing so, however, the author has tried to maintain the brevity, stylistic clarity, and classroom focus of the earlier volume. Key features of this important new book include: *Teaching Flexibility. Although written with the classroom needs of pre-service teachers in mind, theory and research are treated in sufficient depth to make the book suitable for graduate courses and for teacher study groups. *Issues Organization. Each chapter is organized around familiar issues that characterize schools and classrooms with diverse student populations and explores these issues through new lenses that most teachers have not previously encountered. *Social Constructivist Perspective. Critical theory, discourse theory, and historical perspective are introduced in order to sensitize readers to the need to recognize negative, socially sustained patterns that hamper literacy achievement and replace them with positive patterns. To this end each chapter asks students to maintain a running list of negative patterns along with alternative positive patterns.
Multicultural Issues in Literacy Research and Practice
by Arlette Ingram Willis Georgia Earnest García Rosalinda B. Barrera Violet J. HarrisThis volume brings together researchers and participants from diverse groups, reflecting the different ways in which the field of multicultural literacies has been interpreted. A common theme across the chapters is attention to the ways in which elements of difference--race, ethnicity, gender, class, and language--create dynamic tensions that influence students' literacy experiences and achievement. The hope of the editors is that readers will build on the experiences and findings presented so that the field of multicultural literacies will have a greater impact of literacy research, policy, and practice.
Multicultural Journalism: Critical Reflexivity in News Practice
by Margaret E. ThompsonThis book introduces a more collaborative and reflexive way of producing news that incorporates concepts of cultural identity and cultural positioning of both journalists and sources using a feminist approach to inclusion of all voices and perspectives. This text proposes a feminist collaborative model of journalism that incorporates critical reflexivity, requiring journalists not only to be aware of their own cultural positionality but also that of their sources, as a means of producing more authentic and balanced news coverage. The model is intended for use by journalists as well as journalism education programs to educate future journalists on how to effectively serve audiences with scrupulously investigated, reported, and crafted stories. Chapters explore journalism during the Obama and Trump years, current journalistic trends, and alternative media, and feature topics such as fake news, racism, sexism in news production and content, and immigration and media. Thompson addresses issues of power and privilege amongst journalists and marginalized groups, and how these implicate power dynamics of journalism practice and reinforce social inequality, particularly relating to race and gender. This book is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of journalism and media studies, as well as scholars, journalists, and media practitioners.
Multicultural Law Enforcement: Strategies For Peacekeeping In A Diverse Society (What's New In Criminal Justice Ser.)
by Robert Shusta Deena Levine Aaron OlsonMulticultural Law Enforcement: Strategies for Peacekeeping in a Diverse Society provides practical information and insight to prepare officers for culturally sensitive policing. The content explores the pervasive influences of culture, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation in the workplace and in multicultural communities. It also delves into topics such as gangs, victims of human trafficking, homelessness, mental illness, and international events and their impact on law enforcement in the U.S. The 7th edition reflects new and expanded information on issues facing law enforcement professionals and the communities they serve, such as implicit biases and police-community mutual stereotypes.
Multicultural Perspectives (Responding To Literature)
by David Foote Margaret Forst Mary Hynes-Berry Julie W. Johnson Basia Miller Brenda Perkins Susan SchaffrathRESPONDING TO LITERATURE MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
Multiculturalism and Multilingualism at the Crossroads of School Leadership: Exploring leadership theory, policy, and practice for diverse schools (Policy Implications of Research in Education #11)
by Jon C. Veenis Sylvia Robertson Jami Royal BerryThis volume builds upon emergent understandings about educational leadership and policy in hopes of continuing to refine our understanding of what effective leadership means in linguistically and culturally diverse school contexts. The volume seeks to entrench a deeper understanding of the broader leadership policies and practices that promote the success of linguistically and culturally diverse students, while also recognizing that effective leadership can be highly dependent on context. It offers original empirical research that enhances an understanding of the interdependencies between leadership, culture, language, and policy (i.e., the mechanisms that engender or hinder successful stewardship of linguistic and cultural plurality). The confluence of school leadership, linguistic diversity, and multiculturalism makes this volume unique, especially considering the pace at which global migration continues to accelerate, coupled with the need to accommodate an array of diverse learning needs in today’s schools.
Multiculturalism as Multimodal Communication: A Semiotic Perspective (Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress #9)
by Alin OlteanuThis highly readable book develops a numanistic, and specifically semiotic approach to multiculturalism. It reveals how semiotics provides fresh and valuable insights into multiculturalism: in contrast to the binary logic of dualistic philosophy, semiotic logic does not understand the value of truth in rigid terms of ‘true’ or ‘false’, ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ only. The value of truth resides in meaning, which is a dynamic, evolutionary phenomenon, rooted, nevertheless, in factuality.Drawing on recent developments in biosemiotics, the book presents a theoretical approach to multiculturalism, regarding the lives of people living in multicultural environments. Rather than analyzing political or economic phenomena, it offers a semiotic analysis of multiculturalism and discusses its educational implications. It also invites readers to regard learning as a phenomenon of ecological sign growth and to understand multiculturalism along the same lines. As such, it brings together the life and social sciences and the humanities in a unified perspective, in an approach fitting postmodernism.Developing a postmodern philosophy for contemporary non-experts, which allows distancing from political discourse in favor of a posthumanistic stand, where altruism is seen as an opportunity, not a threat, this book appeals to a wide readership, from scholars seeking state-of-the-art theories to general readers looking for a thought-provoking and enlightening read.
Multiculturalism, Higher Education and Intercultural Communication
by Damian SpiteriThis book explores how multiculturalism should be promoted throughout higher education due to its benefits for students. It adopts a strengths-based student-centred perspective and offers practical illustrations of how multicultural education can instigate students to understand each other and to relate to each other meaningfully. With the rise of international students in higher education across the globe it is crucial that institutions promote multicultural education for their wider communities.
Multiculturalism, Higher Education and Intercultural Communication: Developing Strengths-Based Narratives for Teaching and Learning (Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy)
by Damian SpiteriThis book explores how multiculturalism should be promoted throughout higher education due to its benefits for students. It adopts a strengths-based student-centred perspective and offers practical illustrations of how multicultural education can instigate students to understand each other and to relate to each other meaningfully. With the rise of international students in higher education across the globe it is crucial that institutions promote multicultural education for their wider communities.