University of Wisconsin–Madison

Day: April 26, 2019

Apertura: Photography in Cuba Today.

Link to Book Author Name: Guillermina De Ferrari Publisher: Chazen Museum of Art Publication Year: 2015 Apertura explores the way photography is understood and experienced in Cuba in times of transition. It includes photography-based installations, digital photomontage and “intervened photography” by eight contemporary Cuban artists. The exhibition explores how photography creates meaning in light of …

Nomadic Nation / Nación Nómada

Author Name: Rubén Medina Publisher: Cowfeather Press and El quirófano Ediciones Publication Year: 2015 Composed in English, Spanish, and Spanglish, these important poems reflect on the lives of immigrants/ emigrants, our restless spirits, and the human journey. “I called my poetics, una poética norteada, alien, nomadic. This term, norteada/o, describes a person who is lost …

Performing Brazil: Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Performing Arts

Link to Book Author Names: Severino J. Albuquerque Kathryn Sanchez Publisher: Madison: University of Wisconsin Press Publication Year: 2015 A field-shaping anthology by top cultural critics and practitioners representing a wide range of disciplines and art forms. This is the first book to bring together studies of the many and varied manifestations of Brazilian performance …

Reymundo de Grecia

Link to Book Author Name: Ivy A. Corfis Publisher: Parnaseo Publication Year: 2014 This is the first edition of the Reymundo de Grecia romance since its original publication in 1524. The open-access digital edition makes new, unique material available for study of the Hispanic chivalric romances and for understanding the relationship of Reymundo to the …

Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba

Link to Book Author Name: Guillermina De Ferrari Publisher: Routledge Publication Year: 2014 This book analyzes in literature and art the conflation of ethics, gender and politics that defined the Cuban Revolution, a strategy that helps explain its longevity. It examines the sociology of cultural administration of intellectual labor in Cuba; and it maps the …

Perros habitados por las voces del desierto. Poesía Infrarrealista de dos siglos

Author Name: Rubén Medina Publisher: Fondo Editorial Cultura Peruana y Editorial ALDVS Publication Year: 2014 Antología que reúne textos de 19 escritores pertenecientes al movimiento poético Infrarrealista fundado en 1975 en la Ciudad de México, por un grupo de poetas jóvenes. El libro da a conocer el trabajo de poetas como José Rosas Ribeyro, Mario …

Dark Laughter: Spanish Film, Comedy and the Nation.

Link to Book Author Name: Juan F. Egea Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Publication Year: 2013 Dark Laughter provides an in-depth analysis of the dark comedy film genre in Spain, as well as a provocative critical engagement with the idea of national cinema, the visual dimension of cultural specificity, and the ethics of dark humor. …

Cuando lo nuevo conquistó América. Prensa, moda y literatura en el siglo XIX

Link to Book Author Name: Victor Goldgel Publisher: Siglo XXI Publication Year: 2013 Winner of the Premio Iberoamericano (Latin American Studies Association) Winner of the Ezequiel Martínez Estrada Award (Casa de las Américas) This book analyzes the impact that periodicals (understood as new media) and fashion (defined as a pattern of cyclical renovation) had upon …

Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Theatre: Global Perspectives.

Link to Book Author Names: Paola Hernández Florian Becker Brenda Werth Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Publication Year: 2013 Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Theater argues that “human rights—both as a field of interrelated and often competing philosophical conceptions and as a network of actually existing social and legal practices and institutions—depend at every turn on acts …

Transmisión y recepción primarias de la poesía del mester de clerecía

Link to Book Author Name: Pablo Ancos Publisher: Publicacions de la Universitat de València Publication Year: 2012 En este libro se intenta precisar la forma primaria de difusión y de recepción de los poemas en cuaderna vía del siglo XIII. A partir de ahí, se proponen posibles contextos receptivos coetáneos del grupo de obras examinado …