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La revolución filipina: Las manifestaciones de resistencia anticolonial y conflicto identitario en la prensa hispanofilipina

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Este artículo examina la causa revolucionaria en Filipinas a través del estudio de la prensa hispanofilipina durante la transición entre el colonialismo español y el imperialismo estadounidense. Escritos en castellano por periodistas filipinos, los periódicos hispanofilipinos actúan como un espacio de resistencia anticolonial donde el pueblo filipino afirma su agencia política, se opone y negocia con dos regímenes coloniales, y aborda su conflicto identitario frente a la caída del imperio español y el surgimiento de un nuevo poder imperialista. Los tres periódicos de este estudio – República filipina (1899), La patria (1903) y La independencia (1906) – revela cómo la prensa hispanofilipina avanzaba la lucha revolucionaria de manera heterogénea y pragmática, extendiéndose más allá de la dicotomía entre sumisión y rebelión. Además, este artículo destaca la necesidad de analizar la movilización revolucionaria de Filipinas en los estudios de la guerra hispano-estadounidense y el...

Hacia una dialéctica de la revolución: el nacimiento del nuevo cine cubano

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The triumph of the Cuban Revolution led to the translation of the Cold War to the American continent and also established, as Pedro Martínez and Pablo Rubio explain, a new utopian paradigm of social change that in addition to disrupting the political equilibriums or status quo of the time, was projected as an alternative ideological framework to the rest of the Latin American countries. Departing from a review of some documentary works by filmmaker Santiago Álvarez as a pioneer figure of the new Cuban cinema, this article traces and reconstructs an archeology of a social imaginary of revolution that permeated the Latin American public sphere since the 1960s, to investigate its ideological content and reflect, in turn, on the traumatic dimension that structures all social imaginaries of revolution.

El triunfo de la revolución cubana desembocó en la traslación de la Guerra Fría al continente americano y a su vez estableció, tal como explican Pedro Martínez...

La identidad en los muros públicos: Análisis lingüístico y temático del paisaje lingüístico transgresor en dos ciudades catalanas

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Este estudio analiza patrones lingüísticos en la construcción identitaria dentro del paisaje lingüístico transgresor de Sant Cugat del Vallès y Santa Coloma de Gramenet, las ciudades de Cataluña con mayor (82,2 %) y menor (50,7 %) proporción de hablantes de catalán (Generalitat de Catalunya, Informe de Política Lingüística 11). Se recorrieron todas las calles y espacios públicos de ambas ciudades, y se documentaron 591 signos transgresores (pintadas, grafitis, carteles, stencils, pegatinas y otros signos creados sin autorización oficial). Se etiquetaron la lengua, la ubicación y el tema de cada signo en Adobe Lightroom Classic, y se identificaron correlaciones entre estas variables. El catalán es la lengua predominante en el paisaje lingüístico transgresor de Sant Cugat del Vallès, pero su presencia es baja en los signos vulgares y amorosos en ambas ciudades. El castellano y el inglés predominan en los signos que abordan estos temas. Por su parte, el catalán prevalece en los...

Narrating the Naturalist Novel: Matilde Cherner’s Approach in María Magdalena (1880)

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This article examines the narrative strategies employed in María Magdalena: estudio social (1880) by Matilde Cherner. I argue that Cherner’s work is a foundational and revolutionary contribution to Spanish Naturalism primarily for its narratological experimentation within the novela lupanaria (brothel novel) tradition. Though the novel follows some conventions of Naturalist fiction, it simultaneously resists and expands the boundaries of these conventions through innovative narrative techniques, layered narration, and an implicit critique of gender roles and patriarchal society in the novel’s structure itself. Rather than merely depicting the inevitability of social determinism, María Magdalena interrogates it by foregrounding a female voice—albeit mediated through male narrators—and exploring the limitations imposed on women within a rigid moral and social order. Through this complex interplay of narrative voices, pseudonymity and framing devices, Cherner challenges...

Cross vs. Crown in New Mexico 1626

Wed, 5 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Cross vs. Crown in New Mexico 1626

An Edict of the Faith Proclaimed on March 23, 1631 in Santa Fe, New Mexico Elicits Formal Accusations and Confessions of Sinful Behavior Before fray Esteban de Perea, Commissary of the Holy Office

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

An Edict of the Faith Proclaimed on March 23, 1631 in Santa Fe, New Mexico Elicits Formal Accusations and Confessions of Sinful Behavior Before fray Esteban de Perea, Commissary of the Holy Office

Information Concerning Baltazar Dorantes de Carranza Presented to the Real Audiencia de México November 5, 1573

Sat, 1 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Information Concerning Baltazar Dorantes de Carranza Presented to the Real Audiencia de México November 5, 1573

“Pacheco, el Holocausto, y la memoria del ‘68.”

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

“Pacheco, el Holocausto, y la memoria del ‘68.”

Listening to small voices. Rosario Castellanos and indigenous nationalism

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The article outlines the influence of indigenism on Mexican nationalism. It shows the presence of an intimate level of indigenism present into the each national subject. It describes the features and effects of this inner voice. The analysis is done through life and work of Rosario Castellanos during the 50's, where this inner voice acquire literary form. It concludes that indigenist nationalism had some aesthetic and political purposes.

“Arguedas durante y después de la violencia: cuatro hipótesis y algunas preguntas.”

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

“Arguedas durante y después de la violencia: cuatro hipótesis y algunas preguntas.”

Patrick Chamoiseau's Creole Conteur and the ethics of survival

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This article concerns the Creole Conteur in Patrick Chamoiseau's depictions of the slave plantation in Au temps de l'antan (1988a), crire en pays domin (1997) and Texaco (1992). It proposes that Chamoiseau's vision of the plantation be seen as a parable for contemporary Martinique, one that seeks to reinstate a redemptive history in which the past has a positive claim on the present. The article examines the tensions internal to this recuperative attempt, especially those carried in the relationship between literal and spiritual forms of hunger: the slaves' famine condition and the survival tactics of dbrouillardise compete with the spiritual nourishment found in an emergent collective identity. The article demonstrates that Chamoiseau uses the Conteur to redraw the symbolic boundaries of the plantation from an amoral grey zone to a cohesive Creole social order, making the plantation past relevant to the present day. It explores how Chamoiseau preserves the parable's frame...

They live to this day, they cause canancamapas: The Huarochiri Manuscript as a bridge to the future

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

They live to this day, they cause canancamapas: The Huarochiri Manuscript as a bridge to the future

Jewish Mysticism and the Ethics of Decolonization in Andre Schwarz-Bart

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Jewish Mysticism and the Ethics of Decolonization in Andre Schwarz-Bart

Writing in the Air: Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures by Antonio Cornejo Polar (review)

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Writing in the Air: Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures by Antonio Cornejo Polar (review)

Arguedas' "black butterfly": Afro-Peruvian characters in The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This article examines the representation of Afro-Peruvian figures in Arguedas' posthumous novel, El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo. The novel contains several characters of African descent, such as Dr. Gastiaburú, the zambo Moneada, and a couple of anonymous women. The article proposes that Arguedas constructs a coherent symbolic universe around these figures based on their physical vitality, thus counterposing the Afro-Peruvian characters to the indigenous and mestizo characters, who are associated with sickness and death. Although images of the physical vitality of blacks have a colonialist origin, Arguedas in this novel uses such images for his own purposes in his representation of his personal struggle against death and the struggle of Chimbote's Andean migrants to create their world.

Where You Don't Belong: On The Construction Of Cultural ‘Otherness’ In Leo Spitzer's Hotel Bolivia

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Where You Don't Belong: On The Construction Of Cultural ‘Otherness’ In Leo Spitzer's Hotel Bolivia

“Daguerreotypes in the South at New York Prices:” A Paper Archaeology of John Armstrong Bennet

Thu, 6 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The study of nineteenth century photography has focused for the most part on paper photography, acknowledging the years of the daguerreotype as a period of curiosity and experimentation while disregarding the impact of this era today. Available scholarship has sought to study these early images through archival and material approaches, navigating recurring historiographic voids and image losses, often in the form of national histories of the medium. This essay builds on the overlap of some of these histories to reconsider the production of photography in the Americas, namely through daguerreotype portraits and their fashioning as commodities by print cultures aimed at creating and seeking new customers. To do so, the article follows John Armstrong Bennet, a multifaceted tradesman and occasionally a daguerreotypist, on his continental journeys between 1840 and 1877. Bennet’s written traces allow for an archaeological study of the relations between early photography...

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Thu, 6 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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Manifestations of Spinoza’s Potentia: “Un violador en tu camino” at Santa Martha Acatitla Women’s Prison

Thu, 6 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

“Un violador en tu camino” is a protest-performance that combines language and movement to indict the state and expose its role in the perpetuation of violence against women. Created by the Chilean feminist collective Las Tesis, it was first performed in Santiago in November 2019. In the months following, it quickly spread beyond the borders of Chile, having been performed in cities from London to Istanbul to New Delhi to Mexico City to Montreal, and beyond the Spanish-speaking world, translated into over a dozen languages. This paper considers an attempt by incarcerated women at Santa Martha Acatitla Women’s Penitentiary in Mexico City to perform their own version of the protest within the prison walls. Through “Un violador en tu camino” the women at Santa Martha resist carceral discipline and produce an affectual connection with the outside that unsettles carceral space. This power of the protest lies in the coordination of voices and bodies in a combined affect, rendering it,...

Letter from the Editors

Thu, 6 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Letter from the Editors

Peter Neil Carroll. Sketches of Spain: Homage to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. ALBA Special Edition. Charlotte, NC: Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2024.

Thu, 6 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In this poetry book, Peter Neil Carroll compiles the voices and lived experiences of United States volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil War.

La possessió en el txitximec de Jonaz i llengües emparentades

Thu, 6 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Aquest article explora la possessió en el txitximec de Jonaz, el qual, amb una base de 800 parlants el 2004, és emprat a la Misión de Chichimecas, a l’est de la localitat de San Luis de la Paz (estat mexicà de Guanajuato). Es tracta d’una de les llengües més septentrionals de la família otopamé, adscrita al seu torn al tronc comú de l’otomang. No són gaires els estudis que s’han dut a terme a l’entorn d’aquesta varietat, la qual proveeix dades certament interessants per a estudis tipològics i relatius als universals lingüístics. Després d’un recorregut breu per les característiques principals del sistema lingüístic (a escala fonològica/fonètica, morfològica i sintàctica), abordarem el tractament que fa el txitximec de Jonaz de la possessió, tot emfasitzant la variació formal que es desprèn de la distinció establerta entre substantius alienables i inalienables. Amb aquest objectiu, es revisa i s’amplia l’anàlisi detallada de Lastra (2004), alhora que es compara la possessió...

PHILOBIBLON AS A DIGITAL TOOL FOR HISTORIANS OF MEDIEVAL IBERIA

Mon, 9 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This article provides a succinct review of the history and technological development of PhiloBiblon, one of the pioneer Digital Humanities projects for the study of the primary sources of the medieval and early modern literatures of the Iberian Peninsula. The warp and weft of its history are the four bibliographies that comprise it: BETA (Bibliografía Española de Textos Antiguos), BITECA (Bibliografia de Textos Antics Catalans, Valencians i Balears), BITAGAP (Bibliografia de Textos Antigos Galegos e Portugueses), and BIPA (Bibliografía de la Poesía Áurea). We describe how the program functions on the web, paying particular attention to the use of PhiloBiblon's key identifiers. Then we explain the proposed evolution of the project from siloed databases to Linked Open Data via FactGrid, a Database for Historians. Precisely because of this pending change, we wish to show medievalists other than literary and linguistic specialists, especially historians, how to make good use of PhiloBiblon...

La Sentencia de Dios: Aspectos legendarios de la sucesión al trono de Castilla y León en tiempos del Rey don Alfonso X, el Sabio

Sun, 9 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

La Sentencia de Dios: Aspectos legendarios de la sucesión al trono de Castilla y León en tiempos del Rey don Alfonso X, el Sabio

A Second Object Lesson Concerning Two Recent Editions of Spanish Colonial Documents of New Mexico

Thu, 8 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Spanish Archives of New Mexico, Twitchell numbers 114, 117, 68, 69

Facsimiles have been placed in the Supplemental Material folder

The Trial Before the Tribunal of the Holy Office in Mexico City of Doña Teresa de Aguilera y Roche, Wife of the Governor of New Mexico, Don Bernardo López de Mendizábal, on Suspicion of Practicing Jewish Rites (1664) Archivo General de la Nación, México. Ramo Inquisición, vol. 596, fols. 1-277

Wed, 7 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Facsimiles of the trial transcript.

Acotaciones gramaticales y léxicas a la edición de Carmen de Mora de Pedro de Castañeda y Nájera, Relación de la Jornada de Cíbola publicada en Las siete ciudades de Cíbola:Textos y testimonios sobre la expedición de Vázquez Coronado (Sevilla: Alfar, 1992), págs. 57-144

Tue, 6 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Detailed annotation of the edition of Carmen de Mora (Sevilla: Alfar, 1992).

Dossier concerning the abuses of Luis de Rosas, governor of New Mexico (1637-1641), his murder in 1641, and the extrajudicial execution of the alleged conspirators in the murder by Alonso Pacheco de Heredia, governor of New Mexico (1642-1644)

Mon, 5 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Edition and translation of a dossier (expediente) concerning the abuses of the governor of New Mexico (1637-1641), his murder in 1641, and the extrajudicial execution of the alleged conspirators in the murder by Alonso Pacheco de Heredia, governor of New Mexico (1642-1644)

Zaldívar and the Cattle of Cíbola: Vicente de Zaldívar’s Report of His Expedition to the Buffalo Plains in 1598

Fri, 2 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Edition and translation of the documents concerning the expedition of Vicente de Zaldívar to the buffalo plains in 1598.

The Trial of Nicolás Ortiz, accused of the murder of don Luis de Rosas Governor of New Mexico in 1641.

Fri, 2 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Request for information concerning the proceedings of the trial of Nicolás Otiz, accused of murdering don Luis de Rosas, Governor of New Mexico, in 1641, missing from the Parral archives, as well as the transcription of the proceedings commissioned by France V. Scholes.

Philological Notes on the Hammond and Rey Translation of the Relación de la Entrada que hizo en el Nuevo México Francisco Sánchez Chamuscado en junio de 1581 by Hernán Gallegos, Notary of the Expedition

Thu, 1 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The original article is elaborated with extensive illustrative material.

Transcription of documents: a critique of Richard Flint, Great Cruelties Have Been Reported: The1544 Investigation of the Coronado Expedition. Dallas: SouthernMethodist University Press, 2002.

Thu, 1 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Unfinished critique of the transcription method used by Richard Flint in his editions of Coronado documents.

An Object Lesson: Why We Need Good Editions of the Documents of the Hispanic Southwest

Thu, 1 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

An Object Lesson: Why We Need Good Editions of the Documents of the Hispanic Southwest

Introducción a la filología y paleografía de los documentos hispánicos coloniales del suroeste de los Estados Unidos: Manual para principiantes

Thu, 1 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Introducción a la filología y paleografía de los documentos hispánicos coloniales del suroeste de los Estados Unidos: Manual para principiantes

Acotaciones sobre los cantos 14-34 de Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá, Historia de la Nueva México (1610)

Tue, 30 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Acotaciones sobre los cantos 14-34 hechas sobre el ejemplar de la Biblioteca Bancroft, incompletas pero lo suficientemente abundandes que puedan ser de utilidad para los que se dedican a estudiar el poema.

La guerra justa en Nuevo Mexico en 1598-1599 Initium 7 (2002)

Tue, 30 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Analiza la opinión de los padres franscicanos con respecto a la represalia de los españoles fulminada contra el pueblo de Acoma 1598-1599.

Transcription of the second extant manuscript of the Valverde Interrogatory, concerning Juan de Oñate's expedition to Quivira Bosque de Chapultepec, 22 abril 1602

Mon, 29 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Transcription of the second extant manuscript of the Valverde Interrogatory, concerning Juan de Oñate's expedition to Quivira (modern day Kansas) in 1601.

Inventory of the Possessions of don Diego de Vargas for his Last Will and Testament (1704).

Sat, 27 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Diego de Vargas' Last Will and Testament (1704) contains a remarkable number of unusual lexical items, some of which I have been unable to identify. An addendum follows the text of the conference paper.

Juan de Frías Salazar ’s Inspection of Juan de Oñate’s Equipment and Personnel Destined for the Conquest of Nuevo México November 16, 1597–Februrary 2, 1598

Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Juan de Frías Salazar ’s Inspection of Juan de Oñate’s Equipment and Personnel Destined for the Conquest of Nuevo México November 16, 1597–Februrary 2, 1598

PhiloBiblon y el mundo wiki

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

After a homage to Gemma Avenoza and a brief review of the technological changes in PhiloBiblon since 1987, there follows a description of the current project, “PhiloBiblon: From Siloed Databases to Linked Open Data via Wikibase: Proof of Concept”. The current rigid structure, with its ten relational tables and almost 1,300 data fields, is abandoned in favor of a much more flexible structure of “triples,” records based on a series of statements of the type Entity + Property + Entity, using the system of Wikidata, in which two entities Q are linked by a property P, e.g., Santillana (Q2877) writes (P50) the “Comedieta de Ponza” (Q390408).

PhiloBiblon and the Wiki World: Sustainable Technology

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

After a brief review of the technological changes in PhiloBiblon since 1987, there follows a description of the current project, "PhiloBiblon: From Siloed Databases to Linked Open Data via Wikibase: Proof of Concept". The current rigid structure, with its ten relational tables and almost 1,300 data fields, is abandoned in favor of a much more flexible structure of “triples,” records based on a series of statements of the type Entity + Property + Entity, using the system of Wikidata, in which two entities Q are linked by a property P, e.g., Santillana (Q2877) writes (P50) the “Comedieta de Ponza” (Q390408).

Yakov Malkiel . Ramón Menéndez Pidal y la lingüística . Ed. Rosa Bona. Nota preliminar de Francisco Rico. Prólogos de Charles B. Faulhaber y Steven N. Dworkin. Índices de Miguel Requena. Madrid: Centro para la edición de los clásicos españoles, 2018.

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Yakov Malkiel . Ramón Menéndez Pidal y la lingüística . Ed. Rosa Bona. Nota preliminar de Francisco Rico. Prólogos de Charles B. Faulhaber y Steven N. Dworkin. Índices de Miguel Requena. Madrid: Centro para la edición de los clásicos españoles, 2018.

PhiloBiblon y el mundo wiki

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

After a brief review of the technological changes in PhiloBiblon since 1987, there follows a description of the current project, “PhiloBiblon: From Siloed Databases to Linked Open Data via Wikibase: Proof of Concept”. The current rigid structure, with its ten relational tables and almost 1,300 data fields, is abandoned in favor of a much more f lexible structure of “triples,” records based on a series of statements of the type Entity + Property + Entity, using the system of Wikidata, in which two entities Q are linked by a property P, e.g., Santillana (Q2877) writes (P50) the “Comedieta de Ponza” (Q390408).

Cristóbal de Oñate, Acting Governor of New México, Exiles Juan López Holguín from the Pueblo of San Gabriel December 1, 1604

Fri, 6 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Cristóbal de Oñate, Acting Governor of New México, Exiles Juan López Holguín from the Pueblo of San Gabriel December 1, 1604

‘Estou asperamente viva’: on identity and the posthuman in Clarice Lispector’s A Paixão Segundo G.H. and Água Viva

Mon, 4 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

For Brazilian author Clarice Lispector, writing was an act of self-interrogation and of becoming for her characters as well as for herself. This article explores two of Lispector’s novels, A Paixão Segundo G.H. (1964) and Água Viva (1973), in relation to posthuman theory, in particular Rosi Braidotti’s The Posthuman (2013). Braidotti's work complements that of Lispector, for it asks where the posthuman condition places humanity today; what new forms of subjectivity it supports; and whether the posthuman engenders its own form of inhumanity. Indeed, analyzing these books through a posthumanist lens enables exploration of various questions surrounding identity and human nature. This article consequently examines key concepts in both Lispector’s and Braidotti’s writing such as the individual questioning what it means to be human; the conflict between the individual and society, specifically in relation to concepts of time and the animal; and the broader challenge of navigating...

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Mon, 4 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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From Cannibalism to Global Mastication: When Glissant, Ruiz, and the Tropicália movement chew on Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago

Mon, 4 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This paper aims to analyze the influence of Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago on the musical, literary, and cinematic works of the Brazilian musicians Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, the Martinican writer Edouard Glissant, and the Chilean director Raúl Ruiz.

Though a filiation between de Andrade’s Manifesto and the Tropicália movement has been drawn by several authors such as Dunn, Sovik, Harvey, Moehn, and the tropicalists themselves, approaching the work of Glissant and Ruiz through the legacy of cultural anthropophagy is less common. This paper argues however that analyzing the continuity between the postcolonial tone of de Andrade’s manifesto and the center-periphery dynamic present in the Tropicália movement, Glissant and Ruiz’s works can help shed new light on Veloso and Gil’s first album Tropicália: ou panis et circencis (1968), Glissant’s Poétique de la relation, and Ruiz’s Poétique du cinema. When de Andrade uses his Manifesto to defend the authenticity...

De materialista-histérica a santa-loca: Re-escribiendo el Yo de Lina Mascareñas en Dulce Dueño de Pardo Bazán

Mon, 4 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Lina Mascareñas, personaje central de la de la última novela de Emilia Pardo Bazán, Dulce Dueño escrita en 1911, excluida de la crítica por muchos años, recupera su protagonismo al ser analizada bajo la perspectiva de género. Dulce Dueño pasa de ser considerada una obra mística y de conversión no convincente, a ser una novela con temas actuales al encontrarse en ella características concluyentes de empoderamiento femenino. El objetivo de este ensayo es profundizar en la búsqueda de independencia, igualdad y empoderamiento mental, sexual, corporal y espiritual que atraviesa la protagonista de Dulce Dueño . Para tal efecto consideraré la posición de varios artículos y textos donde se analiza al personaje de Lina y su paulatina transformación ante la crítica desde la reaparición de Dulce Dueño en la crítica del siglo XX, no con la idea de negar o desestimar los estudios...

Letter from the Editors

Mon, 4 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Letter from the Editors

TEARS & FRONTEARS

Mon, 4 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

TEARS & FRONTEARS

White Supremacy and Resistance in Bacurau’s Brazilian Northeast

Mon, 4 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In 2019, co-directors Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho released Bacurau , a Brazilian film that centers on its namesake: a small, diverse community in the Northeast of Brazil under siege by escalating acts of white supremacist abuse and violence. The sertão—a vast, dry and sparsely populated landscape in the Northeast of Brazil—is notorious for its underdevelopment and intense, devastating droughts. The region is situated at the historical intersection of colonialism and racial violence. White settlement, the slave trade and the theft of indigenous land have transformed the unsubdued sertão into a landscape of resistance. Historically, Black people have liberated themselves from port cities and populous colonial settlements; and fled into the sertão where indigenous people had not been uprooted, and where they established quilombos, or Black autonomous communities of resistance. Bacurau explores these complex cultural dynamics and...

Alonso de Posada’s Report on the Geography of North America 14 March 1686

Sat, 10 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Alonso de Posada’s Report on the Geography of North America 14 March 1686

The Pursuit of the Inhabitants of Picurís Pueblo by Diego de Vargas October 22-November 8, 1696

Thu, 5 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The Pursuit of the Inhabitants of Picurís Pueblo by Diego de Vargas October 22-November 8, 1696

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Mon, 2 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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