Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect gathers fifteen essays by noted scholars in the fields of Latin American literature, politics, and theater. The volume offers broad overviews of the Colombian author’s total body of work, along with closer looks at some of his acknowledged masterpieces. The Nobel laureate’s cultural contexts and influences, his variety of themes, and his formidable legacy (Hispanic, U.S., world-wide) all come up for consideration. New readings of One Hundred Years of So...

Em uma sociedade dividida por classes, imaginemos que exista uma prova para as pessoas passarem para um outro patamar social. Imaginemos também que as pessoas começam a se questionar por que dessa estrutura, qual seria o abismo que divide almas entre privilegiados e descriminalizados? Imaginemos também uma pessoa perdida dentro dessa sociedade e suas divisões. Sem saber qual caminho seguir, como acontece na vida de quase todos em momentos de decisões. Porque simplesmente o caminho que pare...

The United States detains and deports several hundred thousand migrants every year. Many spend significant amounts of time in immigration detention as they await adjudication of their immigration cases. The Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey is located in a converted warehouse, managed by a private, for-profit prison company. Over three decades, migrants and asylum seekers have been brought to EDC directly from Newark Airport or have been transferred to the site from elsewhere in the...

The Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some elements of farce; however, Stanislavski insisted on directing the play as a tragedy. Since this initial production, directors have had to contend with the dual nature of this play. The play concerns an aristocratic Russian woman and her family as they r...

About the book: WillFloWillFlo, as created by William Giovanni Flores Diaz contains the first four letters of his first name and the first three letters of his father's last name. WillFlo empowers communities through hip-hop-inspired self expression, fostering mutual understanding and healing. His use of language demonstrates the power of the people from South Central Los Angeles and similar communities. WillFlo teaches how self literature is a powerful act of resistance and resili...

This edited collection engages with Marx’s General Law of Capitalist Accumulation, examining the relevance and actuality of Marx’s propositions for the analysis of contemporary capitalism in Latin America and beyond. The contributors offer an original and updated interpretation of Marx while also examining important topics in political economy. The contributors bring critical insights into scholarly debates on imperialism, exploitation, labor, and development.

The Texas Experiment: Politics, Power, and Social Transformation provides an all-encompassing view of Texas government. Authors William V. Flores, Christina Hughes, Anita Chadha, and Gene Preuss bring together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, to walk students through the state′s past, present, and future. Through the book′s rich historical narrative that tells the unvarnished story of how Texas came to be, depictions of the proc...

Misto único de conflito familiar e crise política, de amor e ódio entre pais e filhos, Rei Lear evoca o niilismo da modernidade ao mesmo tempo em que opera a história do século XVI e das primeiras décadas do século XVII.Muitas vezes considerado o ápice da produção dramática de Shakespeare, Rei Lear começa quando um rei idoso, em busca de um sucessor, acaba por escolher duas filhas indignas de sua confiança, em vez daquela que o ama. Por conta dess...

In 1952, Professor Allan Holmberg arranged for Cornell University to lease the Hacienda Vicos, an agricultural estate in the central Peruvian highlands on which some 1800 Quechua-speaking highland peasants resided. Between 1952 and 1957 Holmberg, with colleagues and students, initiated a set of social, economic, and agrarian changes, and nurtured mechanisms for community-based management of the estate by the resident peasants. By the end of a second lease in 1962, sufficient political pres...

Los estereotipos de género provocan discriminación y muchas de las veces esta desemboca en violencia. Si bien los derechos de la mujer han avanzado —como es el caso del derecho al voto, a la planificación familiar, a la educación y a ocupar puestos políticos, entre otros—, se siguen presentando brechas incluso en los derechos ya alcanzados. Estereotipar a mujeres y hombres en roles determinados es una conducta basada en constructos sociales perpetuados por generaciones. La deconstrucción d...

In the most recent Democracy Index, the Economic Intelligence Unit downgraded the United States from a “full democracy” to a “flawed democracy.” Democracy, Civic Engagement, and Citizenship in Higher Education takes a hard look at the state of American democracy today through the lens of one of the nation’s most important actors: colleges and universities. Democracy is more than voting: it includes a wide range of democratic practices and depends on a culture of civic participation. Critic...

En este volumen se muestra el quehacer actual sobre la gráfica rupestre. El análisis y la óptica personal, en cada caso, son el cimiento para establecer líneas de investigación y tomar iniciativas en proyectos como los realizalos en 1990 y 2005 sobre el mismo tema y que sigan dinamizando estos estudios. Los conceptos vertidos permitirán tener datos sobre su desarrollo, establecer un diagnóstico y, con base en ellos, proponer futuras líneas de investigación.