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Joe Hill: Integral (novela gráfica)

Autor: Joe Hill

Número de Páginas: 492

Un tomo recopilatorio, terrorífico y comiquero de Joe Hill. Joe Hill es la fuerza creativa tras esta antología de novelas gráficas que exhiben el talento del famoso cocreador de Locke & Key para construir mundos y aterrar hasta los huesos. Este integral incluye: La capa, ilustrada por Zach Howard; La capa: 1969, ilustrada por Nelson Dániel; Huella, ilustrada por Vic Malhotra; Kodiak, ilustrada por Nat Jones y Wraith (Espectro), ilustrada por Charles Paul Wilson III. Editorial original: IDW.

Teatro del Pueblo

Número de Páginas: 344

The Letters of Joe Hill

Autor: Joe Hill

Número de Páginas: 134

The legendary songwriter and labor rights activist reveals his personal struggles and political philosophy in this collection of letters. As a proud member of the Industrial Workers of the World, Joe Hill dedicated his life to the union cause. The original bard of the working class, he spread a message of solidarity and struggle through unforgettable, bitingly satirical songs. But after a suspicious arrest and controversial trial, Hill was convicted of murder in 1914. A year later, he was put to death by the capitalist state. In this collection of letters, many of which were written from prison in Salt Lake City, readers get to know the man behind the legendary songs. Hill corresponds with friends and fellow workers, discussing his case, his life, his music, and cheering on the Wobblies even as he faces death. “Joe Hill's influence is everywhere. Without Joe Hill, there's no Woody Guthrie, no Dylan, no Springsteen, no Clash, no Public Enemy, no Minor Threat, no System of a Down, no Rage Against the Machine.” —Tom Morello, from the foreword

LIFE

Número de Páginas: 106

LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

The Mythical West

Autor: Richard W. Slatta

Número de Páginas: 475

This cultural journey down memory lane showcases how major Western figures, events, and places have been portrayed in folk legends, art, literature, and popular culture. Ever since the days of the 49ers and George Armstrong Custer, the Old West has been America's most potent source of legend. But it is sometimes hard to separate fact from fiction. Did you know, for example, that Annie Oakley was a talented marksman who shot an estimated 40,000 rounds per year while practicing and performing for Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in the late l800s? Or that many interpreters believe that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is not just a fairy tale, but also a Populist allegory? These are just two of the folk legends dissected and examined in this veritable cultural geography. The volume covers everything from billionaire Howard Hughes and composer Aaron Copeland to Aztlan (the legendary first city of the Aztecs) and Area 51, the top-secret U.S. Air Force base at Groom Lake, Nevada, that has fascinated UFO and conspiracy buffs.

33 revoluciones por minuto

Autor: Dorian Lynskey

Número de Páginas: 529

Una historia detallada de la canción protesta, uno de los géneros musicales que mejor han definido el siglo XX. Para Lynskey, la obra fundacional de este género es "Strange Fruit" que Billie Holiday interpretó por primera vez en 1939. En esa canción se reunían la calidad musical y la denuncia de una situación ignominiosa. Es importante insistir en esa reunión de calidad musical y denuncia porque éste es el criterio que rige este libro por encima de otras consideraciones. Pete Seegen, Joan Baez o Bob Dylan fueron pioneros de una carrera en la que los relevarían REM, U2 o Springsteen. Porque, al llegar a cierto punto, música popular y denuncia parecen indisociables. Lynskey se ocupa de esta relación describiendo los movimientos sociales que se apoyaron en la música para difundir su mensaje

Cinéma V. La lumière écrit : mai 1971 - décembre 1972

Autor: Jean-louis Bory

Número de Páginas: 328

« La lumière écrit » est le cinquième volume d’articles consacrés par Jean-Louis Bory au cinéma. On trouvera ici les textes publiés dans Le Nouvel Observateur de juin 1971 à décembre 1972. Ils font suite aux textes recueillis dans Des yeux pour voir (Cinéma I), La nuit complice (Cinéma II), Ombre vive (Cinéma III), L’écran fertile (Cinéma IV).

Investigation of the National Defense Program

Autor: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee Investigating The National Defense Program

Número de Páginas: 1318

Part 41, focuses on Navy fuel purchase contracts for Saudi Arabian oil and businesses' use of institutional advertising for tax exemptions during and after the war.

Songs about Work

Autor: Archie Green

Número de Páginas: 378

These essays offer striking portraits of working environments where song arose in response to prevailing conditions. Included are the protest blues of African American levee workers, the corridos of Chicano farm workers, and the European songs of immigrant lumber workers in the Midwest.

A Language of Freedom and Teacher’s Authority

Autor: Fatma Mizikaci , Guy Senese

Número de Páginas: 324

A Language of Freedom and Teacher’s Authority: Case Comparisons from Turkey and the United States explores dimensions of authority that are deeply embedded in the profession of teaching. It examines critical dimensions of the foundations of Turkish and U.S. public education, both of which are under new pressures due to changes in the relationship between public schooling and current reforms in education. The contributors reflect on varied dimensions of authority, of which ideals are shifting under political and economic pressures. In both Turkey and the U.S, public education reflects the early influence of secular equalitarianism, revolutionary democratic developments, and an Enlightenment-based sense of the human right to education. Against this, we see the opposing dialectic where state control and curricular censorship and constriction appear too often.

Encyclopedia of American Folklore

Autor: Linda S. Watts

Número de Páginas: 481

Encyclopedia of American Folklore helps readers explore the topics, terms, themes, figures, and issues related to the folklore of the United States.

Solidarité forever

Autor: Peter Cole , David Struthers , Kenyon Zimmer

Número de Páginas: 491

Avec son slogan « Faire du tort à un seul, c’est faire du tort à tous », l’IWW a donné au concept de solidarité une définition très concrète. Ce slogan, à l’image des Wobblies eux-mêmes, a voyagé aux quatre coins du monde. Les luttes d’il y a un siècle résonnent encore dans les pays du Sud en voie d’industrialisation comme dans ceux du Nord en voie de désindustrialisation. Que les ouvriers du monde entier fassent vivre l’internationalisme et l’esprit des Wobblies, et alors ils seront assez puissants pour défier le capitalisme mondial.En plein déclin des organisations de lutte au travail et de l'État-providence, cette histoire internationale et globale d'un des syndicats aux revendications les plus ambitieuses revient aux sources d'un mouvement qui a essaimé dans le monde entier et rappelle l'urgence d’explorer des formes alternatives de pratique politique et syndicale.Peter Cole, David M. Struthers et Kenyon Zimmer, historiens américains spécialistes du syndicalisme, dirigent vingt contributeurs internationaux rendant compte de contextes aussi variés que la France, l'Inde, le Mexique, l'Australie ou la Finlande. Peter Cole enseigne l'histoire...

Famous Gamblers, Poker History, and Texas Stories

Autor: Johnny Hughes

Número de Páginas: 254

You have a great writing style, very credible, and entertaining. Those were dangerous times. Almost all of the guys are gone. A great book!... Doyle Brunson, Poker Hall of Fame, author. Hes as good a writer as he is a player. When it comes to poker tales...Johnny Hughes is your man.... Anthony Holden, London, President of the International Federation of Poker, author ... a captivating raconteur and avid historian...brings them to life with a unique flair and panache...(He) paints word pictures with witty, lush brush strokes reminiscent of Tom Wolfe... Paul Dr. Pauly McGuire, author ..the William Manchester of poker historians...a Hughes narrative is like lighting a lantern into the darkest recess of pokers subculture...provides the very best portrait of these unique real-life characters of anyone on record... Nolan Dalla, Media Director. World Series of Poker, author. ...the true story...of the beginnings of the phenomenon that poker has become... Crandell Addington, Poker Hall of Fame. Reading...is only paralleled by listening to him tell those stories in real time...like putting yourself in the same room as it all unfolded...when the mob ruled Las Vegas...the real stories......

Grassroots Leadership and the Arts For Social Change

Autor: Susan J. Erenrich , Jon F. Wergin

Número de Páginas: 393

This book explores the intersection of grassroots leadership and the arts for social change, examining the many movements and subsequent victories the arts community has won for society. The book illustrates the diverse but influential work of these figures, reflecting on their actions, commitments and their positive impact on the modern world.

Trials of the Century

Autor: Scott P. Johnson

Número de Páginas: 858

This comprehensive set of essays documents the most important criminal, civil, and political trials in the United States from colonial times to the present, examining their impact on both legal history and popular culture. Crime and punishment are of perennial interest across the human species. Trials of the Century: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture and the Law examines some of the most important (and infamous) cases in American history, placing them in both historical and legal context. Among the landmark cases considered in these two volumes are the 1692 Salem Witch Trials, the Scopes "Monkey" Trial, and the O.J. Simpson murder trial. A number of civil lawsuits and political trials are also included, such as the impeachment trials of Presidents Andrew Johnson and William Jefferson Clinton. Entries in the encyclopedia detail the events leading to each trial and introduce the key players, with a focus on judges, lawyers, witnesses, defendants, victims, media, and the public. In addition, the aftermath of the trial and its impact are analyzed from a scholarly, yet straightforward, perspective, emphasizing how the trial affected the law and society at large.

Songs of the Great American West

Autor: Irwin Silber

Número de Páginas: 353

Presents ninety-two songs of the American West, each with lyrics, a vocal score, simple piano arrangements, and chord symbols, and includes historical notes and commentaries, and over one hundred period illustrations.

Dylan at Play

Autor: Nina Goss , Nick Smart

Número de Páginas: 197

Dylan at Play offers a selection of writings that can challenge and engross readers eager for new ways to meet the singularity of Bob Dylan’s work. We have no interest in competing with the almost numberless and ever-increasing quantity of critical and encyclopedic writing on Dylan. Our goal with this collection has been play and not categorizing or defining. We solicited material that might, in sum, create a vision of both reverent scrutiny and mischief. In this collection, you’ll find writers who generally are not already fixtures in the Dylan Criticism industry. Here you’ll meet a webmaster, theologians, a linguist, a poet, a polyglot, scholars and teachers. The writers in this collection have heard Dylan’s art calling to them through their particular frameworks of meaning and expression, and the pieces here are a result of their abilities to find the voices to respond to that call. We hope above all that readers of Dylan at Play will become inspired to invent and play with their own experiences of this artist.

American Dissidents

Autor: Kathlyn Gay

Número de Páginas: 730

Anarchists, civil rights advocates, dissidents, and political pundits have all played key roles in shaping our nation. Examining modern-day individuals like WikiLeaker Bradley Manning and conservative video prankster James O'Keefe as well as those of prior decades like César Chávez, this book profiles controversial figures across history. The two-volume American Dissidents: An Encyclopedia of Activists, Subversives, and Prisoners of Conscience is a work that is as interesting as it is important, spotlighting men and women who are heroes to some, outlaws and villains to others. The 150 individuals profiled in this encyclopedia represent diverse ethnic, racial, and religious backgrounds, as well as various movements and ideologies. They are authors, anarchists, civil rights advocates, communists, entertainers, environmentalists, government officials, labor organizers, libertarians, military personnel, pacifists, political activists from the left and right, religious leaders, and suffragettes—all of whom have labored to change the social, economic, and political landscapes of the United States. Each of the profiles of 2,000 words or more offers not only biographical data but also ...

A Race of Singers

Autor: Bryan K. Garman

Número de Páginas: 356

When Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass in 1855, he dreamed of inspiring a “race of singers” who would celebrate the working class and realize the promise of American democracy. By examining how singers such as Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen both embraced and reconfigured Whitman’s vision, Bryan Garman shows that Whitman succeeded. In doing so, Garman celebrates the triumphs yet also exposes the limitations of Whitman’s legacy. While Whitman’s verse propounded notions of sexual freedom and renounced the competitiveness of capitalism, it also safeguarded the interests of the white workingman, often at the expense of women and people of color. Garman describes how each of Whitman’s successors adopted the mantle of the working-class hero while adapting the role to his own generation’s concerns: Guthrie condemned racism in the 1930s, Dylan addressed race and war in the 1960s, and Springsteen explored sexism, racism, and homophobia in the 1980s and 1990s. But as Garman points out, even the Boss, like his forebears, tends to represent solidarity in terms of white male bonding and homosocial allegiance. We can hear America singing in the voices of these ...

America in the 1910s

Autor: Marlee Richards

Número de Páginas: 148

Outlines the important social, political, economic, cultural, and technological events that happened in the United States from 1910 to 1919.

Choosing Life

Autor: Dorothee Soelle

Número de Páginas: 128

Dorothee Soelle, one of the most widely read theologians of our time, here presents a captivating memoir that is also her testament to radical Christianity, beginning with her girlhood in Germany during World War II.

Bodies in protest

Autor: Christophe Traïni , Johanna Siméant

Número de Páginas: 181

Research on social movements has historically focused on the traditional weapons of the working class, especially labour strikes and street demonstrations-but everyday actions, such as eating or singing, which can also be turned into a means of protest, have yet to be fully explored. An interdisciplinary and comparative history of these modes of action, Bodies in Protest reveals how hunger strikes and music ranging from gospel songs to rock anthems can efficiently convey political messages and mobilize the masses. Common to both approaches, the contributions show, is a direct appeal to the emotions and a reliance on the physical, concrete language of the human body.

Locke & Key 2

Autor: Joseph Hillstrom King

Número de Páginas: 164

La familia Locke se sobrepone al ataque de Sam Lesser en la casona Keyhows. Los Locke parecen haber olvidado todo aquello de las llaves mágicas, pero no será por mucho tiempo. La extraña mujer del pozo ha tomado una nueva forma para acercarse a la familia. Mientras tanto, llega a la Academia Lovecraft un chico misterioso llamado Zack Wells, quien de inmediato se hace amigo de los Locke. El pequeño Bode tiene en secreto una llave que encontró tras la desaparición de la mujer del pozo, y ha descubierto cuál es el misterio que encierra. ¿Cuál será el poder oculto de la llave? No te pierdas la segunda entrega de Locke & Key. Juegos Mentales.

Class War, USA

Autor: Brandon Weber

Número de Páginas: 199

This book tells the stories of ordinary people who resisted oppression and exploitation throughout United States history. Weber's short essays capture the little known moments of struggle when workers and veterans built movements of hope in the darkest of times. Using evocative imagery, archival photographs and descriptive text Weber brings labor history to life.

Inspired by True Events

Autor: Robert J. Niemi

Número de Páginas: 632

An up-to-date and indispensable guide for film history buffs of all kind, this book surveys more than 500 major films based on true stories and historical subject matter. When a film is described as "based on a true story" or "inspired by true events," exactly how "true" is it? Which "factual" elements of the story were distorted for dramatic purposes, and what was added or omitted? Inspired by True Events: An Illustrated Guide to More Than 500 History-Based Films, Second Edition concisely surveys a wide range of major films, docudramas, biopics, and documentaries based on real events, addressing subject areas including military history and war, political figures, sports, and art. This book provides an up-to-date and indispensable guide for all film history buffs, students and scholars of history, and fans of the cinema.

Encyclopedia of Populism in America

Autor: Alexandra Kindell , Elizabeth S. Demers Ph.d.

Número de Páginas: 1899

This comprehensive two-volume encyclopedia documents how Populism, which grew out of post-Civil War agrarian discontent, was the apex of populist impulses in American culture from colonial times to the present. The Populist Movement was founded in the late 1800s when farmers and other agrarian workers formed cooperative societies to fight exploitation by big banks and corporations. Today, Populism encompasses both right-wing and left-wing movements, organizations, and icons. This valuable encyclopedia examines how ordinary people have voiced their opposition to the prevailing political, economic, and social constructs of the past as well how the elite or leaders at the time have reacted to that opposition. The entries spotlight the people, events, organizations, and ideas that created this first major challenge to the two-party system in the United States. Additionally, attention is paid to important historical actors who are not traditionally considered "Populist" but were instrumental in paving the way for the movement—or vigorously resisted Populism's influence on American culture. This encyclopedia also shows that Populism as a specific movement, and populism as an idea,...

Reading and Writing Poetry with Teenagers

Autor: Fredric Lown , Judith W. Steinbergh

Número de Páginas: 194

This versatile volume combines examples of poetry from historical and contemporary masters with high school writing. Each chapter contains poems for reading aloud, poems for discussion, models for writing exercises, samples of student poems, and a bibliography for extended reading. Many teachers use Reading and Writing Poetry with Teenagers across disciplines. Writing exercises include: Animals as Symbols Family Portraits in Words Of War and Peace Writing Song Lyrics as an Expression of Social Protest

Changó, Decolonizing the African Diaspora

Autor: Manuel Zapata Olivella

Número de Páginas: 594

The crowning achievement of Afro-Colombian author Manuel Zapata Olivella, Changó, Decolonizing the African Diaspora depicts the African American experience from a perspective of gods who stand over the world and watch. The centennial anniversary release of this ground-breaking postcolonial text remains a passionate tour de force to make sense of our past, present, and future. A new introduction by Professor William Luis positions the book in contemporary politics and reasserts this book’s importance in Afro-Spanish American literature. Ranging from Brazil to New England but centered in the Caribbean, where countless enslaved people once arrived from West Africa, this book recounts scenes from four centuries of involuntary displacement and servitude of the muntu, the people. Through the voices of Benkos Biojo in Colombia, Henri Christophe in Haiti, Simon Bolivar in Venezuela, Jose Maria Morelos in Mexico, the Aleijadinho in Brazil, or Malcolm X in Harlem, Zapata Olivella conveys, in luminous verse and prose, the breadth of heroism, betrayal, and suffering common to the history of people of African descent in the Western hemisphere. Readers and critics of postcolonial literatures ...

American Swedish Historical Museum: Yearbook 1965

Número de Páginas: 172

Alan Bush, Modern Music, and the Cold War

Autor: Joanna Bullivant

Número de Páginas: 289

The first major study of Alan Bush, this book provides new perspectives on twentieth-century music and communism. British communist, composer of politicised works, and friend of Soviet musicians, Bush proved to be 'a lightning rod' in the national musical culture. His radical vision for British music prompted serious reflections on aesthetics and the rights of artists to private political opinions, as well as influencing the development of state-sponsored music making in East Germany. Rejecting previous characterisations of Bush as political and musical Other, Joanna Bullivant traces his aesthetic project from its origins in the 1920s to its collapse in the 1970s, incorporating discussion of modernism, political song, music theory, opera, and Bush's response to the Soviet music crisis of 1948. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources, including recently released documents from MI5, this book constructs new perspectives on the 'cultural Cold War' through the lens of the individual artist.

Beasts of the Field

Autor: Richard Steven Street

Número de Páginas: 944

Written by one of America's preeminent labor historians, this book is the definitive account of one of the most spectacular, captivating, complex and strangely neglected stories in Western history--the emergence of migratory farmworkers and the development of California agriculture. Street has systematically worked his way through a mountain of archival materials--more than 500 manuscript collections, scattered in 22 states, including Spain and Mexico--to follow the farmworker story from its beginnings on Spanish missions into the second decade of the twentieth century. The result is a comprehensive tour de force. Scene by scene, the epic narrative clarifies and breathes new life into a controversial and instructive saga long surrounded by myth, conjecture, and scholarly neglect. With its panoramic view spanning 144 years and moving from the US-Mexico border to Oregon, Beasts of the Field reveals diverse patterns of life and labor in the fields that varied among different crops, regions, time periods, and racial and ethic groups. Enormous in scope, packed with surprising twists and turns, and devastating in impact, this compelling, revelatory work of American social history will...

On Writing

Autor: Stephen King

Número de Páginas: 262

There is a reason why Stephen King is one of the bestselling writers in the world, ever. Described in the Guardian as 'the most remarkable storyteller in modern American literature', Stephen King writes books that draw you in and are impossible to put down. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King's advice is grounded in the vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999 - and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery.

L'Amérique et ses musiques

Autor: Francis Cisco Gayte

Número de Páginas: 554

A Country in the Mind

Autor: John L. Thomas

Número de Páginas: 272

In this beautifully written account, John Thomas details an intimate portrait of the intellectual friendship between two commanding figures of western letters and the early environmental movement--Wallace Stegner and Bernard DeVoto.. The authors of enormously popular works--Stegner most well known for his novels The Big Rock CandyMountain and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and DeVoto for his classic history of western exploration, The Course of Empire--they also played important roles in the efforts to stop government and private interests from carving up the vanishing West. Part of the fractious group of public intellectuals at Harvard that included Edmund Wilson, Mary McCarthy, and Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., they saw no contradiction between their literary and political selves and entered the public debate with conviction and passion. Drawing on their writings, personal correspondence, and dozens of articles from the pages of Harper's, where DeVoto was a columnist for years, this illuminating account demonstrates how their concerns for the western environment continue to resonate today.

Frank Little and the IWW

Autor: Jane Little Botkin

Número de Páginas: 513

Franklin Henry Little (1878–1917), an organizer for the Western Federation of Miners and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), fought in some of the early twentieth century’s most contentious labor and free-speech struggles. Following his lynching in Butte, Montana, his life and legacy became shrouded in tragedy and family secrets. In Frank Little and the IWW, author Jane Little Botkin chronicles her great-granduncle’s fascinating life and reveals its connections to the history of American labor and the first Red Scare. Beginning with Little’s childhood in Missouri and territorial Oklahoma, Botkin recounts his evolution as a renowned organizer and agitator on behalf of workers in corporate agriculture, oil, logging, and mining. Frank Little traveled the West and Midwest to gather workers beneath the banner of the Wobblies (as IWW members were known), making soapbox speeches on city street corners, organizing strikes, and writing polemics against unfair labor practices. His brother and sister-in-law also joined the fight for labor, but it was Frank who led the charge—and who was regularly threatened, incarcerated, and assaulted for his efforts. In his final battles...

Las vírgenes suicidas

Autor: Jeffrey Eugenides

Número de Páginas: 183

Una aproximación a la nebulosa de la adolescencia a través de la personalidad enigmática de las hermanas Lisbon. En menos de un año y medio, las cinco hermanas Lisbon, adolescentes de entre trece y diecisiete años, se suicidaron. Los jovencitos del barrio habían estado siempre fascinados por esas inalcanzables jóvenes en flor, atraídos por esa casa de densa feminidad enclaustrada –la madre era una católica ferviente y moralista que no dejaba que sus hijas salieran con chicos; el padre, profesor de matemáticas dócil y benévolo, aceptaba las muy estrictas normas de su mujer–, y las primeras muertes no hicieron sino ahondar el misterio y el espesor del deseo. Los Lisbon se encerraron cada vez más en sí mismos y en el interior de la casa, y los jóvenes los espiaban desde las ventanas del vecindario, trataban de comunicarse con las hermanas pidiéndoles canciones por teléfono, contribuían al intrincado tejido de rumores, a la creación de mitologías. Veinte años después, esos mismos adolescentes, ya en la frontera de la mediana edad, intentan desentrañar el enigma de aquellas lolitas muertas que siguen fascinándolos.

Después del entierro

Autor: Omar López Mato

Número de Páginas: 479

Historias de trayectos póstumos. Atraviesan estas aventuras los nombres de Voltaire, Colón, Belgrano, San Martín, Perón, Julio César, Lenin, Carlomagno, Alejandro el Grande, Mussolini y Paine, entre otros. La tumba no siempre es el final de una vida. Muchas veces, recién en esa instancia comienzan las más extrañas aventuras, nuevas historias que reflejan las tragicómicas e impredecibles conductas humanas. Estos trayectos póstumos son la continuación de odios, afectos y arbitrariedades. Desde la venta de momias como panacea contra enfermedades, el uso de corazones de príncipes como pigmento y el cráneo de Descartes exhibido en un museo, hasta los intentos por robar el cadáver de Lincoln junto al extraño periplo del supuesto cuerpo de su asesino que fue lucido en circos y teatros, y la cabeza desaparecida de Pancho Villa. Todas obsesiones por adueñarse del poder que emanan los muertos ilustres. «Tumbas sin descanso» relata las inquietantes historias de perturbación durante el reposo, producto de amores y pasiones enfermizas. Acaso el cerebro de Einstein seguirá flotando en formol, en una lata de sidra, hasta que alguien descubra sus secretos.

Crown of Thorns

Autor: Eyal J. Naveh

Número de Páginas: 257

"A provocative treatment of political martyrdom in the United States . . . . a well-crafted, thought-provoking book." —The Lincoln Herald "In the U.S., dead politicians and controversial reformers have frequently been called martyrs to a cause. But achieving martyrdom is more elusive than simply being jailed, murdered, or rejected in fighting for what one believes. This is the thrust of Naveh's argument, which traces the martyr motif in American political culture since the 1830s." —Choice "Drawing upon eulogies and obituaries, sermons and biographies, poems and public memorials, Crown of Thorns is most valuable in providing a taxonomy that helps suggest why some public figures sink into oblivion while a very few others belong to the ages." —The Journal of American History "Naveh makes admirable use of a wide range of primary sources, particularly those drawn from popular rather than elite culture . . . . well written . . . Crown of Thorns should be of some interest to all who are interested in the dynamics of cultural inertia and social change in the United States." —History

Chango el gran putas

Autor: Manuel Zapata Olivella

Número de Páginas: 351

Changó, el gran putas publicada en 1983 es considerada la novela más sobresaliente del autor. Narra la diáspora africana en todo el continente americano. América es el destino de llegada de las naves negreras repletas de miles de hombres y mujeres africanos, despojados de su tierra para cumplir inhumanos y ambiciosos proyectos de los colonizadores blancos, que veían resquebrajar sus sueños por la disminución de la mano de obra indígena en el Nuevo Mundo. No obstante, los esclavos recién llegados de África venían dispuestos a sobrevivir, avizoraban desde sus viajes trasatlánticos, sumergidos en la pestilencia de las bodegas de los barcos, proyectos de libertad. Se trajeron consigo sus cantos, sus rezos, sus dioses, su lengua y su árbol ceremonial, el baobab. La novela se divide en cinco partes de las cuales las tres primeras constan de tres capítulos cada una mientras que la cuarta y quinta parte están integradas por cuatro capítulos. Al final del libro se encuentra un cuaderno de bitácora a modo de glosario que define algunos vocablos asociados a la mitología africana. Para Jonathan Tittler, traductor de esta obra al inglés: “Lo que se destaca de la novela no...