La segregazione urbana / Marco Oberti, Emond Préteceille ; prefazione di Paolo Calza Bini ; premessa di Bruno Cousin ; traduzione di Viola Giulia Milocco

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910288852903321
• Autore: Oberti, Marco
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Canterano : Aracne, 2017
• ISBN: 978-88-255-0220-6
• Descrizione fisica: 141 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
• Collana: Sociologia, economia e territorio ; 4
• Altri autori (Persone): Preteceille, Edmond
• Disciplina: 711.092
• Locazione: FSPBC
• Collocazione: IX B 164 (4)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Buenas noches, American culture [[electronic resource] ] : Latina/o aesthetics of night / / María DeGuzmán

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462443003321
• Autore: DeGuzmán María
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2012
• ISBN: 1-280-69644-3; 9786613673404; 0-253-00190-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (326 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/868073
• Soggetti: American literature - Hispanic American authors - History and criticism; Night in literature; Central American literature - History and criticism; Latin American literature - History and criticism; Night in art; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Critically inhabiting the night -- Dreaded non-identities of night: night and shadows in Chicana/o cultural production -- Queer "tropics" of night and the caribe of "American" (post) modernism -- Postcolonial pre-columbian cosmologies of night in contemporary U.S.-based Central American texts -- Transcultural night work of U.S.-based South American cultural producers -- Conclusion: Two homelands have I: "America" and the night.
• Sommario/riassunto: Often treated like night itself-both visible and invisible, feared and romanticized-Latina/os make up the largest minority group in the US. In her newest work, María DeGuzmán explores representations of night in art and literature from the Caribbean, Colombia, Central and South America, and the US, calling into question night's effect on the formation of identity for Latina/os in and outside of the US. She takes as her subject novels, short stories, poetry, essays, non-fiction, photo-fictions, photography, and film, and examines these texts through the lenses of nationhood, sexuality, human