1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784377303321

Autore

Kaminsky Amy K

Titolo

Reading the body politic : feminist criticism and Latin American women writers / / Amy K. Kaminsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1993

ISBN

0-8166-8380-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 pages)

Disciplina

860.9/9287/098

Soggetti

Feminist literary criticism - Latin America

Latin American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Latin American literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-156) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Translating Gender; 2 Gender as Category and Feminism as Strategy in Latin American Literary Analysis; 3 The Presence in Absence of Exile; 4 Body/Politics: Alicia Partnoy's The Little School; 5 Gaby Brimmer: A Life in Three Voices; 6 The Uses and Limits of Foreign Feminist Theory: Elena Garro's Los recuerdos del porvenir; 7 Sylvia Molloy's Lesbian Cartographies: Body, Text, and Geography; 8 Cristina Peri Rossi and the Question of Lesbian Presence; Afterword: In the Realm of the Real; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Proposes a Latin American feminist criticism that is both regionally specific and in current dialogue with North American and European feminist practices.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790618703321

Autore

Sandys Celia

Titolo

Churchill wanted dead or alive / / Celia Sandys

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station : , : Texas A&M University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-4619-4947-5

1-62349-074-X

Edizione

[1st Texas A&M University Press ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Disciplina

968.04

968.0487 B

Soggetti

Prime ministers - Great Britain

Prisoners of war - South Africa

South African War, 1899-1902 - Journalists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers, 1999.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Gateway -- Preparing for war -- Cruising to a catastrophe -- The station yard -- Knight errant -- The Botha legend -- Into captivity -- The states model school -- Controversy -- Wanted dead or alive -- A soldier again -- A general on Spion Kop -- Into Ladysmith -- A lull in the storm -- Return to Pretoria -- Epilogue: a triumphal progress.

Sommario/riassunto

" . . . notable for its depiction of young Churchill, warts and all, as a very human character . . . ."-New York Times"A bestseller in the UK, this portrait of Winston Churchill, written by his granddaughter, unapologetically presents the future prime minister as an action hero in the Boer War. It's rousing reading. Sandy's affection for her grandfather is obvious, but she shows enough of his grandiosity to maintain a reader's trust. . . . Sandy's is fully aware of the extent to which her grandfather had a finger to the political winds during his exploits: he sought the limelight as aggressive