1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910793894603321

Autore

Manco Jean

Titolo

Blood of the Celts : the new ancestral story / / Jean Manco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, New York : , : Thames & Hudson, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-500-77295-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

930

Soggetti

Celts

Celts - History

Celts - Origin

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-232) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The voices of the Celts -- The Gauls and Celtic -- Bell beakers and language -- The Indo-European family -- Stelae to bell beaker -- The iron sword -- On the move -- Celts vs. Romans -- Christian Celts -- Loss and revival -- Appendix: surnames and DNA.

Sommario/riassunto

The heritage of the Celts turns up from Portugal to Romania, from Scotland to Spain. Yet debate continues about who exactly were the Celts, where ultimately they came from, and whether the modern Celtic-speakers of the British Isles and Brittany are related to the Continental Celts we know from ancient history. So a fresh approach is needed. Blood of the Celts meets this challenge, pulling together evidence from genetics, archaeology, history and linguistics in an accessible and illuminating way, taking the reader on a voyage of discovery from the origins of the ancient Celts to the modern Celtic Revival, with some startling results.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780329803321

Autore

Villa Raúl

Titolo

Barrio-logos [[electronic resource] ] : space and place in urban Chicano literature and culture / / Raúl Homero Villa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, TX, : University of Texas Press, 2000

ISBN

0-292-79892-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Collana

History, culture, and society series

Disciplina

810.9/86872

Soggetti

American literature - Mexican American authors - History and criticism

City and town life in literature

Hispanic American neighborhoods in literature

Local color in literature

Mexican Americans in literature

Mexican Americans - Intellectual life

Setting (Literature)

Space and time in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction. Spatial Practice and Place-Consciousness in Chicano Urban Culture -- ONE. Creative Destruction: Founding Anglo Los Angeles on the Ruins of El Pueblo -- TWO. From Military-Industrial Complex to Urban-Industrial Complex: Promoting and Protesting the Supercity -- THREE. ‘‘Phantoms in Urban Exile’’: Critical Soundings from Los Angeles’ Expressway Generation -- FOUR. Art against Social Death: Symbolic and Material Spaces of Chicano Cultural Re-creation -- FIVE. Between Nationalism and Women’s Standpoint: Lorna Dee Cervantes’ Freeway Poems -- EPILOGUE. Return to the Source -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Struggles over space and resistance to geographic displacement gave birth to much of Chicano history and culture. In this pathfinding book, Raúl Villa explores how California Chicano/a activists, journalists, writers, artists, and musicians have used expressive culture to oppose the community-destroying forces of urban renewal programs and



massive freeway development and to create and defend a sense of Chicano place-identity. Villa opens with a historical overview that shows how Chicano communities and culture have grown in response to conflicts over space ever since the United States' annexation of Mexican territory in the 1840s. Then, turning to the work of contemporary members of the Chicano intelligentsia such as Helena Maria Viramontes, Ron Arias, and Lorna Dee Cervantes, Villa demonstrates how their expressive practices re-imagine and re-create the dominant urban space as a community enabling place. In doing so, he illuminates the endless interplay in which cultural texts and practices are shaped by and act upon their social and political contexts.