1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990001080410203316

Autore

Cornuéjols, Gérard

Titolo

Combinatorial optimization : packing and covering / Gérard Cornuéjols

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia : SIAM, copyr. 2001

ISBN

0-89871-481-8

Descrizione fisica

IX, 132 p. : ill. ; 20 cm

Collana

CBMS-NSF Regional conference series in applied mathematics ; 74

Disciplina

519.3

Collocazione

519.3 COR

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780973703321

Autore

Rodriguez Dylan

Titolo

Suspended Apocalypse [[electronic resource] ] : White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition / / Dylan Rodriguez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010

ISBN

0-8166-7073-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

973.049921

Soggetti

Filipinos - Social conditions

Racism - United States

Genocide - Philippines

Philippines Relations United States

United States Relations Philippines

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

Filipino American communion: cultural alienation and the conditions of community -- Deformed nationalism and arrested raciality: the grammar and problematic of a Filipino American common sense -- Its very familiarity disguises its horror: white supremacy, genocide, and the statecraft of Pacifica Americana -- Suspended apocalypse: toward a fanonian analytic of the Filipino condition -- Death was swiftly running after us: disaster, evil, and radical possibility.

Sommario/riassunto

Suspended Apocalypse is a rich and provocative meditation on the emergence of the Filipino American as a subject of history. Culling from historical, popular, and ethnographic archives, Dylan Rodríguez provides a sophisticated analysis of the Filipino presence in the American imaginary. Radically critiquing current conceptions of Filipino American identity, community, and history, he puts forth a genealogy of Filipino genocide, rooted in the early twentieth-century military, political, and cultural subjugation of the Philippines by the United States.Suspended Apocalypse critically addresses wh

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786246403321

Titolo

Interpreting the New Milenio [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jose Antonio Gurpegui ; assistant editor, M. Carmen Gomez Galisteo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, UK, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008

Newcastle : , : Cambridge Scholars, , 2008

ISBN

1-4438-1028-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Gurpegui PalaciosJose Antonio

Disciplina

810.9868

Soggetti

American literature - Mexican American authors - History and criticism

Mexican Americans in literature

Mexican American women in literature

Ethnicity in literature

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Mexican Americans - Intellectual life

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.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; MARÍA AMPARO RUIZ DE BURTON'S THE SQUATTER AND THE DON; THE LANGUAGE IN WHICH THE TALE IS TOLD; EL COYOTE Y EL GENÍZARO EN EL TEXTO DE DERROTERO Y DIARIO DE DOMINGUEZ Y ESCALANTE; PÍO PICO O RIÓ RICO, UN AFROMESTIZO EN LA ALTA CALIFORNIA DEL SIGLO DIECINUEVE; THOUSANDS OF LIVING YEARS, OF LOVING RELATIONS, FROM DRYDEN TO CISNEROS AND BEYOND; THE BRICK PEOPLE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL; PART II; LENGUA E IDENTIDAD EN LAS NOVELAS DE SANDRA CISNEROS; LA RECREACIÓN BICULTURAL EN SANDRA CISNEROS Y EL INGLÉS CHICANO DEL NUEVO MILENIO

TRADUTTORE/TRADITORE OR TRADUCTOR/TRAEDOR?PART III; ¿Y QUÉ HA PASADO CON LOS HOMBRES?; GUILLERMO GÓMEZ-PEÑA; VIETNAM REVISITED; PART IV; LA COMIDA MEXICANA Y SU FUNCIÓN EN LA NARRATIVA CHICANA; LA VIRGEN DE GUADALUPE ANTE LA FRONTERA DEL GÉNERO; EL LEGADO DE ULIBARRÍ; AZTLÁN Y ALÁNDALUS EN LA CONSTRUCCIÓN LITERARIA DE LA IDENTIDAD DEL CHICANO Y DEL MIGRANTE ÁRABE; EL SON DE CHAVEZ RAVINE; PART V; HISTORIAS, HISTORIAS, HISTORIAS...; THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET AND WOMAN HOLLERING CREEK; (POST)NATIONAL IMAGINATIONS IN ANA CASTILLO'S SO FAR FROM GO

BORDER AND MEMORY IN LUCRECIA GUERRERO'S CHASING SHADOWSSPIRIT JOURNEYS; DARK GIFTS, SECRETS AND OTHER WAYS OF KNOWING IN CHICANA LITERATURE; THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE MEXICO; PART VI; VOCES ÚNICAS; " 'A BROTHER IN THE DESERT'; THE BORDER AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF CLEOFAS ARAMILLO AND FRANCES ESQUIBEL TYWONIAK; POSTMODERN IDENTITY IN BLESS ME, ÚLTIMA; PART VII; MEXIFORNIA WITHOUT MEXICANS; LA FICCIÓN DE LAS CHICANAS EN EL NUEVO MILENIO; TRANSFORMING THE CHICANO CANON; PART VIII; LIFE TELLING; ASIMILACIÓN DE LA FRONTERA MEXICANO AMERICANA EN CARAMELO; CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

Interpreting the New Milenio is a collection of essays analyzing the past, present and future directions of Chicano Literature. Beginning with the presence of Spanish conquistadors in the U.S. and ending with contemporary authors such as Sandra Cisneros, Interpreting the New Milenio covers well-known Chicano authors as well as lesser known 19th-century Hispanic writers. The essays in the collection examine Chicano literature as well as its precedents as a whole, so as to find the keys for the...