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Vuelos vespertinos (Colección Argumentos (Editorial Anagrama) #564)
Par Helen Macdonald. 2021
"In Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics…
ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing songbirds from the Empire State Building as they migrate through the Tribute of Light, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk's poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds' nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife. By one of this century's most important and insightful nature writers, Vesper Flights is a captivating and foundational book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make sense of the world around us." -- Goodreads"La Malinche, a foundational figure in the history of Mexico, has been adorned with the halo of suspicion that enveloped…
Eve after her expulsion from paradise; condemned to silence and turned into one of the most frequent characters of Creole writing. Deified by some and demonized by others, she has inspired tragedies, romantic dramas, chronicles, poems and even cartoons. Like all mythical and historical characters, it is necessary to revisit her periodically, delve into our roots, review the mestizaje and rethink her present and past wanderings to clarify the multiple meanings of one of the most powerful cultural enigmas in Mexico and Latin America. This volume brings together the memories of the colloquium entitled La Malinche, her Parents and Children, with the participation of Carlos Monsiváis, Roger Bartra, Hernán Lara Zavala, among other well-known writers; and two new essays on this controversial character: a panoramic look at the myths, uses and customs that have consolidated Malintzin as the paradigm par excellence of mestizaje." -- Translation provided by NLSLas guerras globales del agua: privatización y fracking
Par Alfredo Jalife-Rahme. 2021
"Just as the 20th century was the era of the "oil/gas wars" that were part of the superpowers' geostrategic games,…
the 21st century is oriented towards the "global water wars" that have already begun in some areas of the planet, full of sea water and, paradoxically, where most humans are thirsty." -- Translation provided by NLSHistoria mínima de la revolución cubana (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
Par Rafael Rojas. 2018
"A brief and complete history of recent Cuba, from the generalized struggle against the dictator Batista in 1956 until the…
approval of the socialist Constitution in 1976. The Cuban Revolution was a decisive event in Latin American history in the second half of the 20th century. The Cold War consolidated Cuba as an international political actor, as Cuban leaders supported guerrillas in other countries in order to spread the revolution. The institutionalization of the revolutionary regime was a slow process full of twists and turns, conditioned by both internal and external factors." -- Translation provided by NLSNuestra hambre en la Habana: memorias del Período Especial en la Cuba de los 90
Par Enrique Del Risco. 2022
"|Our Hunger in Havana| is a book of personal memories of the 90s Cuban postwar period of peace that received…
the curious euphemism of "Special Period." In a tragicomic tone, the author describes and explains the debacle that brought cats and banana skins to the status of delicacies, pigs to that of urban pets raised in bathtubs, and the practical disappearance of public transportation, gastronomy, and alcoholic beverages. A national catastrophe told through the personal experiences of one who worked in a school, a museum, and a cemetery while trying to be young, free, and happy at the worst time in Cuba's history." -- Translation provided by NLSJuan de Juanes: escritores, editores, agentes literarios y otras glorias y calamidades
Par Sergio Ramírez. 2014
"Memory is also a sort of homage to the friends who have accompanied us throughout life, those with whom we…
share a table, books, travels and, in the case of Sergio Ramirez, revolution. In Juan de Juanes' vast map of memories, Ramirez traces the route that takes us from his beginnings as a writer, the triumph of the Sandinista revolution in his native Nicaragua, the Alfaguara Prize in 1998, to the awarding of the 2011 José Donoso Ibero-American Literature Prize, a few days before the suicide of the Chilean writer's only heir, Pilar Donoso. In the pages of Juan de Juanes, Sergio Ramírez tells us about memorable characters in his life, to whom he remained indebted, among others Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortázar, Augusto Monterroso, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Cardenal and Juan Cruz, his first editor and the starting point of this journey through Latin America." -- Translation provided by NLSIn vitro (Ensayo (Editorial Almadía))
Par Isabel Zapata. 2021
"In vitro is a pregnancy essay. On the page, the writing gropes its way through unexplored territory. In the laboratory,…
under the watchful eye of the microscope, fertilization is also rehearsed. Pregnancy and writing take place on that threshold of possibilities. In this book, Isabel Zapata shines a light--or a lens--on an experience that seems to exist in a tiny darkness. While life makes its way in a Petri dish, the author poses questions that reveal the rawness of a treatment marked by uncertainty: How is the desire to be a mother articulated? Is there really a resolved mourning? With what voice does what we keep silent speak? Who breaks in childbirth? In In vitro the hidden is revealed as a daughter begins to take shape." -- Translation provided by NLSLatinitas: una celebración de 40 soñadoras audaces
Par Juliet Menéndez. 2021
"Discover how 40 influential Latinas became the women we celebrate today! In this collection of short biographies from all over…
Latin America and across the United States, Juliet Menéndez explores the first small steps that set the Latinitas off on their journeys. With gorgeous, hand-painted illustrations, Menéndez shines a spotlight on the power of childhood dreams. From Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to singer Selena Quintanilla to NASA's first virtual reality engineer, Evelyn Miralles, this is a book for aspiring artists, scientists, activists, and more. These women followed their dreams-and they just might encourage you to follow yours!" -- GoodreadsGastronomía e imperio: la cocina en la historia del mundo (Sección de obras de historia)
Par Rachel Laudan. 2020
"Cuisine and Empire shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers.…
Laudan's innovative narrative treats cuisine, like language, clothing, or architecture, as something constructed by humans. By emphasizing how cooking turns farm products into food and by taking the globe rather than the nation as the stage, she challenges the agrarian, romantic, and nationalistic myths that underlie the contemporary food movement." -- GoodreadsA sangre y fuego con Pancho Villa (Vida y pensamiento de Mexico)
Par Juan Bautista Vargas Arreola. 1988
"Illegal, inhuman, and impervious to recession, there is one trade that continues to thrive, just out of sight. The international…
sex trade criss-crosses the entire globe, a sinister network made up of criminal masterminds, local handlers, corrupt policemen, willfully blind politicians, eager consumers, and countless hapless women and children. In this ground-breaking work of investigative reporting, the celebrated journalist Lydia Cacho follows the trail of the traffickers and their victims from Mexico to Turkey, Thailand to Iraq, Georgia to the UK, to expose the trade's hidden links with the tourist industry, internet pornography, drugs and arms smuggling, the selling of body organs, money laundering, and even terrorism. This is an underground economy in which a sex slave can be bought for the price of a gun, but Cacho's powerful first-person interviews with mafiosi, pimps, prostitutes, and those who managed to escape from captivity makes it impossible to ignore the terrible human cost of this lucrative exchange." -- GoodreadsPuño y letra (Biblioteca breve (Santiago, Chile))
Par Diamela Eltit. 2014
"In Handwriting, Eltit offers her reading of the Argentine trial of Enrique Arancibia Clavel for his participation in the assassination…
of General Prats and his wife, Sofía Cuthbert. The work's main concept is the literal transcription of documents generated by third parties, but also considers three brief texts, written in her own handwriting, that explain the book's motives and allow two reflections. The first, linked to her narrative staging of the book, to the use of third-party documents, and their function in the literary act; the second focuses on the documents' content that reveals the motives of one of so many political crimes executed during the Pinochet dictatorship." -- Translation provided by NLSJulia de Burgos: la creación de un ícono Puertorriqueño
Par Vanessa Pérez Rosario. 2022
"Vanessa Pérez-Rosario examines poet and political activist Julia de Burgos's development as a writer, her experience of migration, and her…
legacy in New York City, the poet's home after 1940. Pérez-Rosario situates Julia de Burgos as part of a transitional generation that helps to bridge the historical divide between Puerto Rican nationalist writers of the 1930s and the Nuyorican writers of the 1970s. Becoming Julia de Burgos departs from the prevailing emphasis on the poet and intellectual as a nationalist writer to focus on her contributions to New York Latino/a literary and visual culture. It moves beyond the standard tragedy-centered narratives of de Burgos's life to place her within a nuanced historical understanding of Puerto Rico's peoples and culture to consider more carefully the complex history of the island and the diaspora. Pérez-Rosario unravels the cultural and political dynamics at work when contemporary Latina/o writers and artists in New York revise, reinvent, and riff off of Julia de Burgos as they imagine new possibilities for themselves and their communities." -- GoodreadsManual de supervivencia: Chernobil, una guía para el futuro
Par Kate Brown. 2020
"Drawing on a decade of archival research and on-the-ground interviews in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, Kate Brown unveils the full…
breadth of the devastation and the whitewash that followed. Her findings make clear the irreversible impact of man-made radioactivity on every living thing; and hauntingly, they force us to confront the untold legacy of decades of weapons-testing and other nuclear incidents, and the fact that we are emerging into a future for which the survival manual has yet to be written." -- GoodreadsHistoria mínima de Argentina (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
Par Raúl Mandrini. 2018
"This book proposes a general approach to the Argentine past. It is an authentic synthesis effort that reconstructs the great…
avenues of a history in which politics, economy, society and culture are interwoven. The journey begins with the first human settlements thousands of years ago, and closes with the debates, conflicts and challenges that Argentina is going through at the end of the first decade of the 21st century. This broad chronology unfolds according to four moments: the original populations; the colonial period; the process of independence and national organization; and finally the contemporary era and the immediate past." -- Translation provided by NLSLlorando en el baño: memorias
Par Erika L Sánchez. 2022
"Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the '90s, Erika Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit,…
and disappointment-a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy, often laughing so hard with her friends that she had to leave her school classroom. Twenty-five years later, she's now an award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist, but she's still got an irrepressible laugh, acerbic wit, and singular powers of perception about the world around her. In these essays, Sánchez writes about everything from sex to white feminism to debilitating depression, revealing an interior life rich with ideas, self-awareness, and perception. Raunchy, insightful, unapologetic, and brutally honest, Crying in the Bathroom is Sánchez at her best-a book that will make you feel that post-confessional high that comes from talking for hours with your best friend." -- GoodreadsHistoria mínima de México (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
Par Daniel Cosío Villegas. 2021
"This classic from El Colegio de México is republished 44 years after its first edition. The events that have left…
their mark on the history of Mexico are recorded in these pages, from the uncertain steps of its first settlers, in pre-Hispanic times, to the also uncertain steps of those who went through the crisis of the eighties in the twentieth century. Between this and that, the reader can follow the course of the viceregal era, the formative period of independent Mexico, the modern stretch of the restored Republic and the Porfiriato, the Revolution and the years of 'political stability and economic progress.'" -- Translation provided by NLSZapata y la Revolución mexicana (Sección de obras de historia)
Par John Womack. 2017
"This essential volume recalls the activities of Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919), a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution; he formed and…
commanded an important revolutionary force during this conflict. Womack focuses attention on Zapata's activities and his home state of Morelos during the Revolution. Zapata quickly rose from his position as a peasant leader in a village seeking agrarian reform. Zapata's dedication to the cause of land rights made him a hero to the people. Womack describes the contributing factors and conditions preceding the Mexican Revolution, creating a narrative that examines political and agrarian transformations on local and national levels." -- GoodreadsUna vez fui tú: Cómo Encontré Mi Voz Y Hoy Paso El Micrófono
Par Maria Hinojosa. 2023
"There is no such thing as an illegal human being or an illegal immigrant. Maria Hinojosa is an Emmy award-winning…
journalist and was the first Latina to found a national independent non-profit newsroom in the United States. But before all that, she was a girl with big hair and even bigger dreams. Born in Mexico and raised in the vibrant neighborhood of Hyde Park, Chicago, Maria was always looking for ways to better understand the world around her and where she fit into it. Here, she combines stories from her life, beginning with her family's indelible experience of immigration all the way through the first time she heard her own voice on national radio, with truths about the United States' long and complicated relationship with immigrants. Funny, frank, and wise, Maria's story is one you will want to read again and again, and her voice will inspire you to find your own." -- Provided by publisherHistoria mínima de Colombia (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
Par Jorge Orlando Melo. 2019
"Colombia has been described as a legalistic and militaristic country, with a democratic and civilian tradition, but at the same…
time violent and repressive. An isolated country with a slow economic development, but with a successful economic policy that never fell into populist temptations. A weak State unable to occupy the entire territory, although controlled by an authoritarian and repressive oligarchy. A country with advanced social movements and guerrilla groups active for half a century, but with a strict liberal policy and an electorate without leftist temptations. Since 1930, the tension between liberals and conservatives, as well as the guerrilla uprising since 1958, led Colombia to high violence." -- Translation provided by NLS