Search Results - "Mexicans"

Feminism, nation and myth La Malinche /

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Encounter, Engagement, and Exchange : How Native Populations of the Americas Transformed the World /

Table of Contents: “…The pre-conquest aesthetic in modern Mexican silver /…”
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Before American History : Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession / by Mucher, Christen

Table of Contents: “…Ofering the "Indian" archive -- Storied lands of the "Old West" -- Mexico antiguo through americano eyes -- Nationalist science and the chronology of disposession -- Removal in the antiquarian archive -- An American Babylon in the Mexican Republic -- Epilogue: after American history.…”
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Empire and the literature of sensation an anthology of nineteenth-century popular fiction /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A note on the texts -- The female warrior -- Magdalena, the beautiful Mexican maid / Ned Buntline -- 'Bel of Prairie Eden / George Lippard -- A thrilling and exciting account of the sufferings and horrible tortures inflicted on Mortimer Bowers and Miss Sophia Delaplain -- The prisoner of La Vintresse / Mary Andrews Denison.…”
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Contemporary Sephardic identity in the Americas an interdisciplinary approach /

Table of Contents: “…Balbuena -- A taste of sepharad from the Mexican suburbs: Rosa Nissán's stylized Ladino in Novia que te vea and Hisho que te nazca / Yael Halevi-Wise -- The role of music in the Quebec Sephardic community / Judith R. …”
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Hemispheric Imaginations : North American Fictions of Latin America / by Breinig, Helmbrecht

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Alterity and identity : reflections on approaching the other -- Foundational narratives : some versions of Columbus -- Invasive methods : the opening of Latin America in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US literature -- Representations of the Mexican revolution in US literature -- Nature and civilization : nineteenth-century travelers and twentieth-century escapists -- Gendered perceptions of Latin America in twentieth-century US literature -- The post-Vietnam era : versions of realism -- The postmodern response : magical realism and metafiction -- Splintered foundations : postmodern and Native American versions of Columbus -- Canada and Latin America : Malcolm Lowry and the other as symbolic field -- Post-Vietnam and twenty-first-century Canadian visitors.…”
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Beyond cloth and cordage archaeological textile research in the Americas /

Table of Contents: “…Hattori, and Amy J. Dansie -- The Mexican connection : a study of sociotechnical change in perishable manufacture and food production in prehistoric New Mexico / D. …”
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Written culture in a colonial context Africa and the Americas, 1500-1900 /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword: Writing at Sea / Isabel Hofmeyr -- Introduction: the written word and the world / Adrien Delmas -- Rock art, scripts and proto-scripts in Africa: the Libyco-Berber example / Jean-Loïc Le Quellec -- From pictures to letters: the early steps in the Mexican tlahcuilo's alphabetisation process during the 16th century / Patrick Johansson -- Edmond R. …”
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