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Challenging common assumptions and offering new alternatives in the debate over the current political status of women, this data-driven study indicates that minority female political candidates often have a strong advantage over male opponents when seekin

A collection of folktales from southern Africa.

One of the most important historical sources for a major part of Simon Bolivar's life.

A case study of twentieth-century changes within the Catholic Church and their impact on Brazilian society.

This literate and lively study explores the spread of American culture into international cinema as reflected by the collision and partial merger of two important styles of filmmaking: the Hollywood style of stars, genres, and action, and the European art

A critical evaluation of Ford's novels of war, tracing the development of the novelist's art in various phases.

Through a rereading of original Arabic sources and drawing from modern scholarship on the subject, Ibrahim offers a new interpretation of the rise of Islam.

This book covers the life and works of the great Cuban novelist, offering a new perspective on the relationship between the two.

A biography of the artist examining his complex relationship with the American West and how he expressed his imagination.Frederic Remington and the Westsheds new light on the remarkably complicated and much misunderstood career of Frederic Remington. This study of the complex relationship between Remington and the American West focuses on the artist's imagination and how it expressed itself. Ben Merchant Vorpahl considers all the dimensions of Remington's extensive work, from journalism to fiction, sculpture, and painting. He traces the events of Remington's life and makes extensive use of literary and art criticism and nineteenth-century American social, cultural, and military history in interpreting his work.Vorpahl reveals Remington as a talented, sensitive, and sometimes neurotic American whose work reflects with peculiar force the excitement and distress of the period between the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. Remington was not a ';western' artist in the conventional sense; neither was he a historian: he lacked the historian's breadth of vision and discipline, expressing himself not through analysis but through synthesis. Vorpahl shows that, even while Remington catered to the sometimes maudlin, sometimes jingoistic tastes of his public and his editorshis resourceful imagination was at work devising a far more demanding and worthwhile designa composite work, executed in prose, pictures, and bronze. This body of work, as the author demonstrates, demands to be regarded as an interrelated whole. Here guilt, shame, and personal failure are honestly articulated, and death itself is confronted as the artist's chief subject. Because Remington was so prolific a painter, sculptor, illustrator, and writer, and because his subjects, techniques, and media were so apparently diverse, the deeper continuity of his work had not previously been recognized. This study is a major contribution to our understanding of an important American artist. In addition, Vorpahl illuminates the interplay between history, artistic consciousness, and the development of America's sense of itself during Remington's lifetime.

The biography of a nineteenth-century German who became a leader of German immigrants in Texas.

The story of an archaeological site and the public reaction to it.

Croydon, England, was the setting of the famous three-way friendship of D. H. Lawrence, Jessie Chambers, and Helen Corke, all of whom made literary records of their association, and all of whom appeared as characters in Lawrence novels. Perhaps the most objective of these records were Helen Corke's, which became difficult to acquire. Their scarcity and their continuing usefulness were the stimulus for publication of this volume, which contains in four statements Helen Corke's "e;major comment on Lawrence the man and Lawrence the artist."e; The "e;Portrait of D. H. Lawrence, 1909-1910,"e; a section from Corke's unpublished autobiography, gives the reader glimpses into the earliest stages of the Lawrence-Corke friendship, when Lawrence worked to bring meaning back into Corke's life after she had suffered a tragic loss. The "e;Portrait"e; tells of conversations before a log fire, German lessons, the reading of poetry, and sessions over Lawrence's manuscript "e;Nethermere,"e; which the publishers renamed The White Peacock. In "e;Portrait,"e; Corke tells of working with Lawrence on revising the proofs of this book, of Lawrence's encouragement of her own literary efforts, of their wandering together in the Kentish hill country, and of her first meeting with Jessie Chambers. "e;Lawrence's 'Princess'"e; continues the narrative of the triple friendship, carrying it to its sad ending, but with the focus on Jessie Chambers. Perceptively and sympathetically written, it throws a clarifying light on the psychology of Lawrence and presents with literary charm another human being-Jessie, the Miriam of Sons and Lovers. In combined narrative-critique method, Corke, in the essay "e;Concerning The White Peacock,"e; relates Lawrence's problems in writing this novel and gives an analysis of its literary quality. Lawrence and Apocalypse is cast in the form of a "e;deferred conversation"e; in which Lawrence and Corke discuss his philosophical ideas as presented in his Apocalypse. Although the book was written to present Lawrence's ideas, its significance reposes equally in Corke's reaction to his thought. As a succinct statement of Lawrence's teachings about the nature of humanity, it has unique value.

How this Spanish poet and playwright uses humor to try to come to terms with what he sees as the essentially hopeless condition of humankind.

Includes series of questions and answers belonging to the well-established medieval tradition of the 'Demandes amoureuses'; a large number of riddles, mainly folk riddles; and 'venditions en amours,' little poems that apparently came into bing as part of a social game.

Cartucho and My Mother's Hands are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico.

Fleischman brings together theory and methodology from various quarters to shed important new light on the linguistic structure of narrative, a primary and universal device for translating our experiences into language.

The first full-length reference grammar of Mam, a Mayan language spoken today in the western highlands of Guatemala and the state of Chiapas, Mexico.

Three leading experts offer a new, standard-setting interpretation of how the Classic Maya experienced and thought about the human body.

Based on extended interviews at the Culipran fundo in Chile with peasants who recount in their own terms their political evolution, this is an in-depth study of peasants in social and political action.

A detailed description of the cuisines of the Aztecs, the Maya, and the Inca.

A dynamic array of top scholars from the sciences and the humanities present new perspectives on the mind and its literary quests, ranging from Hamlet to Kafka to Barrie's Peter Pan.

Refuting virtually every previous account of the founding and development of the American motion picture industry, this entertaining biography pays tribute to a pioneer whose many innovations helped to create Hollywood as we know it today

A ten-year longitudinal study of the impact of national, state, and local programs that address issues of digital divide and digital inclusion in Austin, Texas.

Inspired by anthropological writing on reciprocity and kinship, this book applies the idea of gendered wealth to ancient Greek myth for the first time, and also highlights the importance of the sister-brother bond in the Classical world.

Pioneering the field of media industry studies, Indie, Inc. explores how Miramax changed the landscape not only of independent filmmaking but of Hollywood itself during the 1990s.

Tracing economic, social, and cultural connections from colonial times until today, this book highlights the foundational contributions of Mexico and Mexicans to the United States-Hispanic capitalism, patriarchy, and mestizaje, or ethnic blending.

Taking a new approach to traditional Andean art that links prehistory with the present, this book illustrates the ongoing legacy of the past in contemporary art and the importance of art not only as a way of expressing religious ideas rooted in nature, bu