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Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an accessible guide to the
central concepts and issues that inform Latinx Studies globally. It
summarizes, explains, contextualizes, and assesses key critical
concepts, perspectives, developments, and debates in Latinx
Studies. At once comprehensive in coverage and detailed and
specific in examples analyzed, it provides over 25 key concepts to
the field of Latinx Studies as shaped within historical, social,
cultural, regional, and global contexts, including: * Body * Border
Theory * Digital Era * Familia * Immigration * Intersectionality *
Language * Latinidad/es * Latinofuturism * Narco Cultura * Popular
Culture * Sports Fully cross-referenced and complete with
suggestions for further reading, Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts
is an essential guide for anyone studying race, ethnicity, gender,
class, education, culture, and globalism.
Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an accessible guide to the
central concepts and issues that inform Latinx Studies globally. It
summarizes, explains, contextualizes, and assesses key critical
concepts, perspectives, developments, and debates in Latinx
Studies. At once comprehensive in coverage and detailed and
specific in examples analyzed, it provides over 25 key concepts to
the field of Latinx Studies as shaped within historical, social,
cultural, regional, and global contexts, including: * Body * Border
Theory * Digital Era * Familia * Immigration * Intersectionality *
Language * Latinidad/es * Latinofuturism * Narco Cultura * Popular
Culture * Sports Fully cross-referenced and complete with
suggestions for further reading, Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts
is an essential guide for anyone studying race, ethnicity, gender,
class, education, culture, and globalism.
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Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning - Third International Workshop, GKR 2013, Beijing, China, August 3, 2013. Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
Madalina Croitoru, Sebastian Rudolph, Stefan Woltran, Christophe Gonzales
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R1,580
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference
proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Graph Structures
for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, GKR 2013, held in
Beijing, China, in August 2013, associated with IJCAI 2013, the
23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The
12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and
selected for inclusion in the book. The papers feature current
research involved in the development and application of graph-based
knowledge representation formalisms and reasoning techniques. They
address the following topics: representations of constraint
satisfaction problems; formal concept analysis; conceptual graphs;
and argumentation frameworks.
From the influential work of Los Bros Hernandez in Love &
Rockets, to comic strips and political cartoons, to traditional
superheroes made nontraditional by means of racial and sexual
identity (e.g., Miles Morales/Spider-Man), comics have become a
vibrant medium to express Latino identity and culture. Indeed,
Latino fiction and nonfiction narratives are rapidly proliferating
in graphic media as diverse and varied in form and content as is
the whole of Latino culture today. Graphic Borders presents the
most thorough exploration of comics by and about Latinos currently
available. Thirteen essays and one interview by eminent and rising
scholars of comics bring to life this exciting graphic genre that
conveys the distinctive and wide-ranging experiences of Latinos in
the United States. The contributors' exhilarating excavations delve
into the following areas: comics created by Latinos that push the
boundaries of generic conventions; Latino comic book author-artists
who complicate issues of race and gender through their careful
reconfigurations of the body; comic strips; Latino superheroes in
mainstream comics; and the complex ways that Latino superheroes are
created and consumed within larger popular cultural trends. Taken
as a whole, the book unveils the resplendent riches of comics by
and about Latinos and proves that there are no limits to the ways
in which Latinos can be represented and imagined in the world of
comics.
From the influential work of Los Bros Hernandez in Love &
Rockets, to comic strips and political cartoons, to traditional
superheroes made nontraditional by means of racial and sexual
identity (e.g., Miles Morales/Spider-Man), comics have become a
vibrant medium to express Latino identity and culture. Indeed,
Latino fiction and nonfiction narratives are rapidly proliferating
in graphic media as diverse and varied in form and content as is
the whole of Latino culture today. Graphic Borders presents the
most thorough exploration of comics by and about Latinos currently
available. Thirteen essays and one interview by eminent and rising
scholars of comics bring to life this exciting graphic genre that
conveys the distinctive and wide-ranging experiences of Latinos in
the United States. The contributors' exhilarating excavations delve
into the following areas: comics created by Latinos that push the
boundaries of generic conventions; Latino comic book author-artists
who complicate issues of race and gender through their careful
reconfigurations of the body; comic strips; Latino superheroes in
mainstream comics; and the complex ways that Latino superheroes are
created and consumed within larger popular cultural trends. Taken
as a whole, the book unveils the resplendent riches of comics by
and about Latinos and proves that there are no limits to the ways
in which Latinos can be represented and imagined in the world of
comics.
A unique combination of biography and critical analysis, covering
major writers from outside the United States and their significant
works in fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction. A companion to the
award-winning Critical Survey of American Literature, this
comprehensive, six-volume set profiles major authors of fiction,
drama, poetry, and essays, each with sections on biography, general
analysis, and analysis of the author's most important works-novels,
short stories, poems, and works of nonfiction. The completely
updated edition covers 400 writers at the heart of literary
studies, and now, volumes will be arranged by world region. This
edition includes new coverage of contemporary authors from around
the globe. Among the new authors profiled in this set are such
well-known authors as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aravind Adiga,
Reinaldo Arenas, J.G. Ballard, Alberto Fuguet, Marlon James, Yann
Martel, Patrick Modiano, Orhan Pamuk, Will Self and Jorge Volpi.
The literary scope of this reference work is remarkable. Plus, many
original essays have been revised. The Biography, Analysis, and
Summary sections are updated to include recent developments, and
essays have newly updated bibliographies to provide readers with
the latest information on the author's works and sources for
further consultation. All essays include Discussion Topics,
provocative questions that will prompt classroom debates on the
writer's body of work, specific works, or life as it relates to his
or her literature. Aimed at students, teachers, and members of
reading groups, they can be used as paper topics or conversation
points. In addition, phonetic pronunciation is provided for an
author's foreign-language or unusual last name, and a Pronunciation
Key appears at the beginning of all six volumes. Five helpful
features can be found at the end of each volume: a Glossary; a
Category List that groups authors by genre, country, gender, and
ethnic identity; an Author Index that lists all authors covered in
the set along with their works; a Title Index of all works covered
in the set; and a Geographical List which groups the authors by
country.
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