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While studying the theory and contemporary impact of 'embodied'
viewing, this book celebrates the emergence and development of
Visual Studies as a major subject of research and teaching in the
field of Hispanic Studies within the UK over the last thirty years.
By exploring current routes of investigation, as well as analysing
future pathways for study in the field, seven highly distinguished
Spanish and Latin American scholars examine their own entry into
Visual Studies, and discuss the major trends and changes which
occurred in the field as matters of the visual gradually became
embedded in higher-education curricula and research trajectories.
Each scholar also lays out a current research project, or interest,
concerning Spain or Latin America within the visual field. The
projects variously explore different media - including film,
sculpture, photography, dance, and performance art - spread across
a wide array of geographical locales, including Mexico, Cuba,
mainland Spain, and the Canary Islands. Offering a map of current
and future research in the field, this book provides the first
history of visual studies within UK Hispanism. It will be of
lasting value to a wide range of scholars and advanced students of
Spanish and Latin American cultural, visual, and film studies. This
book was originally published as a special issue of the Bulletin of
Spanish Studies.
Volume exploring the important but neglected Spanish female poet
Angela Figuera Aymerich. Angela Figuera Aymerich (1902-84) remains
an obscure figure among the Spanish social poets of the Franco
regime, her work almost entirely eclipsed by male contemporaries.
This book attempts both to bring her poetry to the attention of a
wider audience and to show how her work anticipates the generation
of women writers and poets who have emerged since the coming of
democracy. Focusing primarily on a selection of poems published
between 1948 and 1962, Dr Evans shows how her work has been
mistakenly ignored as maternal in essence and so of little interest
to the poetry of social protest in general. Using feminist and
psychoanalytical theories of language to suggest that identity
(andpoetic identity in particular) is constructed as the effect of
mirror images, the author argues that the `moving reflections' of
gender, faith and aesthetics mirror Figuera's struggle with a
fragmented poetic identity; through these concepts her work can be
read not only as a `moving reflection' of maternal femininity and
social injustice, but as an active attempt to retrace the
boundaries of female identity. JO EVANS teaches in the Departmentof
Hispanic Studies, Edinburgh University.
While studying the theory and contemporary impact of 'embodied'
viewing, this book celebrates the emergence and development of
Visual Studies as a major subject of research and teaching in the
field of Hispanic Studies within the UK over the last thirty years.
By exploring current routes of investigation, as well as analysing
future pathways for study in the field, seven highly distinguished
Spanish and Latin American scholars examine their own entry into
Visual Studies, and discuss the major trends and changes which
occurred in the field as matters of the visual gradually became
embedded in higher-education curricula and research trajectories.
Each scholar also lays out a current research project, or interest,
concerning Spain or Latin America within the visual field. The
projects variously explore different media - including film,
sculpture, photography, dance, and performance art - spread across
a wide array of geographical locales, including Mexico, Cuba,
mainland Spain, and the Canary Islands. Offering a map of current
and future research in the field, this book provides the first
history of visual studies within UK Hispanism. It will be of
lasting value to a wide range of scholars and advanced students of
Spanish and Latin American cultural, visual, and film studies. This
book was originally published as a special issue of the Bulletin of
Spanish Studies.
Luis Bunuel: A Life in Letters provides access for the first time
to an annotated English-language version of around 750 of the most
important and most widely relevant of these letters. Bunuel
(1900-1983) came to international attention with his first films,
Un Chien Andalou (with Dali, 1929) and L'Age d'Or (1930): two
surprisingly avant-garde productions that established his position
as the undisputed master of Surrealist filmmaking. He went on to
make 30 full-length features in France, the US and Mexico, and
consolidated his international reputation with a Palme d'Or for
Viridiana in 1961, and an Academy Award in 1973 for The Discreet
Charm of the Bourgeoisie. He corresponded with some of the most
famous writers, directors, actors and artists of his generation and
the list of these correspondents reads like a roll call of major
twentieth-century cultural icons: Fellini, Truffaut, Vigo, Aragon,
Dali, Unik - and yet none of this material has been accessible
outside specialist archives and a very small number of publications
in Spanish and French.
"Walk of Faith" is about living, growing, and walking in the
light. Every poem invites the reader to laugh, cry, sing, and pray
with the poet while taking a spiritual journey. Each poem speaks,
rather than preaching, to the readers about the universal
experiences of all who walk daily in their faith. Even the poem
titled "Gentle Sermon" is spiritually and realistically insightful,
rather than preachy. "Walk of Faith" is a collection of
inspirational poems covering more than twenty years that Jo Evans
Lynn has served as the unofficial poet laureate of her church. The
poems inspire and celebrate all occasions and people from every
social realm, joyfully flowing from childhood to adulthood, as a
girl becomes a woman of faith in a Pentecostal church. The
overwhelming message of the collection of poems is that "a
spiritual walk with God is a journey of hope, faith, and joy." In
every poem, whether serious or humorous, Jo Evans Lynn affirms that
the goodness of God is an ever-present force in our lives and that
there is nothing too hard for God.
JO EVANS LYNN, a native of Greensboro, N.C., taught nearly every
grade level and every form of English/language arts during her 37
years in education. She graduated from James B. Dudley High School
in 1967 and from Shaw University in 1970. She also received a
Masters Degree in Reading Education from North Carolina A&T
State University. She began her teaching career teaching middle
school in Charlotte Courthouse, Virginia in 1972, but spent most of
the early years of her teaching career in the Alamance County
Schools teaching Title I Reading at Clover Garden Elementary School
(9 years) and Reading Competency/College Prep English at Eastern
Alamance High School (5 years). In 1987, she transferred and
continued teaching Title I Reading, English, Journalism, Drama, and
Speech & Debate at various high schools in the Greensboro City
& Guilford County Schools in Greensboro, North Carolina
(Grimsley Senior High School-10 years, James B. Dudley Senior High
School-8 years, & GTCC Early/Middle College at Jamestown -2
years).
Her diverse experiences as a language arts teacher reinforced
her belief that even fiction should be based on real life
experiences. In all of her books, the reader shares her experiences
during the 1950s & 1960s as an African-American child growing
up on the "Colored" side of town in the segregated South and as a
teen searching for a place in the world around her in which the
rules of life and social order are changing almost daily. Although
her subjects are sometimes both serious and controversial, her
sense of humor and spiritual faith always shine through as she
"speaks" to her readers about the realities of growing up poor and
as the second eldest of seven children. She is the divorced mother
of three adult children- Janel L. Johnson, Clyde Lynn, III, and
Gloria A. Lynn.
JO EVANS LYNN, a native of Greensboro, N.C., taught nearly every
grade level and every form of English/language arts during her 37
years in education. She graduated from James B. Dudley High School
in 1967 and from Shaw University in 1970. She also received a
Masters Degree in Reading Education from North Carolina A&T
State University. She began her teaching career teaching middle
school in Charlotte Courthouse, Virginia in 1972, but spent most of
the early years of her teaching career in the Alamance County
Schools teaching Title I Reading at Clover Garden Elementary School
(9 years) and Reading Competency/College Prep English at Eastern
Alamance High School (5 years). In 1987, she transferred and
continued teaching Title I Reading, English, Journalism, Drama, and
Speech & Debate at various high schools in the Greensboro City
& Guilford County Schools in Greensboro, North Carolina
(Grimsley Senior High School-10 years, James B. Dudley Senior High
School-8 years, & GTCC Early/Middle College at Jamestown -2
years).
Her diverse experiences as a language arts teacher reinforced
her belief that even fiction should be based on real life
experiences. In all of her books, the reader shares her experiences
during the 1950s & 1960s as an African-American child growing
up on the "Colored" side of town in the segregated South and as a
teen searching for a place in the world around her in which the
rules of life and social order are changing almost daily. Although
her subjects are sometimes both serious and controversial, her
sense of humor and spiritual faith always shine through as she
"speaks" to her readers about the realities of growing up poor and
as the second eldest of seven children. She is the divorced mother
of three adult children- Janel L. Johnson, Clyde Lynn, III, and
Gloria A. Lynn.
Luis Bunuel: A Life in Letters provides access for the first time
to an annotated English-language version of around 750 of the most
important and most widely relevant of these letters. Bunuel
(1900-1983) came to international attention with his first films,
Un Chien Andalou (with Dali, 1929) and L'Age d'Or (1930): two
surprisingly avant-garde productions that established his position
as the undisputed master of Surrealist filmmaking. He went on to
make 30 full-length features in France, the US and Mexico, and
consolidated his international reputation with a Palme d'Or for
Viridiana in 1961, and an Academy Award in 1973 for The Discreet
Charm of the Bourgeoisie. He corresponded with some of the most
famous writers, directors, actors and artists of his generation and
the list of these correspondents reads like a roll call of major
twentieth-century cultural icons: Fellini, Truffaut, Vigo, Aragon,
Dali, Unik - and yet none of this material has been accessible
outside specialist archives and a very small number of publications
in Spanish and French.
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