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Sequoia Books Coping With Psoriasis
Book SynopsisExpert advice and practical tips will help you navigate the emotional challenges and improve your psychological wellbeing, making this an essential book for anyone with psoriasis, as well as those who support them, including their family, friends and clinicians.
£16.14
University of Wales Press Theatre Censorship in Spain, 1931–1985
Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive study of the impact of censorship on theatre in twentieth-century Spain. It draws on extensive archival evidence, vivid personal testimonies and in-depth analysis of legislation to document the different kinds of theatre censorship practised during the Second Republic (1931–6), the civil war (1936–9), the Franco dictatorship (1939–75) and the transition to democracy (1975–85). Changes in criteria, administrative structures and personnel from these periods are traced in relation to wider political, social and cultural developments, and the responses of playwrights, directors and companies are explored. With a focus on censorship, new light is cast on particular theatremakers and their work, the conditions in which all kinds of theatre were produced, the construction of genres and canons, as well as on broader cultural history and changing ideological climate – all of which are linked to reflections on the nature of censorship and the relationship between culture and the state.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of illustrations List of abbreviations Introduction 1. The Evolution of Theatre Censorship in Spain from the 1830s to the 1930s 2. Un teatro de ida y vuelta: All Change and No Change in the Second Republic and the Civil War Case Study: Santa Teresita del Niño Jesús, by Vicente Mena Pérez 3. The Franco Dictatorship: Censorship as ‘Propaganda’, ‘Education’ and ‘Information’ Case Study: La casa de Bernarda Alba, by Federico García Lorca 4. The Pervasiveness of Censorship during the Dictatorship: Right-Wing Triumphalism, Commercial Theatre, Revistas and Catalan Theatre Case Study: La Infanzona, by Jacinto Benavente 5. The Realist Generation: A Spotlight on the Margins of Society Case Study: Escuadra hacia la muerte, by Alfonso Sastre 6. Experimental, Avant-Garde and Independent Theatre: Pushing the Boundaries Case Study: Castañuela 70, by Tábano and Las Madres del Cordero 7. The Censorship of Foreign Theatre: From Taming the Text to Disruptive Drama Case Study: El círculo de tiza caucasiano, by Bertolt Brecht 8. Dénouement: Dismantling the Apparatus during the Transition to Democracy Case Study: La torna, by Els Joglars/Albert Boadella Conclusion Bibliography: Archival sources Legislation Other sources Index
£67.50
Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to Carmen Martín Gaite
Book SynopsisA comprehensive examination of the full range of Carmen Martín Gaite's work. Carmen Martín Gaite produced a large body of work in various genres over the course of her five-decade career, though she is primarily known as a novelist, short story writer, and social commentator. Her work at times reflects, and at times defies, the pattern of development in Spanish fiction since the 1950s. This Companion offers a re-reading of Martín Gaite's works, emphasizing her early experimentalism which culminated in mid-career works (notably El cuarto de atrás), and stressing how, in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the majority of Spanish novelists were engaged in a critique of history, Martín Gaite turned to the writing of cultural history, exploring its intersection with narrative fiction in a positivist rather than a nihilistic mode. Her exploration of gender issues, particularly mother-child relations, towards the end of her career anticipated new directions in feminist thought. Discussions of often-ignored works, such as poetry, drama, children's literature, and literary translations, offer insight into sidelined aspects of this writer's literary output. Catherine O'Leary is Reader in Spanish at the University of St Andrews. Alison Ribeiro de Menezes is Professor of Spanish at the University of Warwick.Trade ReviewOffers a structured and comprehensive panorama of the distinct genres of a writer that has contributed a unique literary voice to Spain in the second half of the twentieth century. * IBEROAMERICANA *Despite her extraordinary contribution to contemporary Spanish literature, martingaitistas from English-speaking countries have had to wait for years for a book like the one reviewed here: an overview of Carmen Martin Gaite's oeuvre, attractive and stimulating to both specialists in the field and tertiary students. * JOURNAL OF IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH *A guide for anyone interested in the life and works of this prolific 20th-century Spanish author, this volume provides [.] invaluable information on how her experiences impacted on her development as a writer. Recommended. * CHOICE *Este es un libro imprescindible para cualquiera que desee tener una visión panorámica y a la vez profunda de la obra completa de Carmen Martín Gaite. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES *Table of ContentsEntre visililos Short Stories Rit lento Retahílas Fragmentos de interior El cuarto de atras Nubosidad variable La reina de las nieves Lo raro es vivir Irse de casa Essays and Historical Writings El cuento de nunca acabar Theatre and Poetry Children's Literature and Los parentescos
£25.64
Verlag Peter Lang Legacies of War and Dictatorship in Contemporary
Book SynopsisThis multi-authored volume offers the first extensive exploration of cultural memory in Portugal and Spain, two countries that are normally studied in isolation from one another due to linguistic divergences. The book contains an important theoretical survey of cultural memory today and a comparative analysis of the historical background influencing studies of memory in the Iberian Peninsula. It includes the work of eleven specialists on contemporary Spanish and Portuguese history, culture and literature and establishes a series of parallel themes that lace the chapters together: resistance; literary and popular representations of the figure of the dictator; gender; intergenerational links and changing paradigms of war stories; and the performance of memory. The essays gathered here will be of interest to scholars of both national cultures as well as those concerned with issues of memory, trauma and the historical legacy of war and dictatorship.Table of ContentsContents: Alison Ribeiro de Menezes/Catherine O’Leary: Preface – Alison Ribeiro de Menezes: Introduction: Cultural Memory and the Legacies of War and Dictatorship in Contemporary Portugal and Spain – Mark Sabine: Refitting the Lexicon of Resistance: Saramago, Symbolism and Dictatorship – Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses: Jaime Nogueira Pinto’s Portrait of Salazar: A New Departure? – Alison Ribeiro de Menezes: Cultural Memory and Intergenerational Transfer: The Case of Inês Pedrosa’s Nas Tuas Mãos – Isabel Moutinho: Fighting Oblivion: Persistence of Colonial War Memory in Contemporary Portuguese Fiction – Alison Ribeiro de Menezes: Memories of Portugal’s Angolan War: Os Cus de Judas and D’Este Viver Aqui Neste Papel Descripto by António Lobo Antunes – Susana Bayó Belenguer: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán as Franco – Catherine O’Leary: Memory and Restoration: Jerónimo López Mozo’s El arquitecto y el relojero – Lorraine Ryan: When the Personal is Political: The Formation of a Republican Mnemonic Community in Alfons Cevera’s La noche inmóvil – Mercedes de Grado: Eugenics and Annihilation in Francoist Women’s Prisons: Memory and Testimony in La voz dormida by Dulce Chacón – María Cinta Ramblado-Minero: Women and the Transmission of the Republican Legacy in Contemporary Spanish Cinema – Gabrielle Carty: A Cinematic Hybrid: El laberinto del fauno and Film Representations of the Spanish Civil War.
£35.82
