age ~52
from Oakland, CA
Estudio sobre la estética actual, la conformación de un canon posmoderno, el rebasamiento de este a través de las estéticas caníbales. Esta nueva estética consiste en devorar a Occidente a tal extremo de convertirle en otro, que se apropiable desde fuera de este espacio. El análisis incluye la propu...
Author
Carlos Rojas Reyes
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
221
ISBN #
25
Uncertain Worlds is the definitive presentation of the evolution of world-systems analysis from the point of view of its founder, Immanuel Wallerstein. Few theorists have offered a more systematic theory of what has become known as 'globalisation' than Wallerstein. The book includes a one-of-kind in...
Author
Immanuel Wallerstein, Carlos Aguirre Rojas, Charles C. Lemert
Binding
Paperback
Pages
272
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN #
159451979X
EAN Code
9781594519796
ISBN #
24
"Dream and Swine and Aurora," "Deep in the Rubber Forest," "Fish Bones," "Allah's Will," "Monkey Butts, Fire, and Dangerous Things"―Ng Kim Chew's stories are raw, rural, and rich with the traditions of his native Malaysia. They are also full of humor and spirit, demonstrating a deep appreciation for...
Author
Kim Chew Ng
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
304
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN #
0231168128
EAN Code
9780231168120
ISBN #
22
Even as China is central to the contemporary global economy, its socialist past continues to shape its capitalist present. This volume's contributors see contemporary China as haunted by the promises of capitalism, the institutional legacy of the Maoist regime, and the spirit of Marxist resistance. ...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
272
Publisher
Duke University Press Books
ISBN #
0822361930
EAN Code
9780822361930
ISBN #
21
Palou Tiange slowly unfolds as a story of grotesque cannibalism in a small village in the Palou Mountains, Henan province. In the story, a mother takes extreme measures to try to cure her children from a psychiatric illness. First, she feeds them a medicinal soup made from the bones of her dead husb...
Author
Lianke Yan
Binding
Paperback
Pages
100
Publisher
Penguin Books China
ISBN #
0734399618
EAN Code
9780734399618
ISBN #
20
With over forty original essays, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures offers an in-depth engagement with the current analytical methodologies and critical practices that are shaping the field in the twenty-first century. Divided into three sections--Structure, Taxonomy, and Methodology-...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
952
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0199383316
EAN Code
9780199383313
ISBN #
19
Man Booker International finalist Yan Lianke has been lauded for his imaginative satire and insightful cultural critique as "one of China’s greatest living authors" (Guardian). His internationally bestselling new novel, The Explosion Chronicles, follows the excessive expansion of a rural community f...
Author
Yan Lianke
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
464
Publisher
Grove Press
ISBN #
0802125824
EAN Code
9780802125828
ISBN #
18
In Carlos Rojas’s imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August 1936, finds himself in an inferno that somehow resembles Breughel’s Tower of Babel. He sits alone in a small theater in this private hell, viewing scenes from his own life performed ov...
Author
Carlos Rojas
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
224
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN #
0300167768
EAN Code
9780300167764
ISBN #
13
Carlos Rodolfo Rojas Rojas (born 2 October 1928) is a Chilean football midfielder who played for Chile in the 1950 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Unin...
ISBN #
11