Lateinamerikanische Literatur

Leben und Kunst der Ikone des 20. JahrhundertsFrida Kahlos außergewöhnliche Kunst und ihre Lebensgeschichte faszinieren die Welt bis heute. Anschaulich zeigt der Autor, wie Kahlos von Extremen geprägte Biografie ihr künstlerisches Schaffen beeinflusste, welche wichtige Rolle ihre Weggefährt*innen, Freund*innen und Liebschaften einnahmen und wie sie ihre eigene, eindringliche Bildsprache fand. Dieser hochwertig gestaltete Band zeichnet das Leben Kahlos facettenreich nach und stellt detailliert ihre bedeutendsten Werke vor. Zahlreiche Abbildungen in großer Qualität runden diese Einführung in das Schaffen der bekanntesten und populärsten Künstlerin ab - und das in einem handlichen Format zum kleinen Preis!

Expanded edition with new chapters and updates to the translation and bibliography.Borges cites innumerable authors in the pages making up his life's work, and innumerable authors have cited and continue to cite him. More than a figure, then, the quotation is an integral part of the fabric of his writing, a fabric made anew by each reading and each re-citation it undergoes, in the never-ending throes of a work-in-progress. Block de Behar makes of this reading a plea for the very art of communication; a practice that takes community not in the totalized and totalizable soil of pre-established definitions or essences, but on the ineluctable repetitions that constitute language as such, and that guarantee the expansiveness-through etymological coincidences of meaning, through historical contagions, through translinguistic sharings of particular experiences-of a certain index of universality. This edition includes a new introduction by the author and three entirely new chapters, as well as updated images and corrections to the original translation.

Cubans today are at home in diasporas that stretch from Miami to Mexico City to Moscow. Back on the island, watching as fellow Cubans leave, the impact of departure upon departure can be wrenching. How do Cubans confront their condition as an uprooted people? The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World offers a stunning chorus of responses, gathering some of the most daring Cuban writers, artists, and thinkers to address the haunting effect of globalization on their own lives.