Discussion Notes on Isabel Fonseca's Bury Me Standing
Author | : Gillian Bouras |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 1998 |
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Author | : Gillian Bouras |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 1998 |
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Author | : Isabel Fonseca |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2011-09-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307761045 |
A masterful work of personal reportage, this volume is also a vibrant portrait of a mysterious people and an essential document of a disappearing culture. Fabled, feared, romanticized, and reviled, the Gypsies—or Roma—are among the least understood people on earth. Their culture remains largely obscure, but in Isabel Fonseca they have found an eloquent witness. In Bury Me Standing, alongside unforgettable portraits of individuals—the poet, the politician, the child prostitute—Fonseca offers sharp insights into the humor, language, wisdom, and taboos of the Roma. She traces their exodus out of India 1,000 years ago and their astonishing history of persecution: enslaved by the princes of medieval Romania; massacred by the Nazis; forcibly assimilated by the communist regimes; evicted from their settlements in Eastern Europe, and most recently, in Western Europe as well. Whether as handy scapegoats or figments of the romantic imagination, the Gypsies have always been with us—but never before have they been brought so vividly to life. Includes fifty black and white photos.
Author | : J. F. Brown |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2001-04-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822326373 |
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Author | : Andrew Wheatcroft |
Publisher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2005-05-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812972392 |
Here is the first panoptic history of the long struggle between the Christian West and Islam. In this dazzlingly written, acutely nuanced account, Andrew Wheatcroft tracks a deep fault line of animosity between civilizations. He begins with a stunning account of the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, then turns to the main zones of conflict: Spain, from which the descendants of the Moors were eventually expelled; the Middle East, where Crusaders and Muslims clashed for years; and the Balkans, where distant memories spurred atrocities even into the twentieth century. Throughout, Wheatcroft delves beneath stereotypes, looking incisively at how images, ideas, language, and technology (from the printing press to the Internet), as well as politics, religion, and conquest, have allowed each side to demonize the other, revive old grievances, and fuel across centuries a seemingly unquenchable enmity. Finally, Wheatcroft tells how this fraught history led to our present maelstrom. We cannot, he argues, come to terms with today’s perplexing animosities without confronting this dark past.
Author | : Michelle Heffner Hayes |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2014-11-21 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476613125 |
This analytical history traces representations of flamenco dance in Spain and abroad from the twentieth century to the present, using histories, film, accounts of live performances, and practitioner interviews. Beginning with an analysis of flamenco historiography, the text examines images of the female dancer in films by Luis Bunuel, Carlos Saura, and Antonio Gades; stereotypes of flamenco bodies and Andalusian culture in Prosper Merimee's Carmen; and the ways in which contemporary flamenco dancers like Belen Maya and Rocio Molina negotiate the stereotype of Carmen and an idealized Spanish feminine that pervades "traditional" flamenco. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author | : Zoltan D. Barany |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521009102 |
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Author | : Michelle C. Heffner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Flamenco |
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Author | : Alan Jenkins |
Publisher | : Abbeville Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780789206268 |
A celebration of a brilliant young artist's tragically short career, this revealing look at Bruno Fonseca's life, unorthodox training, and startlingly diverse paintings, drawings, and sculpture not only casts light on his own impressive work but also offers unusually acute insight into the creative process. The son of a sculptor and a painter mother, Bruno Fonseca grew up in an art-filled Manhattan household and started creating his own art early on. By the age of 18, he had started a rigorous course of study with Augusto Torres in Manhattan, where he maintained a studio until his death at age 36 in 1994. Alan Jenkins's perceptive musings about the young artist's accomplishments capture Bruno's quirky charm and summon up the complexity of his relationships with family, friends, and the history of art. Karen Wilkin investigates Fonseca's unusually traditional approach to the study of art, based on painstakingly learned ways of seeing and creating that relate more to the 19th-century Academy than to today's conceptualizing, career-chasing art schools. Isabel Fonseca's deeply touching memoir ofher brother's childhood and last days brings to life his irresistible spirit and quicksilver intelligence.
Author | : Jan Yoors |
Publisher | : Waveland Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 1987-09-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1478610638 |
At the age of twelve, Jan Yoors ran away from his cultural Belgian family to join a wandering band, a kumpania, of Gypsies. For ten years, he lived as one of them, traveled with them from country to country, shared both their pleasures and their hardshipsand came to know them as no one, no outsider, ever has. Here, in this firsthand and highly personal account of an extraordinary people, Yoors tells the real story of the Gypsies fascinating customs and their never-ending struggle to survive as free nomads in a hostile world. He vividly describes the texture of their daily life: the Gypsies as lovers, spouses, parents, healers, and mourners; their loyalties and enmities; their moral and ethical beliefs and practices; their language and culture; and the history and traditions behind their fierce pride. The exultant celebrations, the daring frontier crossings, the yearly horse fairs, the convoluted business deals in which Gypsy shrewdness combined with all the apparatus of modern technology are all brought to life in this memorable portrait of the most romanticized, yet most maligned and least-known people on earth. An insiders story, The Gypsies lifts the veil of secrecy that for so long has enshrouded this race of strangers in our midst.
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Total Pages | : 2712 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Bibliography |
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