The Mexican and Mexican American Experience in the 19th Century

Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, Susanō, Orochi, Oni, Kappa, Kisune: sumérjase en la apasionante cultura japonesa, sus creencias, ritos, deidades, monstruos y criaturas. Todos los enigmáticos mitos y leyendas desde el Kojiki y el Nihonshoki hasta la pervivencia y difusión de estas narraciones en la cultura pop, el manga, el anime y los videojuegos. Gracias a este título de la colección Breve Historia el lector descubrirá que la cultura japonesa ha transmitido sus mitos, cuentos y leyendas hasta nuestros días, camuflándolos entre las fantásticas historias que podemos encontrar fácilmente en...

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This powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book to connect the prewar and wartime experiences of Jewish survivors to the lives they subsequently made for themselves in the United States, Troubled Memory is also a dramatic testament to how the experiences of survivors as new Americans spurred their willingness to bear witness. Perhaps the only family to survive the liquidation of the Warsaw...

A medio camino entre la historia literaria y la interpretación histórica, Philippe Ollé-Laprune ofrece una sucinta y completa introducción a una literatura que siempre ha intentado liberarse de la influencia del poder: de los curas, soldados y administradores del pasado como de los autores contemporáneos que gozan de numerosas becas, cargos públicos e incentivos, pero que, a la vez, enfrentan una de las redes más pobres para la difusión del libro.