España tiene una relación traumática con su guerra civil. Del franquismo ni hablamos: es para el discurso oficial del régimen político actual la personificación abyecta del mal, y esa versión oficial es defendida por el actual gobierno izquierdista como la única verdadera y aspira a ser impuesta como la única autorizada. En 2020, y con Franco y…[Read more]

Introduction to The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism

This research examines Tad Szulc’s writings and performance (1926-2001) in inter-American post-war relations. He was an American intellectual relevant to inter-American relations in the second half of the twentieth century. He was a press professional linked to The New York Times. He made an itinerant journalistic coverage that crossed America…[Read more]

Written around the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century, Allen Raine’s novels and short stories predominantly depict life in a fictionalised version of the coastal area of south Cardiganshire in an unspecified but clearly Victorian past. Raine’s characters are portrayed as geographically and socially mobile as they overcome the met…[Read more]

This chapter describes how the Penn Libraries began collecting Japanese- and Korean-language comics, focusing largely on manga from Japan aimed at engaging language students and instructors with Japanese library materials. These patrons are a non-traditional demographic typically not targeted by Japanese-language collecting in academic libraries.…[Read more]