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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited “Woman, Why Weepest Thou?” Re-Visioning the Golden Age Magdalen in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis article examines Mary Magdalene’s biblical identity and poetic representation in selected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish texts. An alternative reading or “re-visioning” (Adrienne Rich’s term) of the narratives that tell her story reclaims her figure from masculinist characterizations of Mary Magdalene that have made an enduring…[Read more]
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Sana Asif deposited Tangible Heritage and Intangible Memory: (Coping) Precarity in the Select Partition Writings by Muslim Women in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe partition of British India into two sovereign independent nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 was one of the most defining moments of the socio-political course of the sub-continent. The fight for independence from colonial rule and the rise of nationalism rooted in the religious discourse of two prominent religious communities- Hindus and…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited Pauline Viardot García (1821-1910), una compositora en la Europa del siglo XIX (1821-1910) in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoArticle about the composer Pauline Viardot
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Iglesia, mar y Casa Real: Imaginario de la odisea en la épica del Siglo de Oro in the group
Imperialism & Exploration on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoIn this book chapter, Dr. Davis examines the depiction of a dissimulated desire for material improvement (mejora) as it is expressed in the epic poetry of imperial Spain, particularly in Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana. She shows that within the aristocratic context of the times, the desire for personal betterment or “mejora” is always contingent…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited De nuevo, sobre la “literariedad” de Teresa de Jesús in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis article examines two important texts of Teresa de Jesús, El Libro de la vida and Las moradas del castillo interior, to take a new look at an old debate about whether Santa Teresa’s written expression is “spontaneous” or whether it is in fact more literary. Dr. Davis arrives at the conclusion that the writer’s works are both more indebted to…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Conquistas de las Indias de Dios: Early Poetic Appropriations of the Indies by the Spanish Renaissance in the group
Imperialism & Exploration on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoProfessor Davis’s early article on appropriations of the Indies by Spanish poets who remained in Spain invites us to contemplate a body of poetry that plays the idea of American treasures against the value of true, spiritual riches.
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Time of catastrophe: temporalities in the transatlantic relación of Diego Portichuelo de Ribadeneyra in the group
Imperialism & Exploration on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoUsing the transatlantic relación of Diego Portichuelo de Ribadeneyra (1657) as an example, this essay tracks some of the ways in which several religious passengers narrated their experience crossing the Atlantic Ocean in the Spanish Indies fleets during the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Of particular importance here are the ways in…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Travesías peligrosas: escritos marítimos en España durante la Época Imperial, 1492-1650 in the group
Imperialism & Exploration on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis chapter is the product of a Keynote Address that Dr. Davis offered at the VII Conference of the Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro which took place at Robinson College, Cambridge, 18-22 July, 2005. Here the author examines a variety of kinds of early modern Spanish maritime writing (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries).
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María-Teresa García Ballesteros deposited A. Alonso Martínez y Hermano: un ministro como socio in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoIn the Madrid photographic panorama between 1857 and 1868, the presence of Ángel Alonso Martínez is a permanent note, which does not correspond to the scant knowledge we have of his professional career. We intend to shed some more light on this signature: «A. Alonso Martínez and Brother». / En el panorama fotográfico madrileño entre 1857 y 1868,…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited Articles ‘Carreño, Teresa’, ‘Colbrán, Isabella’ y ‘Viardot Garcia, Pauline’, in Lexikon Musik und Gender in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDictionary articles in Lexicon about women musicians
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Pramod Ranjan deposited महिषासुर: मिथक व परंपराएं in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoइक्कसवीं सदी के दूसरे दशक में भारत में महिषासुर आंदोलन द्विज संस्कृति के लिए चुनौती बनकर उभरा। इसके माध्यम से आदिवासियों, पिछड़ों और दलितों के एक बड़े हिस्से ने अपनी सांस्कृतिक दावेदारी पेश की।
लेकिन यह आंदोलन क्या है, इसकी जड़ें समाज में कहां तक फैली हैं, बहुजनों की सांस्कृतिक परंपरा में इसका क्या स्थान है, मौजूदा लोक-जीवन में महिषासुर क…[Read more]
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María-Teresa García Ballesteros deposited Arqueología en sepia: Fotografía española, década 1850 en la CFRivero – 2 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDiscover unique photographs by pioneer photographers in Spain: Clifford, Masson, Lorichon, Blanco, Clonwek, Napoleón, Franck y Sanz y Benito, Conde de Lipa, Massari and more… The primitives in the Fernández Rivero Collection of Old Photograph.
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Pramod Ranjan deposited महिषासुर से संबंधित परंपराओं और आंदोलन के निहितार्थ in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoमहिषासुर आंदोलन के इस कदर अचानक फैल जाने का एक बड़ा कारण था कि बहुजन समाज में इन परंपराओं की जड़ें बहुत गहरी रही हैं और इनका प्रसार उसके अवचेतन तक रहा है। इन समुदायों से आने वाले फुले, आंबेडकर, पेरियार समेत सभी चिंतकों ने असुर-संस्कृति की न सिर्फ विस्तृत गवेषणा की है, बल्कि अगर आप ध्यान से देखें तो पाएंगे कि यही उनकी वैचारिकी का प्रस्थान…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited महिषासुर से संबंधित परंपराओं और आंदोलन के निहितार्थ in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoमहिषासुर आंदोलन के इस कदर अचानक फैल जाने का एक बड़ा कारण था कि बहुजन समाज में इन परंपराओं की जड़ें बहुत गहरी रही हैं और इनका प्रसार उसके अवचेतन तक रहा है। इन समुदायों से आने वाले फुले, आंबेडकर, पेरियार समेत सभी चिंतकों ने असुर-संस्कृति की न सिर्फ विस्तृत गवेषणा की है, बल्कि अगर आप ध्यान से देखें तो पाएंगे कि यही उनकी वैचारिकी का प्रस्थान…[Read more]
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Christopher Griffin deposited Every Day We Must Get Up and Relearn the World: An Interview with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe pandemic has been the most vivid agent of change that many of us have known. But it has not changed everything: plenty of the institutions, norms, and practices that sustain racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and cisheteropatriarchy have either weathered the storm of the crisis or been nourished by its effects. And yet enough has changed…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited सोशल मीडिया, बिहार की सत्ता और निलंबन in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months ago16 सितबर, 2011 को बिहार विधान परिषद् ने अपने दो कर्मचारियों- अरुण नारायण और मुसाफिर बैठा निलंबित कर दिया था। उन पर आरोप था कि उन्होंने परिषद् सभापति के निर्णय पर अपने एक फेसबुक पोस्ट में सवाल उठाया था। इससे पहले परिषद् ने अपने एक और कर्मचारी सैयद जावेद हुसेन को भी नौकरी से बर्खास्त कर दिया था।
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Gita: Indian Philosophy, Not a Hindu Scripture! in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoOn 27 January, 2012 Justices Ajit Singh and Sanjay Yadav of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in Jabalpur while approving the decision of the BJP government to teach “the essence of Gita” in the schools said that Gita is not merely a religious text. It is Indian philosophy. Therefore, it is not inappropriate to teach it in schools.
Forces that sup…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited La Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid y los actos conmemorativos del Centenario de Beethoven de Ludwig van Beethoven (1927) [The Madrid Symphony Orchestra and the Ludwig van Beethoven’s Centenary Celebrations (1927)] in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAnalysis of the participation of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid in the commemorative events of the first centenary of Beethoven’s death (1927)
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Pramod Ranjan deposited स्वर कोकिला लता मंगेशकर के सामाजिक और राजनैतिक सरोकार in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoपार्श्व गायिका लता मंगेशकर ने लगभग सात दशकों तक भारतीय संगीत की दुनिया पर राज किया। उनके गाए गीत भारत में ही नहीं, पाकिस्तान, बांग्लादेश समेत कई देशों में पसंद किए जाते थे। इस लेख में उनके सामाजिक सरोकारों और राजनीतिक रुझानों की चर्चा की गई है। उनका वैचारिक जुड़ाव राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ से था, जो कि अपनी नाजीवादी विचारधारा…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Afraid of Haryana’s Jat politics in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 12 months agoOn May 21, 2012, more than 52 Dalit-backward families were forced to leave their village after a dispute with dominant caste people in Bhagana (Bhagana) village of Haryana. The dispute started with the removal of possession of Shamlat land. The dominant community had socially boycotted them. Two years after this incident, on March 23, 2014, 4…[Read more]
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