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Category Archives: Spanish
“Las cartas de la memoria”: Letters from the victims of Franco’s dictatorship
Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance Languages (17) Reviewed last month in The Guardian on the occasion of the hardcover release (by editorial L’Encobert), and published open access earlier this year, Las cartas de la memoria is an initiative of … Continue reading
Posted in equity, historical memory, inclusion, Spanish
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Nicaraguan writer Gioconda Belli in The Netherlands (and in the UvA Library)
Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (15) Organized by the Instituto Cervantes de Utrecht (Spanish Cultural Institute), the Embajada de España en los Países Bajos (Spanish Embassy in The Netherlands) and (in 2023) the University of Leiden (home to … Continue reading
Posted in decolonization, gender & sexuality, Spanish
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“Roberto Bolaño and the Labyrinthine Mode”: Josh Weeks’ PhD defence
On next May 31 (more information here) Josh Weeks will defend his dissertation Roberto Bolaño and the labyrinthine mode: Navigating neoliberal modernity (supervisors Shelley Godsland and Hanneke Stuit). The PhD research «analyses how the textual strategies deployed by the Chilean … Continue reading
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Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (7)
How to search for UvA books on graphic novelsIn French, Italian, or Spanish While the UvA Allard Pierson (the heritage collections of the University of Amsterdam) holds a vast collection of (Dutch) comics – hugely expanded under (recently awarded) Jos … Continue reading
Posted in decolonization, diversity, French, gender & sexuality, Italian, Spanish
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Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (5)
How to search for UvA books on inclusive languageIn French, Italian, or Spanish Complementary to a a list of mostly English language resources published on Library 333: UvA Social Sciences Library blog, the present post aims at helping find French, … Continue reading
Posted in French, gender & sexuality, inclusion, Italian, language & terminology, Spanish
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Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (4)
(Scholarly literature on) Spanish crime fiction about & by women (2)Books at the UvA Library (and their authors) The present post is complementary to the previous one not only in the shared topic but also in the search strategies it … Continue reading
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Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (3)
(Scholarly literature on) Spanish crime fiction about & by women (1)Alicia Giménez-Bartlett at the UvA Library Earlier quoted on this blog with passages from her books El silencio de los claustros and Un barco cargado de arroz, Alicia Giménez-Bartlett (Almansa, … Continue reading
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End of the year quote, and reading list (1): Carmen Laforet
«El tiempo era húmedo y aquella mañana tenía olor a nubes y a neumáticos mojados… Las hojas lacias y amarillentas caían en una lenta lluvia desde los árboles. Una mañana de otoño en la ciudad, como yo había soñado durante … Continue reading
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Queer Chronotopes: Andrés Ibarra Cordero
I am glad to post the following (both text and photo), by Andrés Ibarra Cordero, who I have been lucky to know – and sometimes happy to help with his bibliographic searches – during his PhD-career at the University of … Continue reading
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End of the year quotes (3): Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) «is one of Spain’s greatest literary figures […] Known above all for his poetry and plays, Lorca also produced novels, short stories, paintings, drawings, and musical compositions in his brief lifetime. Many of his works drew … Continue reading
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