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Eva Peron (1919-1952) was the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. Often referred to as "Evita," she was never an officially elected political figure, but by her husband's second term as President, she had become the most powerful woman in the history of her nation. By the 1960s, Evita was an international pop-culture icon; in the 1970s, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote the blockbuster musical Evita about her; and in the mid-90s, the musical was adapted to a movie starring Madonna. This small, chunky paperback features all manner of vintage graphic treatments from...

En las tres ultimas decadas la Traductologia centra su atencion en la relacion entre culturas, representadas por los grandes sistemas literarios. Al tiempo, una cultura minorizada casi milenaria multiplica exponencialmente sus relaciones literarias mediante la traduccion. En esta obra se analiza la traduccion en la cultura gallega desde un enfoque sociologico, se determina el papel de los actantes en el proceso y se aplican los conceptos de -actor-red- y de -laboratorio-. La relacion se entiende como estrategia, resistencia, conflicto, tension y lucha que las autoras identifican en una...

Escribe Graciela Reyes en su magnífico prólogo: «¿Qué hace la gente cuando usa el lenguaje?». Esta es la pregunta con la que comienza este libro. Pregunta «impertinente», es decir, el tipo de pregunta que se sale de las reglas del juego de una discip

Long before the arrival of Hernn Corts, birds, serpents, the sun and moon, and human sacrifices figured prominently in the rituals and daily spiritual life of the inhabitants of todays Mexico. In the early sixteenth century, Roman Catholic missionaries began arriving in the area of TenochtitlanMexico Cityto convert the native Mexica to Christianity. The priests met with limited success until 1531, the year Juan Diego, a poor Mexica, first encountered the vision of the Heavenly Lady, now known as Our Lady of Guadalupe.Guadalupe is a lavishly illustrated history of Mexico's religious...