Resultados para "Carmen" en Ensayos

Un relato agridulce y entretenidísimo escrito con mano maestra. Una obra mayor del ensayismo en castellano. Tras una investigación exhaustiva que comprende consultorios senti­mentales, revistas del corazón y discursos políticos, Carmen Martín Gaite reconstruye aquí la historia doméstica de los primeros años de postguerra, una etapa sombría donde la restricción y el racionamiento impuestos por Franco afectaron decisivamente a los usos amorosos de aquel tiempo. Educada para aparentar y no para vivir su vida, la mujer de la época, sirvienta del hogar, enfocó el matrimonio como objetivo excluyente.

Beginning with a jaw-dropping rumination on a centuries-old painting featuring a white man with a Black man's leg surgically attached (with the expired Black leg-donor in the foreground), contracts law scholar and celebrated journalist Patricia J. Williams uses the lens of the law to take on core questions of identity, ethics, and race.

What are the politics of nature? Who owns it, where is it, what role does it play in our lives? Does it need to be tamed? Are we ourselves natural? In A Darker Wilderness, a constellation of luminary writers reflect on the significance of nature in their lived experience and on the role of nature in the lives of Black folks in the United States. Each of these essays engages with a single archival object, whether directly or obliquely, exploring stories spanning hundreds of years and thousands of miles, traveling from roots to space and finding rich Blackness everywhere.