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Raíces: Una aproximación comunicativa intercultural a la lengua española, Volumen dos is a communicative-based, learner-centric book designed to give Spanish 102 students opportunities to develop and practice Spanish in everyday situations. Each chapter of the book features distinct sections-a) ¡A empezar!, b) ¡A conversar!, c) ¡A escuchar!, d) ¡A escribir!, and e) ¡A leer!- to help develop the students' five language skills: writing, reading, speaking, listening, and cultural awareness. At the end of each lesson, is included Perspectiva cultural and ¡A pronunciar! or Ortografía....

Teatro, cuerpo y memoria de las artes escénicas en América Latina: Experiencias y reflexiones sobre las artes escénicas es una obra compilada ―con una visión multidisciplinaria― que nos invita a tomar conciencia de las conexiones entre el universo del teatro, los discursos del cuerpo y los elementos que permiten captar la memoria. Fue preparada por los historiadores Nadia Giral Sancho (México) y Jesús Eloy Gutiérrez (Venezuela).Reúne 10 trabajos de diversos especialistas iberoamericanos, en los cuales sus autores "se acercan al tema desde distintos campos disciplinares, investigan ...

This in-depth look at Latin American art explores the complexity of the contemporary aesthetic and cultural milieu in this vast and diverse region of the world, focusing on a critical re-reading of the Baroque in Latin America and its curious function as an important cultural metaphor. The diversity of artists represented--hailing from South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States--serves to critique and recuperate this concept of the Baroque that has become increasingly clichéd and misunderstood. With art by Ruben Ortiz Torres, Miguel Calderon, Rochelle Costi, Arturo Duclos,...

Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca, born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, is widely considered one of the most important contemporary artists in South America. Architecture, theater, music and cartography play a central role in his work, where maps and blueprints are condensed into a world of poetic and territorial fantasies, and reality and fiction overlap. Whether depicting an "Acoustic Mass" at the Old Vic or a constellation map of "Heaven," in each painting or drawing collected here, Kuitca measures the world anew, shedding light on complex spatial contexts and intertwined social processes. This...