Vicky Unruh
Biographic Data
| ID | 622873 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vicky Unruh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vicky |
| FAMILY NAME | Unruh |
| SIGNATURE | UNRUH V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature
Extending from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature is the first book in English to tell the intricate story of Cuban literary-intellectual culture from the seventeenth-century to the twenty-first century. This landmark book highlights the intricacies of linguistic and cultural translation embodied in telling a story in English about a body of work expressed predominantly in Spanish, but also Fren…
Isolation and Community in the Quarantine Theater of Abilio Estévez
The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature
The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature is an essential resource for anyone interested in the development of women's writing in Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it explores women's literature from ancient indigenous cultures to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Organized chronologically and written by a host of leading scholars, this History offers an array of approaches that contribute to current dialogues about tra…
Modernity’s Labors in Latin America: The Cultural Work of Cuba’s Avant-Gardes
Dissimilar literary works—by Alejo Carpentier, Augstín Acosta, Nicolás Guillén, Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta, and Dulce María Loynaz—constitute artifacts of Cuba' historical avant-gardes of the 1920s and 1930s. Beyond their differences, their shared features exemplify the avant-garde moment of artistic modernism in Cuba and, by extension, in Latin America as a whole. This article notes that the shifting perspectives of Latin American avant-garde works…
Telling Ruins in Latin America
This book highlights the ruin's prolific resurgence in Latin American cultural life at the turn of the millennium and sharply reveals a stirring creative drive by artists and intellectuals toward ethi
Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America
Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America: Intervening Acts
Women have always been the muses who inspire the creativity of men, but how do women become the creators of art themselves? This was the challenge faced by Latin American women who aspired to write in the 1920s and 1930s. Though women's roles were opening up during this time, women writers were not automatically welcomed by the Latin American literary avant-gardes, whose male members viewed women's participation in tertulias (literary gatherings)…
The Performing Spectator in Alejo Carpentier's Fictional World
scenario's deceit. When the protagonist steps offstage into a group of actors awaiting their cues, the reader discerns that this is a play set: Al tiempo sali de la luz, pues son6 el disparo del cazador y un pajaro cay6 en escena desde el segundo tercio de bambalinas. El mirifiaque de mi esposa vo16 por sobre mi cabeza, pues me hallaba precisamente donde le tocara entrar, estrechaindole el ya angosto paso (68). This scene's most striking feature …
Las Ágiles Musas De La Modernidad: Patrícia Galvão Y Norah Lange
2 rehuy6 la literatura comprometida y, a despecho de su activismo estdtico, su relacion con la vida cotidiana fue generalmente menos contenciosa que Ia de Galvao.Los proyectos culturales de estas dos escritoras durante los anlos veinte y treinta, sin embargo, ejemplifican de modo comparable la parad6jica relaci6n de mujeres con las vanguardias latinoamericanas y su ret6rica de la modernidad esttica y cultural.No obstante las valiosas
Una equivoca Eva moderna: "Performance" y pesqusa en el proyecto cultural de Antonieta Rivas Mercado
Vicky Unruh, Vicki Unruh, Una equivoca Eva moderna: "Performance" y pesqusa en el proyecto cultural de Antonieta Rivas Mercado, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Año 24, No. 48 (1998), pp. 61-84
Direcciones del vanguardismo hispanoamericano. Estudios sobre poesia de vanguardia en la decada del veinte. Documentos
Latin American Vanguards: The Art of Contentious Encounters
Cultural Enactments: Recent Books on Latin American Theatre
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Double Talk: Asturias's America in Cuculcán
iguel Angel Asturias's Cuculcan, a dramatic collage of color, sound, motion, and words, is his most overtly ethnographic play, and, as a product of his vanguardist years, it is also the most radically experimental.Cuculcan did not appear in print until 1948, 2 but Asturias described the work in progress in a 1932 journalistic essay, "Las posibilidades de un teatro americano." 3Although both Cuculcan and the Leyendas de Guatemala into which it was…
Retired Dreams. "Dom Casmurro." Myth and Modernity
Mariategui's Aesthetic Thought: A Critical Reading of the Avant-Gardes
José Carlos Mariátegui devoted the most productive years of his short life (1894-1930) to analyzing contemporary Peru. Because of this emphasis, a substantial portion of the research conducted in the past thirty years has addressed his political and social thought. More recent investigations, however, have sought to document the significance of his aesthetic ideas, an appropriate development in light of Mariátegui's extensive writings on literatu…
O novo conto brasileiro: Antologia critica com anotacoes e exercicios gramaticais
The Performing Spectator in Alejo Carpentier's Fictional World
scenario's deceit. When the protagonist steps offstage into a group of actors awaiting their cues, the reader discerns that this is a play set: Al tiempo sali de la luz, pues son6 el disparo del cazador y un pajaro cay6 en escena desde el segundo tercio de bambalinas. El mirifiaque de mi esposa vo16 por sobre mi cabeza, pues me hallaba precisamente donde le tocara entrar, estrechaindole el ya angosto paso (68). This scene's most striking feature …
Mariategui's Aesthetic Thought: A Critical Reading of the Avant-Gardes
José Carlos Mariátegui devoted the most productive years of his short life (1894-1930) to analyzing contemporary Peru. Because of this emphasis, a substantial portion of the research conducted in the past thirty years has addressed his political and social thought. More recent investigations, however, have sought to document the significance of his aesthetic ideas, an appropriate development in light of Mariátegui's extensive writings on literatu…
O novo conto brasileiro: Antologia critica com anotacoes e exercicios gramaticais
Mariategui's Aesthetic Thought: A Critical Reading of the Avant-Gardes
José Carlos Mariátegui devoted the most productive years of his short life (1894-1930) to analyzing contemporary Peru. Because of this emphasis, a substantial portion of the research conducted in the past thirty years has addressed his political and social thought. More recent investigations, however, have sought to document the significance of his aesthetic ideas, an appropriate development in light of Mariátegui's extensive writings on literatu…
Retired Dreams. "Dom Casmurro." Myth and Modernity
Double Talk: Asturias's America in Cuculcán
iguel Angel Asturias's Cuculcan, a dramatic collage of color, sound, motion, and words, is his most overtly ethnographic play, and, as a product of his vanguardist years, it is also the most radically experimental.Cuculcan did not appear in print until 1948, 2 but Asturias described the work in progress in a 1932 journalistic essay, "Las posibilidades de un teatro americano." 3Although both Cuculcan and the Leyendas de Guatemala into which it was…
Cultural Enactments: Recent Books on Latin American Theatre
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Latin American Vanguards: The Art of Contentious Encounters
Direcciones del vanguardismo hispanoamericano. Estudios sobre poesia de vanguardia en la decada del veinte. Documentos
The Performing Spectator in Alejo Carpentier's Fictional World
scenario's deceit. When the protagonist steps offstage into a group of actors awaiting their cues, the reader discerns that this is a play set: Al tiempo sali de la luz, pues son6 el disparo del cazador y un pajaro cay6 en escena desde el segundo tercio de bambalinas. El mirifiaque de mi esposa vo16 por sobre mi cabeza, pues me hallaba precisamente donde le tocara entrar, estrechaindole el ya angosto paso (68). This scene's most striking feature …
Las Ágiles Musas De La Modernidad: Patrícia Galvão Y Norah Lange
2 rehuy6 la literatura comprometida y, a despecho de su activismo estdtico, su relacion con la vida cotidiana fue generalmente menos contenciosa que Ia de Galvao.Los proyectos culturales de estas dos escritoras durante los anlos veinte y treinta, sin embargo, ejemplifican de modo comparable la parad6jica relaci6n de mujeres con las vanguardias latinoamericanas y su ret6rica de la modernidad esttica y cultural.No obstante las valiosas
Una equivoca Eva moderna: "Performance" y pesqusa en el proyecto cultural de Antonieta Rivas Mercado
Vicky Unruh, Vicki Unruh, Una equivoca Eva moderna: "Performance" y pesqusa en el proyecto cultural de Antonieta Rivas Mercado, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Año 24, No. 48 (1998), pp. 61-84
Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America: Intervening Acts
Women have always been the muses who inspire the creativity of men, but how do women become the creators of art themselves? This was the challenge faced by Latin American women who aspired to write in the 1920s and 1930s. Though women's roles were opening up during this time, women writers were not automatically welcomed by the Latin American literary avant-gardes, whose male members viewed women's participation in tertulias (literary gatherings)…
Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America
Telling Ruins in Latin America
This book highlights the ruin's prolific resurgence in Latin American cultural life at the turn of the millennium and sharply reveals a stirring creative drive by artists and intellectuals toward ethi
Modernity’s Labors in Latin America: The Cultural Work of Cuba’s Avant-Gardes
Dissimilar literary works—by Alejo Carpentier, Augstín Acosta, Nicolás Guillén, Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta, and Dulce María Loynaz—constitute artifacts of Cuba' historical avant-gardes of the 1920s and 1930s. Beyond their differences, their shared features exemplify the avant-garde moment of artistic modernism in Cuba and, by extension, in Latin America as a whole. This article notes that the shifting perspectives of Latin American avant-garde works…
The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature
The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature is an essential resource for anyone interested in the development of women's writing in Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it explores women's literature from ancient indigenous cultures to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Organized chronologically and written by a host of leading scholars, this History offers an array of approaches that contribute to current dialogues about tra…
Isolation and Community in the Quarantine Theater of Abilio Estévez
The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature
Extending from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature is the first book in English to tell the intricate story of Cuban literary-intellectual culture from the seventeenth-century to the twenty-first century. This landmark book highlights the intricacies of linguistic and cultural translation embodied in telling a story in English about a body of work expressed predominantly in Spanish, but also Fren…
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