Wednesday, October 31, 2012

50 años de Doña Bárbara

Trejo, Oswaldo, (coordinador), 50 años de Doña Bárbara: número monográfico dedicado a Rómulo Gallegos, Caracas: Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos "Rómulo Gallegos", Agosto, 1979.

Índice:
PRESENTACION

Antes de Doña Bárbara: una etapa en el pensamiento de Rómulo Gallegos, por Elías Pino Iturrieta

La revisión de Doña Bárbara por Gallegos, 1929 - 1930, por Donald Shaw

Doña Bárbara: Su recepción en la Crítica Venezolana (1929 - 1930), por Rafael Varela

Doña Bárbara de Rómulo Gallegos Bibliografía en su cincuentenario (1929 - 1979), por Horacio Jorge Becco

Rómulo Gallegos en publicaciones periódicas del exterior: una hemerografía, por Rafael Angel Rivas D.

Este hombre tan naturaleza..., por Gabriela Mistral

Notas sobre Rómulo Gallegos y su obra, por Ciro Alegría

Una palabra sobre Rómulo Gallegos, por Waldo Frank

La lección de Gallegos, por Carlos Sabat Ercasty

Rómulo Gallegos en Costa Rica, por Joaquín García Monge

La escritura de la última novela de Gallegos (Fragmento), por Lowell Dunham

Rómulo Gallegos, por Benjamín Carrión

Carta de Lázaro Cárdenas a Rómulo Gallegos

La respuesta de Rómulo Gallegos


Doña Bárbara is a novel by Venezuelan author Rómulo Gallegos, first published in 1929.[1] It was described in 1974 as "possibly the most widely known Latin American novel".[2] This regionalist novel deals with the confrontation between civilization and the barbaric aspects of the rural environment and its inhabitants. It is written in the third person and mixes vernacular language and regionalisms with literary narrative, making the main conflict more obvious and at the same time more tangible. This novel is considered a masterpiece of Venezuelan literature and a classic in Latin American literature. It establishes a psychological study of the people of the Venezuelan plains:[3] victims of unfortunate situations, but at the same time strong and courageous.

El Periquillo Sarniento

Fernández de Lizardi, José Joaquín, El Periquillo Sarniento, Segunda edición corregida y ampliada, (Prólogo de Jefferson Rea Spell) Argentina & México: Editorial Porrua, 1959.

The Mangy Parrot: The Life and Times of Periquillo Sarniento Written by himself for his Children (Spanish: El Periquillo Sarniento) by Mexican author José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, is generally considered the first novel written and published in Latin America. El Periquillo was written in 1816, though due to government censorship the last of four volumes were not published until 1831. The novel has been continuously in print in more than twenty editions since then. El Periquillo Sarniento can be read as a nation-building novel, written at a critical moment in the transition of Mexico (and Latin America) from colony to independence. Jean Franco has characterized the novel as "a ferocious indictment of Spanish administration in Mexico: ignorance, superstition and corruption are seen to be its most notable characteristics" [Jean Franco, An Introduction to Spanish-American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969), p. 34; cited in Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, revised edition (London: Verso, 1991), p. 29].

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Lekete Minawa: Cantica Dje Dushi Tempu Bieuw

Brenneker, Paul, Lekete Minawa: Cantica Dje Dushi Tempu Bieuw, Curaçao, 1958.

Brenneker Paul, an enthusiastic Catholic priest of the Order of Dominicans, born on May 7, 1912 in Limburg, left at his death on February 7, 1996, a great cultural legacy: hundred publications, prints, photographs, poems, a large collection of audio recordings of singing and stories and thousands of artifacts, which he and his friend Elis Juliana from the fifties collected in Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, St. Maarten, St. Eustatius and Saba. Through publications as Lekete Minawa (1958) Benta - old songs-(1959), Curaçaoensia - ethnological notes on Curacao (1961), Brua (1966), and the ten parts Sambumbu (1969-1975) gives us access to direct sources for further research. To develop Guene example as a forerunner of Papiamentu, to folk religion and opposition to slavery. Or to gain inspiration for artistic work, such as musicians Angel Salsbach, Etzel Provence in the sixties, followed by Ronchi Matthew to Izaline Calister for job especially jazz. Brenneker combined his love for the local culture with charity.


Inhoud:
Kando Mama
Basa lo Mula
Wan Belecu
Oh Valube
Perla Osana
Sabi
Manda Bue
Duele
Rooi di binja
Di ki Manera
Carpinte
Dum ve
Temele
Fiami un beter
Dalia mi Dalia
Mortu ta duru
Atekoteca
Awa na awa
Djo me tei
Min drumi
Na Paradera
Come na Comareo
Zuntan zuntan
Cudja mele
Bunita di mi so
Dios Sabi
Keje Keje
Nos ta sali lama
Di ki Manera
San Wan
Comerciantenan
Cu mi Bai
Waze Zeira
Wania a bai domi
Kande Mama
Mata Alemania
E dama ta sigura
Mama ta Jora
Bati Majo
Dios ta Duna

Flor di Anglo

Juliana, Elis, Flor di Anglo, Drukkerij Scherpenheuvel, 1961.

See In a Recovery of Identity through Papiamentu: The Talents of Elis Juliana, by Hélène Garrett and Leendert P. Mos, Journal of Caribbean Literatures, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Summer 2007), pp. 21-32.

See Elis Juliana, by Olga E. Rojer, Joseph O. Aimone and Elis Juliana, Journal of Caribbean Literatures, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Summer 2007), pp. 139-144.

Ver El Incalculable Valor de Elis Juliana, Héroe Cultural de Curazao, por Ieteke Witteveen.

Alpha

Kwiers, Tharcisio, Alpha, Curaçao, 1960.

Listed in Papiamentu, Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications © 1975 University of Hawai'i Press, p. 176.

De kleur van mijn eiland: Geschiedschrijving:
Thus, in the early sixties subscription to Dutch book weeks space was reclaimed for Papiamentu literature by the then head of the Public Library, Daphne Labega. Pierre Lauffer, Elis Juliana, Hubert Booi and Tharcisio Pieters Kweirs are thus given the opportunity to reach an audience, which consists mainly of the establishment and from passers-by, or of their children to the schools that the authors visit such as the Marnix MULO and the Peter Stuyvesant College.

Kristóf (Journal)

Kristóf, Curaçao: Postbus 563. {III – 2, April 1976 & III – 5 (1977?)}

Kontenido III – 2:
The Dutch in the Netherlands Antilles 1900 – 1950; Political Retreat and Economic Expansion … Dr. Jaap van Soest
Ingeborg Z.; Kizas; Misschien … Nydia Ecury & J.M. Eustatia
Literatura Neerlandoantillana … Sydney M. Joubert

Kontenido III – 5:
Papiamentu and Afrikaans – Two Black Influenced Creole Languages … J.C. Birmingham
Een middag in Paramaribo … C. Debrot
Kanttekeningen bij Koots onmythologiseringsonderzoek … B. Jos de Roo
Landschappen en luchtkastelen … J. Eustatia
Di’i Djo … E. Juliana
Development Aid to the Netherlands Antilles since 1958 … M. Pourier

Literature of the Netherlands Antilles

Debrot, Cola, Literature of the Netherlands Antilles, Netherlands Antilles: Departement van Cultuur en Opvoeding van de Nederlandse Antillen, 1964. [2 copies]

Cola (Nicolaas) Debrot (4 May 1902, Kralendijk - 3 December 1981, Amsterdam) was a writer, lawyer, medical doctor and politician. (…)His debut Mijn zuster de negerin (1935) is best-known. In the late 1940s, he returned to the Antilles and lived on Curaçao, where he laid the foundations of Dutch-Antillian literature. Cola Debrot has also been active as a politician. From 1962 to 1970, he was the Governor of the Netherlands Antilles, the first to be born on one of the islands.


From the Summary:
This survey is not meant to give a complete picture of the oral and the written literature of the Netherlands Antilles. The folk literature, which is also designated as oral literature or folklore, is not treated here for itself, but in order to attain a better insight in the development of the art of literature during the last hundred years in the Netherlands Antilles.

Carta del Reino Neerlandés (Documento)

Carta del Reino Neerlandés, Gestos del Gabinete del Vice-Presidente del Consejo de Ministrof, Plein I, La Haya, Holanda, s.f.

Del Memorando Explicativo:
La descripción detallada del proceso histórico de las relaciones entre los Países Bajos, Surinam y las Antillas Neerlandesas está fuera del alcance de este memorándum. (…) Las delegaciones de los Países Bajos, Surinam y las Antillas Neerlandesas estuvieron negociando en La Haya un nuevo orden constitucional. Dichas negociaciones se interrumpieron en 1952 y se volvieron a reanudar en 1954, año en que se llegó a un acuerdo completo sobre un texto definitivo, que se ha incluído en la Carta del Reino Neerlandés. Como se comunicó a la Asamblea General en su noveno periodo de sesiones, los Parlamentos de los tres países aceptaron la Carta por mayorías superiores a las necesarias en virtud de las disposiciones constitucionales pertinentes. Por último, la Carta fue sancionada por Su Majestad la Reina Juliana el 15 de diciembre de 1954, y entró en vigor al promulgarse el 29 de diciembre de 1954.


See Constitution of the Netherlands Antilles.

El Hondo Significado de la Ciudadanía de Estados Unidos

Muñoz Marín, Luis, El hondo significado de la ciudadanía de Estados Unidos, Departamento de Instrucción Pública, 1956. [tres copias]

Discurso pronunciado en la celebración del cuarto aniversario del Estado Libre Asociado el 25 de julio de 1956.

McGill Studies in Caribbean Anthropology

Henry, Francis (Ed.), McGill Studies in Caribbean Anthropology, Occasional Paper Series, No. 5, October 1969.

Introduction, by Francis Henry
Village-Government Relationships in Trinidad , by Epeli Hauofa
The Chinese in Trinidad, by Gerald Bentley & Francis Henry
Drinking Patterns and Alcoholism in Trinidad, by Carole Yawney
Adolescent Groups and Delinquency in Mackenzie, Guyana, by Marilyn Silverman
Industrial Unrest in Mackenzie, Guyana, by Maurice St. Pierre
The Origins of Porknocking in Guyana, by Douglas Smith
The Rural Entrepreneur in St. Lucia, by Rochelle Romalis
Selected Bibliography

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Discours sur le Colonialisme

Césaire, Aimé, Discours sur le colonialisme, sixième édition, Paris: Éditions Présence Africaine, 1955.

Discours sur le colonialism (Discourse on Colonialism) is a text written by Aimé Césaire and published in 1955. It is a key text of postcolonial literature.[1] Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism has been labeled “a declaration of war.”[1] It is a work focused on decolonization that is remembered for “its impact on the colonized, on culture, on history, on the very concept of civilization itself, and most importantly, on the colonizer.”[1] Césaire writes his book in a poetic style, discussing the negative effects of colonization on colonies. He uses this poetic prose style as, “a method of achieving clairvoyance, of obtaining the knowledge we need to move forward.”[1] His unique style of writing sets him apart from other postcolonial academics who published works alongside him at the same time. In Discourse on Colonialism, Césaire implicates the Europeans for constructing the negative relationship between colonizer and colonized. He criticizes Europe for constructing these colonies only to exploit them for their own benefit.

Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life

Elkins, Samuel M., Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life, Third Edition, Revised, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Slavery : A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life (1959), based on Elkin's doctoral dissertation at Columbia University, was theoretically innovative and enormously influential in the years after its publication, although its arguments are largely rejected today.


From the Preface to the third edition:
The original edition of this work has not been altered here, in that its text remains as it was when it was first published in 1959. But two new parts have been added to the original four, thus extending the text by some forty percent, in recognition that the subject itself has grown immensely during the intervening years. A word or two on these additions may be called for. By the late 1960’s a substantial body of critical commentary on my book had accumulated, and Professor Ann J. Lane undertook at that time to assemble some leading examples of it in a collection to which she invited me to contribute. I did so, and the resulting volume, under her editorship, was published in 1971 as The Debate over Slavery: Stanley Elkins and his Critics by the University of Illinois Press. The essay I prepared for that occasion, “Slavery and Ideology,” reappears as Part V of the present edition.

Puerto Rico, Una Crisis Histórica

Castor, Suzy, Puerto Rico, Una Crisis Histórica, México: Editorial Nuestro Tiempo, 1979. [3 copies]

Índice:
I. Independencia: única alternativa, Rubén Berrios Martínez
Comentarista: Jaime Labastida

II. Defensa de la Libre Asociación, Rafael Hernández Colon
Comentarista: Héctor Cuadra

III. La alternativa socialista, Juan Mari Bras
Comentarista: Sergio de la Peña

IV. Los elementos de la crisis, R. Sánchez Vilella
Comentarista: Agustín Cueva Davila

V. Aproximación critica al fenómeno nacionalista de Puerto Rico, Manuel Maldonado Denis
Comentarista: Pablo González Casanova

VI. Primera Mesa Redonda: La realidad del Estado Libre Asociado, Rafael Hernández Colon y José Luis González

VII. Segunda Mesa Redonda: Puerto Rico: destino manifiesto o soberanía nacional, Juan Mari Bras, R. Sánchez Vilella, M. Maldonado Denis, R Berrios Martínez

VIII. Datos básicos de Puerto Rico

Bibliografía mínima sobre Puerto Rico

Sobre las Revoluciones Parciales del Tercer Mundo

Delaprez, Gérard, Roger Genoud, Maxime Rodinson, Sobre las revoluciones parciales del Tercer Mundo , Barcelona: Anagrama, 1974.

Gérard Delaprez - Para leer a Roger Genoud (extracto):
El texto de Roger Genoud que leerá a continuación nos parece significativo de la evolución actual del pensamiento político y social en Occidente. Es obra de un economista que se formó en una época en que el marxismo, y más concretamente el stalinismo clásico, constituía el principal objeto de las discusiones relativas a la transformación de la sociedad; y que siguió con gran interés el renacimiento de las diferentes corrientes de inspiración anarquista, así como la eclosión del movimiento antiproductivista. O sea, que esta escrito en un tono apasionado – el autor ha retenido de esas diversas teorías, tan profundamente opuestas, lo que le parecía susceptible de explicar la evolución del mundo actual – y quizá resulta un poco oscuro, puesto que la multiplicidad de los temas y la complejidad de sus relaciones llevaban al autor a multiplicar las perspectivas.