Hablemos de amor y puercoesía

In 1313, a boy named Grimpow discovers the frozen body of a man carrying an enigmatic stone that will lead him on a quest that will change his life forever.

The object of this volume is the study of missionary translation practices which occur within a colonial context of political domination and spiritual conquest. Missionary translation becomes especially manifest in bilingual ethnographic descriptions, in (bilingual) catechisms and in the missionaries' lexicographic condensation of bilingual dictionaries. The study of these instances permits the analysis and interpretation of their guiding principles, their translation practice and underlying reasoning. It also permits the modern linguist to discern semantic changes that can be revealed in...

Un diccionario que abarca desde las imágenes negativas de las primeras películas pre-homosexuales hasta la generación queer postsida. Actores, directores, guionistas, etc. que en los bordes de la sociedad heterosexual crearon un legado atractivo y entrete

From the late 1950s until the 1980s, the German-born Venezuelan artist Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt) made drawings, prints, three-dimensional works, hanging-net pieces (reticulareas), and wire constructions (drawings without paper) of extraordinary quality. Taken as a whole, these works illustrate the issue at the core of her production: the liberation of line from volume and form into space. Though little known outside of Latin America, Gego's work enjoyed a dialogue with twentieth-century artists and movements active not only in Venezuela, but also worldwide. In a series of essays examining...