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Una voz lúcida y autorizada, que clama en medio de esta crisis generada por el desarrollo despiadado del capitalismo Marcos Ana tiene noventa y tres años de edad, setenta de vida. La diferencia la marcan los veintitrés que pasó en las cárceles; ha sido el preso político más longevo de España. Lejos del odio y de la venganza, Marcos Ana rescata hoy los valores que siempre le han mantenido de pie, la unidad y la fuerza de las ideas para hacer frente a esta crisis económica y moral. Asiste indignado al robo de muchos de los derechos que a tantos compañeros suyos le costaron la vida, al descrédito político, a la corrupción en el poder, al desmantelamiento de los servicios sociales públicos, al olvido del pasado reciente o al hondo calado de la pobreza en muchas familias. Así levanta su voz de nuevo un poeta que entregó sus mejores años a la defensa de aquello que ha dirigido su vida: la solidaridad entre los pueblos. Este libro es un manual contra la injusticia, escrito por un hombre sencillo con una vida apasionante y apasionada que cruza toda la historia del siglo XX.

Marcos first captured world attention on New Year's Day, 1994 when he and an indigenous guerrilla group calling themselves 'Zapatistas' revolted against the Mexican government and seized key towns in the southernmost state of Chiapas. In the eight years that have passed since their uprising, Marcos has altered the course of Mexican politics and emerged as an international symbol of grassroots movement-building, rebellion and democracy. The prolific stream of poetic political writings, tales, and traditional myths which Marcos has written during this period are collected in this remarkable work. These words now form an incendiary volume of contemporary political history. An inspirational text in which we hear the voice of a people refusing to be forgotten or silenced--the voice of Mexico in transition, the voice of a people struggling for democracy by using their word as their only weapon.--Back cover.

Marcos Ana (Fernando Macarro Castillo). Naci&ó en Alconada, una peque&ña aldea de Salamanca, en 1920, en el seno de una familia pobre de jornaleros del campo. Su vida ha estado marcada por una pasi&ón constante en defensa de los oprimidos y los desheredados y una entrega absoluta a su ideal comunista. Desde su primera juventud, luch&ó del lado republicano, durante la guerra civil espa&ñola. Al terminar &ésta, en 1939 fue detenido, junto a millares de dem&ócratas y condenado a muerte. Permaneci&ó encarcelado durante 23 a&ños ininterrumpidos: toda su juventud y la mitad de su vida. En esa Universidad dolorosa escribi&ó los poemas que traspasaron las c&árceles y llevaron su nombre a trav&és del mundo, contribuyendo a desencadenar una campa&ña de solidaridad a su favor. Fue uno de los primeros presos pol&íticos espa&ñoles defendidos por Amnist&ía Internacional. Al ser liberado, en 1961, Marcos Ana recorri&ó Europa y gran parte de Am&érica, siendo recibido en Parlamentos, Universidades y centenares de concentraciones populares, promovieron y organizando la solidaridad con los presos pol&íticos y su familias y denunciando las pr&ácticas fascistas que, por entonces, se realizaban en Espa&ña. Fund&ó y dirigi&ó en Par&ís, hasta el final de la dictadura franquista, el Centro de Informaci&ón y Solidaridad con Espa&ña (CISE),& que presidi&ó Picasso. Apoyado por personalidades de la cultura y la pol&ítica europeas, este Centro organiz&ó la defensa de los derechos humanos, la acci&ón por la Amnist&ía general y la ayuda moral y material a todas las v&íctimas de la represi&ón pol&ítica.

Cinematic Landscape and Emerging Identities in Contemporary Latin American Film offers a series of perspectives, produced from a diverse array of aesthetic and theoretical approaches, that build on previous studies about cinematic landscape and space while addressing it from a regional perspective. This book explores how contemporary Latin American filmmakers have included, created, or transformed different types of landscapes in their works. The chapters highlight the centrality of landscape as a meaningful space in film, composed in addition to the image, sound, and movement. The core of the edited collection revolves around films where landscape emerges as a crucial element to transmit the urgency of issues affecting diverse Latin American societies. The representation of emerging social actors, such as Indigenous groups, Afro-Latin Americans, LGBTQIA+ communities, migrants, environmentalists, and women, offers a localized view of sociocultural, political, and environmental challenges from marginalized and dissenting voices.

The modern city is a space that can simultaneously represent the principles of its homeland alongside its own unique blend of the cultures that intermingle within its city limits. This book makes an intervention in Canadian literary criticism by foregrounding both ‘globalism,’ which is increasingly perceived as the state-of-the-art literary paradigm, and the city. These are two significant axes of contemporary culture and identity that were previously disregarded by a critical tradition built around the importance of space and place in Canadian writing. Yet, as relevant as the turn to the city and to globalism may be, this collection’s most notable contribution lies in linking the notion of ‘glocality’, that is, the intermeshing of local and global forces to representations of subjectivity in the material and figurative space of the Canadian city. Dealing with oppositional discourses as multiculturalism, postcolonialism, feminism, diaspora, and environmentalism this book is an essential reference for any scholar with an interest in these areas.

Com farta documentação fotográfica das obras e variado aparato textual para a compreensão do processo de criação e experimentação do artista plástico Rubens Matuck, este livro apresenta a história e a totalidade da produção desse artista, que, alimentado por um constante questionamento conceitual e formal, e pela inspiração, na observação da natureza, chega a um legado artístico permeado por desenhos, pinturas, gravuras, esculturas e ilustrações cujos eixos temáticos são a natureza, a fauna, a flora e a organicidade do homem e seu entorno.