Marjorie Agosín is the author of A Map of Hope and The Alphabet in My Hands and the editor of Taking Root: Narratives of Jewish Women in Latin America. She is a member of the Spanish Academy of Letters and winner of the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor. She is a professor of Spanish at Wellesley College.
16 Ebooks par Marjorie Agosin
Naomi Jackson & Toni Shapiro-Phim: Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice
Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice: Dignity in Motion presents a wide-ranging compilation of essays, spanning more than 15 countries. Organized in four parts, the articles examine the regulation …
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Marjorie Agosín: Taking Root
In Taking Root, Latin American women of Jewish descent, from Mexico to Uruguay, recall their coming of age with Sabbath candles and Hebrew prayers, Ladino songs and merengue music, Queen Esther and t …
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€36.99
Marjorie Agosin: Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love
Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love tells the story of ordinary women living in terror and extreme poverty under General Pinochets oppressive rule in Chile (19731989). These women defied the military …
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€99.85
Marjorie Agosin: I Lived on Butterfly Hill
An eleven-year-old’s world is upended by political turmoil in this ‘;lyrically ambitious tale of exile and reunification’ (Kirkus Reviews) from an award-winning poet, based on true events in Chile.Ce …
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€11.73
Marjorie Agosin: Maps of Memory
In this ‘;captivating and exquisite’ (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) sequel to the Pura Belpr Awardwinning I Lived on Butterfly Hill, thirteen-year-old Celeste Marconi returns home to Chile and afte …
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€10.55
Marjorie Agosín: The flowering tree
‘The flowering tree’ is a text based on real events which narrates the life of a Jewish family that, after escaping the conflicts in Europe, comes to live in the Valparaíso Region (Chile), specifical …
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€10.99
Patricia Patricia Klingenberg & Fernanda Zullo-Ruiz: New Readings of Silvina Ocampo
Argues for Ocampo’s multifaceted development of ambiguity in various media and genres on the levels of language, plot and gender. The critical essays in this volume are dedicated to the works of Arge …
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€28.99
Liliana Wilson: Ofrenda
Liliana Wilson’s art of resistance and protest, dissidence and dreams, consistently calls attention to injustice.Wilson belongs to a group of Chilean artists who were intimately shaped by the politic …
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€15.37
Marjorie Agosin & Cynthia Imaña: Las Arpilleras. Una historia contada con hilo y aguja
Delfina Nahuenhual le enseña a Celeste cosas que ella no conocía. Juntas forjan una amistad que las llevará a un viaje por los cerros de Valparaíso para conocer a un grupo de valientes mujeres que se …
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Marjorie Agosín: A Cross and a Star
In this classic memoir that explores the Nazi presence in the south of Chile after the war, Marjorie Agosín writes in the voice of her mother, Frida, who grew up as the daughter of European Jewish im …
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€9.99
Marjorie Agosin: Los mapas de la memoria (The Maps of Memory)
In this “captivating and exquisite” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) sequel to the Pura Belpré Award–winning I Lived on Butterfly Hill, thirteen-year-old Celeste Marconi returns home to Chile and aft …
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€10.55
Marjorie Agosin: Viví en el cerro Mariposa (I Lived on Butterfly Hill)
Now available in Spanish! An eleven-year-old’s world is upended by political turmoil in this “lyrically ambitious tale of exile and reunification” (Kirkus Reviews) from an award-winning poet, based o …
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€11.73
Ignacio López-Calvo & Marjorie Agosin: Refugees, Refuge, and Human Displacement
Forced displacement, statelessness, and the omnipresence of asylum seekers and refugees—innocent people uprooted from their homes by war, climate change, natural catastrophes, economic collapse, terr …
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€34.99
Marjorie Agosin & Ignacio Lopez-Calvo: Refugees, Refuge, and Human Displacement
Every American is a descendant of either a Native American, and enslaved person, an immigrant, or a refugee. This book is devoted to the fourth category. The essays in this volume will study the conc …
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€32.01
Andrea Jeftanovic: Errant Destinations
Errant Destinations is a collection of nine literary chronicles in which contemporary Chilean-Jewish author Andrea Jeftanovic reflects on travel in its multiple variations, with reference to diverse …
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€45.04
Frederick A. de Armas & Susan L. Fischer: Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain
Although scholars often depict early modern Spanish women as victims, history and fiction of the period are filled with examples of women who defended their God-given right to make their own decision …
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