Tag: comparative studies
What, when & where Language and Violence: Literary Mediations in the Age of the Anthropocene Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución – Universidade de Vigo in partnership with the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Vigo – 16th and 17th January 2020 The “Language and Violence: Literary Mediations in the Age of the Anthropocene” international conference seeks … Read More “15/9/2019 – CFP: Language and Violence: Literary Mediations in the Age of the Anthropocene” »
1968 is a momentous year in the global socio-political memory: it has come to be seen as the culmination and epitome of a series of processes involving protest, and the affirmation of previously silent or subaltern causes. Such processes and causes were predicated on challenges to established powers and mindsets, and hence on demands for change, that have had rich consequences in literature and the arts.
Issues of identities and connections were as pertinent to the inhabitants of early America and the Atlantic World as they remain today. Up until the mid-nineteenth century, the geopolitics of the Americas were in constant flux