Afirmaciones y negaciones

La "cocina" de Dioselina Tibaná constituye una de las alegorías más complejas y ricas de sentido en la historia del humor político y metaperiod́stico en Colombia. El discurso de la ironía política que pone en escena una excepcional poética de la norma en este personaje es el propósito de este trabajo analítico de investigación y la semiótica discursiva, el enfoque conceptual mediante el cual se analiza la narratividad política presente en la acción ciudadana que Dioselina Tibaná ejemplifica.La relación entre el poder político y el poder mediático son los dos ingredientes...

"Important contribution to the social history of the New Kingdom and Cartagena de Indias, in particular. Spanish efforts first to comprehend and then control, if not eliminate, indigenous and African forms of alleged magic, whether religious or medical, illustrated imperial imperatives of domination and cultural transformation of subject peoples. First half of book establishes definitions and structures within which confrontation of Spanish and non-Western belief systems clashed. Second half provides a series of illustrative case studies. A glossary and documentary appendices augment the...

The author details her early years in Paris, where she was raised amidst diplomats, literary masters, and artists, and her return to her native Colombia, where, as a senator, she went up against the powerful drug cartels.

"A regional study of indigenous resistance to Spanish colonialism during the 16th-18th centuries, based on archival research, oral history, and secondary literature. The protagonists of the story include the Embera, the Burumia, the Tule, and the Carauta, who all lived near the Atrato river. Data on parcialidades, encomenderos, and population are presented in tables. Several maps illustrate the text"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.