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From Athens to Managua: Myth and sacrifice in Michele Najlis' Cantos de Ifigenia
Shaughnessy, Lorna (Liverpool University Press, 2012)Michele Najlis is a Nicaraguan poet whose work emerged alongside the Sandinista insurrection. The Sandinistas were removed from office in 1990, creating, in political and cultural terms, one of those 'boundary situations' ... -
‘Harry Potter is funny’. The tricky task of translating humour and character voices into Spanish
Alderete Diez, Pilar (Association for Language Learming, 2012-05-04)In 2003 the highlight of the International Federation of Translators conference was their UNESCO Literary Translators Committee Round Table devoted to the translators of J.K. Rowling’s work as contributors to her popularity. ... -
Military participation and moral authority: women's political participation in Nicaragua, 1975-1995
Shaughnessy, Lorna (Women's Studies Centre, University College Galway, 1995)The growth of a dynamic and assertive constituency of women in Nicaragua is inseparable from the most recent phase of 'Sandinismo' in Nicaraguan history. An examination of the complex and ever-changing relationship between ... -
"Violence and the Sacred": sacrifice, scapegoating and social conflict in Alfonso Reyes Ifigenia cruel
Shaughnessy, Lorna (Oxford University Press, 2016-10-24)This article presents a reading of Alfonso Reyes Ifigenia cruel informed by René Girard s theories of mimetic violence and the scapegoating effect . It seeks to foster interest in the complex relationship between the ...