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Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World (in Spanish Patas Arriba: la Escuela del Mundo al Revés), originally published in Spanish in 1998, was written by Eduardo Galeano, a Uruguayan author who was greatly impacted by the political turmoil during the 20th century military regimes in Latin America.
"Factory model schools", "factory model education", or "industrial era schools" are ahistorical [1] [2] terms that emerged in the mid to late-20th century and are used by writers and speakers as a rhetorical device by those advocating changes to education systems.
The Mole Agent (Spanish: El agente topo) is a 2020 internationally co-produced documentary film directed by Maite Alberdi. [2] It was screened at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Documentary Competition. [ 3 ]
El mundo (lit. ' The World ') is a 2007 autobiographical novel by the Spanish writer Juan José Millás. It is inspired by childhood memories and is about a boy who lives on the street and tries to grasp the history of the world. [1] [2] [3]
Napoleon, a typical great man, said to have created the "Napoleonic" era through his military and political genius. The great man theory is an approach to the study of history popularised in the 19th century according to which history can be largely explained by the impact of great men, or heroes: highly influential and unique individuals who, due to their natural attributes, such as superior ...
The Kingdom of This World (Spanish: El reino de este mundo) is a novel by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier, published in 1949 in his native Spanish and first translated into English in 1957. A work of historical fiction , it tells the story of Haiti before, during, and after the Haitian Revolution led by Toussaint Louverture , as seen by its ...
Mundo animal (1953). Animal World, trans. H. E. Francis, with an Afterword by Jorge García-Gómez. Grand Terrace, CA: Xenos Books. Grot (1957). Republished in 1969 as Cuentos claros; Declinación y ángel (1958) El cariño de los tontos (1961) Absurdos (1978) Cuentos del exilio (1983) Cuentos completos (2006)
El Güegüense (Spanish pronunciation: [el ɣweˈɣwen.se]; also known as Macho Ratón, pronounced [ˈma.tʃo raˈton]) is a satirical drama and was the first literary work of post-Colonial Nicaragua.