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Chacmool. Maya chacmool from Chichen Itza, excavated by Le Plongeon in 1875, now displayed at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. A chacmool (also spelled chac-mool or Chac Mool) is a form of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sculpture depicting a reclining figure with its head facing 90 degrees from the front, supporting itself on its ...
Carlos Fuentes Macías (/ ˈfwɛnteɪs /; [ 1 ]Spanish: [ˈkaɾlos ˈfwentes] ⓘ; November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962), Aura (1962), Terra Nostra (1975), The Old Gringo (1985) and Christopher Unborn (1987). In his obituary, The New York Times described ...
The Road to Science Fiction is a series of science fiction anthologies edited by American science fiction author, scholar and editor James Gunn. Composed as a textbook set to teach the evolution of science fiction literature, the series is now available as mass market publications. The six-volume set collects many of the most influential works ...
Sun, Stone, and Shadows. Sun, Stone, and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories, edited by Jorge Hernandez, and published by Fondo de Cultura Economica, is a collection of short stories written by Mexican authors born in the first half of the twentieth century. It is one of the books selected for the National Endowment for the Arts ' "Big Read ...
Where the Air Is Clear. Where the Air Is Clear (Spanish: La región más transparente) is a 1958 novel by Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes. His first novel, it became an "instant classic" [1] and made Fuentes into an immediate "literary sensation". [2] The novel's success allowed Fuentes to leave his job as a diplomat and become a full-time author.
A sculpture representing a chac-mool [3] (characteristic of the Toltec culture) was found; as well as a series of roads and walls surrounding the site. [4] The prehispanic settlement fully covers a low-lying plateau and kept a strategic location at the extreme west of the lake and other dominant sites as Tzintzuntzan. [1]
At one point Medea kills Chac-Mool to prevent him from going into Aztlán. Nicole Eschen of the Theatre Journal wrote that at the end, "Chac-Mool reappears, possibly as a ghost or hallucination, to absolve and cradle Medea as she kills herself." [5] Luna - Medea's girlfriend, a sculptor. [1] She had taught Chac-Mool about history and heritage ...
VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images Tanya McQuoid-Hunt may be resting at the bottom of the sea, but Jennifer Coolidge is very much alive — and she stole the show at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards.