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Andalusia (Spain) --- Andalusia (Spain) --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions.
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William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer. He was one of the most popular authors of his era, and reputedly the highest paid of his profession during the 1930s. By 1914 he was famous, with 10 plays produced and 10 published novels. His masterpiece is generally agreed to be Of Human Bondage (1915), a semi-autobiographical novel that deals with the life of the main character Philip Carey, who like Maugham, was orphaned, and brought up by his pious uncle. His last major novel, The Razor's Edge, published in 1944, was a departure for him in ma
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Qui peut ne pas aimer Séville ? La vieille capitale andalouse est un chaudron de passions, le lieu par excellence de la quête amoureuse où, sous le regard brûlant des Vierges, le blasphème accompagne les désirs, où la rédemption est au coin de la rue. À l’ombre de son architecture flamboyante, les plus grands créateurs, peintres, écrivains, musiciens, ont autant été inspirés par elle qu’ils ont contribué à son mythe.Sur les rives du Guadalquivir, l’âme de l’Andalousie se montre conquérante. Les faubourgs de Triana où vivait Carmen, les majestueuses arènes de la Maestranza, où toréait son amant Escamillo, le quartier Santa Cruz, où Don Juan ravit la fille du Commandeur et qu’il perça de sa rapière, la rue Sierpes où fut emprisonné Cervantès, où il imagina peut-être son chevalier errant... Tous ces lieux racontent plus qu’une histoire. Ils disent l’âme du peuple andalou et sévillan dont les folies ont toujours interloqué l’Espagne et séduit le monde.Ce petit livre n’est pas un guide. C’est un décodeur. Il vous raconte l’amoureuse tragédie sévillane et que Carmen ou Don Juan sont en chacun de nous.Un grand récit suivi d’entretiens avec Joseph Perez (L’Andalousie a profité de l’avènement du romantisme), Alain Dutournier (À Séville, on dirait que le jambon pleure) et Francis Wolff (La corrida est une morale aristocratique).
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Agricultural laborers --- Andalusia (Spain) --- Social conditions.
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Alumbrados --- History --- Andalusia (Spain) --- Church history.
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"Today it seems the line between Europe and the Middle East, between Europeans and Muslim immigrants in their midst are hardening. Daily editorials compare the arrival of Muslim immigrants with the "Muslim conquest of 711," warning that Europe will be called on to defend its southern and eastern borders. Violence and paranoia are alive and well in fortress Europe.In The Feeling of History, anthropologist Charles Hirschkind examines a movement in Spain to recuperate the idea of al-Andalus-the idea that contemporary Andalusia is linked in vitally important ways with medieval Islamic Iberia and that the challenge of the xenophobic present requires we recognize continuities with the Muslim past. Hirschkind explores the works and lives of writers, thinkers, poets, artists, and activists to show how they have elaborated an Andalusian sensorium. At stake is a mode of inquiring into the past from a position of experiential proximity, an affective standpoint of wonder and longing. Hirschkind also carefully traces the various itineraries of andalucismo from both colonial and anti-colonial efforts to contemporary movements supporting immigrant rights. The Feeling of History, a nuanced view into the way people experience their own past, bears witness to a philosophy of engaging the Middle East that experiments with alternative futures"--.
Collective memory --- Orientalism --- Andalusia (Spain) --- Civilization. --- Civilization --- Islamic influences. --- Historiography.
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Aliens --- Immigrants --- Visitors, Foreign --- History --- Andalusia (Spain) --- Spain --- History.
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