Gringo Love

Author : Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487594542
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gringo Love written by Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the city of Natal in northeastern Brazil, several local women negotiate the terms of their intimate relationships with foreign tourists, or gringos, in a situation often referred to as "sex tourism." These women have different experiences, but they share a similar desire to "escape" the social conditions of their lives in Brazil. Based on original ethnographic research and presented in graphic form, Gringo Love explores the hopes, dreams, and realities of these women against a backdrop of deep social inequality and increasing state surveillance leading up to the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games. It touches on important contemporary issues, including sexual economics, transnational mobility, romantic imaginaries, gender representation, race and inequality, and visual methods. The graphic story is accompanied by analysis and contextual discussion, which encourage readers to engage with the narrative and expand their understanding of the broader social issues therein.

Author : Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487594526
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gringo Love written by Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on original ethnographic research in Brazil, this rich graphic narrative follows several local women as they negotiate the terms of their intimate relationships with foreign tourists and seek a different life for themselves.

Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466840145
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Gringo written by Carlos Fuentes and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes brings the Mexico of 1916 uncannily to life. This novel is wise book, full of toughness and humanity and is without question one of the finest works of modern Latin American fiction. One of Fuentes's greatest works, the novel tells the story of Ambrose Bierce, the American writer, soldier, and journalist, and of his last mysterious days in Mexico living among Pancho Villa's soldiers, particularly his encounter with General Tomas Arroyo. In the end, the incompatibility of the two countries (or, paradoxically, their intimacy) claims both men, in a novel that is, most of all, about the tragic history of two cultures in conflict.

Author : Chesa Boudin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416559841
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gringo written by Chesa Boudin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Gringo, Chesa Boudin takes us on a delightfully engaging trip through Latin America, in an ingenious combination of memoir and commentary" (Howard Zinn). Gringo charts two journeys, both of which began a decade ago. The first is the sweeping transformation of Latin American politics that started with Hugo Chávez's inauguration as president of Venezuela in 1999. In that same year, an eighteen-year-old Chesa Boudin leaves his middle-class Chicago life -- which is punctuated by prison visits to his parents, who were incarcerated when he was fourteen months old for their role in a politically motivated bank truck robbery -- and arrives in Guatemala. He finds a world where disparities of wealth are even more pronounced and where social change is not confined to classroom or dinner-table conversations, but instead takes place in the streets. While a new generation of progress-ive Latin American leaders rises to power, Boudin crisscrosses twenty-seven countries throughout the Americas. He witnesses the economic crisis in Buenos Aires; works inside Chávez's Miraflores palace in Caracas; watches protestors battling police on September 11, 2001, in Santiago; descends into ancient silver mines in Potosí; and travels steerage on a riverboat along the length of the Amazon. He rarely takes a plane when a fifteen-hour bus ride in the company of unfettered chickens is available. Including incisive analysis, brilliant reportage, and deep humanity, Boudin's account of this historic period is revelatory. It weaves together the voices of Latin Americans, some rich, most poor, and the endeavors of a young traveler to understand the world around him while coming to terms with his own complicated past. The result is a marvelous mixture of coming-of-age memoir and travelogue.

Author : Aura Xilonen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781609453657
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gringo Champion written by Aura Xilonen and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liborio calls upon his highly-honed survival skills to escape Mexico, sharing his journey and speaking of migrants' social problems via love letters to his girl.

Author : Mark Mann
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1783722061
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gringo Trail written by Mark Mann and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Mann and his girlfriend Melissa set off to explore the ancient monuments, mountains and rainforests of South America. But for their friend Mark, South America meant only one thing: drugs. Sad, funny and shocking, The Gringo Trail is a darkly comic road-trip and a revealing journey through South America’s turbulent history.

Author : William Watts Hart Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book El Gringo written by William Watts Hart Davis and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Conti
Publisher : Full Court Press
ISBN 13 : 9781938812842
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gringo written by Peter Conti and published by Full Court Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vivid account of a charming rogue who evaded capture for thirteen years as an international fugitive from U.S. law enforcement after being set up by a childhood friend for a crime he didn't commit.

Author : Elliott Arnold
Publisher : New York : A.A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Time of the Gringo written by Elliott Arnold and published by New York : A.A. Knopf. This book was released on 1953 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cusi Cram
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0573670420
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucy and the Conquest written by Cusi Cram and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pill popping Lucy Santiago heads to her family home in Bolivia after being fired from the syndicated hit "Beach Detectives". All she wants to do is forget her troubles but her wildly eccentric family and a mysterious spirit that lives under Simon Bolivar¿s campaign bed won¿t let her. Lucy is forced to confront her own troubled history as well as the history of a conquered people.