Signifying “others” or signs of life? This book critically examines the ways in which crossing sex and gender is imagined in key cultural texts from contemporary Latin America. Unlike previous studies, Crossing Sex and Gender in Latin America does not hold that sexually diverse figures are always and only performative or allegorical and instead places the accent on questions of the presence or absence of an account of subjectivity in contemporary representation. Via analysis of selected films and literary works of Reinaldo Arenas, Mayra Santos-Febres, Pedro Lemebel, among others, the author reflects on the political implications of recent visions (1985-2005).
The Love and Rockets Companion: 30 Years (and Counting) contains three incredibly in-depth and candid interviews with creators Gilbert, Jaime and Mario Hernandez: one conducted by writer Neil Gaiman (Coraline); one conducted some six years into the comic’s run by longtime L&R publisher Gary Groth; and one conducted by the book’s author, spanning Gilbert’s, Jaime’s and Mario’s careers, and looking to the future of the ongoing series, with a follow-up conversation with Groth. This book has foldout family trees for both Gilbert’s Palomar and Jaime’s Locas storylines; unpublished art; a character glossary (which is handy, considering that Gilbert alone has created 50+ characters!); highlights from the original series’ anarchic letters columns; timelines; and the most wide-ranging Hernandez Brothers bibliography ever compiled, including album and DVD covers, posters and more. Pindar’s metaphor of the Isthmus as a bridge spanning two seas encapsulates the essence of the place and gives a fitting title for this volume of essays on the history and archaeology of the area. The Isthmus, best known for the panhellenic sanctuary of Poseidon, attracted travelers both before and after Pausanias’s visit in the 2nd century A.D., but only toward the end of the 19th century were the ruins investigated and, after another half century, finally systematically excavated. More recently, archaeologists have surveyed the territory beyond the sanctuary, compiling evidence for a varied picture of activity on the wider Isthmus and the eastern Corinthia. The 17 essays in this book celebrate 55 years of research on the Isthmus and provide a comprehensive overview of the state of our knowledge.
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Alvaro Retana (1890-1970), who many consider The Spanish Petronius, belongs to that lighthearted erotic literature trend popular during the early twentieth Century, that became known in Spain as Sicalipsis (from ancient Greek sykon -fig, or vulva- and aleiptikos -to stimulate). In open opposition to the somber and solemn Spanish '98 generation, and other representatives of the so called high culture, Retana's popular erotic novelettes showcased the smiling and playful face of a country that during the 1920s and 1930s openly embraced European modernity and stood up to its challenges, among them the sexual revolution and explicit eroticism. Alvaro Retana, a flamboyant and openly homosexual artist, illustrator, fashion designer, and renowned composer of cuples (a cuple is a risque popular song usually sung in variety shows), is also the successful author of many sicaliptic novelettes, among them, the four short novels included in this volume. Retana is one of the first writers who, in Las locas de postin and other openly queer and sexually explicit novels, dare to depict the uninhibited sensuality of a free and happy-go-lucky Spain, soon to die at the hands of the Franco dictatorship. Retana's smiling and festive homoeroticism, clearly a forerunner of Almodovar's and Mendicutti's gay aesthetics, stands in stark contrast to the apocalyptic and pessimistic vision of homosexuality in Alfonso Hernandez-Cata's novel El Angel de Sodoma (Stockcero 2011), a novel, like Retana's fictions, meant to depict the gay underground world of early twentieth century Spain. Retana openly celebrates queer love, as well as the sexuality of women, both homosexual and straight.
Novelettes such as Los ambiguos, Lolita buscadora de emociones, and El tonto amply instruct the unabashed tobillera, or Spanish flapper, in the pleasures of Venus. This volume comprises four of Retana's most successful novels, and with the critical foreword and footnotes by Maite Zubiaurre and Audrey Harris gives a clearer view of what the Spanish society was really reading while the high literature obtained all the academic applause.
Erik van Meer lived life on the edge. He was a mercenary - a hardened man and skeptical of stranger. Which was why Dani St. Clair intrigued him so. The straitlaced, bookstore owner was soft and warm and extremely dangerous to his control.
Eric knew Dani was a forever kind of woman - and deserved more than a one-night stand. So he did the only thing his conscience would allo Erik van Meer lived life on the edge.
He was a mercenary - a hardened man and skeptical of stranger. Which was why Dani St.
Clair intrigued him so. The straitlaced, bookstore owner was soft and warm and extremely dangerous to his control. Eric knew Dani was a forever kind of woman - and deserved more than a one-night stand. So he did the only thing his conscience would allow - he proposed marriage. And all that had come before his life was nothing compared to the danger his heart now faced.
God.:') How I love Diana Palmer!!! God, this lady is.she is.wow. I'm speechless. Diana Palmer is one hell of an author. I don't care what others say about her, I don't care if her writing is cheesy, I don't care if I'm being shallow about this, but I fuckin' love Diana Palmer. She gives you exactly what you want.
I love the twisting angst and emotion in her stories, and I love how the heroines are sweet and innocent. I love how the heroes are such asses, and when the time Oh my God. God.:') How I love Diana Palmer!!! God, this lady is.she is.wow. I'm speechless.
Diana Palmer is one hell of an author. I don't care what others say about her, I don't care if her writing is cheesy, I don't care if I'm being shallow about this, but I fuckin' love Diana Palmer. She gives you exactly what you want. I love the twisting angst and emotion in her stories, and I love how the heroines are sweet and innocent. I love how the heroes are such asses, and when the time comes, magic at grovelling. I love all the love and pain and sweet angst her stories cause.sigh.
God, I love her. I've said it before and I'll say it again, there's no other author like this woman.
Now let's get to the book. It was a really sweet, angsty read and I delighted in every minute of it. There wasn't much I disliked about this book; I didn't like the exotic setting and their quick wedding. And I'd have liked it better if the.ahem. had taken place after their marriage.
The heroine, Dani was not a typical Diana Palmer heroine - she was older (26), did not have blonde hair and she was a bit large on front side. Diana's heroines are usually small. But she was a sweetheart, innocent and trusting, just like all her other heroines are. This is why I love her so much, dammit:') I liked how she loved the hero but was independent. I loved how she left him when she came to know of his profession.
This one was a heroine with a backbone. And I love sweet, innocent heroines who have backbones even more:') And, as usual, I was on her side the entire time.
(I still loved Dutch hopelessly though.) We move onto Dutch now. He was a non-typical Palmer hero as well - he was blonde! And he wasn't hairy either. But I loved him, and I loved the faint scars on his face. I'm a sucker for a less-than-perfect hero.
Drive-by-review of this surprisingly sweet (until the hijackers show up) category with a solider of fortune hero and a bookshop owner heroine. They meet on a plane to Mexico where our “frumpy,” romance-novel-carrying heroine is determined to have an adventure. The hero is intrigued by her and has to keep changing his opinion of her until he sees her big breasts in a swimsuit. By then he’s smitten and proposes marriage. They marry and have a grand time until the hero thwarts a group of hijackers o Drive-by-review of this surprisingly sweet (until the hijackers show up) category with a solider of fortune hero and a bookshop owner heroine. They meet on a plane to Mexico where our “frumpy,” romance-novel-carrying heroine is determined to have an adventure. The hero is intrigued by her and has to keep changing his opinion of her until he sees her big breasts in a swimsuit.
By then he’s smitten and proposes marriage. They marry and have a grand time until the hero thwarts a group of hijackers on their homeward bound plane. Heroine realizes he’s a mercenary and decides she can’t live with that uncertainty.
It’s a bit of manufactured angst, but it’s fun to see how they resolve it. And resolve it they do. There are other soldier of fortune buddies who have their own stories, for yet another DP series. Diana Palmer checklist: Hairy chest Not a lot of hair!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it’s blonde. No good handfuls, alas. Breast Description big and beautiful.
Cigarettes check. Alcohol No Town Descriptions Travelogue of Acapulco(?) Gardenia Scent Hero was too overwhelmed by her breasts to notice. LOL detail Hero made his own light saber knife for protection.
He has to retrieve it from the stomach of one of the hijackers. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, MILD SPOILERS AHEAD PLEASE PROCEED WITH CARE Guess women get pregnant on their own in this book or at least that's what the hero would have you believe. This guys really should not have had kids if he felt that way. He even wanted a vasectomy so he would never have a child and he tells her this AFTER they get married. That's very extreme here! Not my favorite by Diana Palmer!
Not even close but it's not the worst I have read by her either. I did not care how she simply accepted being poorly treat MILD SPOILERS AHEAD PLEASE PROCEED WITH CARE Guess women get pregnant on their own in this book or at least that's what the hero would have you believe. This guys really should not have had kids if he felt that way. He even wanted a vasectomy so he would never have a child and he tells her this AFTER they get married.
That's very extreme here! Not my favorite by Diana Palmer! Not even close but it's not the worst I have read by her either. I did not care how she simply accepted being poorly treated. Honestly, just put up with his crap.
Holiday affairs are never a good way to start a lasting relationship. This is the clear message in this book. However, at least he did not call her a whore and leave her holding the baby, right? Yeah, but maybe it would have been better cause he was an cold bastard the whole of the book. At the end he pulls a '.watching that baby being born was the most exciting thing I've ever done; next to loving you,' out of his ass.
Really 'that' baby!!! He has such a way with words. Just a typical self centre egotist of the 1980 and spineless heroine who lets it all happen! First book by this author, and I liked it; although it took me some time to get used to the H. H Dutch is a mercenary (read: all American with Dutch ancestry action hero and I kept imagining Jean Claude Van Damme as the H while reading this.) with a difficult past and a natural distrust of women and starts off labelling the h as 'frump'.
He even has the gall to wonder how a 'frump' could show him the door when she wants to break off their relationship. Then of course there was the incessant smok First book by this author, and I liked it; although it took me some time to get used to the H. H Dutch is a mercenary (read: all American with Dutch ancestry action hero and I kept imagining Jean Claude Van Damme as the H while reading this.) with a difficult past and a natural distrust of women and starts off labelling the h as 'frump'.
He even has the gall to wonder how a 'frump' could show him the door when she wants to break off their relationship. Then of course there was the incessant smoking around the very pregnant Danielle that made me cringe. I just really wanted to get in there and snatch the cigarette away from him and stub it out. But he had many redeeming qualities as well which only became evident in the latter half of the story. Danielle was your average mousy M&B h with a sad backstory and a heart of gold. Avid romance reader who is horrified at the thought of being married to a soldier of fortune but gives in pretty easily and quickly when he refuses to give her the divorce she asked for.
Sweet story but not particularly remarkable. Don't mind reading more from this author.
Book two in Soldiers of Fortune series is the sweet love story of Dutch and Dani. Eric, also known as Dutch, an off duty mercenary who meets the shy librarian Dani on a 4 day vacation.
A whirlwind romance leads to a swift wedding, while Dani is swept off her feet and married impromptu to him. But as the future is being pondered upon, Dani realizes Dutch is hiding parts of himself and a hijacking exposes his true profession to her. Mild angst, but our hero can't stay away from the heroine- and that l Book two in Soldiers of Fortune series is the sweet love story of Dutch and Dani. Eric, also known as Dutch, an off duty mercenary who meets the shy librarian Dani on a 4 day vacation. A whirlwind romance leads to a swift wedding, while Dani is swept off her feet and married impromptu to him.
But as the future is being pondered upon, Dani realizes Dutch is hiding parts of himself and a hijacking exposes his true profession to her. Mild angst, but our hero can't stay away from the heroine- and that leads to some confessions and a HEA. Satisfying read. Dani the frump and Eric aka Dutch. I was drawn to this early DP book like a moth to a flame. Maybe it was my low expectations, but I ended up loving it.
I was thinking I'd just read the first bit and then maybe skip to the last chapter, but I found myself sucked in and couldn't put it down. Anyhow, Dani meets Dutch on a plane to her first vacation outside the US. His inner thoughts about the 'frumpy' chick sitting next to him were judgmental and just mean. I was thinking, 'Ok here we g Dani the frump and Eric aka Dutch. I was drawn to this early DP book like a moth to a flame. Maybe it was my low expectations, but I ended up loving it. I was thinking I'd just read the first bit and then maybe skip to the last chapter, but I found myself sucked in and couldn't put it down.
Anyhow, Dani meets Dutch on a plane to her first vacation outside the US. His inner thoughts about the 'frumpy' chick sitting next to him were judgmental and just mean. I was thinking, 'Ok here we go, the 80's dickhead H stereotype'. In a lot of ways he was just that.
But the book is a slow evolution from 'that', to a man in tears at the thought of his wife being seriously injured. They have a whirlwind affair, where she goes from 'frumpy' to 'gotta have her but she's a virgin, so I better marry her'. This is a man in his mid thirties (about a decade older than her) who you'd think would be more logical. Perhaps he was already a little in love with her? (or probably just thinking with his 'little head').
But he claims he can never love again after the way his (now deceased) despicable wife treated him, and the desperate measures she drove him to. Yes, it's one of those 'woe is me cause a chick hurt my wittle feelings, and now I hate all women', heroes. But hey, I kinda like that if it's done right; ) The stereotypical woman hater. He hasn't even been with a woman in over a year! Yet here he is marrying a mousy little book shop owner. Things were sweet until the return plane trip, when truths he neglected to tell her come out. Truths she can't be married to.
They part on bitter words, and of course she discovers that she's preggers. This is a harlequin after all; ) But Dutch comes back and there's a lot of back and forth, push/pull, that was well done, instead of annoying. I can't say Dutch is my fave H, but I did find the ending pretty cute and romantic.
Eric ( Dutch ) & Dani I trully enjoyed this book. Both characters are likeable and you can't help but rut for them. This is the story of Dani, a innocence and trusting book store owner and Eric, a mercenary soldier. They meet in a plane, sitting side by side on their way to a holiday. The sexual attraction between them is felt straight away an in a moment of lust they marry. I loved Dutch. He is your typical alpha male but he treated her with so much kindness and pacient.
I love that she dump Eric ( Dutch ) & Dani I trully enjoyed this book. Both characters are likeable and you can't help but rut for them. This is the story of Dani, a innocence and trusting book store owner and Eric, a mercenary soldier.
They meet in a plane, sitting side by side on their way to a holiday. The sexual attraction between them is felt straight away an in a moment of lust they marry.
I loved Dutch. He is your typical alpha male but he treated her with so much kindness and pacient. I love that she dumps him as soon as she finds out he profession, leaving him.
This really was a entertaining story and I highly recommend it. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. Diana Palmer is a pseudonym for author. (1)romance author Susan Eloise Spaeth was born on 11 December 1946 in Cuthbert, Georgia, USA. She was the eldest daughter of Maggie Eloise Cliatt, a nurse and also journalist, and William Olin Spaeth, a college professor.
Her mother was part of the women's libera Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. Diana Palmer is a pseudonym for author. (1)romance author Susan Eloise Spaeth was born on 11 December 1946 in Cuthbert, Georgia, USA. She was the eldest daughter of Maggie Eloise Cliatt, a nurse and also journalist, and William Olin Spaeth, a college professor. Her mother was part of the women's liberation movement many years before it became fashionable. Her best friends are her mother and her sister, Dannis Spaeth (Cole), who now has two daughters, Amanda Belle Hofstetter and Maggie and lives in Utah. Susan grew up reading Zane Grey and fell in love with cowboys.
Susan is a former newspaper reporter, with sixteen years experience on both daily and weekly newspapers. Since 1972, she has been married to James Kyle and have since settled down in Cornelia, Georgia, where she started to write romance novels. Susan and her husband have one son, Blayne Edward, born in 1980. She began selling romances in 1979 as Diana Palmer.
She also used the pseudonyms Diana Blayne and Katy Currie, and her married name: Susan Kyle. Now, she has over 40 million copies of her books in print, which have been translated and published around the world. She is listed in numerous publications, including Contemporary Authors by Gale Research, Inc., Twentieth Century Romance and Historical Writers by St. James Press, The Writers Directory by St.
James Press, the International Who's Who of Authors and Writers by Meirose Press, Ltd., and Love's Leading Ladies by Kathryn Falk. Her awards include seven Waldenbooks national sales awards, four B. Dalton national sales awards, two Bookrak national sales awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award for series storytelling from Romantic Times, several Affaire de Coeur awards, and two regional RWA awards. Inspired by her husband, who quit a blue-collar manufacturing job to return to school and get his diploma in computer programming, Susan herself went back to college as a day student at the age of 45. In 1995, she graduated summa cum laude from Piedmont College, Demorest, GA, with a major in history and a double minor in archaeology and Spanish.
She was named to two honor societies (the Torch Club and Alpha Chi), and was named to the National Dean's List. In addition to her writing projects, she is currently working on her master's degree in history at California State University. She hopes to specialize in Native American studies.
She is a member of the Native American Rights Fund, the American Museum of Natural History, the National Cattlemen's Association, the Archaeological Institute of Amenca, the Planetary Society, The Georgia Conservancy, the Georgia Sheriff's Association, and numerous conservation and charitable organizations. Her hobbies include gardening, archaeology, anthropology, iguanas, astronomy and music. In 1998, her husband retired from his own computer business and now pursues skeet shooting medals in local, state, national and international competition. They love riding around and looking at the countryside, watching sci-fi on TV and at the movies, just talking and eating out.