Puerto Ricans make up half of Orlando-area Latinos, arriving from Puerto Rico as well as from other long-established diaspora communities to a place where Latino politics has long been about Cubans ...in Miami. Together with other Latinos from multiple places, Puerto Ricans bring diverse experiences of race and class to this Sunbelt city. Tracing the emergence of the Puerto Rican and Latino presence in Orlando from the 1940s through an ethnographic moment of twenty-first-century electoral redistricting, Sunbelt Diaspora provides a timely prism for viewing how differences of race, class, and place play out in struggles to claim political, social, and economic ground for Latinos. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic, oral history, and archival research, Patricia Silver situates her findings in Orlando’s historically black-white racial landscape, post-1960s claims to “color-blindness," and neoliberal celebrations of individualism. Through the voices of diverse participants, Silver brings anthropological attention to the question of how social difference affects collective identification and political practice. Sunbelt Diaspora asks what constitutes community and how criteria for membership and legitimate representation are negotiated.
Latino Orlando portrays the experiences of first- and second-generation immigrants who have come to the Orlando metropolitan area from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, and other Latin ...American countries. While much research on immigration focuses on urban destinations, Simone Delerme delves into a middle- and upper-class suburban context, highlighting the profound demographic and cultural transformation of an overlooked immigrant hub.
Drawing on interviews, observations, fieldwork, census data, and traditional and new media, Delerme reveals the important role of real estate developers in attracting Puerto Ricans—some of the first Spanish-speaking immigrants in the region—to Central Florida in the 1970s. She traces how language became a way of racializing and segregating Latino communities, leading to the growth of suburban ethnic enclaves. She documents not only the tensions between Latinos and non-Latinos, but also the class-based distinctions that cause dissent within the Latino population.
Arguing that Latino migrants are complicating racial categorizations and challenging the deep-rooted black-white binary that has long prevailed in the American South, Latino Orlando breaks down stereotypes of neighborhood decline and urban poverty and illustrates the diversity of Latinos in the region.
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"This study offers a sustained examination of the presentation of eastern Asia, the Middle East, and northern Africa in two of the most important chivalric epics of the fifteenth and sixteenth ...centuries, Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato (1495) and Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1516). Comparing the narratological strategies used to depict non-European characters in these stories, Jo Ann Cavallo argues that Boiardo's cosmopolitan vision of humankind increasingly became replaced by Ariosto's crusading ideology, which emphasized a binary opposition between Christians and Saracens."
The quest for epic Zatti, Sergio; Looney, Dennis
The quest for epic,
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Translated here for the first time into English, Sergio Zatti'sThe Quest for Epicis a selection of studies on the two major poets of the Italian Renaissance, Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso, by ...one of the most important literary critics writing in Italy today. An original and challenging work,The Quest for Epicdocuments the development of Italian narrative from the chivalric romance at the end of the fifteenth century to the genre of epic in the sixteenth century.
Zatti focuses on Ariosto'sOrlando Furioso, written in the early 1500s, and progresses to Tasso'sJerusalem Delivered, written at the end of the century, but also touches briefly on Boiardo, Ariosto's great predecessor at the Estense court in Ferrara, as well as on Pulci, Trissino, and many other Italian writers of the period. Zatti highlights the critical debates over narrative form in the sixteenth century that become signposts on the way to literary modernity and the eventual rise of the modern novel. Albert Russell Ascoli's introduction provides context by mapping Zatti's criticism and situating it among Italian and Anglo-American literary critical studies, making a case for the contribution this book will have for English-language readers.
As an expansion Major League Soccer team, the Orlando City Soccer Club marked the return of professional soccer to Florida for the first time since 2001, selling out the sixty-thousand-seat Citrus ...Bowl for its home opener and going on to have the second highest home attendance for the 2015 and 2016 seasons. It was the successful culmination of a nine-year process orchestrated by the team's owner, Phil Rawlins, who sold his successful sales consultancy company for a shot at sports ownership and a chance to tap into America's growing interest in pro soccer. Rawlins was relentless in building a franchise from the ground up, overcoming crippling setbacks, devious politics, and near financial ruin. Underpinning his efforts was a deep commitment to re-creating the tribal passion and community spirit of his hometown team in the United Kingdom, Stoke City, for which he served as board member for fourteen years. The payoff was the Orlando City Soccer Club, an attractive new team that galvanized the region. The subsequent acquisition of international superstar Ricardo Kaká catapulted the club to celebrity status and ensured that its debut season defied expectations.Defying Expectations gives insight into the challenges faced on the road to success, challenges through which Rawlins has remained focused on the six core values that he and his wife formulated at their kitchen table years ago, continuing to foster a community institution that gives back as much as it receives.
Las reflexiones sobre la investigación participativa y colaborativa suelen dejar de prestar atención al hecho de que, para los investigadores comunitarios, la investigación de sus propias realidades ...suele adoptar formas muy diferentes a las de los académicos. Pueden utilizar métodos que son explícitamente intuitivos y pueden apartarse de enfoques que implican la recopilación y sistematización rigurosa de datos. Este artículo explora lo que la investigación pudo haber significado para los campesinos caribeños de principios de la década de 1970 con quienes el sociólogo colombiano Orlando Fals Borda desarrollo? su enfoque de lo que hoy se llama investigacionaciòn participativa. En particular, se centra en las notas de campo de Alfonso Salgado Martínez, líder de la Asociación Nacional de Usuarios Campesinos-Lìnea Sincelejo (ANUC, Asociación Nacional de Usuarios Campesinos-Linea Sincelejo), yuxtaponiéndolas a su trabajo publicado, ambos leídos en comparación a las notas y escritos del propio Fals Borda
The analysis of similitudes in Orlando Furioso has become more and more interesting in recent years. In fact, within the octaves of the poem, they follow one another numerous times. Among these, ...similitudes of a zoomorphic kind have a relevant place, revealing a special attention to the animal kingdom that seems to affect Ariosto’s other works as well. The essay intends to read this element in the whole Ariosto’s production, eliciting the idea that these similitudes and animal figurations are functional to a competitive vision of human relationships, where oppression and arrogance prevail; this also contributes to recent critical reconfiguration of the Ferrarese poet, bitterly disenchanted with humanity and his prevaricating nature.
Indagini ormai “classiche” (Segre, Blasucci, Ossola) e importanti studi successivi (Zatti, Jossa, Geyer, Stierle e altri) hanno mostrato la pervasività dell’influsso della Commedia sul Furioso, sia a ...livello linguistico, stilistico e metrico, sia in ambito tematico, sia, infine, nell’ottica di una contrapposizione (spesso declinata in chiave parodica) di “ideologie” divergenti. A fronte della ricchezza di aspetti sinora analizzati, possiamo chiederci oggi se per Ariosto la Commedia abbia rappresentato un modello anche sul piano delle strutture narrative e del sistema dei rapporti tra il testo e la realtà extra-testuale. Mettendo in evidenza per la prima volta la presenza e la funzione delle riprese dantesche nei proemi dei primi canti del Furioso, il contributo mostra come Ariosto si appropri di precise strategie narrative della Commedia e costruisca così nuove dinamiche strutturali che presiedono alla narrazione in prima persona e ai riferimenti alla realtà contemporanea.
