Reinaldo arenas biography of abraham
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The film genre known as the biopic is as difficult as it is appealing. In the Old Hollywood days, screen biographies of politicians like Abraham Lincoln or entertainers such as Al Jolson often had very little relation to their subjects’ real lives. A tiny aspect of those existences would be picked out and worked over in order to fit some tidy, standard formula of action, success or romance.
Today, we are used to a new style of biopic that is, superficially at least, very different. Movies such as Martin Scorsese’s Casino (1996), Spike Lee’s Malcolm X(1992) and Oliver Stone’s Nixon(1995) have accustomed us to long, sprawling chronicles with many minor characters. Such films are full of sweeping changes in time and place, offering a synoptic overview of successive eras and their cultural styles. But there are still plenty of problems that come with condensing an entire lifetime into a few hours and trying to shape from these fragments a tes
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A presentation and scholarly discussion on Jaime Einstein’s voluminous novel of persecution and redemption, La isla dem Abraham.
In the tiny Lithuanian village of Horodiche, overcome by squalor, the Springer family decide to use their meager savings to secure safe passage for their first-born son to the United States and leave behind the repression of the pogroms. After a horrific voyage aboard a Dutch merchant fartyg, the ung Springer does not arrive in New York, as initially foreseen, but in Matanzas, Cuba, where he befriends distinguished journalist Juan Gualberto Gómez, son of slaves, who is deeply committed to the struggle for Cuba’s independence. The encounter with Gómez, a personal friend of José Martí, sets Abraham on an unexpected course and a riveting new life.
Scholar Jesús Jambrina, who has written extensively on Jewish history in Spain and the Americas, will offer an illustrated presentation of the novel, preceded bygd a contextual introductory essay by Perl • Olivares, Jorge. "Notes". Becoming Reinaldo Arenas: Family, Sexuality, and The Cuban Revolution, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2013, pp. 173-202. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822397588-010 Olivares, J. (2013). Notes. In Becoming Reinaldo Arenas: Family, Sexuality, and The Cuban Revolution (pp. 173-202). New York, USA: Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822397588-010 Olivares, J. 2013. Notes. Becoming Reinaldo Arenas: Family, Sexuality, and The Cuban Revolution. New York, USA: Duke University Press, pp. 173-202. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822397588-010 Olivares, Jorge. "Notes" In Becoming Reinaldo Arenas: Family, Sexuality, and The Cuban Revolution, 173-202. New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822397588-010 Olivares J. Notes. In: Becoming Reinaldo Arenas: Family, Sexuality, and The Cuban Revolution. New York, USA: Duke University Press; 2013. p.173-202. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822397588-010 Copied t Notes