There Was a Woman: La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture, Paperback - Domino Renee Perez

Reducere. Description"How is it that there are so many lloronas?" A haunting figure of Mexican oral and literary traditions, La Llorona permeates the conscio...

Presents the history of the idea of popular culture. This book traces the invention and reinvention of the concept of popular culture from the eigh...

Reducere. La Llorona, the Crying Woman, is the legendary creature who haunts rivers, lakes, and lonely roads. Said to seek out children who disobey their par...

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Spanish speakers around the world for generations have told stories of La Llorona, "the weeping woman, " and the many versions of this legendary ph...

The ghost of a weeping woman dressed in white, La Llorona, is often spotted beside bodies of water. People in Mexico and in the south-western Unite...

Reducere. DescriptionThe ghost of a weeping woman dressed in white, La Llorona, is often spotted beside bodies of water. People in Mexico and in the southwes...

La Llorona (yoh-RROH-nah), now available for the first time in a full-color paperback, is the ghost story to end all ghost stories and truly the mo...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Joan (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) OrmrodNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimens...

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This examination of the Iranian popular culture and women's role within this challenges familiar western assumptions about the complexities of Iran...

From nineteenth-century American art and literature to comic books of the twentieth century and afterwards, Chad A. Barbour examines in From Daniel...

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Unabridged readings by Paul McGann and Richard E. Grant of four stories: How To Catch A Star, Lost & Found, The Way Back Home and Up & Down.

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Explores the link between revolutionary change in the Victorian world of print and women's entry into the field of mass-market publishing This book...

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An irresistible little library slipcase containing four fabulous stories by internationally acclaimed, award-winning picture books star, Oliver Jef...