Alfredo Jesus Sosa-Velasco

Bio: Alfredo Jesus Sosa-Velasco is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Romance studies. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 6 citations.

Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern BodiesThinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary WestYearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural PoliticsGender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Abstract: Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics

The Making of the Basque Nation

Abstract: List of maps Preface Introduction: empire and the emergence of Spain Part I. From plurality to Basque ethnic solidarity 1. The Basques in history 2. The foundations of the modern Basque country 3. History as myth 4. From the illuminated few to the Basque moral community 5. The moral community and its enemies 6. 'Espana, una, libre y grande' 7. The moral community, from clandestinity to power Part II. Inside the Moral Community: the Village of Elgeta, Guipuzcoa: Introduction 8. Social organization in Elgeta 9. Morality manifested: village politics, 1872-1936 10. Hierarchy reimposed 11. Hierarchy dismantled Postscript Conclusion: ethnic nationalists and patron-clients in southern Europe Notes Bibliography Index.

Embodying Enlightenment. Knowing the Body in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Literature and Culture

Abstract: Acknowledgments Introduction Naming the Body, Knowing the Body: Anatomy, Medicine, and the Language of 'Experience' Seeing the Body: Pornography, Sensation, and the Nexus of Sight and Desire Reading the Body: Petimetres, Physiognomics, and Gendered Otherness Other Bodies, Other Selves: The Virtuous Masculine Body in the Cartas Marruecas Conclusion Notes Bibliography

Boundaries of modernity: spanish women writers at the turn of the twentieth century

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Poetry Realized in Nature: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Early Nineteenth-Century Science

Abstract: Preface Introduction: nature and mind 1. Early years: from Hartley to Davy 2. Surgeons, chemists and animal chemists: Coleridge's productive middle years from the Biographia literaria to Aids to reflection 3. Two visions of the world: Coleridge, natural philosophy, and the philosophy of nature 4. Coleridge and metascience: approaches to nature and schemes of the sciences 5. The construction of the world: genesis, cosmology and general physics 6. Geology and chemistry: the inward powers of matter 7. Life: crown and culmination Notes Index.