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Children of the Sun: An Ethnographic Study of the Street Children of Latin America
Author: Jerry Hollingsworth
Date Of Publication: Jan 2008
Isbn13: 9781847184207
Isbn: 1-84718-420-0
Children of the Sun: an Ethnographic Study of the Street Children of Latin America is a book that describes the subculture of street children inside Latin America, specifically in Mexico and Peru. It is an in-depth look at such topics as socialization, illegal drug use by children, criminal behaviors, and the lack of education or playtime, and how it may be affecting the social and cognitive development of those children who are forced into living and working on the streets. The author lived with a Mexican family in the city of Cuernevaca, 50 miles South of Mexico City, and observed and described the life of street children in Mexico who were living in abandoned buildings, parks and sewers. The author also worked as a volunteer teacher and social worker for a Non Governmental Organization in Lima, Peru in order to gain firsthand knowledge of the lives of poor children who lived in two shanty towns on the outskirts of Lima’s poorest neighborhoods.
Jerry W. Hollingsworth is an assistant professor of Sociology at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas. He received his master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Texas at Arlington, and his doctoral degree from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He continues to conduct research on homeless children around the globe.
Price Uk Gbp: 29.99
Price Us Usd: 44.99
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From Border States in the Work of Tom Mac Intyre: A Paleo-Postmodern Perspective
''Catriona Ryan has more than achieved what she set out to do.She has emphatically presented Tom Mac Intyre as a writer with a distinctive voice who not only provides a crucial link in the chain that goes back through Kavanagh to Yeats, but as a bridging figure, a transgressive author whose reflections on the Irish literary scene, and on writing more generally, have much to tell us about the ways in which constrictive critical currents can cut off living literary streams. It is clear from Catriona Ryan's painstaking excavation that Mac Intyre has been wrongly neglected. Her thoughtful and perceptive critical intervention will remedy that wrong.''
- Willy Maley, Litteraria Pragensia, 22:44 (2013), 131-134, p. 134.
“This is a critically independent piece of work that very much constructs and defines its own project, and maps an intellectual terrain of its own. It is an impressively original and also critically self-assured piece. It is marked by a sense of intellectual brio and also by the excitement of discovery.”
– Dr Steven Vine, Swansea University
“Since Tom Mac Intyre is a writer and dramatist who has received very little critical attention, this work intervenes in an under-researched area and offers an innovative and valuable extension of the frontier of knowledge in the field of Irish literary and dramatic studies.”
– Dr Aidan Arrowsmith, Manchester Metropolitan University
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