Bøger af Alberto Gonzalez

A partir de la historia personal de un adolescente de catorce años con retraso mental llamado Noelito, la novela deviene en realidad: una especie de crónica testimonial de lo que se conoce como el éxodo del Mariel y de los acontecimientos previos y ulteriores a dicho suceso. En un contrapunteo magistral entre Pina, el pueblo de Noelito, y el Miami adonde fue obligado a viajar hacinado en un barco en abril de 1980, el autor utiliza personajes de la vida real junto a otros arquetipos de ficción para que no olvidemos ese oscuro y triste episodio de la historia del pueblo cubano, en que una muchedumbre enardecida vejó, ofendió y maltrató de palabra y acción a los que decidieron abandonar el paraíso socialista de Fidel Castro. Una vez en la Florida, el autor agrega el suspenso de una venganza, los entresijos del tráfico de drogas que signó al Miami de los años ochenta, hasta el final de Noelito convertido en Apache como trágico marco para el devenir de Noelito, hasta que se convierte en el Apache presidiario que da título a esta apasionante novela, buena sin lugar a dudas para una excelente serie de Netflix.

Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication examines intercultural communication through an array of cultural and personal perspectives, with each of its contributors writing a first-person account of his or her experiences in the real world. While most readers are collections of scholarly essays that describe intercultural communication, Our Voices presents short, student-oriented readings chosen with an eye toward engaging the reader. Collectively, the readings tackle the key areas of communication-rhetoric, mass communication, and interpersonal communication-using a uniquely expansive and humanist perspective that provides a voice to otherwise marginalized members of society. Praised by students for its abundance of short, first-person narratives, Our Voices traverses topics as diverse as queer identity, racial discourse, and codes of communication in nontraditional families.

Face the global challenges of the future with this accessible introduction to communication across boundariesCommunication between cultures can be challenging in a number of ways, but it also carries immense potential rewards. In an increasingly connected world, it has never been more important to communicate across a range of differences created by history and circumstance. Contributing to global communities and rising to meet crucial shared challenges--human rights disputes, refugee crises, international climate crisis--depends, in the first instance, on a sound communicative foundation.Intercultural Communication for Everyday Life provides a thorough introduction to this vital subject for students encountering it for the first time. Built around a robust and multifaceted definition of culture, which goes far beyond simple delineation of national boundaries, it offers an understanding of its subject that transcends US-centricity. The result, updated to reflect dramatic ongoing changes to the interconnected world, is essential for students of cross-cultural communication and exchange.Readers of the second edition of Intercultural Communication for Everyday Life readers will also find:* Accessible definitions of core concepts* Revised and updated chapters reflecting the COVID-19 crisis, climate change challenges, and more* An all-new chapter on social media as a tool for intercultural communicationIntercultural Communication for Everyday Life is essential for students and other readers seeking a foundational overview of this subject.