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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
A retelling of U.S., Latin American, and Latino/a literary history through writing by Latinos/as who lived in the United States during the long nineteenth century
Written by both established and emerging scholars, the essays in The Latino Nineteenth Century engage materials in Spanish and English...
by Kate Houlden
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
This book focuses on sex and sexuality in post-war novels from the Anglophone Caribbean. Countering the critical orthodoxy that literature from this period dealt with sex only tangentially, implicitly transmitting sexist or homophobic messages, the author instead highlights the range and diversity...
Cuba Travel Guide
Culture - Sightseeing - Activities - Hotels - Nightlife - Restaurants - Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
(approx. 223 pages)
Our illustrated travel guide features the best information from an experienced traveler as well as other local resources. It's just what you need to help you to plan your trip in advance and to accompany you on-the-ground.
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by Ruby Morris
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Roatan is the largest of the Bay Islands of Honduras in the Caribbean. Situated just 40 miles north of the mainland, the island is the most popular tourist and cruise ship destination in Honduras. Roatan offers beautiful beaches, relaxed, friendly locals and a mild climate. Roatan is a small, narrow...
Rubén Darío and the Romantic Search for Unity
The Modernist Recourse to Esoteric Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Modernism was the major Spanish American literary movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Leader of that influential movement was Rubén Darío, the Nicaraguan now recognized as one of the most important Hispanic poets of all time. Like the Romantics in England and the Symbolists...
Anti-Literature
The Politics and Limits of Representation in Modern Brazil and Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Anti-Literature articulates a rethinking of what is meant today by “literature.” Examining key Latin American forms of experimental writing from the 1920s to the present, Adam Joseph Shellhorse reveals literature’s power as a site for radical reflection and reaction to contemporary political...
by Louise Hardwick
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
This book examines a major modern turn in Francophone Caribbean literature towards the récit d'enfance, or childhood memoir, and asks why this occurred post-1990, connecting texts to recent changes in public policy and education policy concerning the commemoration of slavery and colonialism both...
The Passage of Literature
Genealogies of Modernism in Conrad, Rhys, and Pramoedya
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer are writers renowned for crafting narratives of great technical skill that resonate with potent truths on the colonial condition. Yet given the generational and geographical boundaries that separated them, they are seldom considered in conjunction...
Talking Tico
(Mis)adventures of a Gringo in and Around Costa Rica
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Costa Rica is one of the most sought after vacation destinations in the Americas with some of the world's most attractive natural surroundings teeming with wildlife. Most visitors spend years saving up for a trip of a lifetime, or perhaps even a honeymoon, but Joe decided to move there for ten months...
Wonders of the Himalaya
Explorations in Central Asia, Karakorum and Pamir
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Francis Younghusband was barely twenty years old when he set out in search of "the true spirit of the Himalayas". Written forty years later, this book takes a retrospective look at the two expeditions he made between 1886 and 1889 for which the Royal Geographic Society awarded him its Gold...
Beyond Slavery
The Multilayered Legacy of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2006
Beyond Slavery traces the enduring impact and legacy of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean in the modern era. In a rich set of essays, the volume explores the multiple ways that Africans have affected political, economic, and cultural life throughout the region. Focusing on areas...
by Vivien Lougheed
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
We travel to grow our Adventure Guides show you how. Experience the places you visit more directly, freshly, intensely than you would otherwise sometimes best done on foot, in a canoe, or through cultural adventures like art courses, cooking classes, learning the language, meeting the people, joining...
by Heidi Kingstone
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Where can you buy 913 Kalashnikovs?
How do you tell a friend her expat love is never coming back?
What’s it like to date a mercenary?
In 2007, Canadian journalist Heidi Kingstone arrived in Kabul, eager to uncover the mysteries and shadows of one turbulent corner of the world. ...
by Laurence Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Deep within central Asia, Kyrgyzstan's beautiful mountainscapes, dreamlike rock formations and semi-nomadic culture are gloriously unspoiled. A trip here can be as adventurous as you please: admire 5,000-year-old petroglyphs at Saimaluu-Tash, gallop on horseback through the rugged Ala-Archa Canyon,...