Central South American category: 593 books
Becoming Reinaldo Arenas
Family, Sexuality, and The Cuban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Becoming Reinaldo Arenas explores the life and work of the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990), who emerged on the Latin American cultural scene in the 1960s and quickly achieved literary fame. Yet as a political dissident and an openly gay man, Arenas also experienced discrimination and persecution;...
Prophet in the Wilderness
The Works of Ezequiel Martínez Estrada
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
A universal test of great writers is the quality of their response to the human dilemma. Prophet in the Wilderness traces the development of that response in the works of the Argentine writer Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, from the first ambitious poems to its definitive expression in the essays and...
Mexican Literature
A History
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Mexico has a rich literary heritage that extends back over centuries to the Aztec and Mayan civilizations. This major reference work surveys more than five hundred years of Mexican literature from a sociocultural perspective. More than merely a catalog of names and titles, it examines in detail the literary...
Permissible Narratives
The Promise of Latino/a Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
In his groundbreaking new study, Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature, Christopher González examines the difficulties Latina/o writers face in writing beyond the narrow expectations of U.S. readership in the stories they tell. González argues that a constrained conception...
by Octavio Paz
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Critical essays by the Nobel Prize winner on writers from Solzhenitsyn to Sartre.
Poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide...
La modernidad imaginada
Arte y literatura en el pensamiento de José Carlos Mariátegui (1911-1930)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Este libro ofrece un amplio y minucioso recorrido por las multifacéticas aproximaciones de José Carlos Mariátegui al arte y la literatura de las primeras décadas del siglo XX. Además de realizar una clara y sistemática exposición de la profusa y cosmopolita producción intelectual del autor...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century and the most influential author in the Spanish language of modern times. He had a seminal influence on Latin American literature and a lasting impact on literary fiction in many other languages. However, Borges has...
Uncivil Wars
Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916–1998) and Octavio Paz (1914–1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the same experiences and contributed to the formation of Mexican national...
Espectros
Ghostly Hauntings in Contemporary Transhispanic Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Espectros is a compilation of original scholarly studies that presents the first volume-length exploration of the spectral in literature, film, and photography of Latin America, Spain, and the Latino diaspora. In recent decades, scholarship in deconstructionist "hauntology," trauma studies, affect...
Bandit Narratives in Latin America
From Villa to Chávez
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Bandits seem ubiquitous in Latin American culture. Even contemporary actors of violence are framed by narratives that harken back to old images of the rural bandit, either to legitimize or delegitimize violence, or to intervene in larger conflicts within or between nation-states.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Mexican Literature in Theory is the first book in any language to engage post-independence Mexican literature from the perspective of current debates in literary and cultural theory. It brings together scholars whose work is defined both by their innovations in the study of Mexican literature and...
by Octavio Paz
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In The Bow and the Lyre Octavio Paz, one of the most important poets writing in Spanish, presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives. It is written in the same prose style that distinguishes The Labyrinth of Solitude. The...
Cuba on the Verge
12 Writers on Continuity and Change in Havana and Across the Country
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Spanning politics and art, music and baseball, Cuba on the Verge is a timely look at a society’s profound transformation—from inside and out
Change looms in Cuba.
Just ninety miles from United States shores yet inaccessible to most Americans until recently, Cuba fascinates as much...
Violence in Caribbean Literature
Stories of Stones and Blood
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Violence in Caribbean Literature: Stories of Stones and Blood, this book looks at the scene of the throwing of a stone found in five novels, and uses it as a starting point to an examination of the turmoil of history in the Caribbean, the colonial education imposed on Caribbean populations, the gendered...