Central South American category: 593 books
Nihilismo y verdad
Nietzsche en América Latina
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Las relaciones entre Nietzsche y América Latina están marcadas por el desencuentro. Lo cual no implica que Nietzsche no haya sido leído en Latinoamérica; pero es diferente aludir a Nietzsche, a asumir una perspectiva nietzscheana. Por eso, en vez de usar a Nietzsche para analizar su moral, para...
by Steven Boldy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Jorge Luis Borges is one of the key writers of the twentieth century in the context of both Hispanic and world literature. This Companion has been designed for keen readers of Borges whether they approach him in English or Spanish, within or outside a university context. It takes his stories and essays...
José Lezama Lima's Joyful Vision
A Study of Paradiso and Other Prose Works
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Cuba’s José Lezama Lima became the most controversial figure in the flowering of the Latin American novel with the 1966 publication of Paradiso. Hailed as a seminal writer of breathtaking originality by Julio Cortázar, Octavio Paz, and Mario Vargas Llosa, Lezama was also attacked by the Castro regime...
by Andrés Bello
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1998
Andrés Bello was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Latin America, as influential and as famous there as Thomas Jefferson is in the United States. Poet, politician, educator, essayist, philosopher, he wielded astonishing influence and played a major role in shaping the national identities of...
by Octavio Paz
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Nobel Prize–winner Octavio Paz offers a dazzling mind journey to the sources of poetry. Poet, diplomat, writer, philosopher, hailed as an “intellectual literary one-man band” by the New York Times Book Review, Nobel Prize–winner Octavio Paz was a key figure in the Latin American Literary Renaissance...
by J.E. Luebering
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
From the whimsical idealism of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote to the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez’s 100 Years of Solitude, Spanish-language literature has substantially enriched the global literary canon. This volume examines the vibrant prose and dynamic range of both Spanish...
Made of Shores
Judeo-Argentinean Fiction Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Made of Shores places Jewish Argentinean fiction within the context of Latin American literature and Judaic Studies. It offers the reader to participate actively in the scholarly debates on issues of memory and identity, and the different representations of Jewishness in Latin America. By reviewing...
Avenues of Translation
The City in Iberian and Latin American Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed,...
Syncing the Americas
José Martí and the Shaping of National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
The essays in this collection reflect two of Martí’s key observations during his time in the United States: first, how did he, an exile living in New York, view and read his North American neighbors from a sociocultural, political and literary perspective? Second, how did his perception of the...
Guaman Poma
Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru: Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
In the midst of native people's discontent following Spanish conquest, a native Andean born after the fall of the Incas took up the pen to protest Spanish rule. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala wrote his Nueva cornica y buen gobierno to inform Philip III of Spain about the evils of colonialism and the need...
Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic
Essays on the Aesthetics, Literature, and Politics of Transatlantic Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
The essays in this volume broaden previous approaches to Atlantic literature and culture by comparatively studying the politics and textualities of Southern Europe, North America, and Latin America across languages, cultures, and periods. Historically grounded while offering new theoretical approaches,...
by Amber Brian
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Modern Language Association's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Honorable Mention, 2016
Born between 1568 and 1580, Alva Ixtlilxochitl was a direct descendant of Ixtlilxochitl I and Ixtlilxochitl II, who had been rulers of Texcoco, one of the major city-states in pre-Conquest Mesoamerica. After...
Dragons in the Land of the Condor
Writing Tusán in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Building on his 2013 study on Nikkei cultural production in Peru, in Dragons in the Land of the Condor Ignacio López-Calvo studies the influence of a Chinese ethnic background in the writing of several twentieth- and twenty-first-century Sino-Peruvian authors.
While authors like Siu Kam Wen...
Capital Fictions
The Literature of Latin America's Export Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Between 1870 and 1930, Latin American countries were incorporated into global capitalist networks like never before, mainly as exporters of raw materials and importers of manufactured goods. During this Export Age, entire regions were given over to the cultivation of export commodities such as coffee...